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A Preface to “The Short Stories of G. W. M. Reynolds” By Stephen Knight Having worked and published on Reynolds’ fiction for some years, starting with his grand The Mysteries of London as a major example of the mid-nineteenth century ‘Mysteries’ genre, and then moving through all his novels in my…

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A Preface to “The Short Stories of G. W. M. Reynolds” By Stephen Knight Having worked and published on Reynolds’ fiction for some years, starting with his grand The Mysteries of London as a major example of the mid-nineteenth century ‘Mysteries’ genre, and then moving through all his novels in my study of 2019, it kept coming to my attention that one of the elements in the major maltreatment of this prolific, rich and intriguing radical author by the English literary establishment was that though his novels were available — both in elderly copies from his great Victorian popularity and increasingly from the new genre of mechanical reprints — no work had been done on his short stories, especially not in collecting and reprinting them. http://gwmreynoldssociety.com/2026/03/03/a-preface-to-the-short-stories-of-g-w-m-reynolds/