![]() ![]() Now expanded with eleven further stories, a revised introduction and a new foreword by Capes’s grandson, Ian Burns, this classic collection will thrill horror fans and restore Capes’s reputation as one of the best writers in the horror genre. Fishpond Fiji, The Black Reaper: Tales of Terror by Bernard Capes (Collins Chillers) (Collins Chillers) by Bernard Capes Hugh Lamb (Introduction )Buy. ![]() Yet following his death in 1918 his work all but slipped into oblivion until the 1980s, when veteran anthologist Hugh Lamb first collected Capes’s tales of terror as The Black Reaper.Įvery story bears the stamp of Capes’s fertile and deeply pessimistic imagination, from werewolf priests and haunted typewriters to marble hands that come to life and plague-stricken villagers haunted by a scythe-wielding ghost. Hugh Lamb first collected Capess tales of terror as The Black Reaper. His greatest acclaim, however, came from penning some of the most terrifying ghost stories of the era. Tales of Terror by Bernard Capes, Taschenbuch (Kartoniert, Paperback), Capes. ![]() Bernard Capes was celebrated as one of the most prolific authors of the late Victorian period, producing dozens of short stories, articles, and more than forty novels across multiple genres, culminating in the first original crime novel published by Collins, The Skeleton Key.īernard Capes was celebrated as one of the most prolific authors of the late Victorian period, producing dozens of short stories, articles, and more than forty novels across multiple genres, culminating in the first original crime novel published by Collins, The Skeleton Key. ![]()
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