Originally published in 1976, this anthology includes facsimile reprints of thirteen early horror and ghost stories: "The Sanctuary," by E. F. Benson; "The Terror on Tobit," by Charles Lloyd Birkin; "Couching at the Door," by D. K. Broster; "An Amateur Ghost," by James Branch Cabell; "The Closed Cabinet" (anonymous); "Playing with Fire," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; "The Demon Pope," by Richard Garnett; "Arria Marcella," by Théophile Gautier; "The Witch Doctor," by Manly P. Hall; "The Seeker of Souls," by Jasper John; "The Shadow on the Moor," by the Duke of Northumberland; "The Moonslave," by Barry Pain; and "A Porta Inferi," by Roger Pater.