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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.Jerome K. Jerome's reputation as a humorist, renowned for his comic novel Three Men in a Boat, has thrown into undeserved obscurity his fine efforts in the ghost story genre.Three Men in the Dark collects Jerome's major horror stories, together with a selection from two of his friends with whom he founded the magazines The Idler and Today - the journalist Robert Barr and the humorist Barry Pain. Like Jerome, their stories of terror and the supernatural have been overlooked for many years.Edited and introduced by veteran anthologist Hugh Lamb, this new edition includes as an extra bonus the long-lost novelette, 'The Mystery of Black Rock Creek'. Written in five parts by Jerome K. Jerome, Barry Pain, Eden Phillpotts, E. F. Benson and Bram Stoker's brother-in-law Frank Frankfort Moore, it rounds off one of the most unusual and entertaining anthologies of the macabre of recent years.… (meer)
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Contents:
Introduction / Hugh Lamb
The Skeleton / Jerome K. Jerome
The Moon-slave / Barry Pain
The Undying Thing / Barry Pain
Purification / Robert Barr
The End of a Show / Barry Pain
The Haunted Mill / Jerome K. Jerome
Introduction
The Haunted Mill
The Unfinished Game / Barry Pain
The Glass of Supreme Moments / Barry Pain
The Vengeance of the Dead / Robert Barr
Smeath / Barry Pain
The Snake / Jerome K. Jerome
The Hour and the Man / Robert Barr
The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit / Barry Pain
Not According to the Code / Robert Barr
Linda / Barry Pain
Silhouettes / Jerome K. Jerome
The Tower / Barry Pain
The Four-fingered Hand / Barry Pain
Transformation / Robert Barr
The Gray Cat / Barry Pain
The Dancing Partner / Jerome K. Jerome
An Alpine Divorce / Robert Barr
The Mystery of Black Rock Creek
Chapter I / Jerome K. Jerome
Chapter II / Eden Pillpotts
Chapter III / E.F. Benson
Chapter IV / Frank Frankfort Moore
Chapter V / Barry Pain
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
About the Publisher
Uitgevers redacteuren
Auteur van flaptekst/aanprijzing
Oorspronkelijke taal
Gangbare DDC/MDS
Canonieke LCC
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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.Jerome K. Jerome's reputation as a humorist, renowned for his comic novel Three Men in a Boat, has thrown into undeserved obscurity his fine efforts in the ghost story genre.Three Men in the Dark collects Jerome's major horror stories, together with a selection from two of his friends with whom he founded the magazines The Idler and Today - the journalist Robert Barr and the humorist Barry Pain. Like Jerome, their stories of terror and the supernatural have been overlooked for many years.Edited and introduced by veteran anthologist Hugh Lamb, this new edition includes as an extra bonus the long-lost novelette, 'The Mystery of Black Rock Creek'. Written in five parts by Jerome K. Jerome, Barry Pain, Eden Phillpotts, E. F. Benson and Bram Stoker's brother-in-law Frank Frankfort Moore, it rounds off one of the most unusual and entertaining anthologies of the macabre of recent years.
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