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“charles birkin”

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  • Devils' Spawn

    by Charles Birkin ...
    An important, though neglected, figure in twentieth-century British horror fiction, Sir Charles Birkin (1907-1985) began his literary career as editor of the popular - and now highly collectible - Creepsseries of horror anthologies in the 1930s, which featured tales by well-known writers such as H.R. Wakefield, Lord Dunsany and Russell Thorndike, as well as contributions by Birkin himself.A master ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD

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    The Price of Fear: 20 tales of suspense told by Vincent Price

    A BBC Radio 4 vintage horror series

    by William Ingram, Richard Davies, Maurice Travers, Barry Campbell, Roald Dahl, Rene Basilico, Elizabeth Morgan, Charles Birkin ...
    Narrated by Vincent Price, Maurice Denham, Annette Crosbie, Garard Green, Peter Cushing, Full Cast, Adrienne Corri, Betty Huntley-Wright, Edward Woodward ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 31 min

    Twenty tales of terror and suspense, brought to you by sinister storyteller Vincent PriceHorror legend Vincent Price presents an anthology of eerie, unsettling tales with a devilish twist - some purportedly based on his own adventures, others narrated by him in his own inimitable style.Listen to his horrifying accounts of an unnerving piscatorial experience Down Under, a violinist with very ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

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  • The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries

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  • The Felse Investigations Volume Two

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    by Ellis Peters ...
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  • Mariana

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    Monica Dickenss first book, published in 1940, could easily have been called Mariana an Englishwoman. For that is what it is: the story of a young English girls growth towards maturity in the 1930s. We see Mary at school in Kensington and on holiday in Somerset; her attempt at drama school; her year in Paris learning dressmaking and getting engaged to the wrong man; her time as a secretary and ... Read more

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  • An Unlikely Agent

    by Jane Menczer ...
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    90 CRIME NOVELS: Complete Collection gathers Edgar Wallace's prodigious crime fiction into a panorama of early twentieth-century suspense, ranging from police investigations and courtroom intrigue to secret societies, jewel thefts, blackmail, and international conspiracies. Wallace's style is swift, theatrical, and intensely plot-driven: chapters often turn on revelations, disguises, and reversals ... Read more

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  • The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2

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    Edited by Philip Hensher ...
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  • The Complete Short Stories

    by Evelyn Waugh ...
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    In this unique collection of short stories composed between 1910-62, Evelyn Waugh's early juvenilia are brought together with later pieces, some of which became the inspirations for his novels. 'Mr Loveday's Little Outing' is a blackly comic tale of a mental asylum and its favourite resident; 'Cruise' sees a hilarious series of letters from a naïve young woman as she travels with her family; 'A ... Read more

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