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Post by Swampirella on Jun 4, 2021 15:37:45 GMT
Just found Brickett Bottom on Gutenberg (not downloadable) as well as here:
Feeling overwhelmed with books right now, so "In Ghostly Company" will have to wait, since the other stories are apparently less "exciting".
EDIT: Enjoyed rereading it a short while ago, not surprised to find I'd already read it, probably in one of those 600pg late 60s early 70s anthologies.
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Post by ripper on Jun 4, 2021 19:20:52 GMT
Just found Brickett Bottom on Gutenberg (not downloadable) as well as here: Feeling overwhelmed with books right now, so "In Ghostly Company" will have to wait, since the other stories are apparently less "exciting".
They're okay, just nothing that makes them stand out from anything else around at the time imo. As I am a fan of ghost stories from the Victorian, Edwardian and pre-WW2 periods, In Ghostly Company was always going to be on my shopping list, but it isn't a collection I would put ahead of others. I wouldn't say it was a one trick pony, but rather that when I first read it around 20 years ago I was expecting more after reading Brickett Bottom, and my thoughts on it haven't changed very much over the years.
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Post by humgoo on Jun 10, 2021 6:20:18 GMT
It's probably just the period setting but this one has always put me in mind of a small scale Picnic At Hanging Rock in the English countryside. That’s quite a good comparison, down to the unsettling sexual undertones of each (or did I just imagine those?). I don't know the movie, but the sexual undertones in Northcote's story seem clear to me. "Don't be afraid of me, my dear, I like to see young ladies about me and my husband finds their society quite necessary to him." It really can't be clearer, can it? Very creepy!
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Post by helrunar on May 8, 2023 0:49:37 GMT
I read "Brickett Bottom" tonight (in an electronic edition of Rev Summers' Omnibus I have had on hand for a few years now). I brought this book out because I wanted to read "Thurnley Abbey" by Perceval Landon on the basis of Our Provost's recommendation: www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pardos/ArchiveMRJLetter.htmlThe Landon tale I would give a high B (i.e. second-rate, but well done of its kind). I have read a couple more of the stories in this vast anthology this evening and think this may have been my first encounter with Northcote. The story about the late Mrs Fowke piques my interest and I will have to look that one out. Hel.
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