Black Heath Editions: 118 books

Ghosts and robbers, smugglers and curses - this collection of tales was written for younger readers and is based on the author's own recollections of idyllic Victorian Christmases in England's Lake District. As the family gathers round the fire, the older members delight the company with stories befitting...

Whilst staying at a country inn, a solicitor named Dexter meets Aylmer Vance, a consulting expert in all things supernatural. The two men strike up an instant friendship, and Vance regales Dexter with haunting tales of his ghostly encounters - some beguiling, some tragic and some truly terrifying... Originally...

When Stephen Desmond falls in love with the beautiful Mabel Leybourne, Mabel's guardian, the villainous Eustace Selwyn, spitefully refuses the union. So when Eustace disappears in mysterious circumstances, Stephen is the natural suspect. But is Stephen really a murderer? And is it really possible...

J.E. Preston Muddock was a prolific writer of mystery fiction whose work was, in its day, as popular as Arthur Conan Doyle’s. In these thrilling stories, Muddock writes under the guise of his fictional alter ego - the private detective Dick Donovan. From the murky underworld of Victorian London...

Thirteen stories from the pen of golden age mystery-writer Victor L Whitechurch. The stories are mainly set around the world of railways and two feature Whitechurch's spy protagonist Captain Ivan Koravitch.

“You have done something which is against Nature… And Nature punishes.” In An Exchange of Souls (1911), a novel which greatly influenced Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep", Doctor Myas is obsessed with proving his theory that the soul and the body are separate entities. When Myas is found...

Thomas De Quincey's lively and controversial memoirs of his friends, the 'lake poets' William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, were controversial in their day for their candid and sometimes unflattering portraits of these great artists. The book remains one of the most fascinating...

When Mollie Delamere takes on a job as a pearl-broker for a London jeweller, she little anticipates the danger in which she is placing herself. But she soon finds that her new profession puts her directly in the sights of dangerous criminals, who will stop at nothing to secure the valuables under...

“Mr. Beck, I presume. I am Miss Dora Myrl. I can hardly flatter myself you have heard of me before?” Phil Armitage is hopelessly in love with Norma Lee - and she with him. Unfortunately, the course of true love does not run smooth as Norma's father is reluctant to allow his daughter to...

One Summer night in 1914, Marjorie Beeston is startled by a masked intruder in her bedroom. She is even more startled when she discovers that the intruder is none other than Ronnie Randwall, a friend of her brother's. Ronnie is the proud inventor of a new kind of aeroplane, housed in a secret hangar...

During a voyage from Australia to Britain, Ronald Monteith is fascinated by fellow-traveller, Lionel Ventin. One sultry evening, shortly before arriving at Malta, Ventin tells Monteith the sensational story of his life - of his tragic second marriage... and of his vengeful first wife. When Ventin...

Amyas Northcote's vintage collection of horror stories first appeared in 1922 and is highly regarded among collectors of classic supernatural fiction.

This is the first novel by Geraldine Jewsbury, one of mid-Victorian Britain’s most admired and popular writers. It deals powerfully with the theme of religious scepticism, through the challenging story of a young married woman, who embarks on an extra-marital affair with a Catholic priest.

No 13, a run-down boarding house in Rue Marlot, Paris, is the scene of a sordid mystery, when an unidentified corpse is found stabbed at the bottom of the stairs. When the body is identified, the American detective William Dow must act fast to prevent a terrible miscarriage of justice. This macabre murder mystery was originally published in French in 1877.