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