Bithia Mary Croker (1849–1920)
Autore di Number Ninety and Other Ghost Stories
Sull'Autore
Opere di Bithia Mary Croker
A Bird of Passage 4 copie
Pretty miss Neville 3 copie
Katherine the Arrogant 3 copie
Peggy of the Bartons 3 copie
A rolling stone 2 copie
The Pagoda Tree 2 copie
The real Lady Hilda 2 copie
A nine days' wonder 2 copie
Beyond The Pale 2 copie
A third person 2 copie
Given in marriage 2 copie
Her own people 2 copie
Gwen 2 copie
Collected Stories 1 copia
What she overheard 1 copia
The chaperon 1 copia
The house of rest 1 copia
Number Ninety 1 copia
En ödesdiger färd 1 copia
I landsfkykt 1 copia
Unerwartet Roman in 2 Bänden 1 copia
Blue china 1 copia
Interference 1 copia
Some one else 1 copia
Two masters 1 copia
Married or single? 1 copia
Miss Balmaine's past 1 copia
Jason, and other stories 1 copia
Infatuation 1 copia
The cat's-paw 1 copia
Johanna 1 copia
The happy valley 1 copia
The company's servant 1 copia
Fame 1 copia
The serpent's tooth 1 copia
In old Madras 1 copia
Lismoyle 1 copia
Quicksands 1 copia
Bridget 1 copia
Opere correlate
Women's Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937 (Handheld Classics) (2020) — Collaboratore — 33 copie
Supernatural Sherlocks : Stories from The Golden Age of the Occult Detective (2017) — Collaboratore — 21 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Croker, Bithia Mary
- Altri nomi
- Sheppard, Bithia Mary (birth name)
- Data di nascita
- 1849
- Data di morte
- 1920-10-20
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- India
UK - Luogo di residenza
- Madras, India
Bengal, India
County Wicklow, Ireland
Folkestone, Kent, England, UK
Utenti
Discussioni
THE DEEP ONES: "The Red Bungalow" by Bithia Mary Croker in The Weird Tradition (Mag 2022)
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 62
- Opere correlate
- 13
- Utenti
- 111
- Popolarità
- #175,484
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 16
- Lingue
- 1
“‘Number Ninety’” is a standard haunted house story set in London. It was interesting to have this one as the first story because it set up a comparison to the various haunted house stories set in India, as well as providing a pattern for the other stories. The narrator or the main character learns of a supposedly haunted house but is skeptical and laughs at or dismisses those who try to warn them. They stay at the house, and things seem fine for a while, but eventually the haunting starts. The endings vary–sometimes the characters right past wrongs or are just scared and humbled, but other stories end in tragedy. Of all the haunted house stories, my favorites were “The Red Bungalow” and “‘To Let’”, which were longer and more detailed than some of the others. The later stories were set in other places–America, Australia, France. The supernatural elements also tended to be different–ghosts revealing their burial location, cases of spirit possession and a prophetic dream. Of the shorter stories, “The First Comer” was nicely creepy, having an unexpected and unexplained supernatural event when the narrator goes to get her sick sister a cup of tea in the middle of the night. Enjoyable enough, but unlike some collections I’ve read recently, I didn’t feel motivated to seek out more of the author’s work.… (altro)