Includes contributiions from Algernon Blackwood ("May-Day Eve"), Fitz-James O'Brien ("The Diamond Lens"), Theophile Gautier ("The Mummy's Foot"), Mark Twain ("Mr. Bloke's Item"), Lafcadio Hearn ("A Ghost"), E.F. Benson ("The Man Who Went Too Far"), Chester Bailey Fernald ("Chan Tow the Highrob"), Arthur Machen ("The Inmost Light"), A. Conan Doyle ("The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange"), Guy de Maupassant ("The Man with the Pale Eyes"), and Brander Matthews ("The Rival Ghosts").