The "Sensation Novel" ushered in the modern mystery genre. It was inaugurated by Wilkie Collins’s best-seller The Woman in White in 1860. But this collection,
Chilling gothic tales, full of passion and intrigue, from legendary 18th century Parisian aristocrat, the Marquis de Sade “Ghouls and fiends, hapless femmes a
'It is time to die, Madame: there shall be no mercy for you..!' It was one of the most shocking crimes of the seventeenth century, and would provide Sade with t