Haunted Houses
Two Novels from Charlotte Riddell
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Haunted Houses
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David Thorpe
From the once-popular yet unfairly neglected Victorian writer Charlotte Riddell comes a pair of novels that cleverly upholster the familiar furniture of the haunted house story.
In An Uninhabited House, the hauntings are seen through the perspective of the solicitors who hold the deed of the property. Here we find a shrewd comedic skewering of this host of scriveners and clerks, as slowly the safer world of commerce and law gives way and an encounter with the supernatural becomes more and more unavoidable.
In Fairy Water, Riddell again subverts the expectations of the audience, suggesting a complex moral character for her haunting spirit. Her writing style is succinct and witty, rendering the story spirited and approachable despite its age.
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