Included in this collection are tales from the heyday of supernatural fiction, when the great names of literature contributed to the genre as a matter of course - authors such as Charlotte Bronte, Collins, Conan Doyle, Dickens, Gaskell, Hardy, Hawthorne, O.Henry, James, Jerome, Le Fanu, Maupassant, Poe, Scott, Stevenson, Thackeray, and Wilde.