Synopsis: An anthology of adventure stories, mostly set in the past and for the most part with supernatural or macabre elements. Both Bleiler's Guide to Supernatural Fiction and Ahsley and Contento's The Supernatural Index describe this as an anthology. While the preface to the first editions suggests that the stories were written by Akerman, a number of the stories are either known to be by other authors or were originally published as early as 1813 when Akerman would have been 7.