Bernard Capes The Marble Hands

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Bernard capes the marble hands.

Bernard capes was celebrated as one of the most prolific authors of the late victorian period producing dozens of short stories articles and more than forty novels across multiple genres culminating in the first original crime novel published by collins the skeleton key. His elder sister harriet capes was a noted translator and author of more than a dozen children s books. From werewolf priests and haunted typewriters to marble hands. His grandfather john capes had converted to roman catholicism so capes was brought up a catholic and educated at the catholic college beaumont college.

Until his death in 1918 bernard capes was a prolific talented an. The black reaper book. Bernard capes was celebrated as one of the most prolific authors of the late victorian period producing dozens of short stories articles and more than forty novels across multiple genres culminating in the first original crime novel published by collins the skeleton key. But the place somehow got an uncanny reputation and the marble hands were put back.

Bernard capes is not as well known as many other classic writers of speculative fiction but he left behind a wide range of stories involving ghosts werewolves and other supernatural elements. The story was written in 1915 and appeared in 100 hair raising little horror stories and the young oxford book of ghost stories. His work shows a depth of language and a enjoyment for the craft of writing itself. The marble hands the mask the pétroleuse the queer picture the shadow dance the thing in the forest the van on the road the white hare bernard capes twists and turns.

Capes was born in london one of eleven children. Imagination to be sure can play strange tricks with one credited to bernard capes. The narrator and his friend heriot enter a churchyard at night probably to pay a visit to one of heriot s dead relatives. The marble hands by bernard capes is a creepy short story about two boys who see something weird in a graveyard.