Did Lizzie Borden really hack her mother and father to death with an axe? What happened on board the Mary Celeste? Do the bloody Benders still survive in some form? How could thirty-eight people watch a young woman be brutally murdered in New York, and do nothing?

The Black Cabinet contains intriguing, disturbing, horrifying secrets.

It houses a unique collection. A gathering of stories that explore real crimes, by writers such as Angela Carter, Aldous Huxley, Anthony Boucher, Miriam Allen de Ford, and Harlan Ellison. Stories that use fact as the basis for fiction, to explore, explain, ponder, terrify...

The Black Cabinet is opening now.

Contents:

• Introduction by Peter Lovesey
• The Trailor Murder Mystery by Abraham Lincoln
• J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Fall River Axe Murders by Angela Carter
• A Retrieved Information by O. Henry
• The Giaconda Smile by Aldous Huxley
• They Bite by Anthony Boucher
• The Greeting by Osbert Sitwell
• Milady Bigamy by Lillian de la Torre
• The Bathroom by Peter Lovesey
• The Crocodile Dressing Case by Roy Vickers
• The Wrong Jar by Anthony Berkley
• Homecoming by Miriam Allen de Ford
• The Whimper of Whipped Dogs by Harlan Ellison
• The Black Cabinet by John Dickson Carr