At a Winter's Fire

It so fell that one dark evening in the month of June I was belated in the Bernese Oberland. Dusk overtook me toiling along the great Chamounix Road, and in the heart of a most desolate gorge, whose towering snow-flung walls seemed – as the day sucked inwards to a point secret as a leech's mouth – to close about me like a monstrous amphitheater of ghosts... Bernard Edward J. Capes is generally remembered as a writer of eerie fiction, and, as you can see, he had a feel for the form.

Contents:

• The Moon Stricken
• Jack and Jill
• The Vanishing House
• Dark Dignum
• William Tyrwhitt's Copy
• A Lazy Romance
• Black Venn
• An Eddy on the Floor
• Dinah's Mammoth
• The Black Reaper
• A Voice from the Pit