Episode 35: 'The Man With No Face' by G.M. Robins
As I continue to forage for forgotten gems I keep turning up authors about whom I know very little and about whom very little seems to be known. I can tell you that G.M. (Gertrude Minnie) Robins (11 July 1861 — 22 November 1939) wrote over fifty novels, many of which were published under her married name, Mrs Baille Reynolds, and that she wrote chiefly in the mystery, crime and gothic genres - including macabre, strange short stories like this one. The Man With No Face appeared in her collection The Relations and What They Related , and tells the story of a wife who has a terrifying vision that leads her to fear for her husband's safety and her own sanity. But what does the vision mean? Is it a spectre from his past, or a premonition of his future? Robins, who was active in the suffrage movement and a president of the Society of Women Journalists, writes a neat little story - a short, dark tale with a twist of the kind I appreciate and like to cover on the show sometimes....