| PAGE |
| [Introduction: The Humorous Ghost] | vii |
| |
| [The Canterville Ghost] | 3 |
| By Oscar Wilde |
| [The Ghost-Extinguisher] | 51 |
| By Gelett Burgess |
| [“Dey Ain't No Ghosts”] | 69 |
| By Ellis Parker Butler |
| [The Transferred Ghost] | 89 |
| By Frank R. Stockton |
| [The Mummy's Foot] | 109 |
| By Théophile Gautier |
| [The Rival Ghosts] | 129 |
| By Brander Matthews |
| [The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall] | 159 |
| By John Kendrick Bangs |
| [Back from that Bourne] | 175 |
| Anonymous |
| [The Ghost-Ship] | 187 |
| By Richard Middleton |
| [The Transplanted Ghost] | 205 |
| By Wallace Irwin |
| [The Last Ghost in Harmony] | 229 |
| By Nelson Lloyd |
| [The Ghost of Miser Brimpson] | 247 |
| By Eden Phillpotts |
| [The Haunted Photograph] | 275 |
| By Ruth McEnery Stuart |
| [The Ghost that Got the Button] | 295 |
| By Will Adams |
| [The Specter Bridegroom] | 315 |
| By Washington Irving |
| [The Specter of Tappington] | 341 |
| Compiled by Richard Barham |
| [In the Barn] | 385 |
| By Burges Johnson |
| [A Shady Plot] | 403 |
| By Elsie Brown |
| [The Lady and the Ghost] | 425 |
| By Rose Cecil O'Neill |