First published in the May 1943 edition of Astounding Science-Fiction, "Ghost" tells of an attempted exorcism at a centre of science in Antarctica.

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"Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House" is a short story by Algernon Blackwood, appearing in his 1906 anthology, The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories. "There was something very strange about the man who lived on the floor above the doctor."

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"Decay" is a short story by the British author and conservationist, John Moore. The story was first collected in The Third Omnibus of Crime in 1934. "Walking between his larches today, Mr. Cotter recognized them all as old friends."

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"The Law of the Hills" is a short story by the one-time Weird Tales author, Grace M. Campbell, first published in the August 1930 edition of the magazine. "A tragic, tender tale of the slim white shape that ran with a wolf-pack over the snow."

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"The Thing in the Tree" is a short story by the little-known author, Harold Standish Corbin. The story first appeared in the February 1927 edition of Ghost Stories. "What influence could make a tree take on human characteristics?"

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"Father's Vampire" is a short story by Alvin Taylor and Len J. Moffatt, first published in the May 1952 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. "Father collected things—but he wasn’t at all in a rut as to what he collected."

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"In Terror of Laughing Clay" is the first of four stories concerning the fictional ghost hunter, Mark Shadow. Written by the Scottish author, Robert W. Sneddon, the story first appeared in the October 1926 edition of Ghost Stories. "No scientists experimenting ten thousand years could make a lump of potter's clay live—and yet——"

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"The God with Four Arms" is a work of weird fiction by the English writer, H. T. W. Bousfield, first appearing in his 1939 anthology, The God with Four Arms and Other Stories. "A shady man, owed a small fortune, takes his frustrations out on a rare bronze idol, with sinister consequences."

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"A Vignette" is the very last short story penned by British author, M. R. James. It tells of a haunted plantation, allegedly influenced by real events experienced by James as a boy.

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"The Burned House" is a ghost story by Vincent O'Sullivan, first published in The Century Magazine in its October 1916 edition. In the story, a man recounts his eerie experience in a Lake District village where he witnessed a ghostly house fire and a hanging body, only to find no trace of them the next day.

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