The Devil in Manuscript and Other Tales of Forbidden Books

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Osie Turner is a writer, blogger, and photographer. A collector of antique books, he founded The Forlorn Press to revive forgotten classics and make them available to the modern reader.

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Other titles available from The Forlorn Press:

The Blood Is The Life: An Anthology of Early Vampire Fiction◦— This anthology is the definitive collection of classic/early vampire fiction. It is broken into three sections: the first is for classic vampire stories, the second is dedicated to psychic vampirism, and the last contains a few stories which are frequently listed as vampire stories, but are not actually about vampires. There are a total of 18 stories, plus two appendices.

Tod Robbins: His Life and Work◦— This is a huge collection of the work of Tod Robbins, an overlooked author of early weird fiction, and a biography of the author. Includes the complete infamous novel The Unholy Three, among others.

Strange Tales of the High Seas◦— Included in this volume are the most bizarre nautical tales. Includes The Wreck of the Titan, a short story by Morgan Robertson about a ship with the exact specifications as the Titanic that sinks in the Atlantic after striking an iceberg. It was written fourteen years before the Titanic sank. Also included is the complete novel The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson.

The Tomb and Other Macabre Tales of Guy de Maupassant◦— Maupassant was one of France’s most prolific writers, and is especially known for his short stories. This anthology contains his eight most bizarre stories. Invisible demons, insanity, necrophilic lovers, and furniture with a mind of its own rounds out this collection. Also included as an appendix is my essay “The Demise of Maupassant,” which focuses on the events leading up to Maupassant’s internment in an asylum and eventual death.