Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. The Old Nurse’s Stories I, a collection of three beautifully written and gripping tales, including Gaskell’s first ghost story.

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. This volume contains twelve of author’s best short stories like «The Last of the Legions,» «Through the Veil» and «The Coming of the Huns,» set in the early centuries of civilization up to the first millennium.