Anthologies

This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1856. Born in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and Italy with them between 1836 and 1838. Returning to England, Collins attended Cole's boarding school, and completed his education in 1841, after which he was apprenticed to the tea merchants Antrobus & Co. in the Strand. In 1846, Collins became a law student at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar in 1851, although he never practiced. It was in 1848, a year after the death of his father, that he published his first book, The Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R.A., to good reviews. The 1860s saw Collins' creative high-point, and it was during this decade that he achieved fame and critical acclaim, with his four major novels, The Woman in White (1860), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The Moonstone, meanwhile is seen by many as the first true detective novel - T. S. Eliot called it "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels...in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe." Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions.

Contents: 479 My Adventure in Norfolk (1924) short story by A. J. Alan 485 Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty (1922) short story by Stacy Aumonier 500 The Leech of Folkestone [The Ingoldsby Legends] (1931) novelette by Richard Harris Barham [as by R. H. Barham] 525 A. V. Laider (1916) short story by Max Beerbohm 543 The Room in the Tower (1912) short story by E. F. Benson 555 Cut-Throat Farm (1909) short story by J. D. Beresford 559 The Damned Thing (1893) short story by Ambrose Bierce 567 Secret Worship [John Silence] (1908) novelette by Algernon Blackwood 598 No. 17 (1910) short story by E. Nesbit [as by Mrs. E. Bland] 606 The Queer Door (1930) short story by Douglas G. Browne 621 The Waxwork (1931) short story by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X] 633 Mad Monkton (1859) novella by Wilkie Collins [as by William Wilkie Collins] 691 The Haunted Ships (1821) short story by Allan Cunningham [as by Alan Cunningham] 705 The King Waits (1918) short story by Clemence Dane 713 The Tree (1922) short story by Walter de la Mare 730 The Second Awakening of a Magician (1930) short story by S. L. Dennis 739 No. I Branch Line, the Signal-Man (1931) short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Signalman 1866) 752 Riesenberg (1911) short fiction by Ford Madox Ford 777 The Beast with Five Fingers (1919) novelette by William Fryer Harvey [as by W. F. Harvey] 802 The Old Man (1931) short story by Holloway Horn 808 The Prayer (1895) novelette by Violet Hunt 833 The Well (1902) short story by W. W. Jacobs 844 The Resurgent Mysteries (1931) short fiction by Edgar Jepson 861 Mr. Justice Harbottle [Martin Hesselius] (1907) novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. S. Le Fanu] 892 The Haunted and the Haunters (1931) novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain 1859) [as by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton] 927 The Great Return (1915) novelette by Arthur Machen 958 The Story of the Greek Slave (1834) short story by Frederick Marryat 971 Anty Bligh (1905) short story by John Masefield 975 The Double Admiral (1925) short story by John Metcalfe 986 The Library Window (1902) novelette by Margaret Oliphant [as by Mrs. Oliphant] 1024 Rose Rose (1910) short story by Barry Pain 1030 The Iron Pineapple (1926) short story by Eden Phillpotts 1046 Berenice (1850) short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Berenice—A Tale 1835) 1053 The Roll-Call of the Reef (1931) short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch] 1068 Mangaroo (1926) short story by Naomi Royde-Smith 1075 Sredni Vashtar (1910) short story by Saki 1080 The Mortal Immortal (1891) short story by Mary Shelley [as by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley] 1092 The Primate of the Rose (1928) short story by M. P. Shiel 1108 Called to the Rescue (1863) short story by Henry Spicer 1112 The Enemy (1923) short story by Hugh Walpole 1122 The Inexperienced Ghost (1902) short story by H. G. Wells 1134 Lukundoo (1927) short story by Edward Lucas White [as by E. L. White]

American and English Masterpiece mysteries by Faulkner, Christie, Doyle, Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Wallace, H G Wells, Edgar Allan Poe and others

Presents an anthology of twenty-five tales of mystery, murder, and suspense, selected from the archives of "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine"

Nothing could seem more civilized, more orderly and sedate than a weekend at one of Great Britain's country estates. Yet these staid, conservative houses play host to a wider variety of murders than do the mean streets of America's darkest cities.

Table of Sheckley. IntroductionDonn Byrne. Tale of the PiperGeorge Eliot. The Lifted VeilM. R. James. Number 13M. R. James. RatsM. R. James. Count MagnusG. K. Chesterton. The Queer FeetJ. S. Fletcher. The Ivory GodDaniel Defoe. The Apparition of Mrs. VealE. F. Benson. The Thing in the HallGuy de Maupassant. NightGuy de Maupassant. The Drowned ManGuy de Maupassant. Who Knows?Nathaniel Hawthorne. Young Goodman BrownOscar Wilde. The Ballad of Reading GaolEdgar Allan Poe. The Tell-Tale HeartEdgar Allan Poe. The Fall of the House of UsherEdgar Allan Poe. The Black CatEdgar Allan Poe. LigeiaBram Stoker. The SquawO. Henry. The Last LeafW. W. Jacobs. The WellCharles Dickens. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's BargainAmbrose Bierce. Moxon's MasterAmbrose Bierce. The Middle Toe of the Right FootAmbrose Bierce. The Damned ThingF. Marion Crawford. The Upper BerthF. Marion Crawford. Man Overboard!Frederick Marryat. The WerewolfJoseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Schalken the PainterJoseph Sheridan Le Fanu. CarmillaWilkie Collins. Gabriel's MarriageMrs. Gaskell. The Sexton's Hero

These short stories share the context of the village with its country church, but range across history and genre. The authors include: Anthony Trollope; Wilkie Collins; John Galsworthy; W.S. Gilbert; Saki; Margaret Oliphant; Bertrand Russell; D.M. Thomas; and William Trevor.

