The uninhabited house ; : and, The haunted river

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Metadata

Title

Author

Riddell, J. H., Mrs., 1832-1906

Publisher

London : Chatto & Windus

Date

1889

Description

Publisher's advertisements (32 p.) appear after text, dated October, 1889.

In publisher's binding, paper covered boards; advertisements on back cover; pastedowns, and flyleaves.

From The Scotsman (1893): “Few novelists have a right to the public approval than Mrs. J. H. Riddell.” This is another of Mrs. Riddell’s ghost stories with rather ordinary characters: law clerks, pensioners, real estate speculators, and developers. It seems at first to concentrate on the legal practicalities of renting out a house known to be haunted. The ghost is identified as an unscrupulous moneylender who attempted to ruin the wrong man and was killed for his efforts.

Format

364 p. ; 18 cm.

Language

eng

Type

Publishers' paper bindings (Binding)

Yellowbacks

Ghost stories

Publishers' advertisements 1889

Provenance

Stamped in ink on t.p. of Athenaeum's copy: "Received Feb 3 1890 The Athenaeum."

Citation

Riddell, J. H., Mrs., 1832-1906, “The uninhabited house ; : and, The haunted river,” Yellowbacks, accessed April 28, 2024, http://omeka.philaathenaeum.org/yellowbacks/items/show/357.