The Rose and the Key. London: Downey & Co, [1895]. First Edition Thus. Pp vii, 432. Publisher’s green cloth boards, front and spine panels stamped in gold, publisher’s monogram stamped in blind on rear panel. A nice bright copy, showing minimal wear to cloth.

First published as a 36-part serial in All The Year Round, January 1871 to September 1871, and first published in book form (in three volumes) by Chapman and Hall in 1871.

Unlike his more overtly supernatural works (such as Carmilla or In a Glass Darkly), this novel focuses on psychological terror, familial betrayal, and the horrors of 19th-century mental asylums.