The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories
10 best books like The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories (Michael Sims): Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction, The Wyvern Mystery, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, The Case of the Baker Street Irregular, The Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes, Encounters of Sherlock Holmes, The Spy's Bedside Book, Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes, Attic Clowns, Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations
Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction
| Author | Al Sarrantonio |
| ISBN | 0451459040 |
This landmark anthology presents thirty groundbreaking stories from the masters of speculative fiction heralding the future of the genre with original and revolutionary works.
All-new, original stories by
� Ursula K. Le Guin
� Gregory Benford
� Joe Haldeman
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| Author | J. Sheridan Le Fanu |
| ISBN | 0750906871 |
The Wyvern Mystery combines all the elements of nail-biting horror, romantic fairy tale, psychological thriller and rich period drama to create a compelling story. When young Alice Maybell is orphaned she is taken in by Squire Fairfield, a widower with two dashing sons, Charles and Harry. As Alice...
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, the best selling mystery of the nineteenth century. When a man is found dead in a hansom cab one of Melbourne’s leading citizens is accused of the murder. He pleads his innocence, yet refuses to give an alibi. It falls to a determined lawyer and an intrepid detective to find...
Sherlock Holmes is basically a literary superhero to me. Sure his weaknesses are a little more interesting than most but he holds the same appeal to me as comic books do to fanboys. (or girls!) I am just one huge grin at all of the quick conversations, random factoids and asides, and during the eventual...
Previously unpublished case notes from the pen of Dr. John H. Watson, companion to the great detective Sherlock Holmes, come to light in this new collection from June Thomson. A mysterious veiled lady carries a counterfeit painting into an art dealer's office. A widow with three hands slips out of a...
| Author | George Mann |
| ISBN | 1781160031 |
A brand-new collection of Sherlock Holmes stories from a variety of exciting voices in modern horror and steampunk, including James Lovegrove, Justin Richards, Paul Magrs, Guy Adams and Mark Hodder. Edited by respected anthologist George Mann, and including a story by Mann himself.
Introduction...
| Author | Hugh Greene |
| ISBN | 0091920612 |
A classic compendium of espionage stories penned by some of the greatest writers and most famous spies. With a new introduction by Stella Rimington, former head of MI5.
The foxhunter, the angler, the cricketer — each has had his own bedside book. Why not the spy? First published in 1957, The...
| Author | J.R. Campbell |
| ISBN | 1894063317 |
THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON BAKER STREET!
Between the shadowy realms of fear and the unforgiving glare of science lies a battleground of unspeakable horror. In vile alleyways with blood-slick cobblestones, impenetrable fog, and the wan glow of gaslight, lurk the inhuman denizens of nightmare.
CAN...
| Author | Jeremy C. Shipp |
| ISBN | 0984751912 |
BEWARE THE CLOWNS IN THE ATTIC—LEST YOU BECOME ONE YOURSELF!
Bram Stoker Award nominee Jeremy C. Shipp spins 13 tales of horror and dark humor in this highly conceptual collection. Angels and demons, husbands and wives, tormented ghosts and an army of men made of soap—all of them trapped...
| Author | Paula Guran |
| ISBN | 1607013843 |
Paranormal investigators. Occult detectives. Ghost hunters. Monster fighters. Humans who unravel uncanny crimes and solve psychic puzzles; sleuths with supernatural powers of their own who provide services far beyond those normal gumshoes, shamuses, and Sherlocks can. When vampires, werewolves,...
The Mammoth Book of Historical Crime Fiction (Mammoth Books)
| Author | Mike Ashley |
| ISBN | 1849014353 |
Our dark past brought to life by leading contemporary crime writers. A new generation of crime writers has broadened the genre of crime fiction, creating more human stories of historical realism, with a stronger emphasis on character and the psychology of crime. This superb anthology of 12 novellas...
| Author | Ian Watson |
| ISBN | 1845297792 |
As usual, I've reviewed each story as I've come to it.
The Raft of the Titanic by James Murrow
The problem with taking the obvious route when applying alternative history to HMS Titanic is that if you create a story where the Titanic doesn’t ship it becomes a case of “so what?” The interesting...
| Author | Elizabeth George |
| ISBN | 0060588225 |
New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George serves up a century's worth of superb crime fiction penned by women. This veritable all-star team delivers tales of dark deeds that will keep you reading long into the night. Included are these works:
"A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell
The...
| Author | Eliot Pattison |
| ISBN | 1582436444 |
Thirty years after global holocaust, the colony of Carthage still struggles to build its new world. While steam engines and other early industrial technology have empowered its economy, the fragile society is undermined by secret crimes, rifts between generations, government censorship, and...
An anthology of original strange stories at the intersection of crime, terror, and supernatural fiction. Inspired by and drawing from the highly stylized cinematic thrillers of Argento, Bava, and Fulci; American noir and crime fiction; and the grim fantasies of Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant,...
Arthur Conan Doyle never wasted time in getting his stories moving. His plots are always direct and refreshingly lucid, and the narrative has a velocity that sweeps you along right to the end. This was no doubt a large part of his immense worldwide success. Not surprisingly, each time he tried to end the...
| Author | Patrick Somerville |
| ISBN | 0982580819 |
In this genre-busting book from award-winning novelist Patrick Somerville characters, stories, and stray thoughts revolve around the “The Machine of Understanding Other People,” the story of a Chicago man who is bequeathed a supernatural helmet that allows him to experience the inner...
| Author | James Benmore |
| ISBN | 1780874650 |
London, 1850s.
After five years in an Australian penal colony, the Artful Dodger returns to London in search of a hidden fortune. Unaware of the fate that befell Twist, Fagin and Sikes, Dodger revisits the criminal underworld of Dickensian London to seek out his old comrades, any of whom might...
| Author | G.K. Chesterton |
| ISBN | 0812972228 |
G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown may seem a pleasantly doddering Roman Catholic priest, but appearances deceive. With keen observation and an unerring sense of man’s frailties–gained during his years listening to confessions–Father Brown succeeds in bringing even the most elusive criminals...
Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 1844165957 |
1. Features Hugo, Edgar, Tiptree, Nebula and British Fantasy Award winners
2. To commemorate the second centenary of Poe's birth - January 19, 1809 and the 160th anniversary of his death in Oct 1849.
3. Compiled by multi-award winning editor Ellen Datlow
4. Each...
| Author | Giacomo Lee |
| ISBN | 9881219817 |
Soobin Shin is an aspiring young woman in a near-future version of Seoul. Ever since her college graduation, she has struggled to escape from her dead-end job in a doughnut chain. Her twin sister Hyewon is one of Korea’s most recognizable models, but Soobin just can’t seem to find her lucky break…...
| Author | Mark Dunn |
| ISBN | 1596923377 |
What if Charles Dickens had written a contemporary thriller? In "Under the Harrow," a group of Victorians live a semi-idyllic and unwitting, anachronistic existence, aided only by minimal trade-related contact with the supposedly plague-ridden Outland. They are products of an experiment that...
| Author | Gilbert Hernández |
| ISBN | 1560978333 |
Gilbert Hernandez's first original graphic novel from Fantagraphics follows on the heels of his acclaimed graphic novel, Sloth, from DC's Vertigo Comics in 2006. Chance in Hell tells the story about a little orphan girl who lives in the slum of slums. Nobody knows who she is or where she's from, but her...
