The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Never more so than in this collection of 30 weird and macabre tales.

• 'The Stolen Body' by H. G. Wells
• 'The Young Lady in Black' by Amyas Northcote
• 'On the Brighton Road' by Richard Middleton
• 'When I Was Dead' by Vincent O'Sullivan
• 'A Vision of Judgement' by H. G. Wells
• 'This Is All' by Barry Pain
• 'A Dead Finger' by Sabine Baring-Gould
• 'Under the Knife' by H. G. Wells
• 'Rattle of Bones' by Robert E. Howard
• 'Kerfol' by Edith Wharton
• 'The Downs' by Amyas Northcote
• 'Story of an Obstinate Corpse' by Elia. W. Peattie
• 'The Coffin Merchant' by Richard Middleton
• 'The Cold Embrace' by M. E. Braddon
• 'The Death of Halpin Frayser' by Ambrose Bierce
• 'The Everlasting Club' by Arthur Gray
• 'The Ghost Club' by John Kendrick Bangs
• 'Wailing Well' by M. R. James
• 'Will' by Vincent O'Sullivan
• 'The Striding Place' by Gertrude Atherton
• 'The Vampire' by Jan Neruda
• 'Mrs. Raeburn's Waxwork' by Eleanor Smith
• 'Miss Mary Pask' by Edith Wharton
• 'On the Northern Ice' by Elia W. Peattie
• 'Sea Curse' by Robert E. Howard
• 'The Snow' by Hugh Walpole
• 'Number Ninety' by B. M. Croker
• 'From the Loom of the Dead' by Elia W. Peattie
• 'The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number' by Gertrude Atherton
• 'Never Bet the Devil Your Head' by Edgar Allan Poe