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Authors: Hugh Lamb
ISBN-13: 9780486434292, ISBN-10: 048643429X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: June 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Assembled by an authority on vintage thrillers, these 17 Victorian-era stories of the macabre include works from around the world by both popular and lesser-known authors. Among the more celebrated contributors to this collection are Ambrose Bierce, Robert Barr, R. Murray Gilchrist, Mrs. H. H. Riddell, Richard Marsh, and Guy Boothby.
Acknowledgements | 6 | |
Editor's Introduction | 7 | |
The Haunted Station | 9 | |
The Hour and the Man | 29 | |
Nut Bush Farm | 38 | |
The Man Who Coined His Blood into Gold | 76 | |
The Shrine of Death | 82 | |
The Black Veil | 86 | |
The Ways of Ghosts | 89 | |
The Fever Queen | 97 | |
The Permanent Stiletto | 109 | |
The Houseboat | 121 | |
Dame Inowslad | 142 | |
The Mountain of Spirits | 148 | |
The Golden Bracelet | 156 | |
The Tyburn Ghost | 163 | |
Remorseless Vengeance | 170 | |
The Green Bottle | 180 | |
An Eddy on the Floor | 191 |