An invaluable resource for readers and students alike, Lost Souls contains the definitive editions of over twenty lost and forgotten classics of adventure, horror and romance.Lost Souls brings together tales of woe and angst, loneliness, redemption and humour, featuring starving artists, possessed Popes, damned kings and hopeful prisoners.With stories by Charles Bayly Jr., David Bryher, Latrobe Carroll, Robert W. Chambers, William Atwell Cheney, Mary Coleridge, Stephen Crane, Benjamin Disraeli, Arthur Conan Doyle, Amelia B. Edwards, Mary Wilkins Freeman, John Galsworthy, George Gissing, Richard Garnett, Bret Harte, O. Henry, John Reynolds, Anne Douglas Sedgewick, Calista Hasley Patchin and May Wentworth.Beautifully illustrated by Vincent Sammy, with a foreword and story introductions by Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin.