A collection of strange and often grisly tales by some of the world's greatest writers, ranging from mildly unsettling to hair-raising.

• 1."The Mystery of Sasassa Valley", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• 2. "The Severed Hand", by Wilhelm Hauff
• 3. "The Black Ferry", by John Galt
• 4. "The Tête Noire", by Charles Allston Collins
• 5. "The Bundle of Letters", by Maurus Jokai
• 6. "The Judgement of Paris", by Leonard Merrick
• 7. "A Witch in the Peak" ,by R. Murray Gilchrist
• 8."The Door of the Trap", by Sherwood Anderson
• 9. "The Drover’s Wife", by Henry Lawson
• 10. "The Encased Man", by Anton Chekhov
• 11. "The Pistol-Shot", by Alexander Pushkin
• 12. "A Pastoral Horror", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• 13. "The Other Side", by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock
• 14. "The Inn of the Two Witches", by Joseph Conrad
• 15. "The Hair", by A. J. Alan
• 16. "A Child’s Revenge", by Paul Bourget
• 17. "Gabriel-Ernest", by Saki
• 18. "The Haunted Doll’s House", by M. R. James
• 19. "An Egyptian Cigarette", by Kate Chopin
• 20. "Nyarlathotep", by H. P. Lovecraft
• 21. "Old Fags", by Stacy Aumonier
• 22. "The Idiot", by Arnold Bennett
• 23. "Mademoiselle Fifi", by Guy de Maupassant
• 24. "Odour of Chrysanthemums", by D. H. Lawrence