Wilkie Collins

The Essential Wilkie Collins Collection

de Wilkie Collins

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Wilkie Collins

After Dark

Antonina

Armadale

Basil

The Black Robe

Blind Love

The Dead Alive

A Fair Penitent

The Fallen Leaves

The Frozen Deep

The Guilty River

The...

The Woman in White

de Wilkie Collins

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Introduction by Nicholas Rance

From the Hardcover edition.

The Ghost Story Megapack: 25 Classic Tales by Masters

de Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon & H. de Vere Stacpoole

Hours of great reading await, with ghostly tales from some of the 19th and 20th century's most renowned authors. Here is the lineup:

AT CHRIGHTON ABBEY, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

THE HAUNTED MILL, by Jerome...

The Woman in White

de Wilkie Collins

The Woman in White is credited with being the first of the sensation novels, and one of the finest examples of the genre. A young woman's husband defrauds her of her fortune, her identity and eventually her...

The Haunted Hotel

de Wilkie Collins

Best known for his popular forays into detective fiction, Wilkie Collins' "The Haunted Hotel" blends elements of the classic whodunit with creepy overtones of Gothic horror. The tale delves into the mysterious...

No Name

de Wilkie Collins

No Name is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins. A country gentleman is killed in an accident and his wife dies shortly after him. The blow is double for their daughters, who...

The Guilty River

de Wilkie Collins

During his lifetime, British fiction writer Wilkie Collins came to rival Charles Dickens in popularity and critical acclaim. Like Dickens, Collins often gravitated toward characters who overcame significant...

The Law and the Lady

de Wilkie Collins & David Skilton

Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to suspect a dark secret in her husband's past and when she discovers...

The Moonstone

de Wilkie Collins & Sandra Kemp

‘When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else’

The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to...

The Woman in White

de Wilkie Collins & Matthew Sweet

Walter Hartright meets the ethereal figure of a woman in white on a moonlit road who is familiar with Limmeridge House in Cumberland, where he is to take up employment as a drawing teacher. The mystery deepens...

I Say No

de Wilkie Collins

In the mood for a tightly plotted whodunit? Check out "I Say No" from Wilkie Collins, an author recognized as one of the most important figures in the development of the detective fiction genre. A unlikely heroine...

The Ghost in the Cupboard Room: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection

de Wilkie Collins, Varla Ventura & Charles Dickens

Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books’ new Collection of forgotten occult classics....

The Moonstone

de Wilkie Collins

Rachel's eighteenth birthday is celebrated with a large party. She wears the Moonstone on her dress that evening for all to see, including some Indian jugglers who have come to entertain. Outside her Yorkshire...

The Woman in White

de Wilkie Collins

The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest "Sensation Novel." Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international...

The Moonstone

de Wilkie Collins & Carolyn G. Heilbrun

"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular." Wilkie Collins’s...

The Moonstone

de Wilkie Collins

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AUDREY NIFFENEGGER

When Rachel Verinder receives a gift of an astonishing yellow diamond from her bitter old uncle for her eighteenth birthday, she has no idea that the stone brings great...

The Woman in White

de Wilkie Collins

Who was the woman in white and what was her secret?

Was she an escaped mad woman, a displaced heir, or even an unearthly apparition?

This is the mystery that Marian Halcombe and Walter Hartright must solve if...

No Name

de Wilkie Collins

After the tragic deaths of their parents, Magdalen and Norah discover the devastating news that they are both illegitimate and not entitled to any inheritance. Norah is forced to become a governess to earn her...

The Woman in White

de Wilkie Collins

Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle's guardianship until Laura's marriage to Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival is a man of many secrets - is one of them connected to the strange appearances...

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices

de Wilkie Collins & Charles Dickens

A delightful meditation on the pleasures of bachelor bonding and an example of collaborative journalism at its best

In autumn 1857, Charles Dickens embarked on a sightseeing trip to Cumberland with his friend,...