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The Greatest Christmas Murder Mysteries & Thrillers - Victorian and Edwardian Yuletide Tales of Murder Ghosts Family Secrets and Winter Suspense - cover

The Greatest Christmas Murder Mysteries & Thrillers - Victorian and Edwardian Yuletide Tales of Murder Ghosts Family Secrets and Winter Suspense

Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, O. Henry, Saki Saki, Robert Louis Stevenson, Grant Allen, John Kendrick Bangs, ROBERT BARR, FLORENCE MARRYAT, Edgar Wallace, G.K. Chesterton, J. M. Barrie, E. F. BENSON, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jerome K. Jerome, M. R. James, Algernon Blackwood, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sabine Baring-Gould, R. AUSTIN FREEMAN, Fred M. White, Frank R Stockton, Fergus Hume, James Bowker, Thomas Hardy, Catherine Crowe, Katherine Rickford, Arthur Cheney Train, William Douglas O'Connor, Leonard Kip, Lucie E. Jackson, Emmuska ORCZY, Louisa M. Alcott, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, GEORGE MACDONALD

Publisher: e-artnow

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Summary

The Greatest Christmas Murder Mysteries & Thrillers gathers Victorian, Edwardian, and early modern short fiction in which the season of hospitality, ritual, and domestic intimacy becomes a setting for dread, detection, and surprise. Its range encompasses locked-room puzzles, supernatural visitations, sensation fiction, comic reversals, psychological suspense, and tales of crime concealed beneath snowbound respectability. Alongside classical investigations and uncanny Christmas hauntings, the volume foregrounds the genre's pleasure in contrast: hearth and menace, charity and greed, festive reunion and fatal secrecy. The collection draws together major architects of English-language popular fiction with less frequently encountered voices whose work enlarged the possibilities of mystery and terror. These contributors participated in overlapping traditions of the Gothic revival, the Victorian sensation novel, imperial and transatlantic adventure writing, the ghost-story vogue, and the emergence of modern detective fiction. Their varied social settings, narrative temperaments, and formal experiments reveal Christmas not as a merely decorative backdrop, but as a cultural pressure point where family obligations, class anxieties, spiritual belief, and criminal transgression meet. Recommended for students, scholars, and general readers alike, this anthology offers an unusually rich survey of how suspense fiction has imagined the festive season. Reading across its diverse tales illuminates changing conventions of clue, atmosphere, humor, and fear, while inviting productive dialogue between rational detection and the supernatural unknown. It is both an engaging seasonal volume and a valuable introduction to the breadth of classic mystery writing.
Available since: 12/02/2023.
Print length: 1272 pages.

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