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• 2 •  Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Night (frontispiece) • interior artwork by Cecil Aldin
• 7 • Introduction (Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Night) • essay by Lucy Evans and Tanya Kirk
• 9 • A Note from the Publisher (British Library Tales of the Weird) • (2021) • essay by uncredited
• 11 • The Ghost at the Cross-Roads: An Irish Christmas Night Story • essay by Lucy Evans
• 13 • The Ghost at the Cross-Roads: An Irish Christmas Night Story • short story by Frederick Manley (variant of The Ghost of the Cross-Roads 1893)
• 33 • The Blue Room • essay by Tanya Kirk
• 35 • The Blue Room • (1897) • short story by Lettice Galbraith
• 61 • On the Northern Ice • essay by Lucy Evans
• 63 • On the Northern Ice • short story by Elia W. Peattie [as by Elia Wilkinson Peattie]
• 69 • The Black Cat • essay by Tanya Kirk
• 71 • The Black Cat • (1921) • short story by W. J. Wintle
• 83 • Ganthony's Wife • essay by Lucy Evans
• 85 • Ganthony's Wife • (1926) • short story by E. Temple Thurston
• 103 • Mr Huffam • essay by Tanya Kirk
• 105 • Mr Huffam • novelette by Hugh Walpole (variant of Mr. Huffam 1933)
• 127 • The Man Who Came Back • essay by Lucy Evans
• 129 • The Man Who Came Back • (1935) • short story by Margery Lawrence
• 149 • The Third Shadow • essay by Lucy Evans
• 151 • The Third Shadow • (1950) • short story by H. Russell Wakefield
• 169 • The Apple Tree • essay by Lucy Evans
• 171 • The Apple Tree • (1952) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier
• 225 • The Leaf-Sweeper • essay by Tanya Kirk
• 227 • The Leaf-Sweeper • (1956) • short story by Muriel Spark
• 235 • The Visiting Star • essay by Tanya Kirk
• 237 • The Visiting Star • (1966) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• 269 • A Fall of Snow • essay by Tanya Kirk
• 271 • A Fall of Snow • (1974) • short story by James Turner