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The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories

Gertrude Atherton

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Collection of short stories written by Gertrude Atherton
ace turned towards a projecting rock over which his arm had fallen, upholding the body. The hand that had held the branch hung limply over the rock, its white reflection visible in the black water. Weigall plunged into the shallow pool, lifted Gifford in his arms and returned to the bank. He laid the body down and threw off his coat that he might be the freer to practise the methods of resuscitation. He was glad of the moment's respite. The valiant life in the man might have been exhausted in that last struggle. He had not dared to look at his face, to put his ear to the heart. The hesitation lasted but a moment. There was no time to lose.

He turned to his prostrate friend. As he did so, something strange and disagreeable smote his senses. For a half-moment he did not appreciate its nature. Then his teeth clacked together, his feet, his outstretched arms pointed towards the woods. But he sprang to the side of the man and bent down and peered into his face. There was no face.


III

The Dead and the Countess

(Republished from the Smart Set)

I

t was an old cemetery, and they had been long dead. Those who died nowadays were put in the new burying-place on the hill, close to the Bois d'Amour and within sound of the bells that called the living to mass. But the little church where the mass was celebrated stood faithfully beside the older dead; a new church, indeed, had not been built in that forgotten corner of Finisterre for centuries, not since the calvary on its pile of stones had been raised in the tiny square, surrounded then, as now, perhaps, by gray naked cottages; not since the castle with its round tower, down on the river, had been erected for the Counts of Croisac. But the stone walls enclosing that ancient cemete

Warren 09/08/2021
You may associate names like Hugh Walpole, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Nathaniel Hawthorne with a unique kind of horror that has less to do with the supernatural than what is going on inside one's own head. San Francisco native Gertrude Atherton also needs to be added to that list.

Though not as w
Krystelle 10/26/2020
This book is a little obscure in its language, and puts itself across as a little untouchable as a result of the language that it uses. It's quite a shame, because sometimes simplest is best regarding horror- the innate fear from something plainly laid out can be rather impactful. I wish that there
Bill 04/18/2019

Gertrude Atherton--a protegee of Bierce--is a very good writer, and the three supernatural stories included in this collection of ten--"Death and the Countess," The Striding Place" and"The Bell in the Fog"--are fine examples of the genre.

"Death and the Countess" tells an atmospheric tale of an obsc
Rachel 07/21/2017
It was really just ok. Some of the stories were interesting but nothing shocking or terrifying more so looking inward and existential dread. I finished 90% of the stories with; 'That's it? Right...well that wasn't scary or strange just....stupid'.

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