Originally published: 1986.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [500]-504).

The Tapestried Chamber / Sir Walter Scott -- The Phantom Coach / Amelia B. Edwards -- Squire Toby's Will / J. S. Le Fanu -- The Shadow in the Corner / M. E. Braddon -- The Upper Berth / F. Marion Crawford -- A Wicked Voice / Vernon Lee -- The Judge's House / Bram Stoker -- Man-Size in Marble / E. Nesbit -- The Roll-Call of the Reef / Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch -- The Friends of the Friends / Henry James -- The Red Room / H. G. Wells -- The Monkey's Paw / W. W. Jacobs -- The Lost Ghost / Mary E. Wilkins -- 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' / M. R. James -- The Empty House / Algernon Blackwood -- The Cigarette Case / Oliver Onions -- Rose Rose / Barry Pain -- The Confession of Charles Linkworth / E. F. Benson -- On the Brighton Road / Richard Middleton -- Bone to His Bone / E. G. Swain -- The True History of Anthony Ffryar / Arthur Gray -- The Taipan / W. Somerset Maugham -- The Victim / May Sinclair -- A Visitor From Down Under / L. P. Hartley -- Fullcircle / John Buchan

The Clock / W. F. Harvey -- Old Man?s Beard / H. Russell Wakefield -- Mr. Jones / Edith Wharton -- Smee / A. M. Burrage -- The Little Ghost / Hugh Walpole -- Ahoy, Sailor Boy! / A. E. Coppard -- The Hollow Man / Thomas Burke -- Et in Sempiternum Pereant / Charles Williams -- Bosworth Summit Pound / L. T. C. Rolt -- An Encounter in the Mist / A. N. L. Munby -- Hand in Glove / Elizabeth Bowen -- A Story of Don Juan / V. S. Pritchett -- Cushi / Christopher Woodforde -- Bad Company / Walter De La Mare -- The Bottle of 1912 / Simon Raven -- The Cicerones / Robert Aickman -- Soft Voices at Passenham / T. H. White