Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford
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Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (7 June 1831 – 15 April 1892), also known as Amelia B. Edwards, was an English novelist, journalist, traveller and Egyptologist. Her literary successes included the ghost story The Phantom Coach (1864), the novels Barbara's History (1864) and Lord Brackenbury (1880), and the travelogue of Egypt A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877). She also edited a poetry anthology published in 1878. In 1882, she co-founded the Egypt Exploration Fund. She gained the nickname "Godmother of Egyptology" for her contribution. -Wikipedia
Books
Mugby Junction
"You'll have, sir," said the guard, glistening with drops of wet, and looking at the tearful face of his watch by the light of his lantern as the traveller descended, "three minutes here."
The New Windmill Book of Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century
The Ostler / Wilkie Collins -- The old nurse's stories / Elizabeth Gaskell -- [Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb]( / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- [Pit and the Pendulum]( / Edgar Allan Poe -- Samuel Lowgood's revenge / Mary E. Braddon -- The signalman / Charles Dickens -- Lost hearts / M. R. James -- The three strangers / Thomas Hardy -- The judge's house / Bram Stoker -- [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge]( / Ambrose Bierce -- The phantom coach / Amelia B. Edwards -- A vendetta / Guy de Maupassant -- The red room / H. G. Wells.
Egypt and its monuments
A Poetry-book of Elder Poets: Consisting of Songs & Sonnets, Odes & Lyrics, Selected and ..
Monsieur Maurice, and other tales
This a beautiful tale of a young child growing up in a strange household meeting a troubled young man who is under house arrest. The mutual companionship they share is tinged with sadness, as we watch the child's understanding grow.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers (Kegan Paul Library of Ancient Egypt)
Murder Most Foul
The fruit at the bottom of the bowl / Ray Bradbury Murder! / Arnold Bennett The kennel / Maurice Level We knows you're busy writing / Edmund Crispin A thousand deaths / Jack London Back for Christmas / John Collier Before the party / W. Somerset Maugham [Tell-tale Heart]( / Edgar Allan Poe The evidence of the alter-boy / Georges Simenon The hand / Guy de Maupassant Tickled to death / Simon Brett Miss Marple tells a story / Agatha Christie Browdean Farm / A.M. Burrage A nice touch / Mann Rubin Light verse / Isaac Asimov Composed of cobwebs / Eddy C. Bertin [The Boscombe Valley mystery]( / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The man who knew how / Dorothy L. Sayers The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke You got to have brains / Robert Bloch How the third floor knew the Potteries / Amelia B. Edwards The invisible man / G.K. Chesterton The hound / William Faulkner Three is a lucky number / Margery Allingham First hate / Algernon Blackwood The victim / P.D. James The mistery of the sleeping-car express / Freeman Wills Crofts Moxon's master / Ambrose Bierce The basket chair / Winston Graham The drop of blood / Mor Jokai
A summary of English history, from the Roman conquest to the present time
Classic Ghost Stories
Judge's house / Bram Stoker -- Upper berth / F. Marion Crawford -- Narrative of the Ghost of a hand / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- To be taken with a grain of salt / Charles Dickens -- Tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Gabriel-Ernest / Saki -- Furnished room / O. Henry -- My own true ghost story / Rudyard Kipling -- Lost hearts / M.R. James -- Called / P.C. Wren -- Who knows? / Guy de Maupassant -- When I was dead / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Face / E.F. Benson -- Open window / Saki.