When acclaimed mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers first began compiling anthologies of the best crime stories in the 1920s and ’30s, the genre was in the flush of its first golden age. While it is hard to imagine today—after every possible mystery plot has been told, retold, subverted, and played straight again by hundreds of writers over nearly a century—in Sayers’s day there were still twists that had never been seen, and machinations of crime that would shock even jaded Jazz Age readers. Now today’s fans of mystery and crime can experience a handpicked collection of over thirty of the most outstanding stories from this era, originally chosen by Sayers and newly introduced by Otto Penzler, a leading expert and connoisseur in the field of mystery literature. As a prolific writer of the genre, Sayers understood the difficulty of putting together a mystery that was not only sufficiently challenging (so that the solution was not immediately obvious to the reader), but also solvable without forcing the writer to cheat. That balance between opacity and solvability remains the greatest challenge of writing great crime stories—and these are some of the greatest. Authors appearing in this collection include: Edgar Allen Poe Herman Melville H. G. Wells Wilkie Collins Stephen Crane J. S. Le Fanu This is a treasure trove for real fans!

Stories to Get You Through the Night is a collection to remedy life's stresses and strains. Inside you will find writing from the greatest of classic and contemporary authors; stories that will brighten and inspire, move and delight, soothe and restore in equal measure. This is an anthology to devour or to savour at your leisure, each story a perfectly imagined whole to be read and reread, and each a journey to transport the reader away from the everyday. Immersed in the pages you will follow lovers to midnight trysts, accompany old friends on new adventures, be thrilled by ghostly delights, overcome heartbreak, loss and longing, and be warmed by tales of redemption, and of hope and happiness. Whether as a cure for insomnia, to while away the hours on a midnight journey, or as a brief moment of escapism before you turn in, the stories contained in this remarkable collection provide the perfect antidote to the frenetic pace of modern life - a rich and calming selection guaranteed to see you through the night. Featuring stories by: Katherine Mansfield, Alice Munro, Anton Chekhov, Oscar Wilde, Haruki Murakami, Wilkie Collins, Kate Chopin, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Brothers Grimm, John Cheever, Arthur Conan Doyle, Virginia Woolf, Rudyard Kipling, Helen Simpson, Richard Yates, James Lasdun, Martin Amis, Angela Carter, Somerset Maugham and Julian Barnes

The world’s most beloved mystery writers celebrate their favorite mystery novels in this gorgeously wrought collection, featuring essays by Michael Connelly, Kathy Reichs, Ian Rankin, and more. In the most ambitious anthology of its kind, the world’s leading mystery writers come together to champion the greatest mystery novels ever written. In a series of personal essays that reveal as much about the authors and their own work as they do about the books that they love, over a hundred authors from twenty countries have created a guide that will be indispensable for generations of readers and writers. From Agatha Christie to Lee Child, from Edgar Allan Poe to P. D. James, from Sherlock Holmes to Hannibal Lecter and Philip Marlowe to Lord Peter Wimsey, Books to Die For brings together the best of the mystery world for a feast of reading pleasure, a treasure trove for those new to the genre and for those who believe that there is nothing new left to discover. This is the one essential book for every reader who has ever finished a mystery novel and thought… I want more!

The Greatest Books of All Time Vol. 4 contains the following 10 Masterpieces : A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne Daniel Deronda - George Eliot King Lear - William Shakespeare Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Henry Fielding The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins with HTML Tables Of Contents Be sure to check out our other books available !

Moonstone is proud to present this original anthology featuring never before seen tales of the world’s first consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, as he teams up with other adventurers and investigators! Authors: Pat Barletta, David Stuart Davies, Nancy Holder, Bradley H. Sinor, Julie Barret, David Gerrold, Jean Rabe, Greg Gick, Matthew V. Clemens, Martin Gately, and Bill Crider. featuring: Gertrude Bell, renowned adventurer, archeologist, and spy! (“The Moonstone”) Wilkie Collin’s Sergeant Cuff! (“The Scarlet Pimpernel”) Baroness Orczy’s Lady Molly of Scotland Yard! Mark Twain! Oscar Wilde! Catherine Louisa Pirkis’ Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective! Actors Malcolm Scott and Matilda Alice Powles. Arthur B. Reeve’s Craig Kennedy, science detective! Alexandre Lacassagne, French physician and criminologist Edmund Locard, pioneer of forensic science (“The Phantom of the Opera”)Gaston Leroux’s Joseph Rouletabille , French spy and investigative journalist