Maggie Caine and her family leave New York to visit the Caine family home, an old farmhouse in Ohio, which her husband has just inherited from a distant ...

Since 2005, Valancourt Books has earned a reputation as one of the foremost publishers of lost and rediscovered classics, reissuing more than 400 unjustly ...

Fifteen more chilling tales of Yuletide terror, collected from rare Victorian periodicals Following the popularity of Charles Dickens’s A ...

To Florence Hackett and her daughters Elinor and Louisa, Richard Baurie, a handsome young bookstore clerk and aspiring poet, seems a little odd but harmless ...

“Henceforth I will serve Evil. I’ll become a most depraved character. I’ll turn really wicked.” – Fursey Having escaped ...

In 1798, a prospectus appeared for The Lady’s Monthly Museum , a bold new project which – in contrast to the predominance of men’s ...

The "fatal error" to which the title refers is Marmaduke Herbert's inadvertently occasioning the death of his wife's sister by causing her to fall off ...

Told in the form of interviews with those who knew and hated him, this hilarious and irreverent mockumentary recounts the rise and fall of notorious Hollywood ...

'He writes a clear, light prose, and he makes his interests, however bizarre, seem important.' - Punch 'One of the more earnest and interesting writers ...

Originally published as the second volume in Charlotte Smith's five volume series of The Letters of a Solitary Wanderer in 1800, The Story of Henrietta ...