Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.

A selection of forty-two stories written between 1829 and 1968.