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Madams by Moonlight: Willkie Collins’s The Woman in White, ’60s style!
Wilkie Collins’s groundbreaking multi-narrative Victorian thriller The Woman in White (not to be confused with the Susan Hill novel The Woman in Black!), originally published in the good old days of 1860, here reprinted in 1966 by Paperback Library, over one hundred years later! Proudly proclaiming its status as a ‘Paperback Library Gothic’ (along with…
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High-Victorian Horror meets 50s pulp mayhem: Richard Marsh’s The Beetle!
Pictured here is the cover of the 1959 WDL Books edition of Richard Marsh’s The Beetle. The Beetle was a high-Victorian fin de siècle masterpiece of horror and suspense, published in 1897, the same year as the more famous Dracula, and every bit its equal, which gives you some idea of how highly I rate…