Originally published in 1976, this anthology includes facsimile reprints of nine early horror stories: "The Ensouled Violin " by H. P. Blavatsky; "The Green Staircase " by Gilbert Campbell; "The Haunted Hansom " by Howell Davies; "The Vial-Genie and the Mad Farthing " by Frédéric de la Motte Fouqué; "The Metempsychosis " by Robert McNish; "Fioraccio " by Giovanni Magherini-Graziani, translated by Mary A. Craig; "A Mystery of the Campagna " by Von Degen (pseud. of Ann C. Rabe); "The Green Hands: A Story About a Duet " by George Augustus Sala; and "Ghosts " Ivan Turgenev.