29) “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell” by Edith Wharton Plot: After recovering from typhoid, Alice Hartley has difficulty finding another position. The ladies she applies to look at her pale complexion and her thin limbs and decline her services. Alice is at the end of her rope. A chance meeting with Mrs. Railton, a friend ofContinue reading “Review of “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell” by Edith Wharton: Halloween Countdown”
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Review of “The Haunted Orchard” by Richard Le Gallienne: Halloween Countdown
27) “The Haunted Orchard” by Richard Le Gallienne Plot:The unnamed narrator tells the reader about leaving the city for the Connecticut countryside and coming across an empty “quaint farm-house,” an “old colonial,” with lilacs and “surrounded by an orchard of ancient apple trees.” He finds a broken window pane and enters the house. Why not?Continue reading “Review of “The Haunted Orchard” by Richard Le Gallienne: Halloween Countdown”
Review of “The Crime of Micah Rood” by Elia W. Peattie: Halloween Countdown
23) “The Crime of Micah Rood” by Elia W. Peattie Plot:In the early 18th century, in eastern Connecticut near the Shetucket River lived Micah Rood, “a solitary soul,” who “occupied a low, tumble-down house, in which he had seen his sisters and his brothers, his father and mother, die. The mice used the bare floorsContinue reading “Review of “The Crime of Micah Rood” by Elia W. Peattie: Halloween Countdown”
Review of “The Kit-Bag” by Algernon Blackwood: Halloween Countdown
Plot: The successful defense of John Turk, a client of the great Arthur Wilbraham, KC, brings the barrister no joy. His private secretary, Johnson, is glad to be rid of the case. Despite the verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity, he agrees with the general sentiment that few men were more deserving ofContinue reading “Review of “The Kit-Bag” by Algernon Blackwood: Halloween Countdown”
Review of “The Fog” (1980)
For our Saturday night pizza and bad movie selection, we chose a flick that started with a ghost story around a campfire. Plot: As midnight nears before the centennial of the founding of the northern California seaside town of Antonia Bay, old Mr. Machen (John Houseman) sits with a group of kids around a campfire.Continue reading “Review of “The Fog” (1980)”
Review of “Green Tea” by Joseph S. Le Fanu Halloween Countdown
19) “Green Tea” by Joseph S. Le Fanu Plot:As recorded by the medical secretary of (the fictional) Martin Hesselius, the German physician, this is one of the doctor’s many cases, beginning with a meeting of a country clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Jennings in London. Hesselius and Jennings seem to hit it off well enough. JenningsContinue reading “Review of “Green Tea” by Joseph S. Le Fanu Halloween Countdown”
