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  HorrorBabble's Ghost Stories:...

  E.F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood,...

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  A second, broad selection of ghost stories both classic and obscure. 
  Contents: 
  "The Third Shadow" by H. R. Wakefield 
  A mountaineer's fate is sealed by a vengeful supernatural force. 
  "The Dance of Death" by Algernon Blackwood 
  Ignoring warnings, a frail man dances—death is his final partner. 
  "The Demon Lover" by Elizabeth Bowen 
  A wartime letter rekindles a long-forgotten, ghostly appointment. 
  "The Suicide" by Malcolm Ford Henry 
  A dead man mourns his own passing, filled with vain regret. 
  "Lens-Shy" by W. M. Clayton 
  A photographer of corpses discovers death's unsettling final portrait. 
  "The Last of Mrs. DeBrugh" by H. Sivia 
  A maid's promised inheritance vanishes with the widow’s cold refusal. 
  "Mommy" by Mary Elizabeth Counselman 
  An orphan girl claims visits from her mother—long since dead. 
  "Yuki-onna" by Lafcadio Hearn 
  A snow spirit haunts a woodcutter after a chilling encounter. 
  "Graves and Goblins" by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  A ghostly narrator seeks peace from limbo’s lonely eternity. 
  "The House Party at Smoky Island" by L. M. Montgomery 
  Strangers gather at a remote house to share chilling tales. 
  "Keeping His Promise" by Algernon Blackwood 
  A man receives a ghostly visit from a forgotten friend. 
  "The Frontier Guards" by H. R. Wakefield 
  Curiosity leads Brinton into a haunted house’s invisible defences. 
  "The Theater Upstairs" by Manly Wade Wellman 
  A cinema screens forgotten films starring actors long since dead. 
  "The Terror by Night" by E. F. Benson 
  Ghosts, illusions, or madness? Night brings terror either way. 
  "The Burned House" by Vincent O'Sullivan 
  A traveller sees a burning house that never truly existed.

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  Death at 830 - From their pens...

  Christopher St. John Sprigg

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Christopher St John Sprigg.

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  Dear Author - How Sending Agent...

  Matthew W. Grant

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  Witness his descent into madness when writer James Walek, suffering from a failing marriage and a stalled writing career, gets pushed over the edge by one too many of those insulting "Dear Author" rejection letters from publishers.

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  Dark Dignum - From their pens to...

  Bernard Capes

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  Bernard Edward Joseph Capes was born on the 30th August 1854 in London.  He was one of 11 children. 
  His early work was as a journalist and this developed into writing many short stories for the periodicals of the time including Blackwood's, Cassell's, Cornhill Magazine, Illustrated London News, Macmillan's Magazine, Mall Magazine, Pearson's Magazine, The Idler, and The Queen. 
  It took him many years to decide that writing full-time could be a sustainable career path.  His initial success came with ‘The Mill of Silence’.  As well as being published it garnered second prize at a competition sponsored by the Chicago Record.  He exceeded that by winning it the following year with ‘The Lake of Wine’.   
  Capes quickly became both prolific and popular.  As well as his stories and articles for the periodicals he wrote around 40 volumes across novels, poetry, history as well as romance and mystery novels. 
  Bernard Capes died on 2nd November 1918 in the flu epidemic.

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  A Garland of Earth - From their...

  Dorothy Edwards

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  Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards was born on 7th June 1831 in Islington, London.  She was educated at home by her mother and showed early promise as a writer, publishing her first poem at the age of 7 and her first story at 12.  Thereafter several popular periodicals published her poetry, stories and articles. 
  In addition she also illustrated some of her own writings and painted scenes from books she had read.  This talent was not supported by her parents, who saw an artist’s life as scandalous.  Undeterred Amelia took up composing and performing music until a bout of typhus caused throat damage.  Other interests soon followed until, early in the 1850s, Amelia focused exclusively on writing.  Her early novels were well received, and with ‘Barbara's History’ in 1864, a work revolving around bigamy, her reputation was established.  
  Amelia’s pen was also the purveyor of ghost stories for magazines and are still anthologized as classic tales to this day. 
  In January 1851, Amelia became engaged, apparently to please her parents, but she quickly broke it off.  In reality her emotional attachments were almost exclusively with women.  From the early 1860s she lived with Ellen Drew Braysher, a widow 27 years her senior, until both women died in early 1892.  During this relationship other women also entered and left her life.  Her frequent travelling companion, Lucy Renshaw, accompanied her to Egypt in the winter of 1873 and there she found a life-changing interest in Egyptology.  Aware of increasing threats from tourism and modern development she became an advocate for their research and preservation.  
  To advance the work Amelia largely abandoned much of her writing in favour of Egyptology and even took on strenuous lecture tours to raise funds. 
  After catching influenza, Amelia Edwards, ‘the Godmother of Egyptology’ died on 15th April 1892 at Weston-super-Mare.  She was 60.

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  The Adventures of a Lady Pearl...

  Beatrice Heron-Maxwell

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Beatrice Heron-Maxwell.

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