Suspense

 

Title: The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed
Author: Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)
Series: Suspense
ISBN: 1-86092-042-X
A close friend of Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins became a popular and highly successful writer of Victorian mysteries; his most famous novels being The Woman in White and The Moonstone. In The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed (1852) a young Englishman expresses his desire to experience 'a little genuine, blackguard, poverty-stricken gaming' during a sojourn in Paris, little realising that his success at the gaming table would lead him into mortal danger.

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Title: The Signalman
Author: Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Series: Suspense
ISBN: 1-86092-038-1
'The slow touch of a frozen finger' will trace your spine as the tale of a spectre warning a signalman of impending disaster unfolds. It was first published in the Christmas 1866 edition of All The Year Round - a journal edited by Charles Dickens himself. The timing is significant, as Dickens had been involved in a serious train crash at Staplehurst in the summer of 1865, in which several people died. Obviously deeply affected by the tragedy, he went on to write this classic ghost story.

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Title: The Vampyre
Author: John Polidori (1795-1821)
Series: Suspense
ISBN: 1-86092-035-7
This fascinating Gothic horror story introduces us to Lord Ruvthen, the father of all vampires, and the future inspiration for Count Dracula and the whole genre of blood sucking thrillers which are still popular today. Polidori was a doctor, of Italian parentage, from Edinburgh. He travelled to Geneva with Lord Byron, but they quarrelled. Returning home, Polidori published The Vampyre in the 1819 issue of the New Monthly Magazine, pretending it was by Byron. The poet refuted it, admitting only that he had been working on a story of the same title. However Polidori's The Vampyre soon became the talk of Europe and was turned into an opera by the German composer, Heinrich Marschner.

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Title: The Body Snatcher
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Series: Suspense
ISBN: 1-86092-001-2
This gruesome story was first published in the Christmas issue of the Pall Mall Magazine for 1884 and, although it had been written some time earlier, Stevenson initially laid it aside "in justifiable disgust, the tale being horrid." One night Fettes, an old Scotsman at the George Inn, is shocked out of his drunkenness by the sudden appearance of a shady figure from his past, Dr Wolfe Macfarlane. The sight of Macfarlane brings back terrible memories for Fettes, in particular, the nightmarish events of that stormy night in a rustic graveyard at Glencorse.

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Title: The Judge's House
Author: Bram Stoker (1847-1912)
Series: Suspense
ISBN: 1-86092-008-X
Famous as the author of Dracula, Bram Stoker, the master of terror, was born in Dublin. He could neither stand nor walk until the age of seven but later overcame his physical weaknesses as an outstanding athlete. He worked as a civil servant in Dublin and afterwards as a personal assistant to the celebrated actor, Sir Henry Irving. In The Judge's House a scholar seeking solitide finds himself in the rustic village of Benchurch. Ignoring the warnings of terrified locals he wilfully takes up residence in a sinister house, once the property of an infamous and evil judge.

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