A Short History of Horror Horror fiction arose in the late eighteenth century with such works as Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, Matthew G. Lewis’s The Monk, and Ann Radcliffe’s Mysteries of Udolpho. Frankenstein and Dracula followed in their wake over the next hundred or so years, but it took the invention of […]
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Top 10 Best Historical Thrillers
Top 10 Best Historical Thrillers As someone whose own books freely mix history and mystery, fact and fiction, I have always been a sucker for novels that do the same. The best of the breed would have to include the following: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens No matter how resistant high […]
THE BEST EARLY SPY NOVELS
THE BEST EARLY SPY NOVELS It can be genuinely argued that literature within the spy genre is something that is almost uniquely British. Similarly, it is beyond doubt that British involvement in the world of intelligence gathering was, until the end of the Second World War, preeminent. True, other nations were involved, but […]