| The Far Away Country | Nora Hopper Chesson | [xiv] |
| ["THE NICHT ATWEEN THE SANCTS AN' SOULS"] |
| All-Souls | Katherine Tynan | [3] |
| All-Saints' Eve | Lizette Woodworth Reese | [3] |
| A Dream | William Allingham | [4] |
| The Neighbors | Theodosia Garrison | [6] |
| A Ballad of Hallowe'en | Theodosia Garrison | [7] |
| The Forgotten Soul | Margaret Widdemer | [8] |
| All-Souls' Night | Dora Sigerson Shorter | [9] |
| Janet's Tryst | George Macdonald | [10] |
| Hallows' E'en | Winifred M. Letts | [13] |
| On Kingston Bridge | Ellen M. H. Cortissoz | [14] |
| All-Souls' Night | Louisa Humphreys | [16] |
| ["ALL THE LITTLE SIGHING SOULS"] |
| Mary Shepherdess | Marjorie L. C. Pickthall | [21] |
| The Little Ghost | Katherine Tynan | [22] |
| Two Brothers | Theodosia Garrison | [24] |
| The Little Dead Child | Josephine Daskam Bacon | [25] |
| The Child Alone | Rosamund Marriott Watson | [27] |
| The Child | Theodosia Garrison | [28] |
| Such Are the Souls in Purgatory | Anna Hempstead Branch | [29] |
| The Open Door | Rosamund Marriott Watson | [32] |
| My Laddie's Hounds | Marguerite Elizabeth Easter | [33] |
| The Old House | Katherine Tynan | [35] |
| [SHADOWY HEROES] |
| Ballad of the Buried Sword | Ernest Rhys | [39] |
| The Looking-Glass | Rudyard Kipling | [40] |
| Drake's Drum | Henry Newbolt | [41] |
| The Grey Ghost | Francis Carlin | [42] |
| Ballad of Douglas Bridge | Francis Carlin | [43] |
| The Indian Burying Ground | Philip Freneau | [44] |
| ["RANK ON RANK OF GHOSTLY SOLDIERS"] |
| The Song of Soldiers | Walter De La Mare | [49] |
| By the Blockhouse on the Hill | Helen Gray Cone | [49] |
| Night at Gettysburg | Don C. Seitz | [51] |
| The Riders | Katherine Tynan | [52] |
| The White Comrade | Robert Haven Schauffler | [53] |
| Ghosts of the Argonne | Grantland Rice | [56] |
| November Eleventh | Ruth Comfort Mitchell | [57] |
| [SEA GHOSTS] |
| The Flying Dutchman | Charles Godfrey Leland | [61] |
| The Phantom Ship | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | [61] |
| The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs | Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton | [63] |
| The Sands of Dee | Charles Kingsley | [65] |
| The Lake of the Dismal Swamp | Thomas Moore | [66] |
| The Flying Dutchman of the Tappan Zee | Arthur Guiterman | [68] |
| The White Ships and the Red | Joyce Kilmer | [70] |
| Featherstone's Doom | Robert Stephen Hawker | [73] |
| Sea-Ghosts | May Byron | [74] |
| Fog Wraiths | Mildred Howells | [76] |
| [CHEERFUL SPIRITS] |
| Cape Horn Gospel | John Masefield | [79] |
| Legend of Hamilton Tighe | Richard Harris Barham | [80] |
| The Supper Superstition | Thomas Hood | [84] |
| The Ingoldsby Penance | Richard Harris Barham | [87] |
| Pompey's Ghost | Thomas Hood | [103] |
| The Ghost | Thomas Hood | [107] |
| Mary's Ghost | Thomas Hood | [109] |
| The Superstitious Ghost | Arthur Guiterman | [111] |
| Dave Lilly | Joyce Kilmer | [112] |
| Martin | Joyce Kilmer | [114] |
| [HAUNTED PLACES] |
| The Listeners | Walter De La Mare | [119] |
| Haunted Houses | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | [120] |
| The Beleaguered City | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | [122] |
| A Newport Romance | Bret Harte | [124] |
| A Legend | May Kendall | [126] |
| A Midnight Visitor | Elizabeth Akers Allen | [128] |
| Haunted | Amy Lowell | [130] |
| The Little Green Orchard | Walter De La Mare | [131] |
| Fireflies | Louise Driscoll | [132] |
| The Little Ghost | Edna St. Vincent Millay | [133] |
| Haunted | Louis Untermeyer | [134] |
| Ghosts | Madison Cawein | [135] |
| The Three Ghosts | Theodosia Garrison | [137] |
| ["YOU KNOW THE OLD, WHILE I KNOW THE NEW"] |
| After Death | Christina Rossetti | [141] |
| The Passer-By | Edith M. Thomas | [141] |
| At Home | Christina Rossetti | [142] |
| The Return | Minna Irving | [143] |
| The Room's Width | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward | [144] |
| Haunted | Don Marquis | [144] |
| ["MY LOVE THAT WAS SO TRUE"] |
| One Out-of-Doors | Sarah Piatt | [149] |
| Sailing Beyond Seas | Jean Ingelow | [149] |
| Betrayal | Aline Kilmer | [151] |
| The True Lover | A. E. Housman | [152] |
| Haunted | G. B. Stuart | [153] |
| The White Moth | Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch | [154] |
| The Ghost | Walter De La Mare | [155] |
| Luke Havergal | Edwin Arlington Robinson | [156] |
| The Highwayman | Alfred Noyes | [157] |
| The Blue Closet | William Morris | [163] |
| The Ghost's Petition | Christina Georgina Rossetti | [166] |
| He and She | Sir Edwin Arnold | [169] |
| [SHAPES OF DOOMSHAPES OF DOOM] |
| The Dead Coach | Katherine Tynan | [175] |
| Deid Folks' Ferry | Rosamund Marriott Watson | [176] |
| Keith of Ravelston | Sydney Dobell | [178] |
| The Fetch | Dora Sigerson Shorter | [179] |
| The Banshee | Dora Sigerson Shorter | [183] |
| The Seven Whistlers | Alice E. Gillington | [185] |
| The Victor | Theodosia Garrison | [187] |
| Mawgan of Melhuach | Robert Stephen Hawker | [188] |
| The Mother's Ghost | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | [189] |
| The Dead Mother | Robert Buchanan | [192] |
| [LEGENDS AND BALLADS OF THE DEAD] |
| The Folk of the Air | William Butler Yeats | [199] |
| The Reconciliation | A. Margaret Ramsay | [201] |
| The Priest's Brother | Dora Sigerson Shorter | [203] |
| The Ballad of Judas Iscariot | Robert Buchanan | [205] |
| The Eve of St. John | Walter Scott | [212] |
| Fair Margaret's Misfortunes | Anon. | [220] |
| Sweet William's Ghost | Anon. | [222] |
| Clerk Saunders | Anon. | [224] |
| The Wife of Usher's Well | Anon. | [229] |
| A Lyke-Wake Dirge | Anon. | [231] |