The contents of the two Volumes, slightly cur tailed, were, a few years later, brought out as one book, but the three volumes have long been out of print and are practically unknown to the present generation. I remember when I was a child my Father read some of these stories aloud to us as he was making his collection and I remember, too, how thrilled and awed we were, and how at times they brought a creepy feeling when at night I had to mount many ?ights of stairs to my bedroom at the top of the house.