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Marjorie Bowen (1) (1885–1952)

Auteur van The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories

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Marjorie Bowen (1) via een alias veranderd in Joseph Shearing.

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Werken van Marjorie Bowen

Titels zijn toegeschreven aan Joseph Shearing.

Black Magic (1909) 80 exemplaren
The Viper of Milan (1906) 63 exemplaren
I Will Maintain (1910) 62 exemplaren
Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales (1976) 61 exemplaren
Dickon (1929) 45 exemplaren
For God and the King (1911) 43 exemplaren
Defender of the Faith (1911) 38 exemplaren
The Crown Derby Plate (2008) 37 exemplaren
Christmas Ghosts: An Anthology (1978) 26 exemplaren
The Queen's Caprice (1933) 23 exemplaren
The Glen O' Weeping (1907) 22 exemplaren
Prince and Heretic (1914) 20 exemplaren
The Poisoners (1953) 17 exemplaren
Dark Rosaleen (1932) 9 exemplaren
A Knight of Spain (2018) 8 exemplaren
The carnival of Florence (1925) 7 exemplaren
God and the Wedding Dress (2015) 6 exemplaren
This Shining Woman (2016) 6 exemplaren
The Quest of Glory (2015) 5 exemplaren
The Burning Glass (2018) 5 exemplaren
Mistress Nell Gwyn (1926) 5 exemplaren
The Crime of Laura Sarelle (1941) 5 exemplaren
Mr Misfortunate (2017) 5 exemplaren
The Triumphant Beast 5 exemplaren
The Haunted Vintage 4 exemplaren
The Cheats (1920) 4 exemplaren
Eugenie (2016) 3 exemplaren
God's Playthings (2019) 3 exemplaren
Five People (2018) 3 exemplaren
Kings-at-Arms (2017) 3 exemplaren
Patriotic Lady (1970) 3 exemplaren
Cambric Tea 3 exemplaren
The Leopard and the Lily (2013) 3 exemplaren
Beltarbet's Pride 2 exemplaren
Withering fires (1935) 2 exemplaren
The Gilt Mask 2 exemplaren
A Moment's Madness (1908) 2 exemplaren
The devil snar'd (1932) 2 exemplaren
Pale Rose (1977) 2 exemplaren
Royal Pageantry 2 exemplaren
The Folding Doors 2 exemplaren
Lovers' Knots (2019) 2 exemplaren
Because of These Things (2009) 2 exemplaren
Crowns and Sceptres (1937) 2 exemplaren
Julia Roseingrave 2 exemplaren
Trumpets at Rome 2 exemplaren
Stinging Nettles 2 exemplaren
Collected Twilight Stories (2010) 2 exemplaren
Jacqueline 1 exemplaar
The Pink Shawl 1 exemplaar
Castles in the Air 1 exemplaar
The Quack 1 exemplaar
Cuckoo Pint 1 exemplaar
Miss Modernity 1 exemplaar
The Housekeeper 1 exemplaar
Two Mistakes 1 exemplaar
The Masterpiece 1 exemplaar
The Match-Maker 1 exemplaar
The Cabriolet 1 exemplaar
Out of Season 1 exemplaar
Fleur Ange 1 exemplaar
Seven Deadly Sins 1 exemplaar
The devil's jig 1 exemplaar
The shadow on Mockways (1932) 1 exemplaar
Orange blossoms 1 exemplaar
Mr. Tyler's saints 1 exemplaar
The abode of love 1 exemplaar
Roccoco 1 exemplaar
The Prescription 1 exemplaar
Violante 1 exemplaar
Nightmare 1 exemplaar
Brave employments 1 exemplaar
The Knot Garden 1 exemplaar
The Heiress of Frascati (1966) 1 exemplaar
Ferriby (2015) 1 exemplaar
Nightcap and Plume 1 exemplaar
No Way Home 1 exemplaar
The Stolen Bride 1 exemplaar
The Third Estate 1 exemplaar
Boundless Water 1 exemplaar

