Egerton Castle

Egerton Castle
Egerton Castle (1858–1920) was a British author, fencer, and antiquarian best known for his historical novels and works on fencing. He co-authored several popular novels with his wife, Agnes Castle, including "The Pride of Jennico" and "The Bath Comedy." Castle was also an expert on swordsmanship and wrote the influential fencing manual "Schools and Masters of Fence" (1885), which traced the history of European swordsmanship. In addition to his literary work, Castle played a key role in reviving interest in classical fencing techniques.

Author's Books:


My Own True Ghost Story As I came through the Desert thus it was—As I came through the Desert. The City of Dreadful Night. Somewhere in the Other World, where there are books and pictures and plays and shop windows to look at, and thousands of men who spend their lives in building up all four, lives a gentleman who writes real stories about the real insides of people; and his name is Mr. Walter... more...

PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. Among the works of every writer of Fiction there are generally one or two that owe their being to some haunting thought, long communed with—a thought which has at last found a living shape in some story of deed and passion. I say one or two advisedly: for the span of man's active life is short and such haunting fancies are, of their essence, solitary. As a matter... more...