The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural) - Softcover

Gertrude Atherton

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9781840225402: The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural)

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ISBN 10: 1840225408 ISBN 13: 9781840225402

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2006

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

And 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. Is she a reincarnation of her ancestor? And will she turn out as unangelic in adulthood as that distant ancestor turned out before her?

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Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1857 - 1948) was a prominent and prolific American author. Many of her novels are set in her home state of California. Her bestseller Black Oxen (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name. In addition to novels, she wrote short stories, essays and articles for magazines and newspapers on such issues as feminism, politics and war. She was strong-willed, independent-minded and sometimes controversial.

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