Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1857 - 1948) was an American writer. Her husband discouraged her writing and in 1882 when she published her first novel the family was scandalized. Atherton is best remembered for her California series of novels and short stories. Her stories feature strong heroines who pursue independent careers. Stories in this collection include The bell in the fog, The striding place, The dead and the countess, The greatest good of the greatest number, A monarch of a small survey, The tragedy of a snob, Crowned with one crest, Death and the woman, A prologue (to an unwritten play), and Talbot of Ursula.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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Good,Not Great, Ghost Story Collection,
By Stephen Hancock "Scholar born 300 years late." (Snellville, GA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Bell in the Fog & Other Stories (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural) (Paperback)
I wouldn't have bothered to review this particular book of ghost stories, but I thought that the previous review-more the star rating than the review itself- left a unfair impression. It's true that Atherton was no M.R James or J.S Le Fanu, but how many are? I think this collection is a perfectly fine example of the second tier of late Victorian ghost story collections. After you've read the masters of the genre, if you, like me, love these old stories, you'll want to take a look at some of the works of the lesser lights of the period, which thankfully have suddenly been reprinted en mass by Wordsworth Books in the U.K. It's been a long time since a publisher has bothered to take a bunch of these wonderful old collections and even a few novels (like Le Fanu's "House By the Churchyard") and reprinted them in very inexpensive editions. Up until now, many of these were only available (IF available at all) in very expensive sets by small press publishers, or in the original collections which fetch high prices on the auction and second hand book sites.
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These are fine, well-constructed stories. And uniformly grim. Not grim in a gruesome sense (in "The Striding Place", Atherton does indulge in the lurid, but it's tame by today's standards), since most of these are neither supernatural or mystery stories but psychological studies that explore, with a heavy dose of irony, life as tragedy. Well worth reading, just not straight through.
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Uninspiring...,
By Tebes "Buchlieber" (Niagara Region, ON) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Bell in the Fog & Other Stories (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural) (Paperback)
I couldn't get through this collection. The stories I read were well-written but not memorable. There are so many great books to read by more competent writers of "mystery" and the "supernatural" - Poe, M.R.James, Borges, Doyle, Lovecraft, Chesterton, Collins. When you have nothing better to read, when you have explored other avenues and read everything else you have ever wanted to read in your lifetime and just need something to pass the time, then I might recommend it. Otherwise, well, read Poe, M.R. James, Lovecraft, etc...
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