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    The Story of a Terribly Strange Bed (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

    By Wilkie Collins

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    Wilkie Collins was an extremely popular author of the Victorian era. Aside from his thirty novels, Collins penned a great amount of short stories across a number of genres. 'The Story of a Terribly Strange Bed' was first published in Charles Dickens's weekly literary journal Household Words. Many of the Gothic romance and horror stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateDec 3, 2014
    ISBN9781447499855
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    The Story of a Terribly Strange Bed (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
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    Wilkie Collins

    Wilkie Collins (January 8, 1824-September 23, 1889) was the author of thirty novels, more than sixty short stories, fourteen plays (including an adaptation of The Moonstone), and more than one hundred nonfiction pieces. His best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.

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      There's more than a little of Edgar Allen Poe about this early piece from Wilkie Collins. Specifically "The Pit and the Pendulum" or "The Cask of Amontillado"; the short story as set piece horror, the 19th century equivalent of Saw or Captivity. In playing on the uncanny nature of an unfamiliar bedroom there's also a degree to which it calls forward to MR James's "Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad" – and given that's one of the scariest short stories ever written, it's a very good thing to put me in mind of.Short and satisfying. Unsettling rather than outright terrifying, but in some ways that's harder to achieve. The cold prickle on the back of your neck, the sense of things not quite being as safe as you'd assumed, stays with you a lot longer than a jump scare or body horror.