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A Master of Mysteries
Six supernatural terrors. Six ingenious explanations. A circular chamber that kills the men who sleep in it, a coffin that appears to guard its own prison, a railway tunnel where invisible hands work the signals – and John Bell, who has made a profession of walking into such places and refusing the obvious explanation.
First published in 1898, A Master of Mysteries is an important early collection of impossible-crime fiction, poised between the Victorian ghost story and the scientific detective tale. This Squire Press edition is set from the Ward, Lock first edition, with a substantial new introduction and fifty-four notes on the technology, medicine, and superstition behind the six cases.
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Notes on Books & the Craft
19 April 2026 · Forgotten Classics
Why Forgotten Classics Matter in the Age of AI
Or: why the past still offers something no machine can fake
We are not anti-AI at Squire Press. We use AI extensively in our work. But tools are not the same thing as authors – and that distinction matters more now than it used to. In an age of synthetic language, older books offer something increasingly rare: human presence, the oddity of a mind, the texture of a sentence no optimisation process would have chosen.
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