The Baron's Coffin and Other Disquieting Tales

<p class=ql-align-justify>Ada Buisson (1839-1866) put but one novel before the public during her lifetime the rest of her work a second novel and a handful of short stories being published subsequent to her early death. The five pieces in the present volume encompassing the entirety of her short fiction all originally appeared in <em>Belgravia</em> the magazine edited by her friend Mary Elizabeth Braddon to whom the authorship was mistakenly assigned by no less a personality than Montague Summers the great scholar of Gothic literature.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>From the somewhat morbid title story to the classic chiller The Ghost's Summons <em>The Baron's Coffin and Other Disquieting Tales</em> offers a brilliant assembly of the shorter productions of a Victorian woman writer of exceptional talent who has been for too long neglected. </p><p><br></p>