Contents: 1. A psychological shipwreck/Ambrose Bierce. 2. No. 1 branch line: the signal-man/Charles Dickens. 3. The horror of the heights/Arthur Conan Doyle. 4. The realm of the unreal/Ambrose Bierce. 5. Rip Van Winkle/Washington Irving. 6. The shadow and the flash/Jack London. 7. The Horla/Guy de Maupassant. 8. An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge/Ambrose Bierce. 9. The Hedgehog/Saki. 10. An Inhabitant of Carcosa/Ambrose Bierce. 11. The trial for murder/Charles Dickens. 12. The music on the hill/Saki. 13. Dracula's guest/Bram Stoker. 14. John Bartine's watch/Ambrose Bierce.