Elsewhere, The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number, The Tragedy of a Snob, and A Monarch of a Small Survey the psychological takes precedence over the supernatural. The Striding Place was rejected by one editor as 'far too gruesome', but was in Atherton's view 'the best short story I ever wrote'. She eloped at the age of nineteen, took up writing against her husband's wishes, and after his death became a protegee of Ambrose Bierce, whose influence can be seen here in those stories, The Dead and the Countess, Death and the Woman and The Striding Place, which have an overtly supernatural element. Elsewhere, ('The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number', 'The Tragedy of a Snob', and 'A Monarch of a Small Survey') the psychological takes precedence over the supernatural.Īnd in 'The Bell in the Fog' (reminiscent of 'The Turn of the Screw', and dedicated to Henry James) the supernatural and psychological combine to brilliant effect: an angelic child bears a striking resemblance to an old portrait.Gertrude Atherton was born in San Francisco in 1857, and died in 1948. 'The Striding Place' was rejected by one editor as 'far too gruesome', but was in Atherton's view 'the best short story I ever wrote'. She eloped at the age of nineteen, took up writing against her husband's wishes, and after his death became a protegee of Ambrose Bierce, whose influence can be seen here in those stories, 'The Dead and the Countess', 'Death and the Woman' and 'The Striding Place', which have an overtly supernatural element.

Gertrude Atherton was born in San Francisco in 1857, and died in 1948.

Keywords gaslight supernatural literature dark fantasy gothic macabre weird tales terror lovecraft arkham cthulhu ghost haunting hallowe'en halloween.

Place of Publication Hertfordshire, England.

This story collection contains: 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 Talbot of Ursula A Prologue (to an unwritten play) and The Bell in the Fog. The Bell in the Fog was originally published by Harper and Brothers in 1905. She went on to publish a number or short stories, two novels and two story collections. Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton was a writer of the supernatural, selling her first short story, The Caves of Death, to the San Francisco Newsletter in December 1886. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine and a small scuffed patch on the front cover no interior markings. Hertfordshire, England: Wordsworth Editions, 2006.

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