Presents three mystery stories in which ace detective Sherlock Holmes and his associate Dr. Watson uncover a complex theft, thwart a murder, and uncover the reasons for a strange request from an employer.
In early twentieth-century New England, talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, and spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up in their company.
An illustrated adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's story about ten-year-old Mary, who comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
A retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's story, in which young Jim Hawkins discovers an old treasure map, sets out on a harrowing voyage to a faraway island, and soon learns that dangerous men are seeking the same treasure.
In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.
Based upon the works of Stephen Crane. An illustrated adaptation of Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage" in which a young Union soldier, during his service in the Civil War, matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.
An illustrated adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," in which Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight-foot monster, only to bring danger and destruction to the lives of those he loves.
