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Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch


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aka Q

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.
 
 
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)
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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)
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Anthologies edited
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Anthologies containing stories by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
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Black Cat Weekly #120 (2023)
Special Christmas Issue
(Black Cat Weekly, book 120)
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Cornish Horrors (2021)
Tales from the Land's End
(British Library Tales of the Weird, book 24)
edited by
Joan Passey
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Dracula's Brethren (2017)
edited by
Richard Dalby and Brian J Frost

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