Contains two short stories, "The Monkey's Paw" in which a severed monkey paw grants three wishes to whoever holds it, and "Jerry Bundler" in which a ghost haunts the visitors of an old hotel.

Originally published serially in 1912, "The Lost World" is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale of discovery and adventure. The story begins with the narrator, the curious and intrepid reporter Edward Malone, meeting Professor Challenger, a strange and brilliant paleontologist who insists that he has found dinosaurs still alive deep in the Amazon. Malone agrees to accompany Challenger, as well as Challenger's unconvinced colleague Professor Summerlee,...