Foreword: Mary Shelley Horror Stories • essay by Fiona Sampson
Introduction to the 1831 Edition • essay by Mary Shelley (variant of Introduction 1831)
Original Preface to the 1818 Edition • essay by Percy Bysshe Shelley (variant of Preface 1818) [as by uncredited]
A Fragment • short story by Lord George Gordon Byron [as by George Gordon, Lord Byron]
The Vampyre • [Lord Ruthven] • • novelette by Dr. John William Polidori [as by John Polidori]
Christabel • • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Prefaces to Tales of the Dead • essay by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson (variant of Preface 1813)
The Family Portraits • novelette by A. Apel [as by Johann August Apel]
The Fated Hour • novelette by F. Laun [as by Friedrich Laun]
The Death's Head • novelette by F. Laun [as by Friedrich Laun]
The Spectre-Barber • novella by Johann Karl August Musäus
Foreword: Mary Shelley Horror Stories • essay by Fiona Sampson
Introduction to the 1831 Edition • essay by Mary Shelley (variant of Introduction 1831)
Original Preface to the 1818 Edition • essay by Percy Bysshe Shelley (variant of Preface 1818) [as by uncredited]
A Fragment • short story by Lord George Gordon Byron [as by George Gordon, Lord Byron]
The Vampyre • [Lord Ruthven] • • novelette by Dr. John William Polidori [as by John Polidori]
Christabel • • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Prefaces to Tales of the Dead • essay by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson (variant of Preface 1813)
The Family Portraits • novelette by A. Apel [as by Johann August Apel]
The Fated Hour • novelette by F. Laun [as by Friedrich Laun]
The Death's Head • novelette by F. Laun [as by Friedrich Laun]
The Spectre-Barber • novella by Johann Karl August Musäus