Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch - who published much of his fiction under the pseudonym 'Q' - was born in Cornwall in 1863, and the county, its history, and its people were to have a marked influence on his life and writing. After moving to London to pursue a writing career, the author returned to his native county in 1892, and maintained a permanent residence there until his death in 1944.
He established a reputation as a literary critic and editor, and was also a successful novelist: his final, unfinished novel, Castle Dor, was completed by another writer with strong Cornish connections, Daphne du Maurier. Yet Quiller-Couch was also interested in the unseen and unknown, and this prompted him to turn his hand, time and again, to supernatural stories, which are scattered amongst his collections of short stories.
He established a reputation as a literary critic and editor, and was also a successful novelist: his final, unfinished novel, Castle Dor, was completed by another writer with strong Cornish connections, Daphne du Maurier. Yet Quiller-Couch was also interested in the unseen and unknown, and this prompted him to turn his hand, time and again, to supernatural stories, which are scattered amongst his collections of short stories.
Novels
The Astonishing History Of Troy Town (1888) (as by Q)
St. Ives (1898) (with Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Ship of Stars (1899)
The Westcotes (1902)
Shining Ferry (1905)
True Tilda (1909)
Lady Good-for-Nothing (1910)
Brother Copas (1911)
Poison Island (1912)
Foe-Farrell (1918)
The Roll Call of Honor (1927)
From a Cornish Window (1928)
The Mayor of Troy (1928)
The Splendid Spur (1937)
Castle Dor (1940) (with Daphne du Maurier)
Beauty and the Beast (1999)
St. Ives (1898) (with Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Ship of Stars (1899)
The Westcotes (1902)
Shining Ferry (1905)
True Tilda (1909)
Lady Good-for-Nothing (1910)
Brother Copas (1911)
Poison Island (1912)
Foe-Farrell (1918)
The Roll Call of Honor (1927)
From a Cornish Window (1928)
The Mayor of Troy (1928)
The Splendid Spur (1937)
Castle Dor (1940) (with Daphne du Maurier)
Beauty and the Beast (1999)
Collections
Noughts and Crosses (1891)
I Saw Three Ships (1892) (as by Q)
The Delectable Duchy (1893)
Green Bays (1893) (as by Q)
Wandering Heath (1895) (as by Q)
Old Fires and Portable Ghosts (1900)
The Laird's Luck (1901)
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales (1902)
Two Sides of the Face (1903)
Merry Garden (1907)
The Sleeping Beauty (1910)
In Powder and Crinoline (1913)
Twelve Dancing Princesses (1913)
The Westcotes, Ia and Tom Tiddler's Ground (1928)
Poems (poems) (1929)
Q's Mystery Stories (1937)
Q's Shorter Stories (1944)
Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts (1973)
The Horror on the Stair (2000)
I Saw Three Ships (1892) (as by Q)
The Delectable Duchy (1893)
Green Bays (1893) (as by Q)
Wandering Heath (1895) (as by Q)
Old Fires and Portable Ghosts (1900)
The Laird's Luck (1901)
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales (1902)
Two Sides of the Face (1903)
Merry Garden (1907)
The Sleeping Beauty (1910)
In Powder and Crinoline (1913)
Twelve Dancing Princesses (1913)
The Westcotes, Ia and Tom Tiddler's Ground (1928)
Poems (poems) (1929)
Q's Mystery Stories (1937)
Q's Shorter Stories (1944)
Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts (1973)
The Horror on the Stair (2000)
Anthologies edited
Bulchevy's Book of English Verse
The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250 - 1900 (1910)
The Oxford Book of English Prose (1925)
Pages of English Prose 1390-1930 (1930)
The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250 - 1918 (1939)
The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250 - 1900 (1910)
The Oxford Book of English Prose (1925)
Pages of English Prose 1390-1930 (1930)
The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250 - 1918 (1939)
Non fiction
Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures (1913)
Shakespeare's Workmanship (1918)
Studies in Literature (1918)
On the Art of Reading (1920)
The Poems of Matthew Arnold (1922)
Charles Dickens and Other Victorians (1925)
A Lecture On Lectures (1927)
The Englishman (1931)
Harry Revel (1933)
The Poet as Citizen and Other Papers (1935)
Memories and Opinions (1944)
Cambridge Lectures (1948)
Adventures in Criticism (1969)
The Age of Chaucer (1972)
Shakespeare's Workmanship (1918)
Studies in Literature (1918)
On the Art of Reading (1920)
The Poems of Matthew Arnold (1922)
Charles Dickens and Other Victorians (1925)
A Lecture On Lectures (1927)
The Englishman (1931)
Harry Revel (1933)
The Poet as Citizen and Other Papers (1935)
Memories and Opinions (1944)
Cambridge Lectures (1948)
Adventures in Criticism (1969)
The Age of Chaucer (1972)
Anthologies containing stories by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Great Ghost Stories (1918)
A Second Round of Tales (1926)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1st Series (1928)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 2nd Series (1931)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 3rd Series (1934)
A Century of Thrillers 2nd Series (1935)
The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936)
The Frankenstein Reader (1962)
The 3rd Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1966)
Medley Macabre (1966)
The House of the Nightmare (1967)
Great British Short Stories (1974)
Tales of the Wandering Jew (1993)
A Second Round of Tales (1926)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1st Series (1928)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 2nd Series (1931)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 3rd Series (1934)
A Century of Thrillers 2nd Series (1935)
The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936)
The Frankenstein Reader (1962)
The 3rd Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1966)
Medley Macabre (1966)
The House of the Nightmare (1967)
Great British Short Stories (1974)
Tales of the Wandering Jew (1993)
Short stories
The Bridals of Ysselmonde | |||
The Conspiracy Aboard the 'Midas' | |||
Cuckoo Valley Railway | |||
The Czarina's Violet | |||
The Drawn Blind | |||
Fortunio | |||
The Gifts of Feodor Himkoff | |||
The Magic Shadow | |||
The Mayor of Gantick | |||
Monsieur Benest | |||
The Mourner's Horse | |||
Old Aeson | |||
Our Lady of Gwithian | |||
The Paupers | |||
Pipes in Arcady | |||
School Friends | |||
Silhouettes | |||
The Spinster's Maying | |||
St. Piran and the Visitation | |||
These-an'-That's Wife | |||
Three Photographs | |||
A Town's Memory | |||
The Two Householders | |||
When the Sap Rose | |||
Beside the Beehives (1891) | |||
Psyche (1891) | |||
The Small People (1891) | |||
My Grandfather, Hendry Watty (1895) | |||
The Roll-Call of the Reef (1895) | |||
Widdershins (1895) | |||
The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem (1900) | |||
The Seventh Man (1900) | |||
A Pair of Hands (1910) |
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