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Muddock also produced
horror stories of the type pioneered by Horace Walpole (The Castle of Otranto,
1764), Matthew 'Monk' Lewis (The Monk, 1796) and later Mary Shelley (Frankenstein,
1818, 1831). It's interesting that he was an exact contemporary of Ambrose
Bierce (1842-1914?).
The first collection of his horror
and mystery tales,
Stories Weird and Wonderful (Chatto & Windus, 1889)
include a couple which show his familiarity with seafaring (e.g. A Ghost From
the Sea) and Scotland (The Piper of Culloden).
The second collection a decade later (Tales of
Terror, Chatto & Windus 1899) range from the more-or-less standard
Jamesian ghost story (The Spectre of Rislip Abbey) to the darkly Gothic (The
Legend of Wolfspring) and the ultra-gory (Cave of Blood). But the
publisher evidently decided the book was light on horror alone and included
a historical, although gory, tale reflecting
Muddock's early experiences during the Indian Mutiny (With
Fire and Death) and a fairly straightforward crime story (Red Lily).
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Horror short stories written as J E P Muddock
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Horror short stories written as
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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, Seattle, 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 (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 White Raven
With Fire and Death
The Woman with the "Oily Eyes"
The Story of Annette (sequel to 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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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/-).
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