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1) Wilkie Collins - 10 Short Stories of Suspense and Terror from a Master of the Genres (Fantasy and
The first mystery novel in English literature.
It is a letter-type novel and is the first mystery novel in the history of English literature.
Instead of writing about murder or dramatic tension, which is a pattern of Sherlock Holmes or later mystery novels, it is written as an 18th-century epistolary novel, and each chapter tells the story of a different person, and the little clues are shown...
"In one respect, men are all alike; they hate to see a woman in tears."
Paired with Blackstone's and Skyboat Media's production of Wilkie Collins's The Evil Genius, Skyboat Media presents the dramatic adaptation of the novel, also by Wilkie Collins. Although both versions of the story were written at the same time, the play has never before been published and was only ever performed once on the stage. In fact, it is almost entirely unknown
...Assembled and edited by Julian Hawthorne and first published in 1909, the Modern English volume of The Lock and Key Library features sixteen classic mystery and detective stories by such luminaries as Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Wilkie Collins.
Detective stories existed for centuries before the concept of the detective itself—amateur or professional— was fully formulated, and tales of mystery
...Two tales from the golden age of supernatural fiction
The Haunted House at Latchford by Mrs. J. H. Riddell
Mrs. J. H. Riddell excelled at blending the realistic and supernatural elements in her stories. In Essex she found the right dreary setting for The Haunted House at Latchford, "where beyond the fated house and ruined garden lay the belt of pine trees and the lake of the dismal swamp, which had furnished Crow Hall with no less than
...Eight stories selected for summer adventure and travel, with a mechanical elephant, a hidden treasure horde, a unicorn wandering the Old West, a train ride that brings a whole new meaning to time zones, and, of course, just a touch of the Lovecraftian Pastiche.
The Stories: