Bithia Mary Croker (1849–1920)
Forfatter af Number Ninety and Other Ghost Stories
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Værker af Bithia Mary Croker
A Bird of Passage 4 eksemplarer
Pretty miss Neville 3 eksemplarer
Katherine the Arrogant 3 eksemplarer
Peggy of the Bartons 3 eksemplarer
"To Let" and Other Strange Stories (Black Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural) (2018) 3 eksemplarer
A rolling stone 2 eksemplarer
The Pagoda Tree 2 eksemplarer
The real Lady Hilda 2 eksemplarer
A nine days' wonder 2 eksemplarer
Beyond The Pale 2 eksemplarer
A third person 2 eksemplarer
Given in marriage 2 eksemplarer
Her own people 2 eksemplarer
Gwen 2 eksemplarer
Collected Stories 1 eksemplar
What she overheard 1 eksemplar
The chaperon 1 eksemplar
The house of rest 1 eksemplar
Number Ninety 1 eksemplar
En ödesdiger färd 1 eksemplar
I landsfkykt 1 eksemplar
Unerwartet Roman in 2 Bänden 1 eksemplar
Babes in the wood : a romance of the jungles 1 eksemplar
Blue china 1 eksemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 047 1 eksemplar
Interference 1 eksemplar
Some one else 1 eksemplar
Two masters 1 eksemplar
Village tales and jungle tragedies 1 eksemplar
Married or single? 1 eksemplar
Miss Balmaine's past 1 eksemplar
Jason, and other stories 1 eksemplar
Infatuation 1 eksemplar
A state secret, and other stories 1 eksemplar
The cat's-paw 1 eksemplar
Johanna 1 eksemplar
The happy valley 1 eksemplar
The old cantonment, with other stories 1 eksemplar
The company's servant 1 eksemplar
Fame 1 eksemplar
The serpent's tooth 1 eksemplar
In old Madras 1 eksemplar
Lismoyle 1 eksemplar
Quicksands 1 eksemplar
Bridget 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Women's Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937 (Handheld Classics) (2020) — Bidragyder — 33 eksemplarer
Supernatural Sherlocks : Stories from The Golden Age of the Occult Detective (2017) — Bidragyder — 21 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- Croker, Bithia Mary
- Andre navne
- Sheppard, Bithia Mary (birth name)
- Fødselsdato
- 1849
- Dødsdag
- 1920-10-20
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- India
UK - Bopæl
- Madras, India
Bengal, India
County Wicklow, Ireland
Folkestone, Kent, England, UK
Medlemmer
Discussions
THE DEEP ONES: "The Red Bungalow" by Bithia Mary Croker i The Weird Tradition (maj 2022)
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“‘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.… (mere)