Richard Garnett gathered these stories from the gift-book annuals where Mary Shelley first placed them. They range from Italian romances of brigands and vengeance such as “The Sisters of Albano” and “Ferdinando Eboli” to “The Mortal Immortal,” told by a man who drank an alchemist’s elixir, and “Transformation,” a dark tale of a body exchanged with a misshapen dwarf.
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