The Black Death (novel)

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The Black Death
Black death copper.jpg
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author Basil Copper
Illustrator Stefanie Hawks
Cover artist Stefanie Hawks
Country United States
Language English
Genre Gothic novel, Mystery novel
Publisher Fedogan & Bremer
Publication date
1992
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 373 pp
ISBN 1-878252-04-6
OCLC 25615406
823/.914 20
LC Class PR6053.O658 B5 1991

The Black Death is a Gothic novel by author Basil Copper. It was originally announced for publication by Arkham House but was ultimately published by Fedogan & Bremer in 1992 in an edition of 1,000 copies of which 100 were numbered and signed by the author and illustrator.

Plot introduction

The novel is set in Victorian England and concerns John Carter, an architect who leaves London to become a junior partner in a prosperous building firm in Thornton Bassett, a village in Dartmoor. His hopes for a new life fade as he discovers a sinister mystery.

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