A collection of the first six Hiram Holliday adventures originally published in Cosmopolitan Magazine earlier that year. The stories were:
Hiram Holliday has earned a special bonus from his work as a copy editor for The Sentinel in NYC and he decides to fulfill a life-long desire to travel to Europe despite the almost certainty of war there. He never could have imagined the strange and frightening things that would befall him, or the changes in himself he would undergo.