The authors featured in An Anthology of the Best Ghost Stories from Bengal wrote between 1838 and 1938, and the tales that were selected are tentatively focused on the nuances of the characters, whether they be spectral or otherwise, gender, and socio-cultural and political narrative at the turn of the century. Rabindranath Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Syed Mustafa Siraj, Atin Bandyopadhyay, Bonophool, and Hemendra Kumar Roy are only a few of the authors whose stories are included in the book.