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The Governess: A Professor Challenger Story Paperback – October 19, 2020

by Stephen Gallagher (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
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***WINNER OF THE ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SOCIETY'S INAUGURAL DOYLEAN HONOURS AWARD, POETRY AND FICTION***

"Well deserved, it's a fantastic read." Charles Prepolec, editor of The Gaslight Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger: New Worlds, Lost Places

In 1930, down-on-his-luck reporter Edward Malone seeks out The Lost World's Professor Challenger for one last, audacious journey into the ultimate unknown.

A short story presented as a chapbook in the Edwardian style, with period illustrations.
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  1. Print length
    39 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    October 19, 2020
  4. Dimensions
    5.25 x 0.1 x 8 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1916057853
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1916057852
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Brooligan Press (October 19, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 39 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1916057853
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1916057852
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.11 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.1 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings

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Stephen Gallagher

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Beginning his TV career with the BBC's DOCTOR WHO, Stephen Gallagher went on to establish himself as a writer and director of high-end miniseries and primetime episodic television. In his native England he's adapted and created hour-long and feature-length thrillers and crime dramas. In the US he was lead writer on NBC's CRUSOE, creator of CBS Television's ELEVENTH HOUR, and Co-Executive Producer on ABC's THE FORGOTTEN. His fourteen novels include DOWN RIVER, RAIN, VALLEY OF LIGHTS, and NIGHTMARE, WITH ANGEL. He's the creator of Sebastian Becker, Special Investigator to the Lord Chancellor's Visitor in Lunacy, in a series of novels beginning with THE KINGDOM OF BONES and THE BEDLAM DETECTIVE, continuing in THE AUTHENTIC WILLIAM JAMES.

Described by The Independent as "the finest British writer of bestselling popular fiction since le Carré ... Gallagher, like le Carré, is a novelist whose themes seem to reflect something of the essence of our times, and a novelist whose skill lies in embedding those themes in accessible plots." According to Arena magazine, "Gallagher has quietly become Britain's finest popular novelist, working a dark seam between horror and the psychological thriller.

The Daily Telegraph wrote, "Since Valley of Lights, he has been refining his own brand of psycho-thriller, with a discomforting knack of charting mental disintegration and a razor-sharp sense of place." Charles de Lint wrote in Mystery Scene magazine, "Gallagher is a master of abnormal psychology and he just gets better and better." Also in Mystery Scene David Mathew added, "never a writer to rest on his laurels, he has written good hard thrillers, some horror genre work (such as Valley of Lights), and a novel (Oktober) that might even qualify as a vague distortion of contemporary world fantasy... in places. You might go as far as to employ that overused phrase sui generis. He is, at any rate, one of the best writers of his generation."

Winner of British Fantasy and International Horror Guild awards.

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  • Perceptive Reader
    4.0 out of 5 stars A Dark Tale
    Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2023
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    This is a bitter, brutal, poignant and eventually deeply unsatisfactory tale. But... it felt so real, and so uncomfortably close to life that I wouldn't be able to dismiss it in foreseeable future, or maybe ever.
    Read it, if you can get it.
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  • Jeffrey Cochrane
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Governess
    Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2021
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    An interesting little chapbook. Good characters. Good story line. A good ending. I think it would be a good idea to expand this to at least a novella. I liked the characters enough to want to learn more about them. Recommended
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  • Mr. G. Antonelli
    5.0 out of 5 stars Nice Xmas surprise
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 22, 2020
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    Lovely, little stocking filler. Love the presentation of the story, with suitable illustrations. Even the adverts for some of his other books was done with the period feel in mind. Didn't need to have read Professor Challenger to appreciate the story.
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  • Mr. S. G. Volk
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent spooky short
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 11, 2021
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    Stephen Gallagher uses his expert skill in crafting a perfect, small succulent slice of Conan Doyle mythology.
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  • Richard N James
    5.0 out of 5 stars A charming tale of lost souls and redemption.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 29, 2020
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    Charming and thoughtful little story, perfectly evoking the spirit of Conan Doyle. A delight.
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