Bernard Capes

• Aug-1998
• / Horror
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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 ...

• Jun-2011
• / General Fiction
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Bernard Capes is not as well known as many other classic writers of speculative fiction, but he left behind a wide range of stories involving ghosts, werewolves, and other supernatural elements. His work shows a depth of language, and a enjoyment for...

• Jun-2011
• / General Fiction
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A popular author in his time, Bernard Capes is less well-known today, though is best remembered for his speculative fiction. He left behind numerous stories in other genres, however, and 24 of these are collected here. There are mysteries (as in "The...

• Nov-2011
• / General Fiction
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Excerpt from Historical Vignettes "Halt " The voice of an officer rang out in the heavy twilight, and with a sudden scream of brakes and jangle of harness the cavalcade came to a stand. "Tell the Herr von Gastein his Majesty desires to speak with him...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

• Sep-2015
• / Mystery
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The fourth in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a tragic accident during a shooting party. As the story switches between Paris and Hampshire, the possibility of it not being an accident seems to grow ...

• May-2021
• / Cozy Mystery
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SOME few years ago, in the month of September, I happened to be kicking my heels in Paris, awaiting the arrival there of my friend Hugo Kennett. We had both been due from the south, I from Vaucluse and Kennett from the Riviera, and the arrangement ha...

• Nov-2021
• / Horror
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World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2021. After attending a séance at an acquaintance’s home, a man receives an unexpected job offer from another guest: resident doctor at the prison he directs. But ...

• Oct-2022
• / General Fiction
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When I was a very little boy my mother died. I was too young to feel her loss long, though I missed her badly at first; but the compensation was that it brought my father nearer to me. He was a barrister, a prodigal love of a man, dear bless him! And...

• Feb-2023
• / Historical
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ONE morning I awoke in La Bourbe and looked across at Deputy Bertrand as he lay sprawled over his truckle-bed, his black hair like a girl's scattered on the pillow, his eyelids glued to his flushed cheeks, his face, all blossoming with dissipation, s...

• Apr-2023
• / Thriller
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GILEAD BALM had most things to recommend him—youth, comeliness, a bright intelligence, an excellent heart, a flawless digestion; best of all, an indestructible capacity for interesting himself in the affairs of the world into which he was born...

• Apr-2023
• / General Fiction
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FORTY-FIVE years ago, one February evening, the fog lay thick over Clapham suburb. Generated in the fat sink of Lambeth, it had come sweltering up by way of the Westminster Bridge and Kennington Roads; had poured, like smoke from a range, through the...

• Apr-2023
• / Historical
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Somewhere about the western angle now formed by the junction of Oxford Street and the Charing Cross Road, there stood in the year 1661 The Mischief Inn. It was a substantial building, consisting of two gabled sections, divided by a third and wider ha...

• Apr-2023
• / Historical
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IT was a very hot day in Colorno, the petty Versailles of the Dukes of Parma. The little channels irrigating the plains all about, and drawn every one from the near depleted basin of the small river which a few miles northward ran into the Po, were s...

• May-2023
• / Horror
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Bernard Capes was a prolific author, publishing more than forty volumes – romances, mysteries, poetry, history, and ghost stories.This collection contains the following books:The Mill of SilenceRenalt Trender lives with his father and two brot...

• Jan-2024
• / Literary
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In the world of 15th-century Italy, a thrilling adventure begins in the novel 'A Jay of Italy' by Bernard Capes. Set against the backdrop of a Milanese inn, Messer Carlo Lanti arrives with his vibrant entourage. But trouble brews when their call for ...

• / General Fiction
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Bernard Edward Joseph Capes was born on 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, Butterfly, Cass...

• / Historical
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AT my friend M. de C——'s instigation I sit down in the noon of my life to talk of its morning. I look first to your gallantry, my dear Alcide, to see that this statement is not misconstrued. That I have a past argues nothing of my remot...

• / Historical
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From two till four o'clock on any summer afternoon during the penultimate decade of the last century, the Right Honourable Gustavus Hilary George, third Viscount Murk, Baron Brindle and Knight of the Stews, with orders of demerit innumerable—a...

• / General Fiction
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Matter is but the eternal dressing of the imagination; the world the unconscious self-delusion of a Spirit. Everything springs from Love, and Love is the dreaming God.Two figments of that endless sweet obsession stood alone—high on a slope of ...