Includes chronology and explanatory notes.
The sandman / E. T. A. Hoffmann
The man in the bell / William Maginn
George Dobson's expedition to hell / James Hogg
La grande bretêche / Honré de Balzac
Berenice- a tale / Edgar Allan Poe
Strange event in the life of Schalken the painter / Sheridan Le Fanu
The birth-mark / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Tartarus of Maids / Herman Melville
What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien
No. 1 Branch line: The signal-man / Charles Dickens
The death of Olivier Bécaille / Émile Zola
The Vivisector vivisected / Ronald Ross
The body-snatcher / Robert Louis Stevenson
The mark of the beast / Rudyard Kipling
Chickamauga / Ambrose Bierce
The yellow wall paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The case of Lady Sannox / Arthur Conan Doyle
The squaw / Bram Stoker
The repairer of reputations / Robert W. Chambers
Novel of the white powder / Arthur Machen
The adventure of Lady Wishaw's hand / Richard Marsh
The monkey's paw / W. W. Jacobs
Luella Miller / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Count Magnus / M. R. James
For the blood is the life / Francis Marion Crawford
The Wendigo / Algernon Blackwood
August heat / W. F. Harvey
The room in the tower / E. F. Benson
The derelict / William Hope Hodgson.
Horror stories : classic tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson. ISBN 9780199685431. Published by Oxford University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.