{"product_id":"tales-of-terror-paperback","title":"Tales of Terror - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDick Donovan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGeorge Cavendish\u003c\/b\u003e (Notes by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of fifteen short horror tales from one of the nineteenth century's most popular authors. Although Dick Donovan is not that well known today, he was a prolific author rivalling Arthur Conan Doyle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDick Donovan was the \u003cem\u003enom de plume\u003c\/em\u003e of James Edward Preston Muddock (1843-1934), also known as Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuddock was a prolific British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction. Between 1889 and 1922 he published nearly 300 detective and mystery stories and, for a time, his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuddock travelled to India when he was fourteen years of age and his later career as a journalist allowed him to travel to China, the USA and Australia. He used his extensive knowledge of the world to good effect in the short stories collected in this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the characters in Muddock's detective fiction was the Glaswegian detective, Dick Donovan. This character became so popular and well known that Muddock started publishing stories using Dick Donovan as his pen name. Muddock also wrote true crime stories, horror, and thirty-seven novels, mostly as Dick Donovan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite his prolific output, Muddock had few publications after about 1920 and died in 1934, relying on his daughters to support him at the end of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new edition of \u003cem\u003eTales of Terror \u003c\/em\u003efrom Solis Press features short annotations as footnotes that explain some aspects of the stories that nowadays might be less well understood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52584191426867,"sku":"9781910146361","price":28.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/BC6pduxXkA9781910146361.webp?v=1761580452","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/tales-of-terror-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}