The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Wilkie Collins - Collins, Wilkie
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A second venture into another world of mists, fear and danger This second substantial volume of Wilkie Collins' excursions into the literary world of supernatural and horror fiction includes a varied assortment to please his enthusiastic aficionados. Beginning with the novel, 'The Two Destinies', there follow three novelettes for those who enjoy coming to grips with substantial tales of unease, they are,'The Frozen Deep','Sister Rose' and 'The Yellow Mask'. This volume is completed by two shorter works, 'The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed' and 'The Lawyer's Story of a Stolen…mehr

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A second venture into another world of mists, fear and danger This second substantial volume of Wilkie Collins' excursions into the literary world of supernatural and horror fiction includes a varied assortment to please his enthusiastic aficionados. Beginning with the novel, 'The Two Destinies', there follow three novelettes for those who enjoy coming to grips with substantial tales of unease, they are,'The Frozen Deep','Sister Rose' and 'The Yellow Mask'. This volume is completed by two shorter works, 'The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed' and 'The Lawyer's Story of a Stolen Letter'. Collins belonged to the Victorian Age and his stories evoke it brilliantly creating iconic and enduring fiction for all to enjoy and treasure. Available in soft cover and hard cover with dust jacket for collectors.
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William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright best known for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery and early sensation novel, and The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and may be the first clear example of the police procedural genre. Born to London painter William Collins and his wife, Harriet Geddes, he moved to Italy with them when he was twelve years old, spending two years there and in France learning both Italian and French. Collins was born at 11 New Cavendish Street in London, the son of William Collins, a well-known Royal Academician landscape painter, and his wife, Harriet Geddes. Named after his father, he quickly became recognized by his second name, which honors his godfather, painter David Wilkie. The family relocated to Pond Street, Hampstead, around 1826. In 1828, Collins' brother Charles Allston Collins was born. Between 1829 and 1830, the Collins family relocated twice: first to Hampstead Square and subsequently to Porchester Terrace in Bayswater. Wilkie and Charles received an early education from their mother at home. The Collins family was very religious, and Collins' mother insisted on strict church attendance for her boys, which Wilkie detested.