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William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is one of the greatest of the Victorian mystery writers. For several years he was on the editorial staff of Dickens' magazine All Year Round and became Dickens' close friend and collaborator. Alongside his great novels, Collins was the author of a great many superb short stories, mostly concerned with either the supernatural or crime.

The stuff of nightmares! A terrifying collection of stories about haunted rooms, strange beds, terrifying dreams and sleepless nights. Listen at bedtime if you dare!

Wilkie Collins describes a traveller who has a magic mirror in his possession which enables him to recall scenes from his travels. In a series of amusing sketches he relives various travels in the Tyrol and the Alps before taking a decision about his next holiday destination.

On the night before their execution during the French Revolution, twenty-one condemned prisoners and their friends are permitted a last banquet before their trip to the guillotine on the morrow. While they feast and jest on their last night alive, they begin to speculate about the hour of the execution the next day. Only one prisoner, Duprat, is quiet on the subject. His friend Marginy questions him on the subject, and Duprat asserts than he knows the exact time at which he will die on the next day.

A scintillating collection of tales with unexpected endings.

A winning streak at a downmarket gambling den in Paris leads to a lavish drinking spree. The offer of coffee to help sober up is not all that it first seems. Our protagonist finds himself in a strange bed for the night in a house of thieves and murderers. And it turns out to be a very strange bed indeed... a bed cunningly designed with murder in mind. A spine-chilling tale... especially if you listen at bedtime.

Charles Dickens once again gathers his favourite storytellers around him and 'conducts' the story of 'The Wreck of the Golden Mary'. Dickens leads, Percy Fitzgerald, Harriet Parr, Adelaide Anne Procter, and others follow....

Do czego zdolna jest matka dla swojego dziecka? Madame Fontaine, wdowa po wybitnym chemiku, ma w sobie wystarczająco determinacji i przebiegłości, żeby doprowadzić do skutku plany matrymonialne młodej Minny, a każdemu, kto ośmieli się stanąć na jej drodze, grożą niebezpieczne konsekwencje. Lecz czy nie natrafiła przypadkiem na godnego siebie przeciwnika w osobie niejakiego Słomianego Jacka, byłego pensjonariusza zakładu dla obłąkanych? Dopiero w domu pogrzebowym okaże się, kto zatriumfuje – i kto ujdzie z życiem.

The human form is familiar to all of us. We like limbs connected to bodies. Writers of the dark and macabre are not too concerned if that remains the case. Indeed limbs, or rather pieces of the body, sometimes are best written about when not connected. It’s one of our greatest fears. It quite rightly riddles us with a very unsettling feeling. So why then do we turn the page? We’re about to find out.

We love control. The ability to predict and organise our lives as we want them. As we desire them. It’s quite a shock, then, when phantoms, ghouls and ghosts play their part, too. They don’t play by our rules. Our welfare is not their concern. They will do as they wish. And they have very vivid imaginations - way beyond the dictionary definition: Phantom. Noun. Something apparently seen, heard or sensed but having no physical reality. An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion. A model, especially a transparent one, of the human body or of any of its parts.

An excellent ghost story; ancient prophecy and the unburied dead.

A tale of unanticipated events unfolds as a prominent chemist and a savvy businessman breathe their last on the same day. The chemists widow, Mrs. Fontaine, inherits the toxic substances her husband was meticulously studying. Simultaneously, Mrs. Wagner, the businessmans widow, is left to carry out her husbands ambitious reforms for mental health institutions and his groundbreaking plans for gender equality in their business. A strong advocate for compassionate treatment of the mentally ill, Mrs. Wagner seeks the release of the intriguing character, Jack Straw, from an asylum. Meanwhile, her ...

A gripping collection of dramatic sea stories from famous classic authors. 'Absolute Zero' by Morgan Robertson; 'The Former Passengers' by B. M. Croker; 'The Ghost in the Cupboard Room' by Wilkie Collins; 'The Passing of a God' by Henry S. Whitehead; 'Haunted' by G. Ranger Wormser; 'Sea Curse' by Robert E. Howard; 'Seashore Macabre' by Hugh Walpole; 'Dagon' by H. P. Lovecraft; 'The Lighthouse on Shivering Sand' by J. S. Fletcher; and many more.

A haunting collection of unforgettable tales by great classic authors.

A spine-tingling collection of weird and wonderful horror stories, featuring ghosts, curses, strange phenomena, ghouls, black magic, and demonic apparitions. Do you dare to listen?

A treasure chest of the most popular classic crime stories from the 19th century. •The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe •A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins •Murder under the Microscope by William Russell •The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy •The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe •The Mystery of Marie Roget by Edgar Allan Poe •Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In Rogues Life, the author takes us on a delightful journey through a cherished period of their past, set against the vibrant backdrop of Paris. Here, they found camaraderie with literary giants like Charles Dickens and enjoyed the company of artistic friends, including the unforgettable comedian, Regnier. While revisiting these pages has brought a touch of melancholy, the hope is that they will brighten the somber moments for others. The Rogue, with his light-heartedness and brevity, promises to engage and entertain the new generation.

Discover the captivating tale of Basil, a young man born into high society, who falls hopelessly in love with a girl he spots on a bus - Margaret Sherwin, a linen drapers daughter. Though his father disapproves, Basil persuades Margarets father to let him secretly marry her under one condition - they must live separately for the first year due to Margarets young age. The plan works initially, but the enigmatic Mannions return from abroad stirs turmoil. On the final night of the year, Basil uncovers an unsettling truth about Margaret and Mannion, which changes everything.

This is a new edition, Adeptio’s Vintage Edition, of Wilkie Collins’s Basil, originally published in 1893 by Harper & Brothers Publishers, of New York. Part of Adeptio’s Unforgettable Classic Series, this is not a facsimile reprint. Obvious typographical errors have been carefully corrected and the entire text has been reset and redesigned by Adeptio Editions to enhance readability, while respecting the original edition. The eBook edition was designed in an elegant style and set to take full advantage of the readers’ devices. Basil, is Collins’s second novel, and one of ...

Ernest Lismore is in financial difficulties. In return for a token marriage, he is offered help by the elderly Mrs. Callender whom he had saved from a fire some years earlier. Lismore eventually agrees and they live abroad as mother and son until he meets an attractive girl in an art gallery.