Includes thirty-five stories by William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, with biographical notes.

Contains graphic adaptations of four stories, including Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter," L. Frank Baum's "The Glass Dog," and H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath;" and includes a prologue to "Frankenstein" and poems by Lord Dunsany and Clark Ashton Smith.