Mycroft and Moran
reprinted the volume in 1969, but omitted the last two of the seven stories from the first publication. In a Forward [sic] written by the fictional author of the tales, Jerome Latimer,...
Literary responses
Margery Lawrence
Stableford
compares these stories to those by Jack Mann
and Algernon Blackwood
, and while he judges ML
's work to be less effective and less informed about metaphysics than theirs, he finds her book engaging.
Pringle, David, editor. St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers. St James Press, 1998.
Textual Features
Stella Gibbons
SG
had never been to Canada; she based her descriptions of the remote Canadian landscape on stories by Algernon Blackwood
, whom she admired.
Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury, 1998.
