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Amyas Northcote (1864–1923)

Autor(a) de In Ghostly Company

5+ Works 80 Membros 5 Críticas

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Obras por Amyas Northcote

In Ghostly Company (1997) 73 exemplares
Collected Stories 1 exemplar
En Compañia De Fantasmas (2020) 1 exemplar
The Downs 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Supernatural Omnibus (1931) — Contribuidor — 141 exemplares
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998) — Contribuidor — 63 exemplares
Great Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery and Madness (2004) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2 (1656) — Contribuidor — 50 exemplares
Footsteps in the Dark: Short Stories (2020) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares
The Fireside Book of Ghost Stories (1947) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
Forgotten Tales of Terror (1978) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
The Sixteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1980) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
The Zaffre Book of Occult Fiction (2023) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Northcote, Amyas
Data de nascimento
1864
Data de falecimento
1923
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
England
UK
Ocupações
Justice of the Peace in Buckinghamshire

Membros

Críticas

Uninspired if competent collection of classic style ghost stories and haunts. Mostly fun but forgettable with only "Mr. Oliver Carmichael" rising above average. Typical Yule Log yarns.

It appears that almost every middle class English speaking person between 1850 and 1940 must have tried to write a dozen Jamesian ghost stories.
 
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Gumbywan | 4 outras críticas | Jun 24, 2022 |
In Ghostly Company is an entertaining collection of thirteen supernatural stories by Amyas Northcote published in 1921, eighteen months prior to his death. I found many of these eerie atmospheric tales to be among the best British ghost stories of the era. Highlights include: (1) Alice espies an old-fashioned house at the bottom of a narrow glen, but her sister Maggie is unable to see it; Alice later returns to the spot alone and then disappears in "Brickett Bottom"; (2) A business dispute results in animosity, revenge, and a surprise ending in "Mr Kershaw and Mr Wilcox", though sharp-eyed readers will spot Northcote's tell-tale clues that foretell the final twist; (3) A girl becomes oddly attracted to the woods, and then she learns of its dual nature in "In the Woods"; (4) The diary of a man who died under peculiar circumstances reveals a bizarre haunting in "Mr Mortimer's Diary" and (5) Strange footsteps, heard at precisely the same time each night, ultimately reveal a dreadful family secret in "The Governess's Story".… (mais)
½
 
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ghr4 | 4 outras críticas | Jan 13, 2019 |
Originally published in 1921, this is a pleasingly varied collection of supernatural tales, not all having to do with ghosts. Having read so many of this type of story, it is difficult to impress me with a new sensation or create a shudder. But while I didn't get chill bumps reading this book, I was reasonably well entertained. The best stories here are the ones that require no explanation at the end, such as "Mr. Oliver Carmichael", where a man encounters an unsettling woman who begins to affect his dreams, and "Mr. Kershaw and Mr. Wilcox" involving a business relationship gone bad. Both of these stories are a bit out of the ordinary compared to the more typical stories that make up the rest of the book. Fans of supernatural tales of this period will, I suspect, enjoy this book quite a bit. While not a classic, it has that reassuring tone of proper early 20th Century English writing that transports the reader quite effectively to a different time and place.… (mais)
½
 
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datrappert | 4 outras críticas | Jan 5, 2014 |
Some very well done ghost stories (13 in all), written in a very matter-of-fact way, with several not having a full resolution of matters -- leaving matters nicely to the imagination. I particularly enjoyed "In the Woods" where a lonely teenage girl becomes closer and closer to the seemingly non-sentient woods, until she begins to break through into their world (or they into hers) -- the author repeats the phrase "The woods enthralled her" at key points in the story, with the sense of 'enthalled' shifting subtly as the story goes on. She finally hears entrancing piping coming through the forest towards her, and the trees and landscape moving -- only in her peripheral vision -- to envelop her, and...well, I'll leave you read the story.… (mais)
 
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Georges_T._Dodds | 4 outras críticas | Mar 30, 2013 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
5
Also by
11
Membros
80
Popularidade
#224,854
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
5
ISBN
5
Línguas
1

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