Bernard Capes

The Black Reaper: Tales of Terror by Bernard Capes


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       Copyright

      HarperCollinsPublishers

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      First published in Great Britain by Equation 1989

      Foreword © Ian Burns 2017

      Introduction © Hugh Lamb 2017

      Cover design by Mike Topping © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2017

      Cover images © Shutterstock.com

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008249076

      Ebook Edition © October 2017 ISBN: 9780008249083

      Version: 2017–09–07

       Dedication

      To my good friends,

      Steve Jones and Randy Broecker,

      and happy times at the Shakespeare.

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Foreword

       Introduction

       The Black Reaper

       The Vanishing House

       The Thing in the Forest

       The Accursed Cordonnier

       The Shadow-Dance

       William Tyrwhitt’s ‘Copy’

      

       A Queer Cicerone

      

       A Gallows-Bird

      

       The Sword of Corporal Lacoste

      

       The Glass Ball

      

       Poor Lucy Rivers

      

       The Apothecary’s Revenge

      

       The Green Bottle

      

       The Closed Door

      

       The Dark Compartment

      

       The Marble Hands

      

       The Moon Stricken

      

       The Queer Picture

      

       Dark Dignum

      

       The Mask

      

       The Strength of the Rope

      

       The White Hare

      

       An Eddy on the Floor

      

       Acknowledgements

      

       Bibliography

      

       About the Publisher

       FOREWORD

      These words are the culmination (so far, at least!) of a series of events which, together, tell a story that would have appealed hugely to Bernard Capes. It is a story of coincidences and