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Summary
(From the publisher):
A selection of stories which deals with the darker side of man's nature. 28 stories divided into two sections: the first featuring the rogues represented in the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussaud’s, the second looking at the influence their crimes had on society.
Contents:
- I: The Roll of Infamy
- Down, Satan! by Clive Barker
- A Story of Don Juan by V.S. Pritchett
- The Philosophers’ Stone by August W. Derleth
- The Proof by John Cecil Moore
by H.P. Lovecraft
- Martin’s Close by M.R. James
- Cold-Blooded Tigress of London by Anthony Shaffer
- The Body-Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Black Cabinet by John Dickson Carr
- A Kind of Madness by Anthony Boucher
- The Fall River Axe Murders by Angela Carter
- The Fiend by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- At the Fork of the Roads by Aleister Crowley
- The Moors Murders by Miriam Allen deFord
- II: The Evil Lives On
- Monsieur de Néron by William Waldorf Astor
- Herodes Redivivus by A.N.L. Munby
- The Borgia Heirloom by Julian Symons
- The Silver Mirror by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Late Eugene Aram by Henry A. Hering
- The Mirror of Cagliostro by Robert Arthur
- The Skull of the Marquis de Sade by Robert Bloch
- The Sword of Jean Lafitte by Kirk Mashburn
- Jack’s Little Friend by Ramsey Campbell
- Was Crippen a Murderer? by Anthony Berkeley
- Darling Adolf by Ray Bradbury
- A Bride in the Bath by Peter Lovesey
- Forget-Me-Not by Bernard Taylor
- A Case of Coincidence by Ruth Rendell
Original title: Tales from the Rogues' Gallery
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Crime and Mystery→ Suspense
The following works are contained within this one: Body-Snatcher, the (1884) [Short Story] Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Unnamable, the (1925) [Short Story] Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Bride in the Bath, a (1973) [Short Story] Author: Peter Lovesey
Jack’s Little Friend (1975) [Short Story] Author: Ramsey Campbell
Fall River Axe Murders, the (1981) [Short Story] Author: Angela Carter
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