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Japanese structure is not as straightforward as の always meaning "of" and its lack of use meaning there are no "of"s in the title. If you wanted to be completely, 100% literal about translating it, the title should be "Moonlit Night Abandonment Anecdote". This is not a natural sounding title. There are no particles necessary to denote the "of" in "A Tale of Moonlit Abandoment"--the placement of the kanji shows that the anecdote/tale in question is one of abandonment on a moonlit night. That is exactly what "A Tale of Moonlit Abandonment" denotes.

And if the titles of "moonlit bear" and "置き去り月夜少" were meant to match exactly mothy wouldn't have written the former in English.

As for "And Then the Girl Went Mad" I would change it to "[The] Ending Moonlit Tale". The way the title is constructed suggests to me not that it is the end of the tale but that it is the final tale--the ending tale, as it were. (As in, there's multiple moonlit tales and this is the last one rather than there's only one moonlit tale that these are all a part of).