Published in 1944, then republished in 1994 with several stories missing. The contents of the revised edition are:

1. La Grande Bretêche • Honoré de Balzac
2. The Black Cat • Edgar Allan Poe
3. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • Edgar Allan Poe
4. A Terribly Strange Bed • Wilkie Collins
5. The Boarded Window • Ambrose Bierce
6. The Three Strangers • Thomas Hardy
7. The Interruption • W. W. Jacobs
8. Sredni Vashtar • Saki
9. Moonlight Sonata • Alexander Woollcott
10. Silent Snow, Secret Snow • Conrad Aiken
11. The Gentleman from America • Michael Arlen
12. Back for Christmas • John Collier
13. The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
14. Rappaccini’s Daughter • Nathaniel Hawthorne
15. The Trial for Murder (“To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt”) • Charles Collins & Charles Dickens
16. Green Tea (Martin Hesselius) • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
17. What Was It? • Fitz-James O’Brien
18. Sir Edmund Orme • Henry James
19. The Horla • Guy de Maupassant
20. Was It a Dream? • Guy de Maupassant
21. The Screaming Skull • F. Marion Crawford
22. The Furnished Room • O. Henry
23. Casting the Runes • M. R. James
24. “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” • M. R. James
25. Afterward • Edith Wharton
26. The Monkey’s Paw • W. W. Jacobs
27. The Great God Pan • Arthur Machen
28. How Love Came to Professor Guildea • Robert Hichens
29. The Return of Imray • Rudyard Kipling
30. “They” • Rudyard Kipling
31. Lukundoo [1907] • Edward Lucas White
32. Caterpillars • E. F. Benson
33. Mrs. Amworth • E. F. Benson
34. The Open Window • Saki
35. The Beckoning Fair One • Oliver Onions
36. The Ghost Ship • Richard Middleton
37. The Rats in the Walls • H. P. Lovecraft
38. The Dunwich Horror • H. P. Lovecraft

The stories missing from the modern edition are:

• H.G. Wells • Pollock and the Porroh Man
• H.G. Wells • The Sea Raiders
• Dorothy L. Sayers • Suspicion
• Richard Connell • The Most Dangerous Game
• Carl Stephenson • Leiningen versus the Ants
• William Faulkner • A Rose for Emily
• The Killers • Ernest Hemmingway
• Geoffrey Household • Taboo
• Walter de la Mare • Out of the Deep
• A. E. Coppard • Adam amd Eve and Pinch Me
• E. M. Forster • The Celestial Omnibus
• Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) • The Sailor-Boy’s Tale