Wilkie Collins
(1824 - 1889)
A Fair Penitent
A Frenchwoman named Mademoiselle Gautier begins life as an actress and ends it as a Carmelite nun. The story follows her conversion and her life in the convent.
Mr. Lismore and the Widow
A man and a widow meet at a public meeting and form a connection. The widow offers to help the man financially, but he must marry her. They marry, but the man is later tempted by a young actress...
The Traveller's Story of a Very Strange Bed
A young man recounts his experience at a gambling house in Paris, where he narrowly escapes being smothered to death in a bed rigged with a deadly contraption.
Mrs. Zant and the Ghost
A man and his daughter come accross an apparently mad, ill woman in a London park.