Contents:
-- Introduction by Rosemary Jackson
-- Proem: The immortal (1908) Ellen Glasgow
-- The long chamber (1914) Olivia Howard Dunbar
-- A ghost story (1858) Ada Trevanion
-- Luella Miller (1902) Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
-- What did Miss Darrington see? (1870) Emma B. Cobb
-- La femme noir (1850) Anna Maria Hall
-- A friend in need (1981) Lisa Tuttle
-- Attachment (1974) Phyllis Eisenstein
-- Dreaming the sky down (1988) Barbara Burford
-- The sixth canvasser (1916) Inez Haynes Irwin
-- An unborn visitant (1932) Vita Sackville-West
-- Tamar (1932) Lady Eleanor Smith
-- There and here (1897) Alice Brown
-- The substitute (1914) Georgia Wood Pangborn
-- The teacher (1976) Luisa Valenzuela
-- The ghost (1978) Anne Sexton
-- Three dreams in a desert (1890) Olive Schreimer
-- The fall (1967) Armonia Somers
-- Pandora Pandaemonia (1988) Jules Faye
-- The Doll (1927) Vernon Lee
-- The debutante (1939) Leonora Carrington
-- The readjustment (1908) Mary Austin
-- Clay-shuttered doors (1926) Helen R. Hull
-- Since I died (1873) Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
-- The little dirty girl (1983) Joanna Russ
-- Envoi: for Emily D.
-- Recommended Reading