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Stories Weird and Wonderful (CW 1889)
The Strange Story of Major Weir
The White Witch of the River—a Clyde
Legend
The Blue Star
The Spectre of Barrochan
The Piper of Culloden
Some Experiments with a Head (from
The Cornhill Magazine, 1889)
John Macdougal’s Double
The Bride of Death
The Unbidden Guest
The China Dog
The Haunted Man
Ruth
A Ghost from the Sea
The Shining Hand
A Night with the Dead
The Blood Drips
The Dream That Came True
The Compact
The Bell of Doom
The Story of a Hanged Man
The Crime of the Rue Auber
The Strange Story of Dr. Martin
 This was reprinted as The Shining Hand and Other
Tales of Terror J. E. Muddock, Midnight House, 2004, including an introduction,
“Hauntings from an Adventurous Life”, by John Pelan, plus a novella “The
Prophecy” (as Dick Donovan) from Chambers’ Journal, 1926.
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Tales of Terror (CW 1899)
The Astrologer
The Cave of Blood
The Corpse Light
The Dance of Death
The Doomed Man
The Legend of Wolfspring
The Mystic Spell
A Night of Horror
The Pirates' Treasure
The Red Lily
The Spectre of Rislip Abbey
The Story of Annette
The White Raven
With Fire and Death
The Woman with the "Oily Eyes"
 This was reproduced as The Corpse Light and other Tales of Terror by Dick
Donovan, Midnight House, Seattle, 1999, edited by Richard Dalby. It omits
With Fire and Death) and Red Lily.
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Startling Crimes and Notorious Criminals
(1908) (Reissued as the Mellifont Celebrated Crimes Series. no. 10,
London; Dublin 1936)
The Great Bar Gold Robbery
James Rush, the Norfolk Murderer
"Jim the Penman"
John Sadleir, M.P., Emperor of Crime
Mary Anne Cotton, the Arsenic Fiend
Palmer the Poisoner
The Ratcliff Highway Tragedies
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The Great Turf Fraud, and Other Notorious
Crimes (Pearson, 1909) (Reprinted in the Mellifont Celebrated Crime Series, London,
1936)
The Bravo Mystery
The Forgeries of William Roupell
The Great Impostor: The Story of the
Tichborne Claimant
The Great Turf Fraud
The Murder of Mr. Gold
Scarlet Sinners. Stories of notorious criminals and crimes (GN 1910)
(No content
details)
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Novels and books written as
Dick Donovan
The Man from Manchester
With twenty-three illustrations, etc
(CW 1890)
Tracked to Doom: the story of a
mystery and its unravelling
With six illustrations by Gordon Browne. (CW 1892)
(Calvin
Sugg)
Eugene Vidocq: Soldier, Thief,
Spy, Detective (Hu 1895)
The Mystery of Jamaica Terrace
(CW 1896)
Deacon Brodie; or, Behind the
Mask (CW 1901)
Jim the Penman: The Life Story
of One of the Most Astounding Criminals That Have Ever Lived
(GN, 1901, 1910, 1913, 1917)
The Scarlet Seal: A Tale of the
Borgias (JL 1902, 1914, 1921)
The Crime of the Century: Being
the Life Story of Richard Pigott (JL 1904)
The Fatal Ring
(HB 1905)
A Knight of Evil
(FVW 1905)
The Knutsford Mystery
(FVW, GB 1906)
Thurtell's Crime:
the story of a strange tragedy (TWL 1906) (Reprinted in Daily Mail
Sixpenny Novels 1907 Illustrated by Hal Hurst.
The Gold-Spinner
(FVW, GB 1907)
In the Queen's Service
(JL 1907)
Cover here
The Shadow of Evil,
in which is narrated the startling and
extraordinary history of James Mackoull, one of the cleverest and most
remarkable rogues of his age.
