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The Ghost Stories of Wilkie Collins
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Vengeful spirits, mysterious revenants and haunted objects stalk the pages of Wilkie Collins' short fiction, and yet his reputation as a sensation and detective novelist has long overshadowed his inventive contributions to the ghost story genre. Drawing from across the writer's career, Xavier Aldana Reyes presents...
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The Ghost Stories of Wilkie Collins
A new collection of 8 stories demonstrating Collins as one of the great ghost story writers of the Victorian era, on the 200th anniversary year of his birth. It features a new introduction by Xavier Aldana Reyes, exploring Wilkie Collins' contribution to the ghost story form, as well as the rarely anthologised story 'The Last Coachman'.
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Vengeful spirits, mysterious revenants and haunted objects stalk the pages of Wilkie Collins' short fiction, and yet his reputation as a sensation and detective novelist has long overshadowed his inventive contributions to the ghost story genre.
Drawing from across the writer's career, Xavier Aldana Reyes presents eight stories of the strange and uncanny to celebrate this lesser-known side of Collins' imaginative and ground-breaking fiction. Reyes guides the reader into a candlelit night in which unearthly forces and inescapable doom lie in wait.
The Ghost Stories of Wilkie Collins offers a unique glimpse into the eerie and supernatural world that Collins expertly crafts, revealing a facet of his talent that continues to captivate and chill readers.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780712355964
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 19 September 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: British Library Publishing
Contributors:
- Edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 149.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English playwright and author, most famous today for his classic sensation novel The Woman in White and The Moonstone, which is considered one of the first detective novels in English literature. Aside from these longer works, Collins also wrote numerous short tales for magazines and anthologies, often straying into the macabre world of the ghost story.
Xavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University and a member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. He has edited Horror: A Literary History for British Library Publishing, along with collections of stories by Algernon Blackwood, William Hope Hodgson, Sheridan Le Fanu and H. P. Lovecraft.
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