These 74 plates reproduce four of Klinger's complete cycles: Eve and the Future; A Glove; A Love; and On Death, Part I; plus many other illustrations. Reproduced directly from original portfolio editions, the etchings foreshadow the Surrealist movement with fantasies about love and death, sexual psychoses, fetish obsessions, and bizarre nightmares.

German artist Max Klinger (1857?1920) is viewed today as a major precursor of Surrealism whose works influenced De Chirico, Munch, Dali, and Ernst as well as other artists.