Nach dem großen Wirbelsturm ankert ein Geisterschiff mitten auf dem Rübenacker beim Dörfchen Fairfield - die Fairfielder, die seit Generationen fröhlich Seite an Seite mit den Geistern ihres Dorfes zusammenleben, reiben sich die Augen. Als aber der verteufelt gute Rum des Kapitäns den Geistern in die Glieder fährt, muss der Pfarrer denn doch einschreiten.
Nach der Vorlage aus dem Band mit mehreren Erzählungen von Richard Middelton in der wunderbaren Reihe Steidl Nocturnes
The first biography of Charles Cornwallis in forty years-the soldier, governor, and statesman whose career covered America, India, Britain, and Ireland
Charles, First Marquis of Cornwallis (1738-1805), was a leading figure in late eighteenth-century Britain. His career spanned the American War of Independence, Irish Union, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the building of the Second British Empire in India-and he has long been associated with the unacceptable face of Britain's colonial past.
In this vivid new biography, Richard Middleton shows that this portrait is far from accurate. Cornwallis emerges as a reformer who had deep empathy for those under his authority, and was clear about his obligation to govern justly. He sought to protect the population of Bengal with a constitution of written laws, insisted on Catholic emancipation in Ireland, and recognized the limitations of British power after the American war. Middleton reveals how Cornwallis's rewarding of merit, search for economy, and elimination of corruption helped improve the machinery of British government into the nineteenth century.
"Richard Barham Middleton (1882-1911) was an English poet and author who is remembered mostly for his short ghost stories, of which 'The Ghost Ship', 'On the Brighton Road' and 'The Coffin Merchant' are the most famous.
Middleton suffered from severe depression for much of his life (then known as melancholia) and committed suicide by poisoning himself with chloroform at the age of 29.
The Ghost Ship
The Conjurer
On the Brighton Road
The Coffin Merchant
The Cry of a Century
The Last Adventure"
Richard Barham Middleton (1882-1911) was an English poet and author who is remembered mostly for his supernatural tales and ghost stories, in particular The Ghost Ship, The Coffin Merchant and On the Brighton Road. Edgar Alfred Jepson (1863-1938) was an English author best known for his adventure and detective fiction. He also wrote supernatural and fantasy stories.
The Cry of a Century is a short story about a gifted 11 year old known variously as The Infant Phenomenon and The Marvel of the Twentieth Century who supports his mother by performing great feats of memory and general knowledge every night on the stage in the Brixton Theatre of Varieties for four pounds 10 a week. One night after his performance, his mother does not come to pick him up from the theatre. The young Marvel catches a ride on the back of a passing motor car. But the exhausted boy drifts off to sleep and when he awakes he is far outside London at a mysterious house whose inhabitants are holding a very strange and eerie celebration.
Richard Barham Middleton (1882-1911) was an English poet and author who is remembered mostly for his supernatural tales and ghost stories, in particular The Ghost Ship, The Coffin Merchant and On the Brighton Road.
The Last Adventure is the bizarre tale of a young rake who regularly suffers from amnesia while out having adventures. He wakes up with no memory of how he got into his current predicament, nor of what went before it. In this story, he discovers himself in the company of an attractive woman and gradually becomes aware that something very terrible has happened...something that shocks him to the very core....
A rich and varied collection of classic short stories by British writers:
'Quality' by John Galsworthy
'The Mark on the Wall' by Virginia Woolf
'The Horse Dealer’s Daughter' by D. H. Lawrence
'The Ticking of the Clock' by Louisa Baldwin
'The Fiddler of the Reels' by Thomas Hardy
'The Return' by R. Murray Gilchrist
'Kew Gardens' by Virginia Woolf
'Seashore Macabre' by Hugh Walpole
'Satan’s Circus' by Eleanor Smith
'The Coffin Merchant' by Richard Middleton
'The Everlasting Club' by Arthur Gray
'The Tiger' by Hugh Walpole
'The Ghost Ship' by Richard Middleton
'The Umbrella' by Arnold Bennett
'A Tiger’s Skin' by W. W. Jacobs
'Odour of Chrysanthemums' by D. H. Lawrence
'The Deserter' by Stacy Aumonier
'Lilac' by Hugh Walpole
'A Thread of Scarlet' by J. J. Bell
'The Whistle' by Hugh Walpole
Plus over 25 more great short story classics.
Richard Barham Middleton (1882-1911) was an English poet and author who is remembered mostly for his supernatural tales and ghost stories, in particular 'The Ghost Ship', 'The Coffin Merchant' and 'On the Brighton Road'.
"The Coffin Merchant" is the peculiar tale of Eustace Reynolds, who is handed a handbill by a stranger one day. The flyer reads: "You will soon be wanting a coffin! At 606 Gray's Inn Road, your order will be attended to with civility and despatch. Call and see us!"
Eustace is curious enough to go to see the coffin merchant, and what happens next is unexpected, to say the least.
Richard Barham Middleton (1882-1911) was an English poet and author who is remembered mostly for his supernatural short ghost stories, in particular 'The Ghost Ship', 'The Conjurer' and 'On the Brighton Road'.
'On the Brighton Road' is a strange tale of a homeless man who is trudging between London and Brighton when he meets a fragile-looking young boy, also homeless, who offers to walk with him for a while.
The conversation between the two causes the tramp to question his own existence...in a highly creepy way.
Richard Barham Middleton (1882-1911) was an English poet and author who is remembered mostly for his short ghost stories and supernatural tales. 'The Conjurer' is a short story about a stage performer whose act includes juggling and magic tricks. In one trick he makes his pretty young female assistant, who happens to be his wife, disappear.
It is a pretty dull trick, but the audience applauds wildly, much too enthusiastically.... Why on Earth can that be? It is a while before the conjurer realises the horror of the situation.
Richard Barham Middleton (1882-1911) was an English poet and author who is remembered mostly for his short ghost stories, of which 'The Ghost Ship' is the most famous. It is one of the few stories in literature which combines a ghostly theme with lightening humour.
Middleton suffered from severe depression for much of his life (then known as melancholia) and committed suicide by poisoning himself with chloroform at the age of 29.
Critically-acclaimed audiobook reader BARNABY EDWARDS (Doctor Who, The Voyage Of The Beagle, Space Danger) performs 11 tales of ghostly gothic spookiness. From tales of Vampyres and spirits, to devil’s deals and ethereal coachmen. Short but oh so sweet, these 11 stories from some of the most lauded authors of the Gothic period, prove that you only need a few pages to tell a truly terrifying tale.
The Vampyre by John Polidori
How It Happened by Arthur Conan Doyle
There Was A Man Dwelt By A Churchyard by M.R. James
One Summer Night by Ambrose Bierce
By Word Of Mouth by Rudyard Kipling
The Clock by W.F. Harvey
A Deal With The Devil by Bram Stoker
The Wolves Of Cernogratz by Saki
Rose Rose by Barry Pain
The Last Stage Coachman by Wilkie Collins
On The Brighton Road by Richard Middleton
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