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The Omnibus of Crime (1929) — Medewerker — 208 exemplaren
The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories (2007) — Medewerker — 134 exemplaren
Tales of Witchcraft (1991) — Medewerker — 112 exemplaren
Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain (2020) — Medewerker — 92 exemplaren
Murder On Christmas Eve (2017) — Medewerker — 88 exemplaren
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Mistletoe & Mayhem: Horrific Tales For The Holidays (1992) — Medewerker — 80 exemplaren
Spirits of the Season: Christmas Hauntings (2018) — Medewerker — 76 exemplaren
Queens of the Abyss: Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird (2020) — Medewerker — 72 exemplaren
Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season (2020) — Medewerker — 70 exemplaren
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Ghost Stories and Other Horrid Tales (1997) — Medewerker — 62 exemplaren
The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1964) — Medewerker — 61 exemplaren
65 Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979) — Medewerker — 59 exemplaren
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Mystery for Christmas (1990) — Medewerker — 50 exemplaren
Ghosts for Christmas (1988) — Medewerker — 45 exemplaren
Realms of Darkness (1985) — Medewerker — 44 exemplaren
Women of the Weird: Eerie Stories by the Gentle Sex (1976) — Medewerker — 42 exemplaren
Tales from the Dead of Night (2013) — Medewerker — 40 exemplaren
The Oxford Book of Historical Stories (1994) — Medewerker — 40 exemplaren
The Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories (1994) — Medewerker — 37 exemplaren
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror (1928) — Medewerker — 32 exemplaren
The Great Book of Thrillers (1935) — Medewerker — 27 exemplaren
The Night Side: Masterpieces of the Strange and Terrible (1947) — Medewerker — 27 exemplaren
The Night Wire: and Other Tales of Weird Media (2022) — Medewerker — 26 exemplaren
Mortal Echoes: Encounters With the End (2018) — Medewerker — 25 exemplaren
Night chills : stories of suspense and horror (1975) — Medewerker — 22 exemplaren
The World's Best One Hundred Detective Stories, Volume 2 (1929) — Medewerker — 17 exemplaren
The Fireside Book of Ghost Stories (1947) — Medewerker — 16 exemplaren
The Cold Embrace: Weird Stories by Women (2016) — Medewerker — 14 exemplaren
Fifty Masterpieces of Mystery (1937) — Medewerker — 13 exemplaren
Shapes of the Supernatural (1969) — Medewerker — 11 exemplaren
A wave of fear: A classic horror anthology (1973) — Medewerker — 11 exemplaren
The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2001 (2001) — Medewerker — 10 exemplaren
The 7th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1972) — Medewerker — 10 exemplaren
Alfred Hitchcock's Fatal Attractions (1983) — Medewerker — 7 exemplaren
The Eighteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1982) — Medewerker — 7 exemplaren
The Big book of detective stories — Medewerker — 4 exemplaren
The great weird stories (1977) — Medewerker — 4 exemplaren
The Sixteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1980) — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren
The Big Book for Girls — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
Murder for Christmas [audio abridgement] (1989) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar

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Officiële naam
Campbell, Gabrielle Margaret Vere (birth name)
Long, Mrs. Arthur
Geboortedatum
1885-11-01
Overlijdensdatum
1952-12-23
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
UK (birth)
Geboorteplaats
Hayling Island, Hampshire, England, UK
Plaats van overlijden
London, England, UK
Woonplaatsen
London, England, UK
Opleiding
Slade School
Beroepen
novelist
biographer
horror writer
children's book author
short story writer
Korte biografie
Marjorie Bowen was the principal pen name of Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long, née Campbell. She was born on Hayling Island, Hampshire, England, and had a difficult childhood. The family moved constantly to escape debt. Her father was an alcoholic who disappeared and was later found dead on the streets of London. Marjorie did not go to school, but was self-educated in libraries and museums. She published her first novel, The Viper of Milan: A Romance of Lombardy, in 1906 at age 21, and thereafter was the breadwinner for an ungrateful family. Under this financial pressure, she produced more than 150 books using half a dozen pseudonyms, most of them historical fiction, Gothic novels, romance novels, and crime stories. She also wrote history, children's books, biographies, short stories, literary criticism, and tales of the supernatural. Her writing was widely admired by other authors, including Graham Greene. She was married twice: her first marriage took her to Italy, where she lived during the years of World War I. She wrote an autobiography, The Debate Continues (1939).

