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Tales of Terror by Bernard Capes (Collins Chillers)

Bernard Capes, Hugh Lamb

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Harper Collins
18 September 2017

Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Historical mysteries; Thriller & suspense; Horror & ghost stories; Classic horror & ghost stories; Short Stories Horror; Gothic; Ghosts Horror

Series: Collins Chillers

A collection of rare horror stories that will thrill fans of classic writers such as M. R. James, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and E. F. Benson.

Bernard Capes was celebrated as one of the most prolific authors of the late Victorian period, producing dozens of short stories, articles, and more than forty novels across multiple genres, culminating in the first original crime novel published by Collins, The Skeleton Key. His greatest acclaim, however, came from penning some of the most terrifying ghost stories of the era. Yet following his death in 1918 his work all but slipped into oblivion until the 1980s, when veteran anthologist Hugh Lamb first collected Capes’s tales of terror as The Black Reaper.

Every story bears the stamp of Capes’s fertile and deeply pessimistic imagination, from werewolf priests and haunted typewriters to marble hands that come to life and plague-stricken villagers haunted by a scythe-wielding ghost. Now expanded with eleven further stories, a revised introduction and a new foreword by Capes’s grandson, Ian Burns, this classic collection will thrill horror fans and restore Capes’s reputation as one of the best writers in the horror genre.

By: Bernard Capes
Introduction by: Hugh Lamb
Imprint: Harper Collins
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9780008249076
ISBN 10: 0008249075
Series: Collins Chillers
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 18 September 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hugh Lamb has spent over forty years delving into weird fiction. Tired of anthologies reprinting the same old stories, he tried his hand at editing his own. His main area of research is Victorian ghost stories and he has published five anthologies of these: Victorian Tales of Terror, Terror by Gaslight, Victorian Nightmares, Tales from a Gaslit Graveyard, and Gaslit Nightmares. A freelance journalist by profession, Hugh Lamb lives in Sutton, Surrey.

Reviews for lack Reaper: Tales of Terror by Bernard Capes (Collins Chillers)

`I have many anthologies of horror stories,and think of myself as quite an expert. Yet when I acquired this book I was astonished to find a writer I had never heard of before,who writes as well as Wilkie Collins or Algernon Blackwood ... these stories stand up really well today, and I for one am delighted to have found them at last.' Amazon reviews