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• 9 • Introduction (Greasepaint and Ghosts) • essay by Peter Haining
• 13 • The Dressing Room • (1982) • short story by Elliott O'Donnell
• 21 • The Trailor Murder Mystery • (1846) • short story by Abraham Lincoln
• 29 • The Star Trap • (1908) • short story by Bram Stoker (variant of Death in the Wings 1888)
• 41 • The Last Drop • (1982) • short story by Sarah Bernhardt (trans. of Un conte de noel 1881)
• 46 • The Ghost of the Opera (excerpt) • [The Phantom of the Opera] • (1982) • short fiction by Gaston Leroux
• 54 • The Cat and the Canary (play) • (1982) • short fiction by John Willard
• 122 • The Triumph of Vice: A Fairy Tale • (1867) • short story by W. S. Gilbert
• 135 • The Voice of ...! • (1912) • short story by John Galsworthy
• 141 • The Demon King • (1931) • short story by J. B. Priestley
• 155 • The Spirit of Baker Street • (1982) • short story by Basil Rathbone
• 161 • Diplomatic Crisis • short story by Orson Welles (variant of Fifi and the Chilean Truffle 1955)
• 167 • The Vengeance of Nitocris • (1928) • short story by Tennessee Williams
• 180 • Four Ghosts in Hamlet • (1965) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
• 216 • Rhythm • (1938) • short story by Charles Chaplin