Bøger af Charlotte Riddell

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Kvindelige forfattere var i høj grad med til at forme gysergenren, da den voksede ud af den gotiske roman i slutningen af det 19. århundrede og for alvor tog form i starten af det 20. århundrede. Disse kvinder var ikke blot meget populære, om gyset så var deres foretrukne litterære felt eller ej, mange af dem vandt også stor anerkendelse i samtiden. De fortjener at blive husket på lige fod med de bedste mandlige forfattere inden for genren. Denne antologi er blevet til med det formål. De ni kvindelige forfattere i denne bog var alle markante kvinder, der på forskellig vis udfordrede tidens normer, kønsroller og seksualitet. Novellerne i denne samling er en buket af forskelligartede gys, og selvom et par af disse har mænd i hovedrollerne, så mærker man en anden tilgang til genren end hos de mere bombastiske mandlige gyserforfattere. Kvindernes tekster er ofte mere tvetydige, snigende og åndelige. Mange af novellerne har selvstændige og handlekraftige kvinder i hovedrollerne. Kvinder, der må klare sig selv i en barsk verden, hvor den stærke mand kun sjældent bruger sin magt til at beskytte dem. 'Døden og kvinden' indholder noveller af Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf, Amelia Blandford Edwards, Gertrude Atherton, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Edith Wharton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky og Charlotte Riddell

Charlotte Riddell was one of the greatest Irish writers of horror and ghostly goings on. This collection has three of her finest stories, 'Hertford O'Donnell's Warning', 'Sandy the Tinker', 'The Old House in Vauxhall Walk' and 'The Banshee's Warning'.

Many of the earliest ghost stories and tales of hauntings, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Charlotte Riddell's The Uninhabited House (1875) tells the story of River Hall and the secrets that are hidden behind its doors. Within this haunted house, Riddell combines the supernatural with Victorian anxieties over stolen inheritance, crime, greed, and class mobility. This new Broadview Edition includes a detailed biography of Charlotte Riddell and illustrations from the original appearance of the novella in Routledge's Magazine; it also includes Riddell's ghost story "The Open Door" (1882), which serves as a useful companion text for The Uninhabited House. The contextual material in the edition highlights Victorian cultural, historical, and literary influences on Riddell's text, including women's contributions to the ghost story, print culture, and the development of supernatural fiction; the link between ghost stories and the holidays; and the haunted house, ghost hunting, and popular beliefs about ghosts in the Victorian era.

Irish women have long produced literature of the gothic, uncanny, and supernatural. Bending to Earth draws together twelve such tales. While none of the authors herein were considered primarily writers of fantastical fiction during their lifetimes, they each wandered at some point in their careers into more speculative realms - some only briefly, others for lengthier stays.Names such as Charlotte Riddell and Rosa Mulholland will already be familiar to aficionados of the eerie, while Katharine Tynan and Clotilde Graves are sure to gain new admirers. From a ghost story in the Swiss Alps to a premonition of death in the West of Ireland to strange rites in a South Pacific jungle, Bending to Earth showcases a diverse range of imaginative writing which spans the better part of a century.

As the fog thickens and the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from all over the city. Waiting in the shadowy streets are tales from writers such as Charlotte Riddell, Lettie Galbraith and Violet Hunt, who delight in twisting the urban myths and folk stories of the city into pieces of masterful suspense and intrigue.

From the once-popular yet unfairly neglected Victorian writer Charlotte Riddell comes a pair of novels which cleverly upholster the familiar furniture of the `haunted house' story.

"First published by richard Bentley and Son in 1883"--Verso of title page.