Tales of Suspense

This selection gathers ten of Wilkie Collins's shorter stories of crime, omen, and uneasy household life, including A Terribly Strange Bed, The Dream-Woman, The Dead Hand, and Blow Up with the Brig. Narrators include travellers, servants, a policeman, and people who stumble into a plot they cannot quite name. Settings run from lodging houses and country granges to ships and London rooms. Each tale is self-contained. The book is a sampler of Collins's magazine fiction of suspense, first grouped under this title in the mid-twentieth century, not one of the long sensation novels.

Bound in black cloth with a design in red and silver by Malcolm Harvey Young. Dark red endleaves. Page tops stained red. Black two-volume slipcase.