Bernard Capes

Bernard Capes was celebrated as one of the most prolific authors of the late Victorian period, producing dozens of short stories, articles, and more than forty novels across multiple genres, culminating in the first original crime novel published by Collins, The Skeleton Key.

The Black Reaper: Tales of Terror by Bernard Capes (Collins Chillers)

Neil Gaiman

Kelly Link

E. F. Benson

Muriel Spark

E. Nesbit

Louis de Bernières

Robert Aickman

M. R. James

Jenn Ashworth

Jerome K. Jerome

L. P. Hartley

Frank Cowper

A present contains a monstrous secret. An uninvited guest haunts a Christmas party. A shadow slips across the floor by firelight. A festive entertainment ends in darkness and screams. Who knows what haunts the night at the dark point of the year? This collection of seasonal chillers looks beneath Christmas cheer to a world of ghosts and horrors, mixing terrifying modern fiction with classic stories by masters of the macabre. From Neil Gaiman and M. R. James to Muriel Spark and E. Nesbit, there are stories here to make the hardiest soul quail - so find a comfy chair, lock the door, ignore the cold breath on your neck and get ready to welcome in the real spirits of Christmas.

A chilling collection of modern and classic Christmas ghost stories

Ghosts of Christmas Past

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

in large print

The Mill of Silence

The fourth in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a tragic accident during a shooting party. As the story switches between Paris and Hampshire, the possibility of it not being an accident seems to grow more likely.

The Mystery of the Skeleton Key (Detective Club Crime Classics)

The Skeleton Key

"Gilead Balm, knight errant : His adventures in search of the truth" by Bernard Capes. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Gilead Balm, knight errant : His adventures in search of the truth

Clement Scott

Charles Eglington

Addison Bright

Vol. for 1888 includes dramatic directory for Feb.-Dec.; vol. for 1889 includes dramatic directory for Jan.-May.

A Monthly Review of the Drama, Music, and Fine Arts

The Theatre

A Rogue's Tragedy

Excerpt from Our Lady of Darkness And that you have come to, I presume. Go to the Low Countries, i' Gad's name, and find your level there! I'll give you fifty recommendations, and trust to procure you a year's hospitality from each. Only, one word in your ear, Ned: if you bring back a prig to wife, I'll hev the two of ye poisoned, if I hang for it. The nephew condescended to a smile of some amused toleration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Our Lady of Darkness (Classic Reprint)

Our Lady of Darkness

The Lake of Wine

A servant girl is found murdered, with no discernible motive, too many suspects, and haunting it all is an enigmatic mysterious chessmaster. All the ingredients for a classy puzzler by a writer of mysteries and horror stories, popular and admired during his life, but strangely neglected today.

The fourth in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a tragic accident during a shooting party. As the story switches between Paris and Hampshire, the possibility of it not being an accident seems to grow more likely. The Detective Story Club, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most ingenious crime stories of the age, chosen by a select committee of experts. Now, almost 90 years later, these books are the classics of the Golden Age, republished at last with the same popular cover designs that appealed to their original readers. The Mystery of the Skeleton Key, first published in 1919, has the distinction of being the first detective novel commissioned and published by Collins, though it was Bernard Capes only book in the genre, as he died shortly before it was published. This is how the Detective Club announced their edition ten years later: Mr Arnold Bennett, in a recent article, criticised the ad hoc characterisation and human interest in the detective novels of to-day. The Mystery of the Skeleton Key contains, in addition to a clever crime problem and plenty of thrills, a sensible love story, humour, excellent characterisation and strong human interest. The scenes are laid in Paris and Hampshire. The story deals with a crime committed in the grounds of a country house and the subsequent efforts of a clever young detective the track down the perpetrator. The Selection Committee of The Detective Story Club have no hesitation in recommending this splendid thriller as one which will satisfy the most exacting reader of detective fiction. This new edition comes with a brand new introduction by Capes expert and anthologist, Hugh Lamb."

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