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Illustrator
  
Randy Broeker

Publication date
  
1999

Pages
  
xxiv, 395, v pp

Originally published
  
1999

Publisher
  
Fedogan & Bremer

Country
  
United States of America

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

ISBN
  
1-878252-35-6

Author
  
Stephen Jones

Cover artist
  
Les Edwards

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Genres
  
Fantasy, Short story, Horror fiction, Detective fiction, Horror

Similar
  
Stephen Jones books, Horror fiction books

Dark Detectives: Adventures of the Supernatural Sleuths is an anthology of fantasy and horror detective stories edited by Stephen Jones. It was published by F & B Mystery in 1999 in an edition of 2,100 copies of which 100 were signed by all the contributors except R. Chetwynd-Hayes. The anthology contains 10 stories and a novel, Seven Stars, whose episodes are interspersed among the stories. Several of the stories first appeared in collections, or in the magazines The Idler, Kadath and Time Out.

Contents

  • "Introduction: The Serial Sleuths", by Stephen Jones
  • "Seven Stars Prologue: In Egypt’s Land", by Kim Newman
  • "Our Lady of Death", by Peter Tremayne
  • "Seven Stars Episode One: The Mummy’s Heart", by Kim Newman
  • "The Horse of the Invisible", by William Hope Hodgson
  • "Seven Stars Episode Two: The Magician and the Matinee Idol", by Kim Newman
  • "The Adventure of the Crawling Horror", by Basil Copper
  • "Seven Stars Episode Three: The Trouble with Barrymore", by Kim Newman
  • "Rouse Him Not", by Manly Wade Wellman
  • "De Marigny’s Clock", by Brian Lumley
  • "Seven Stars Episode Four: The Biafran Bank Manager", by Kim Newman
  • "Someone Is Dead", by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
  • "Vultures Gather", by Brian Mooney
  • "Lost Souls", by Clive Barker
  • "Seven Stars Episode Five: Mimsy", by Kim Newman
  • "The Man Who Shot the Man Who Shot The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence", by Jay Russell
  • "Seven Stars Episode Six: The Dog Story", by Kim Newman
  • "Bay Wolf", by Neil Gaiman
  • "Seven Stars Episode Seven: The Duel of Seven Stars", by Kim Newman
  • References

    Dark Detectives Wikipedia