Introduction... 7 // The Tapestried Chamber (Sir Walter Scott)... 13 // The Half-Brothers (E. C. Gaskell)...28 // The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton (Charles Dickens)...40 // The Box Tunnel (Charles Reade)...51 // The Journey To Panama (Anthony Trollope)... 59 // A Terribly Strange Bed (Wilkie Collins)...80 // Squire Petrick’s Lady (Thomas Hardy)...97 // Markheim (R. L. Stevenson)...106 // Pipes in Arcady (Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch)...123 // The Lady of the Barge (W. W. Jacobs)...133 // The Inexperienced Ghost (H. G. Wells)...145 // Tobermory (Saki)...158 // The Invisible Man (G. K. Chesterton)...166 // The Willow-Pattern Embellishment (Ernest Bramah)...183 // The Lovely Lady (D. H. Lawrence)...199 // Mr. Reginald Peacock’s Day (Katherine Mansfield)...218