enoch
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Post by enoch on Aug 6, 2023 2:08:15 GMT
Allen Upward's The Story of the Green House, Wallington was first in a series of tales of an estate agent and his female assistant who deals with haunted houses. They appeared in The Royal magazine. Black Heath have collected the stories along with two other sets in a Kindle edition. Having read all of the Upward stories, the one in the Mammoth anthology is probably the best imo, but for 99p the ebook is well worth getting. I love those Allen Upward stories about the estate agent and his secretary. They were such likeable characters. I wish he had written more of them. They were kind of like an Edwardian era ghostbusting Tommy and Tuppence.
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Post by ripper on Aug 6, 2023 10:34:31 GMT
Allen Upward's The Story of the Green House, Wallington was first in a series of tales of an estate agent and his female assistant who deals with haunted houses. They appeared in The Royal magazine. Black Heath have collected the stories along with two other sets in a Kindle edition. Having read all of the Upward stories, the one in the Mammoth anthology is probably the best imo, but for 99p the ebook is well worth getting. I love those Allen Upward stories about the estate agent and his secretary. They were such likeable characters. I wish he had written more of them. They were kind of like an Edwardian era ghostbusting Tommy and Tuppence. I was surprised there were not more stories, and the main characters are very likable, I agree.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 10, 2023 19:12:07 GMT
Thanks for the tip, Rip and Enoch. You can add me to the fan club ...
Allen Upward – The Story of the Green House, Wallington: (The Royal Magazine, Dec. 1905). Mr. Hargreaves, estate agent, visits an allegedly haunted property whose owner Mr. Gilstrap, desperate to be rid of the place, is willing to let it go for a fraction of what it cost to build. Giltstrap gets tetchy at any mention of a "ghost," but grudgingly concedes that those who've slept in a particular bedroom have been known to complain. On learning of its reputation, Miss Alwyne Sargent, Hargreaves secretary, asks to spend a night there with her widowed mum as sisters as she has an interest in psychic research. Hargreaves is dismayed - he'd considered her far too sensible to believe in mumbo jumbo - but agrees, regardless. He takes the troubled upper room, with Alwyne and family directly beneath. Darkness falls ....
Alexander Harvey – The Forbidden Floor: (The Cavalier , 23 Nov. 1912). Narrator Roegers is commissioned by the widow Bowers to write a biography of her late husband, a senator and Civil War hero. Roegers is given the run of the mansion save for the upper floor where lives Mrs. Bowers reclusive son, Arthur, a talented pianist. A visiting Judge informs the author that Arthur takes after an impossibly beautiful ancestress who shut herself away after her fiancé surprised her in the arms of a British officer. Of course, her ghost haunts the top floor, hence Arthur's jealous determination to keep away potential love rivals. Each of the four short chapters opens on a quote from R. H. Benson confirming his belief in the spirit world. An accomplished story, although I'd have preferred it to have ended four paragraphs early on a despairing "I have nothing to live for."
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