Originally published in 1937, republished in 1941 as Great Ghost Stories of the World, and again in 1996 under its original title. (Horror: Another 100 Best Books says that the original edition only had 27 stories, which are the first 27 on this list.)

Illustrated by Lynd Ward.

1. August heat / W.F. Harvey
2. The half pint flask / DuBose Heyward
3. The Brahman, The Thief, and the Ghost from The Panchatantra (Sanskrit)
4. The treasure of Abbot Thomas / M.R. James
5. The Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
6. The King of the world / A.E. Coppard
7. Perez / W.L. George
8. The Wendigo / Algernon Blackwood
9. The Furnished room / O. Henry
10. The Screaming skull / F. Marion Crawford
11. The Monkey’s Paw / W.W. Jacobs
12. The Horla / Guy de Maupassant
13. Laura / Saki (H.H. Munro)
14. The White people / Arthur Machen
15. Concerning phantoms / Pliny the Younger (Latin)
16. Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson
17. The story of Ming-Y / Lafcadio Hearn
18. The Beast with five fingers / W.F. Harvey
19. Adam and Eve and pinch me / A.E. Coppard
20. Where their fire is not quenched / May Sinclair
21. The Second Kalandar’s Tale / Arabian Nights
22. Full Fathom Five / Alexander Woollcott
23. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce
24. The Ghost-Ship / Richard Middleton
25. William Wilson / Edgar Allan Poe
26. The Feather Cloak of Hawaii / Johannes C. Andersen
27. The Gentleman from America / Michael Arlen
28. The Story of Glam / from The Grettissaga (Scandinavian)
29. The Ghosts of Wulakai / Owen Lattimore
30. Casting the runes / M.R. James
31. A man with two lives / Ambrose Bierce
32. The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro)
33. The woman’s ghost story / Algernon Blackwood
34. The haunted hotel / Wilkie Collins
35. Clorinda walks in heaven / A.E. Coppard
36. The Grendel episode / Beowulf (Anglo-Saxon)
37. Green thoughts / John Collier
38. The Tell-Tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe
39. A visitor from down under / L.P. Hartley
40. The Foghorn / Gertrude Atherton
41. The Cherry tree / A.E. Coppard