(Ev 1907)
A Gilded Serpent
(WL 1908)
In the Face of Night
(JL 1908)
The Sin of Preaching Jim: a
romance founded on fact.(a.k.a. Preaching Jim) (Ev
1908, Ald 1919 )
Tangled Destinies
(TWL 1908)
A Wild Beauty
(FVW 1908)
Lil of the Slums
(TWL 1909)
For Honour or Death
(WL 1910)
The Naughty Maid of Mitcham
(FVW 1910)
The Fatal Woman
(FVW 1911)
The Trap: A Revelation
(FVW 1911)
The Rich Man's Wife (with
Ernest Way Elkington) (FVW 1912)
The Turning Wheel: A Story of
the Charn Hall Inheritance (FVW 1912)
Out There: A Romance of
Australia (Ev 1922)
Muddock's 1902 tale of the Borgias |
Books written as J E P Muddock
Novels
False
Heart: a novel
(TB 1873) TB
Wingless
Angel: a novel
(TB? 1875)
As the
Shadows Fall: a novel
(1876)
John Jellaby's housekeeper: a
drawing from life (1878)
From the
Bosom of the
Deep
(1886)
Shadow
Hunter. A tragic story
of a haunted home (1887)
Dead
Man's Secret; or, The
valley of gold, etc. A tale (1889), (1911)
Stripped of the
Tinsel. A story
of Bohemia (1896)
Without faith or fear. The
story of a soul (1896)
Lost laird
(GB 1898)
The Golden idol. A story of
adventure by sea and land (C&W 1899)
The Sting
of the Scorpion (SWTN No.10
1899)*
Briars and Thorns
(SWTN No.16
1899)*
Whose was the hand? A novel
(GB 1901)
Fair Rosalind: a novel
(JL 1902)
Woman's checkmate
(1902)
Liz
(1904)
In the red dawn. A Manchester
tale (JL 1904)
Sunless city From the papers
and diaries of the late Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin, Esq. A tale
(1905)
Alluring flame
(1906)
Fair Rosalind: a novel
(1909)
Historical fiction
Stormlight: a story of love and
nihilism in Switzerland and Russia (WL 1888),
(1892)
Maid Marian and Robin Hood. A
romance of old Sherwood Forest. With illustrations by Stanley L. Wood
(CW 1892)
Star of fortune. A story of the
Indian mutiny (1894)
For God and the Czar (1895)
Basile the jester. A romance of
the days of Mary, Queen of Scots (C&W 1896)
Great white hand; or, The tiger
of Cawnpore. A story of the Indian mutiny
(1896)
Young Lochinvar. A tale of the
Border country (1896)
In the King's Favour. A romance
of Flodden Field (DL 1899)
Kate Cameron of Brux, or, The
Feud: : a story of wild doing. A story based upon legends and traditions, etc
(GB 1900)
Sweet "Doll" of Haddon Hall: a
tale (JL 1903)
Jane Shore. A romance of
history, etc. With a portrait (1905)
For the white cockade
(1906)
Story collections
Stories,
Weird and
Wonderful
(1889) (see above)
For
Love of Lucille, and other
stories (1905)
From the
Clutch of the sea. A
story of some real lives (1905)
History
"Doll": a dream of Haddon Hall.
Being the story of Dorothy Vernon's wooing and flight. With a portrait
(1886)
Did Dorothy Vernon elope? A
rejoinder to G. Le Blanc-Smith. With a portrait of the author
(1907)
"For valour": the "V.C." A
record of the. deeds for which Her Majesty has bestowed the Victoria Cross,
compiled and edited from the state papers by J.E. Muddock. With illustrations by
G.H. Edwards (1895)
"All clear." A brief record of
the work of the London Special Constabulary, 1914-1919, etc. With a portrait and
maps (1920)
Guidebooks
Davos-Platz, as an alpine
winter station for consumptive patients with analytical notes on the food by
Philip Holland. With a map (WS 1881)
J.E.M. Guide to Davos-Platz
edited by J E Muddock With notes by Philip Holland
(WS 1882)
J.E.M. Guide to Switzerland.
The Alps and how to see them. Edited by J E Muddock. With plates, illustrations,
maps and plans (WS 1882), (1882), (1883),
(1884), (1887)
Muddock's pocket guide for
Geneva and Chamounix edited by J E Muddock. With a map
(1886)
A Night at the Grand Chartreuse
(1891)
The Story of Mont Blanc. With
illustrations, including a portrait (1892)*
The Romance and History of the
Crystal Palace. Illustrated (1911)
Polemics
John Bull’s Neighbour in her True Light by “a
Brutal Saxon” Anonymously (WS 1884)
Socialism antagonistic to Christianity (Anti-Socialist Union Publication
1909)
Autobiography
Pages From an Adventurous Life.
With thirty one
illustrations by "Dick Donovan" (J E
Preston Muddock)
(TWL1907)
Edited
The Savage Club Papers 3rd
Volume Edited
by J.E. Muddock. Art editor Herbert Johnson
(Hu 1897).
A collection of stories and artworks by the "Bohemians" of the Savage Club.
Contributors included George Manville Fenn, G A Henty, Coulson Kernahan,
Arthur Morrison and Muddock himself, with illustrations by Arthur Frederics,
Phil May, J F Sullivan, Albert Toft and Harrison Weir with a back cover design
by A H Warren.
Previous collections had been edited by Andrew Halliday.
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Abbreviations
of publishers:
Ald - Aldine Publishing Co., London
C&W - Chatto & Windus,
London
DL - Digby, Long, London
Ev - Everett & Co., London
GB - George Bell, London
HB - Hurst & Blackett, London
Hu - Hutchinson and Co., London JL - John Long, London
GN - George Newnes, London
SWTN - Sheffield Weekly Telegraph Novels
TB Tinsley Brothers, London TWL T Werner Laurie, London
WL - Ward, Lock, London
F V White & Co., London WS Wyman &
Sons, London
*Information courtesy of John Eggeling & Judith Mansfield, Todmorden Books |
Bibliographic note: Most of the
Dick Donovan Chatto & Windus editions were sold in three formats: Cloth (3/6d),
Limp Cloth (2/6d) and Illustrated Board (2/-).
An exception is the now rare Tales of Terror,
which only came out with a pictorial Cloth cover at 3/6d *This
started life as an 11 page article in The Strand no. 19 vol. 4 July
1892, listed as The Story of Mont Blanc by J E Muddock, illustrated by
W H J Boot. This means Muddock had two pieces in that issue (including the Dick
Donovan tale
The Jewelled Skull. Was Muddock the only person ever to
have two pieces in the same issue? |
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