Chapter 1. Mr. Apell's Vision.
Mrs. G's Story.
Miss Annie Starbird's Story.
Told by Mr. John Garnis.

Chapter 2. The Appearance of Departed Spirits.
My Grandmother's Ghost Story.
My Own Story.

Chapter 3. Odd Happenings.
My One Song.
A Real "Grandfather's Clock."
What Was It?
A Warning of Calamity.
Out of the Body.

Chapter 4. Dopple Gangers.
An Apparition in Red, Blue and Yellow.

Chapter 5. Somnambulism.
Mr. Alpheus Bixby.
Mrs. Brick's Dinner.
Miss Primula's Acrobatic Performance.
Above the Whirlpool at Midnight.

Chapter 6. Dreams.
My Sister's Dream.
My Mother's Dream.
A Neighbor's Dream.
The Persian Rug.
A Dream of the Fourteenth Century. The Finding of the Last Cantos of Dante's Divina Comedia.

Chapter 7. Ghost Stories.
Mr. Blomgren's Call.
A Mississippi Pilot's Story.
Dr. F's Story.
What a Musician Saw.
The Ghost in the Back Parlor.
A Haunted Man.

Chapter 8. A Covington Apparition.
A Reproachful Ghost.
A Sorrowful Ghost.
Poor Hannah Penny.
The Twins.
A Pretty Story of Helen Hunt Jackson.

Chapter 9. Nurse Kirkpatrick's Stories.
How a Spirit Sat for Its Photograph.
The Story of a Watch.
A Dream.
Sister Zelia.
A Virginia Witch Story.

Chapter 10. Three Celebrated Mediums.
Miss Edmonds.
Charles Foster.
Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane.

Chapter 11. About Babies.
A Baby Ghost-Seer.

Chapter 12. Planchette.

Chapter 13, Colonel Deyer's Well.

Chapter 14. The Story of Mrs. V.
Extract From a Letter.

Chapter 15. The Anxious Mother.
Two Pictures of Heaven.
The Case of Mrs. Roger Black.

Chapter 16. Mediums of Uncivilized Nations.
The Kaffirs.
The Ashantees.
The Dahomians.
The Australians.
The Maoris.
The Fijians.
The Abyssinians.
Spiritual Belief of the Esquimaux.

Chapter 17. Testimony From All Quarters.

Chapter 18. The Belief of Agassizin the Eternal Continuance of Individual Personality.
Immanuel Kant on the Hope of Immortality.
Lord Byron on the White Lady of Colalto.
Mozart's Belief in Omens.
Mr. Frith's Dream of Dickens.
Victor Hugo.
Abercrombie's Opinion.
A Beautiful Hope of the Theosophist.
Herbert Spencer.
The Fathers of the Church.
Extracts from Hawthorne's Note-Books.

Chapter 19. The Haunted Hearth.
Sleeping-car Dreams.

Chapter 20. Mystery Stories.
The Son Restored to His Mother.
St. Luke, Chapter VII.