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• 7 • Introduction (The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume Five) • (2021) • essay by Christopher Philippo
• 16 • Little Willie Bell • (1827) • short story by John Gibson Lockhart
• 20 • The Mistletoe Bough • (1828) • poem by Thomas Haynes Bayly
• 22 • My Brother's Ghost Story • (1860) • short story by Amelia B. Edwards
• 37 • Old Hell Shaft • (1865) • short story by Anonymous
• 48 • Ejected by a Ghost • (1869) • short story by John Pitman
• 56 • The Netherstone Mystery • (1878) • short story by Mrs. S. R. Townshend Mayer
• 71 • That Awful Face! • (1882) • short story by Florence Marryat
• 86 • Two Christmas Eves • (1885) • short story by Howell Davies
• 97 • A Tale of Mystery • (1885) • short story by Mabel Collins
• 111 • The Ghosts of the Bards: A Legend of Anglesea • (1886) • short story by
  Phœnix^?Phoenix
• 123 • Hel-Ya-Water: A Shetland Legend of Yule Time • (1886) • poem by Jessie Saxby
• 128 • The Undying Thing • (1893) • short story by Barry Pain
• 154 • The Siren: An Adventure in Manxland • (1898) • short story by Magister Monensis
• 185 • The Tryst, An Old Yule Legend • (1898) • poem by Baroness de Bertouch
• 187 • The Mummy Hand: A Story of One Christmas Eve • (1901) • short story by Adeline Sergeant
• 205 • The Dead Hand: A Tale of a Weird and Awful Christmastide • (1903) • short story by James Skipp Borlase
• 221 • The Wicked Lady Howard; or, The Coach Made of Dead Men's Bones • (1905) • short story by James Skipp Borlase
• 237 • The Ghost of the Living: A Christmas Story • (1905) • short story by Charles H. Mansfield and Walter E. Mansfield [as by Huan Mee]
• 246 • A Christmas Ghost Story • (1905) • short story by Harry Grattan
• 248 • Woden, the Wild Huntsman • (1911) • poem by Arthur Walter Berry
• 250 • Squire Humperdinck and the Devil: A Christmas Story for Children • (1913) • short story by F. G. Grundemann