Grant Allan: 35 books

The title story calls on Allan’s experience in Jamaica to help create a strong tale of voodoo. "The Third Time" is a dark story about alcoholism. "The Gold Wulfric" is a numismatic mystery. "The Two Carnegies" explores in a tragic mode the uncanny connection between identical twins. "Olga Davidoff's...

"Linnet" is a classic romance novel by noted author Grant Allen

The convoluted and colourful plot of “What’s Bred In The Bone” turns on questions of heredity and atavism: the ancestry of the Waring twin brothers and of Elma Clifford. Elma comes on her mother's side from a line of gypsy snake dancers, and she displays a periodic urge to dance wildly with...

Grant Allen became a pioneer in science fiction, with the novel “The British Barbarians” (1895). This book, published about the same time as H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (which appeared January–May 1895, and which includes a mention of Allen, also described time travel.

“The Woman Who Did” (1895) is a novel by Grant Allen about a young, self-assured middle-class woman who defies convention as a matter of principle and who is fully prepared to suffer the consequences of her actions. It was first published in London by John Lane in a series intended to promote...

“Another year had passed, and Colin, now of full age, had tired of working for Cicolari. It was all very well, this moulding clay and carving replicas of afflicted widows; it was all very well, this modelling busts and statuettes and little classical compositions; it was all very well, this picking...

Beginning in 1894 Allen produced 30 novels including the scandalous novel The Woman Who Did. Hilda Wade: A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose is one of the first detective stories with a strong female protagonist. The story takes place in a hospital where Hilda works as a nurse for a popular doctor. (Goodreads)

It was Sunday evening, and on Sundays Max Schurz, the chief of the London Socialists, always held his weekly receptions. That night his cosmopolitan refugee friends were all at liberty; his French disciples could pour in from the little lanes and courts in Soho, where, since the Commune, they had...

A collection of short stories first published in 1884 which had previously appeared in Cornhill Magazine, Longman's Magazine and Belgravia.

The ghost in fact plays in the ideas of early man the same part that guano and phosphates play today in the ideas of the educated scientific farmer... Furthermore, another connection may be shown to exist between plants or trees and ghosts. We know that it is a frequent practice deliberately to put...

A strange and unexpected disaster happens in the Thames Valley...

“Ah, he was a mean-spirited beggar, that fellow Sibthorpe! As mean-spirited a beggar as ever I come across. Yes, that's who I mean; that's him; the fellow as was murdered. I s'pose you'd call it murdered, now I come to think of it. But, Lord, he was such a mean-spirited chap, he wouldn't be enough to 'ang a dog for! (Excerpt)

Michael Trevennack is an elderly English civil servant who spends his holidays on the Cornish coast staring out at a rock formation known as St. Michael’s Crag. Fifteen years earlier, a hundred or so feet below, he and his only son were stuck by falling rocks. The boy was killed, while Trevennack...

The old priest of Mauna Loa, the great Hawaiian volcano, is to all outward appearance a good, civilised Christian man, who has discarded his old beliefs and has heartily accepted the more excellent way offered him. All the while he keeps the old priest's mask in his closet and the old faith in his...