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THE DEEP ONES: "Kecksies" by Marjorie Bowen in The Weird Tradition (juni 2021)

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Very good plot and well developed characters. The 'secret' is really well done! Holds the interest of the reader even after more than a century...
 
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aravind_aar | 1 andere bespreking | Nov 21, 2021 |
An excellent collection of tales by an early twentieth century writer. Ms. Bowen was also a historical novelist, and she set all but two of these stories in the past. She had a gift for creating people who were often more frightening than the supernatural element.

The best tales, to my taste, were: "The Fair Hair of Ambrosine," a grim tale of fate; "The Crown Derby Plate," which showed a deliciously nasty sense of humor; "Elsie's Lonely Afternoon," a Katherine Mansfield-ish tale with a nasty twist; "The Bishop of Hell," with the most despicable of her rakehell villains; "The Scoured Silk," a tale that any reader of true crime stores knows is not impossible; and "Kecksie," a masterpiece so enjoyably depraved that I was surprised she could publish it even in the 1920s.… (meer)
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Coach_of_Alva | 4 andere besprekingen | Jan 10, 2020 |
I’m a big fan of the Wordsworth Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural series, but the Marjorie Bowen anthology, The Bishop of Hell & Other Stories, is one entry in the series that I really struggled to get through. Most of these twelve stories are predictable, pedestrian tales, of little style, substance, or atmosphere. As I was reading, each story had an air of familiarity in some way or other. It was an odd feeling; and then each time I suddenly realized that Bowen is repeating herself with her thematic strokes: multiple stories of self-fulfilling prophecy, of unhappy marriages, of womanizing cads, of murderous revenge; and a pair of stories that both begin by basically saying that “this strange tale that follows needed to be stitched together from various sources...”. It’s just a bit off-putting, and perhaps an indication that the author did not have a lot of fresh ideas and therefore lifted from her prior work. Ultimately it says that the weird fiction genre was not a strong suit in her literary output.

While most of the stories barely moved the needle for me, there were a few that were compelling: (1) “Elsie’s Lonely Room” - A sad story about a little girl’s miserable life, with an even sadder gut-punch ending; (2) “The Adventure of Mr John Proudie” - Strange visitors one night intrude on the mundane life of a meek apothecary, who then witnesses some ghastly occurrences. The story is actually rather tame, but it is suspenseful and well-paced, and titling it an “adventure” playfully underscores just how unremarkable Mr John Proudie’s life actually was. (3) “The Scoured Silk” - an excellent horror story in which young Elisa Minden, soon to be wed to the older Humphrey Orford, becomes frightened and suspicious as her fiancé displays some unusual quirks, particularly with regard to his first wife, who died under mysterious circumstances some twenty years earlier.
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½
 
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ghr4 | 4 andere besprekingen | Feb 8, 2019 |
Like with the other novels I’ve read by this author, “Black Magic” features numerous quality scenes with a good plot, but at times the narrative reads too slow, plus the way the syntax is mixed-up to make the dialogue more authentic is irritating. At times it’s hard to understand.

On the whole, though, this is an enjoyable read, with high suspense, good characterisation, and vivid descriptive passages. The horror and supernatural elements are handled well, though some scenes are tame compared to today’s standards.

So not a classic, but certainly worth reading.
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PhilSyphe | 1 andere bespreking | Nov 22, 2018 |

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