Contents

• Honore de Balzac / La Grande Breteche
• Edgar Allan Poe / The black cat
• The facts in the case of M. Valdemar
• Wilkie Collins / A terribly strange bed
• Ambrose Bierce / The boarded window
• Thomas Hardy / The three strangers
• W.W. Jacobs / The interruption
• H.G. Wells / Pollock and the Porroh man
• The sea raiders
• Saki(H.H. Munro / Sredni Vashtar
• Alexander Woollcott / Moonlight sonata - - Conrad Aiden / Silent snow, secret snow
• Dorothy L. Sayers / Suspicion
• Richard Connell / The most dangerous game
• Carl Stephenson Leiningen versus the ants
• Michael Arlen / The gentleman from America
• William Faulkner / A rose for Emily
• Ernest Hemingway / The killers
• John Collier / Back for Christmas
• Geoffrey Household / Taboo
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton / The haunters and the haunted or the house and the brain
• Nathaniel Hawthorne / Rappaccini’s daughter
• Charles Collins and Charles Dickens / The trial for murder
• Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu / Green tea
• Fitz-James O’Brien / What was it? - - Henry James / Sir Edmund Orme
• Guy de Maupassant / The horla
• Was it a dream?
• F. Marion Crawford / The screaming skull
• O. Henry / The furnished room
• M.R. James / Casting the runes
• Oh, whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad
• Edith Wharton / Afterward
• W.W. Jacobs / The monkey’s paw
• Arthur Machen / The great God Pan
• Robert Hichens / How love came to professor Guildea
• Rudyard Kipling / The return of Imray
• "They"
• Edward Lucas White / Lukundoo
• F.F. Benson / Caterpillars
• Mrs. Amworth
• Algernon Blackwood / Ancient sorceries
• Confession
• Saki(H.H. Munro) / The open window
• Oliver Onions / The beckoning fair one
• Walter de la Mare / Out of the deep
• A.E. Coppard / Adam and Eve and pinch me
• E.M. Forster / The celestian omnibus
• Richard Middleton / The ghost ship
• Isak Dinesen / The sailor-boy’s tale - - H.P. Lovecraft / The rats in the walls
• The Dunwich horror