Mary Elizabeth Counselman's "Three Marked Pennies" was one of the most popular stories ever to appear in the pages of Weird Tales magazine, and the work subsequently has become an acknowledged classic of American literature. Together with C.L. Moore, Miss Counselman was Weird Tales's preeminent female author, and this collection preserves her finest supernatural fiction written over a period of forty years, including: "The Three Marked Pennies, " "The Unwanted, " "The Shot-Tower Ghost, " "Night Court, " "Th Monkey Spoons, " "The Smiling Face, " "A Death Crown for Mr. Hapworthy, " "The Black Stone Statue, " "Seventh Sister, " "Parasite Mansion, " "The Green Window, " "The Tree's Wife, " "Twister, " and "A Handful of Silver."