Author:Bernard Edward Joseph Capes

Bernard Capes
(1854–1918)

Works

• The Skeleton Key, 1919
• At a Winter's Fire, 1899 short stories
• A Jay of Italy, 1905 historical fiction
• Bag and Baggage, 1912 short stories

Historical Romances

• Adventures of the Comte de Muette, 1898
• Our Lady of Darkness, 1898
• A Castle in Spain, 1903
• The Extraordinary Confessions of Diana Please, 1904
• A Jay of Italy, 1905 US: Bembo. A Tale of Italy (1906)
• A Rogue's Tragedy, 1906
• Historical Vignettes, 1st Series, 1910
• Historical Vignettes, 2nd Series, 1912
• The Pot of Basil, 1913
• Moll Davis, 1916

Romances

• The Lake of Wine, 1897
• The Mysterious Singer, 1898
• Joan Brotherhood, 1900
• Love Like a Gypsy, 1901
• The Secret in the Hill, 1903
• The Romance of Lohengrin, 1906(?)
• The Green Parrot, 1908
• The Love Story of St. Bel, 1909
• Jemmy Abercraw, 1910
• The House of Many Voices, 1911
• Jessie Bazley, 1912
• The Story of Fifine, 1914 (re-issued 1919)
• If Age Could, 1916
• Where England Sets Her Feet, 1918

Mystery Stories

• The Great Skene Mystery, 1909
• Why Did He Do It?, 1910
• The Will and the Way, 1910
• Gilead Balm, (?)
• The Skeleton Key, 1919 (posthumous publ.) (Re-issued as The Mystery of the Skeleton Key, 2015)
  • Introduction by G. K. Chesterton

Short stories and collections

• At a Winter's Fire, 1899, re-issued, 1978 short stories
• From Door to Door, 1900 short stories
• Plots, 1902, short stories
• Loaves and Fishes, 1906 short stories
• The Fabulists, 1915 short stories
• The Black Reaper, ed Hugh Lamb, 1989 short stories / anthology

Poems and songs

• Amaranthus: A Book of Little Songs, 1908 songs
• A Fool’s Passion and Other Poems (?) poems

Unsorted

• The Haunted Tower (as 'Bevis Cane'), 1888
• The Missing Man (as 'Bevis Cane'), 1889
• The Mill of Silence, 1897

Short stories from magazines

• "A True Princess" in The Idler vol 13, 1898 [incl in Bag and Baggage]
• "Ignorance for Its Own Sake" (1899 June 10, The Outlook) (essay)
• "An Ugly Customer" (1899 Oct, Pall Mall) (ss)
• "The Widow's Clock" (1900 May, Pall Mall) (ss)
• "The Red Captain" (1901 Nov, Pall Mall) (ss)
• "The Strength of the Rope" (1901 Dec, Pall Mall) (ss)
• "Arcades Ambo" (1906 March, Pall Mall Magazine) (ss)
• "Priscilla Pipkin" (1907 Feb, Pall Mall Magazine) (ss)
• "Clipping the Currency" (1909 Oct 09, The Living Age) (essay)
• "Tony's Drum" (1910, Windsor) (ss) [incl in Bag and Baggage]
• "A Danse-Macabre" (1914 March, Pall Mall) (Life in a Little) (ss)
• "'A Little Child'" (1916 Jan 07, Reedy's Mirror) (ss)
• "From Under an Island" (1926 Dec 30, Youth's companion) (ss)