After Dark (short story collection)

After Dark Author| Wilkie Collins

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Language| English
Genre| Mystery fiction
Short stories
Publisher| Smith, Elder & Co.

Publication date

| 1856
Publication place| United Kingdom
Media type| Print (hardback)
OCLC| 4341884

After Dark is a collection of six short stories by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1856. It was the author's first collection of short stories. Five of the stories were previously published in Household Words, a magazine edited by Charles Dickens.

## Structure

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The stories are linked by a narrative framework.

At the beginning and end of the book are "Leaves from Leah's Diary": William Kerby, a travelling portrait-painter, is in danger of losing his sight, and is required by his doctor to cease painting for a while. His wife Leah realizes that destitution threatens. He is a good story-teller, and Leah has the idea of writing down his stories and publishing them.

Each story has a prologue, which was added to the original story that appeared in Household Words.

## Contents

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* "The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed", first published as "A Terribly Strange Bed" in Household Words in 1852.
* "The Lawyer's Story of a Stolen Letter", first published as "The Fourth Poor Traveller" in "The Seven Poor Travellers", a group of stories by several authors in the Christmas 1854 edition of Household Words.
* "The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose", first published as "Sister Rose" in Household Words in April 1855.
* "The Angler's Story of the Lady of Glenwith Grange", first published in this volume.
* "The Nun's Story of Gabriel's Marriage", first published as "Gabriel's Marriage" in Household Words in April 1853.
* "The Professor's Story of the Yellow Mask", first published as "The Yellow Mask" in Household Words in July 1855.

## References

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* After Dark title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
* After Dark Wilkie Collins Information Pages, accessed 8 Oct 2014.

## External links

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*   * After Dark at Project Gutenberg
* After Dark public domain audiobook at LibriVox

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Wilkie Collins

Novels|

* Antonina (1850)
* Basil (1852)
* Hide and Seek (1854)
* The Dead Secret (1856)
* The Woman in White (1860)
* No Name (1862)
* Armadale (1866)
* No Thoroughfare (1867)
* The Moonstone (1868)
* Man and Wife (1870)
* Poor Miss Finch (1872)
* The Law and the Lady (1875)
* The Fallen Leaves (1879)
* The Black Robe (1881)
* Blind Love (1889)

Short stories|

* "A Terribly Strange Bed" (1852)
* "The Lady of Glenwith Grange" (1856)
* "A House to Let" (1858)
* "The Haunted House" (1859)
* "The Dead Alive" (1874)
* "Who Killed Zebedee?" (1881)

Short story collections|

* After Dark (1856)

Plays|

* The Frozen Deep (1866)
* No Thoroughfare (1867)

People|

* Charles Allston Collins (brother)
* William Collins (father)
* David Wilkie (godfather)

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