‘The world of shadows and superstition that was Victorian England was unique. While the foundations of so much of our present knowledge of subjects like medicine, public health, electricity, chemistry and agriculture, were being mapped out, people could still believe in . · 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, . Yet following his death in his work all but slipped into oblivion until the s, 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 /5(10).
Bernard Capes is the author of The Mystery of the Skeleton Key ( avg rating, 62 ratings, 21 reviews, published ), The Black Reaper ( avg rati. Bernard Edward Joseph Capes () was a prolific Victorian author who published more than 40 books, best remembered for his accomplished ghost stories. The Skeleton Key was the first detective novel commissioned and published by Collins (); its success (8 editions in 10 years) paved the way for a century of crime publishing. Bernard Edward Joseph Capes () was a prolific Victorian author who published more than 40 books, best remembered for his accomplished ghost stories.
Among his short stories were some of the most imaginative tales of terror of his era: stories of werewolves and the Wandering Jew, of lost souls and vengeful suicides, of horrors from beyond the grave which enfold the. Until his death in , Bernard Capes was a prolific, talented, and highly-regarded author of short stories, reviews, articles, and more than forty novels. THE BLACK REAPER Bernard Capes Ash-Tree Press, , expanded edition. Fine in fine dustjacket. Bernard Capes is the author of The Mystery of the Skeleton Key ( avg rating, 62 ratings, 21 reviews, published ), The Black Reaper ( avg rati.
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