"Humorous and highly amusing." - "The Scotsman"
"A really entertaining collection of stories. The lover of
fiction could not desire a more entertaining volume." - "Yorkshire
Post"
One of Richard Marsh's rarest works, "Between the Dark and the
Daylight" (1902) contains twelve of Marsh's cleverest stories,
ranging in theme from slapstick humour to Gothic horror.
In "My Aunt's Excursion," the opening story of the volume, an
urbanite Londoner leads his provincial aunt and her party of mostly
deranged followers on a hilarious and madcap romp across London. In
"Exchange is Robbery," Marsh's recurring charcters and jewellers to
the aristocracy, Messrs. Golden and Ruby, discover they have been
the victims of a massive jewel fraud. "The Haunted Chair," one of
Marsh's strangest and most unnerving stories of horror, features an
old chair at a gentlemen's club, whose owner seems capable of
returning from the grave. In "A Relic of the Borgias," an ancient
cameo ring appears to possess the power to kill. Other stories,
like "Em" and "Nelly," reveal Marsh's softer side as a romantic
novelist.
This new edition, the first in over a century, features the
unabridged text of the original work, along with an introduction by
Prof. Paul Fox and a reproduction of the impossibly rare jacket
cover of the original six shilling edition.
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