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Round the Fire Stories

Chapter 20: TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
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About This Book

A collection of short tales fashioned for fireside reading that assemble macabre, mysterious, and uncanny narratives. The pieces shift between framed reminiscences, odd case histories, and compact shocks, often pivoting around enigmatic objects, bizarre crimes, or unsettling coincidences. Atmosphere and brisk plotting drive the stories, which juxtapose rational inquiry with hints of the supernatural and the grotesque. The tone ranges from wry to bleak, emphasizing suspense, moral ambiguity, and sudden revelations that leave explanations partial or disquieting rather than fully resolved.

London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.
NOVELS BY H. S. MERRIMAN.

THE LAST HOPE. Fourth Impression (Second Edition). Crown 8vo, 6s.

DAILY TELEGRAPH.—‘“The Last Hope” illustrates all Mr. Merriman’s good qualities.... Its interest is unflagging and its brilliancy undeniable.’

TOMASO’S FORTUNE, and Other Stories. Second Impression. Crown 8vo, 6s.

SATURDAY REVIEW.—‘Engrossing, fascinating, picturesque tales, full of colour, adventure, and emotion.’

FLOTSAM. Seventh Impression. With a Frontispiece. Crown 8vo, 6s.

VANITY FAIR.—‘A capital book, that will repay any reader, old or young, for the reading.’

BARLASCH OF THE GUARD. Eighth Impression (Second Edition). Crown 8vo, 6s.

WORLD.—‘Without doubt, the finest thing of its kind that Mr. Merriman has yet accomplished in fiction. Barlasch is a masterpiece.’

THE VULTURES. Seventh Impression. Crown 8vo, 6s.

DAILY NEWS.—‘It is a notable book, stirring, fresh, and of a high interest; it fascinates and holds us to the end.... A fine book, a worthy successor of “The Sowers.”’

THE VELVET GLOVE. Fifth Impression. Crown 8vo, 6s.

SKETCH.—‘Equal to, if not better than, the best he has ever written. “The Velvet Glove” is the very essence of good romance.’

THE ISLE OF UNREST. Seventh Impression. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 6s.

THE TIMES.—‘Capital reading, absorbing reading.... An exciting story, with “thrills” at every third page.’

RODEN’S CORNER. Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s.

TRUTH.—‘A novel I defy you to lay down when once you have got well into it.’

IN KEDAR’S TENTS. Tenth Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s.

PALL MALL GAZETTE.—‘After the few first pages one ceases to criticize, one can only enjoy.... In a word—the use of which, unqualified, is such a rare and delicious luxury—the book is good.’

THE SOWERS. Twenty-Eighth Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s.

GRAPHIC.—‘His absorbingly interesting story will be found very difficult indeed to lay down until its last page has been turned.’

WITH EDGED TOOLS. Crown 8vo, 6s.; and Fcap. 8vo, boards, Pictorial Cover, 2s.; or limp red cloth, 2s. 6d.

WESTMINSTER GAZETTE.—‘Admirably conceived as a whole, and most skilful in its details. The story never flags or loiters.’

FROM ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER. Crown 8vo, 6s.; and Fcap. 8vo, boards, Pictorial Cover, 2s.; or limp red cloth, 2s. 6d.

ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.—‘The book is a good book. The characters of Michael Seymour and of James Agar are admirably contrasted.’

THE SLAVE OF THE LAMP. Crown 8vo, 6s.; and Fcap. 8vo, boards, Pictorial Cover, 2s.; or limp red cloth, 2s. 6d.

MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.—‘A masterly story ... so like real life, and so entirely unconventional.’

THE GREY LADY. With 12 Full-page Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Sixth Impression. Crown 8vo, 6s.

BRITISH WEEKLY.—‘An interesting, thoughtful, carefully written story, with a charming touch of pensiveness.’

NOTE.—Mr. MERRIMAN’S 14 NOVELS are published uniform in style, binding, and price, and thus form a Collected Edition of his Works.

London: SMITH, ELDER & CO., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.

 

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

  1. Changed ‘suppling’ to ‘supplying’ on p. 53.
  2. Used an ⁂ in place of an inverted asterism.
  3. Silently corrected typographical errors.
  4. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.