The book contains some historical stories about New Jersey starting from the year 1600 till the beginning of the 20th century. The book represents a type of anecdotic history of New Jersey.
George Pope Morris, Eliza Leslie, George William Curtis, Edward Everett Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Frank Richard Stockton, Bret Harte, O. Henry, George Randolph Chester, Grace MacGowan Cooke, Wells Hastings, William James Lampton, Henry Cuyler Bunner, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Caroline Matilda Kirkland & Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Richard Stockton, H.O. Lovecraft, Guy de Maupassant, Franz Kafka, Arthur Conan Doyle, Gabriel Garcia Marques, Oscar Wilde, W.W. Jacobs & Richard Matheson
H.P. Lovecraft, Frank Richard Stockton, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Franz Kafka, Arthur Conan Doyle, Gabriel García Márquez, Oscar Wilde, W.W. Jacobs & Richard Matheson
H. and E. Heron, Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Riddell, Flora Annie Steel, Amelia B. Edwards, Margaret Oliphant, Edward Bellamy, Arnold Bennett, S. Baring-Gould, Daniil Kharms, E. F. Benson, Ella D'Arcy, Jacques Futrelle, Frank Richard Stockton, John Kendrick Bangs, Kenneth Grahame, Julian Hawthorne, A. E. W. Mason, Richard Middleton, Pierre Louÿs, Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, Ethel Richardson, Gertrude Stein, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Mór Jókai, Andy Adams, Bertha Sinclair, Fitz James O'Brien, Eleanor H. Porter, Valery Bryusov, John Ulrich Giesy, Otis Adelbert Kline, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Barry Pain, Gertrude Bennett, Francis Marion Crawford, William Pett Ridge, Gilbert Parker, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Richard Austin Freeman, Alice Duer Miller, Leonard Merrick, Anthony Hope, Ethel Watts Mumford, Anne O'Hagan Shinn, B. M. Bower & August Nemo
Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Richard Stockton, Machado de Assis, Guy de Maupassant, Gabriel Garcia Marques, Arthur Conan Doyle, Monteiro Lobato, Oscar Wilde, W.W. Jacob & Richard Matheson
