1 • The Tapestried Chamber • (1828) • short story by Sir Walter Scott 21 • The Botathen Ghost • (1867) • short story by R. S. Hawker 36 • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe 50 • The Old Nurse's Story • (1852) • novelette by Mrs. Gaskell 81 • No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Signalman 1866) 100 • Squire Toby's Will • (1868) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu] 144 • The Lady in the Mirror (excerpt) • short fiction by George MacDonald 171 • The Case of Mr. Lucraft • (1876) • novella by Walter Besant and James Rice [as by Sir Walter Besant and James Rice] 216 • The Great Good Place • (1900) • novelette by Henry James 252 • The Upper Berth • (1885) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford 282 • The Novel of the White Powder • (1895) • short story by Arthur Machen (variant of Novel of the White Powder) 306 • The Door in the Wall • (1906) • short story by H. G. Wells 330 • Negotium Perambulans... • short story by E. F. Benson (variant of Negotium Perambulans 1922) 351 • Running Wolf • (1920) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson [as by Algernon Blackwood] 379 • Venus • (1909) • short story by Maurice Baring 392 • The Bureau d'Echange de Maux • (1915) • short story by Lord Dunsany 399 • Louquier's Third Act • (1922) • novelette by Katharine Fullerton Gerould 432 • Nightmare Jack • (1925) • short story by John Metcalfe 458 • Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched • (1922) • short story by May Sinclair 487 • The Ancient Sin • (1923) • short story by Michael Arlen