Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales, The

By Dent, John Charles

Book Id: WPLBN0002951852
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File Size: 157.34 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales, The
Author:	Dent, John Charles
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Horror/Ghost stories, Mystery
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales, The
Historic Publication Date:	1888
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Charles Dent, B. J. (1888). Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales, The. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
John Charles Dent, the author of the following remarkable stories, was born in Kendal, Westmorland, England, in 1841. His parents emigrated to Canada shortly after that event, bringing with them, of course, the youth who was afterwards to become the Canadian author and historian. Mr. Dent received his primary education in Canadian schools, and afterwards studied law, becoming in due course a member of the Upper Canada Bar. He only practised for a few years, then returned to England to pursue a literary career, writing mostly for periodicals. After remaining in England for several years, Mr. Dent and his family moved to Boston, in America, for about two years. But he finally returned to Canada, accepting a journalistic position in Toronto. Mr. Dent proceeded to write 'The Canadian Portrait Gallery', which ran to four large volumes, 'The Last Forty Years: Canada since the Union of 1841', and a 'History of the Rebellion in Upper Canada'. This collected work of his short fiction, contributed by their author at considerable intervals to different periodicals, was published posthumously. The stories themselves are delightfully anchored in the physical geography of Upper Canada (or in the case of 'Gagtooth's Image', Illinois), and have a mystical and spooky air about them. (Summary by Pipesdreams)

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Horror/Ghost stories, Mystery, Short stories