Crime & Mystery Short Stories

Following the great success of the very first Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror and Science Fiction, this exciting title is packed with detectives, mystery and murder. Whodunnits and mysteries from classic authors are cast with previously unpublished stories by exciting budding contemporary crime writers.

New, contemporary and notable writers featured are: Tara Campbell, Jennifer Dornan-Fish, James Dorr, Marcelle Dubé, H.L. Fullerton, Jennifer Gifford, Nathan Hystad, John A. Karr, Kin S. Law , Josh Pachter, Tony Pi, Conor Powers-Smith, Stephen D. Rogers, Steve Shrott, Annette Siketa, Dan Stout, Brian Trent, Cameron Trost, Sylvia Spruck Wrigley and Ruth Nestvold. These appear alongside classic stories by authors such as Ernest Bramah, G.K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Anna Katharine Green, and Jack London.

Martin Edwards (foreword) is the author of 18 novels, including the Lake District Mysteries, and the Harry Devlin series. His ground-breaking genre study The Golden Age of Murder has won the Edgar, Agatha, and H.R.F. Keating awards. He has edited 28 crime anthologies, has won the CWA Short Story Dagger and the CWA Margery Allingham Prize, and is series consultant for the British Library’s Crime Classics. In 2015, he was elected eighth President of the Detection Club, an office previously held by G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, and Dorothy L. Sayers.