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• Introduction (The Virago Book of Ghost Stories) • essay by Jennifer Uglow [as by Jenny Uglow]
• Preface (The Virago Book of Ghost Stories) • (1987) • essay by Richard Dalby
• Introduction (The Virago Book of Ghost Stories) • (1987) • essay by Jennifer Uglow
• The Eyes • (1910) • short story by Edith Wharton
• The Violet Car • (1910) • short story by E. Nesbit
• The Crimson Blind • (1987) • short story by Mrs. H. D. Everett [as by Henrietta D. Everett]
• The Token • (1922) • short story by May Sinclair
• The Shadowy Third • (1916) • novelette by Ellen Glasgow
• The Return • (1924) • short story by Marjory E. Lambe
• The Haunted Saucepan • (1987) • short story by Margery Lawrence (variant of December: The Engineer's Story: The Haunted Saucepan 1922)
• Mr Tallent's Ghost • (1987) • short story by Mary Webb (variant of Mr. Tallent's Ghost 1926)
• The Amorous Ghost • (1926) • short story by Enid Bagnold
• The Accident • (1923) • short story by Marjorie Bowen
• A Persistent Woman • (1927) • short story by Marjorie Bowen
• The Waiting-Room • (1928) • short story by Phyllis Bottome
• The Ghost • (1928) • short story by Catherine Wells (I)
• 'Will Ye No' Come Back Again?' • (1929) • short story by Eleanor Scott
• Sophy Mason Comes Back • (1930) • short story by E. M. Delafield
• The Doll's House • (1933) • short story by Hester Gaskell Holland [as by Hester Gorst]
• The Night Nurse's Story • (1934) • short story by Edith Olivier
• The Voice of God • (1934) • short fiction by Winifred Holtby
• The Follower • (1935) • short story by Cynthia Asquith
• Miss De Mannering of Asham • (1935) • novelette by F. M. Mayor
• Roaring Tower • (1937) • short story by Stella Gibbons
• Juggernaut • (1935) • short story by D. K. Broster
• The Happy Autumn Fields • (1944) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
• The Empty Schoolroom • (1950) • short story by Pamela Hansford Johnson
• Three Miles Up • (1951) • short story by Elizabeth Jane Howard
• Whitewash • (1952) • short story by Rose Macaulay
• Poor Girl • (1955) • short story by Elizabeth Taylor
• On No Account, My Love • (1955) • short story by Elizabeth Jenkins
• The Mistress in Black • (1969) • short story by Rosemary Timperley
• A Curious Experience • (1971) • short fiction by Norah Lofts
• Breakages • (1978) • short story by Fay Weldon
• Dual Control • (1975) • short story by Elizabeth Walter
• Lady with Unicorn • (1987) • short fiction by Sara Maitland
• Diamond Jim • (1987) • short story by Lisa St Aubin de Terán
• Ashputtle: or, The Mother's Ghost • (1987) • short story by Angela Carter
• Notes on the Authors (The Virago Book of Ghost Stories) • (1987) • essay by Richard Dalby