By the Night Express and Other Tales, etc. ~ Keith Fleming

I am extremely pleased—and that is a huge understatement—to announce that on the spookiest day of the year Nezu Press will publish two volumes of stories by Keith Fleming (pseudonym of female author K. E. Fitz-Patrick). And both will include my 21-page biographical essay—‘Most Unassuming in Demeanour’: The Life of K. E. Fitz-Patrick—which reveals a large amount of new information about the writer’s background and life.

   

Until now, next to nothing was known about Miss Fitz-Patrick. When I first began looking for information about her, I had very little to go on. I thought I might find a few choice morsels to shed a little light on her life, but I didn't dare hope for more than that—I certainly wasn't expecting what I did find. And now you can read all about her.

The stories contained in the two volumes are as follows:

By the Night Express and Other Tales:

The novellas ‘By the Night Express’, ‘Dolores’, and ‘Love Stronger than Death’. 

The novel “Can Such Things Be?”.

The short stories ‘So Innocent’, ‘The Transfiguration of Lettice Willoughby’, and ‘The Red Skirt’.

At the Eleventh Hour and Other Tales:

The novels At the Eleventh Hour and The Sins of the Fathers.

The short stories ‘The Courage of Kathie’, ‘An Audacious Wager’, and ‘Garth Austin’s Strategy’.

And the dust jacket of each volume features a wonderful painting by Edward Miller (Les Edwards), of whom I have been a great fan since I was knee-high to a grasshopper.

The sensation novel The Sins of the Fathers (which does have supernatural elements) was originally published in instalments in various newspapers from 1893; it was never published in book form, and it has never been republished in any format. All six short stories appeared in periodicals, and none of them have been republished before (I should point out that the short stories are not supernatural).

Both books are available to pre-order from the Nezu Press store (By the Night Express | At the Eleventh Hour). Alternatively, they are available from the usual online retailers, and you can order them from bricks-and-mortar stores. They're already at Amazon UK (click here: By the Night Express | At the Eleventh Hour).