The Child of Mystery (Dodo Press)

Sarah (Carr/Scudgell) Wilkinson (1779-1831) was an English author and novelist specialising in the gothic horror genre. Her first short stories were published in Tell-Tale Magazine in 1803. Her works include: The Chateau de Montville (1803), Horatio and Camilla; or, The Nuns of St. Mary (1804), The Water Spectre; or, An Bratach (1805), Zittaw the Cruel; or, The Woodman's Daughter (1805), The Spectre; or, The Ruins of Belfont Priory (1806), The Thatched Cottage; or, Sorrows of Eugenia (1806), The Fugitive Countess; or, The Convent of St. Ursula: A Romance (1807), The Child of Mystery (1808), The Convent of Grey Penitents; or, The Apostate Nun (1810), The Priory of St Clair; or, The Spectre of the Murdered Nun (1811), Edward and Agnes (1812), New Tales (also known as The Bandit of Florence, 1819), The Castle Spectre: An Ancient Baronial Romance (1820), The Spectre of Lanmere Abbey; or, The Mystery of the Blue and Silver Bag: A Romance (1820) and The Ghost of Golini; or, The Malignant Relative: A Domestic Tale (1820).