Robert Barr
Birth date: September 16, 1849
Died: October 21, 1912
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blurberoonies - THE DARK ISLAND is story of espionage in the remote islands of the Outer Hebrides. It starts out with the discovery of a strange, unidentified torpedo, found washed up on shore of a small, nearly uninhabited island. It leads to a long-standing Soviet esponage ring and an action-fil...
I am really thankful to anthologists like Hugh Lamb, who are so passionate and driven to unearth the works of authors who have largely been lost to modern readers; those whose works have fallen out of literary consciousness. In this anthology, he has given us seventeen stories that have rarely been...
I finished my Halloween read this morning. I give the editor props for introducing me to Victorian writers I'd never heard of before, and it is fascinating to me how so many published 70 books in their lifetime and then disappeared into obscurity. But, big but, most of the stories weren't really t...
A must-read if you like your scares with a Victorian sensibility. I enjoyed every story in this volume, although one story which describes a human body's response to an infective invading organism, was a bit hard to get through. On the shorter side, you could probably finish this in a couple of da...
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