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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.

Dick Forsyth's parents died in a train crash when he was a young boy. On the same train was the wealthy Silas Wedderburn. Surviving the accident, Wedderburn adopted the unfortunate orphan as his own. Now, eleven years later, Wedderburn is on the brink of death and everyone in the little village of...

The mystery begins when Ada Ricard is kidnapped during a grand party at her house on East Twenty-Third Street. When a body is discovered, a wax effigy is made by the police for the purposes of identification,and this is soon recognised by Ada's ex-husband James Gobson. Soon, Gobson himself is in the...

At a symposium in Rome, a group of priests gather by candlelight to discuss the shadowy world of the supernatural. Each in turn tells of their encounters with ghosts, demons and other mysterious phenomenon, sharing their knowledge of the evils they have been called upon to guard against.  This...