Amelia B. Edwards was a versatile woman, who had been a journalist, writer and Egyptologist. Her tales of horror and ghost became very famous at the time of release. In this book, the critic August Nemo selected seven stories that show all the versatility of this author:
– An Engineer’s Story
– A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest
– The Story of Salome
– In the Confessional
– Was it an illusion?
– How the Third Floor Knew the Potteries
– The Tragedy in the Palazzo Bardello
Circa l’autore
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 most successful literary works included the ghost story ‘The Phantom Coach’ (1864), the novels Barbara’s History(1864) and Lord Brackenbury(1880), and the Egyptian travelogue A Thousand Miles up the Nile(1877). In 1882, she co-founded the Egypt Exploration Fund. She also edited a poetry anthologypublished in 1878.