Tales of the civil war: -- Killed at Resaca -- George Thurston -- One of the missing -- Jupiter Doke, Brigadier General -- Chickamauga -- A son of the gods -- A tough tussle -- A horseman in the sky -- One officer, one man -- An affair of outposts -- The affair at Coulter's Notch -- The coup de grâce -- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge One kind of officer -- A baffled ambuscade -- The major's tale -- The story of a conscience -- Parker Adderson, Philosopher -- The mocking-bird -- A man with two lives -- Two military executions -- A resumed identity -- Three and one are one.

Tales of supernatural and psychological horror: -- The haunted valley -- The night-doings at "Deadman's" -- The famous Gilson bequest -- An inhabitant of Carcosa -- Bodies of the dead -- Present at a hanging -- A psychological shipwreck -- A holy terror -- Charles Ashmore's trail -- The difficulty of crossing a field -- The isle of pines -- A cold greeting -- One of twins -- The spook house -- The suitable surroundings -- The man and the snake -- The man out of the nose -- The death o Hlapin Frayser -- As adventure at Brownville -- The Damned Thing An unfinished race -- A Watcher by the Dead The realm of the unreal -- The middle toe of the right foot -- Haita, the shepherd -- The boarded window -- The secret of Macarger's Gulch -- The thing at Nolan -- A baby tramp -- The applicant -- Moxon's master -- John Bartine's watch -- A jug of sirup -- A diagnosis of death -- A wireless message -- The moonlit road -- Perry Chumly's eclipse -- An imperfect conflagration -- At Old man Eckert's -- A vine on a house -- The Eyes of the Panther An arrest -- Staley Fleming's hallucination -- Beyond the wall -- The other lodgers -- The stranger -- Authenticating a ghost -- A story at the club -- The hypnotist -- A bottomless grave -- My favorite murder -- Oil of dog -- The widower Turmore -- One summer night -- John Mortenson's funeral.

Tall tales, comic and political fantasies: The aborigines of Oakland -- A scientific dream -- For the Ahkoond -- Ashes of the beacon -- John Smith, liberator --