The Black Robe (1881) by Wilkie Collins is one of the author's later works. The book relates the misadventures of Lewis Romayne, and is also noted for a perceived anti-Catholic bias. Wilkie Collins, popular and beloved Victorian writer, friend and collaborator of Charles Dickens, is best known for originating the genre of the "sensation novel" that is the precursor of the modern suspense and detective novels.

The Black Robe is an 1881 epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. In this unusual novel of relationships, psychological contortion, and deceit, a priest comes between an impressionable man and the young woman he loves.

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.