Bernard Capes, a prolific writer in fin de siècle Britain, is virtually unknown today. Remembered, if at all, as a writer of ghost tales and stories of the fantastic and supernatural, his name for the most part lies hidden in late--nineteenth century periodicals or on title pages of books out of print by the mid 1920s. Yet in the course of a writing career that spanned little more than twenty years, Capes published twenty-nine novels, six collections of short fiction, a book of children's poetry, and more than fifty stories and essays in magazines such as Cornhill Magazine, Blackwood's Magazine, and Pall Mall Magazine. In addition to stories of the supernatural, he wrote historical fiction, romances, tales of adventure, and mystery stories. Compared early in his career to Wilkie Collins, George Meredith, H. G. Wells, and Robert Louis Stevenson, Capes later drew praise or criticism in...