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The Lost Stradivarius by J. Meade Falkner

Paperback – British Library Publishing – July 2025 – 222 pages

The discovery of a beautiful Stradivarius violin in a hidden cupboard at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, appears to be a stroke of good fortune for music student John Maltravers. But there is something sinister in the violin’s history something corrupt which threatens to re-emerge as the bewitched Maltravers plays and replays a devilish tune he is powerless to resist.

First published in 1895, The Lost Stradivarius has garnered a revered status as a true classic of strange fiction, described by the famed critic E.F. Bleiler as the novel M.R. James might have written, had he written novels.