This work contains the following stories:

Stacy Aumonier: 'Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty'
Max Beerbohm: 'A. V. Laider'
J. J. Bell: 'Thread O'Scarlet'
Ambrose Bierce: 'The Man and the Snake'
Algernon Blackwood :'The Occupant of the Room'
W. Wilkie Collins :'A Terribly Strange Bed'
Guy de Maupassant :'The Horla'
Charles Dickens: 'The Black Veil'
J. S. Fletcher: 'The Ivory God'
Mrs Gaskell: 'The Squire's Story'
O. Henry: 'The Furnished Room'
Thomas Hood: 'A Tale of Terror'
Edgar Allen Poe: 'The Fall of the House of Usher'
Morley Roberts: 'The Smile of La Gioconda'
H. G. Wells:'The Invisible Man'
A. J. Alan: 'My Adventure at Chislehurst'
H. C. Bailey: 'The Nice Girl'
Ernest Bramah: 'The Game Played in the Dark'
Anton Chekhov: 'The Swedish Match'
J. Storer Clouston: 'The Envelope'
G. D. H. & M. Cole: 'The Missing Baronet'
Freeman Wills Crofts: 'The Mystery of the Sleeping-Car Express'
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band'
Nathaniel Hawthorn: 'Mr Higginbotham's Catastrope'
E. W. Hornung: 'The Wrong House'
Michael Kent: 'Another Shot in the Locker'
Maurice Leblanc: 'The Black Pearl'
Dorothy L. Sayers: 'The Cave of Ali Baba'
Robert Louis Stevenson: 'Markheim'
Edgar Wallace: 'The Green Mamba'
R. H. Barham: 'Jerry Jarvis's Wig'
Agatha Christie: 'The Last Seance'
F. Marion Crawford: 'The Upper Bearth'
Allan Cunningham: 'The Haunted Ships'
Daniel Defoe: 'Mrs Veal'
Walter de la Mare: 'Out of the Deep'
Lord Dunsany: 'A Night at the Inn'
W. W. Jacobs: 'The Monkey's Paw'
Henry James: 'The Turn of the Screw'
M. R. James: 'Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, my Lad'
Charles Lamb: 'The Witch Aunt'
Perceval Landon: 'Thurnley Abbey'
Sheridan Le Fanu: 'Green Tea'
E. Bulwer Lytton: 'The Haunted and the Haunters'
Frederick Marryat: 'The Werewolf'
Mrs Oliphant: 'The Open Door'
Sax Rohmer: 'Tcheriapin'
Sir Walter Scott: 'Wandering Willie's Tale'
May Sinclair: 'Where Their Fire is not Quenched'
Bram Stoker: 'The Judge's House'