The Crimson Blind and Other Ghost Stories (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural)

by H.D. Everett

Mrs H.D. Everett was the last in a long line of gifted Victorian novelists who knew how to grip the reader through the invasion of everyday life by the abnormal and dramatic, leaving the facts to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840225386
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

A Delight

The rear cover calls Mrs. Everett a "Victorian novelist"; I'll note that the stories in this collection touch a later period -- almost all the stories are set in the English homefront in the World War I years. I found this little collection a delight. Everett's writing style is clean and rich, the stories develop with a nice air of suspense and proceed to appropriately supernatural-tinged resolutions. The narrative tone varies, as Everett offers us the voice of a petty snob in "A Water Witch," a fragile but self-assertive young woman in "The Pipers of Mallory," and a male narrator in "Anne's Little Ghost." I will not say every story is a masterwork. A few of the later stories are a bit too sentimental, and the resolution of "A Perplexing Case" is a bit silly. I will say, without reservation, that the collection is a pleasure.