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Blavatsky – “Born of Ether” Henry James – “The Scrimshaw Set” Anton Checkov – “At the Molenzki Junction” Jules Verne – “To the Moon and Beyond” Arthur Conan Doyle – “The Curious Affair on the Embankment” Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing – tales from the shadowedest depths. Interview with the author: So, what makes this short story collection so special? Meikle: I love the idea that all these famous writers knew each other, and met for a meal, a drink, a smoke and some storytelling in an old London club/bar setting. It chimes almost exactly with my own idea of a good time. It’s special to me in that it’s a culmination of the past half dozen or so years of writing. Before this collection there were the Carnacki stories, the Holmes stories, the Challenger stories, and the collaborations with M. Wayne Miller in numerous deluxe hardcovers. The Ghost Club feels like an endpiece to all of that, a last celebration of everyth Writers never really die; their stories live on, to be found again, to be told again, to scare again. In Victorian London, a select group of writers, led by Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, and Henry James, held an informal dining club, the price of entry to which was the telling of a story by each invited guest. These are their stories, containing tales of revenant loved ones, lost cities, weird science, spectral appearances, and mysteries in the fog of the old city, all told by some of the foremost writers of the day. In here you’ll find Verne and Wells, Tolstoy and Checkov, Stevenson and Oliphant, Kipling, Twain, Haggard, and Blavatsky alongside their hosts. Come, join us for dinner and a story: Robert Louis Stevenson – “Wee Davie Makes a Friend” Rudyard Kipling – “The High Bungalow” Leo Tolstoy – “The Immortal Memory” Bram Stoker – “The House of the Dead” Mark Twain – “Once a Jackass” Herbert George Wells – “Farside” Margaret Oliphant – “To the Manor Born” Oscar Wilde – “The Angry Ghost” Henry Rider Haggard – “The Black Ziggurat” Helena P.

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