Marjorie Bowen was born Margaret Gabrielle Vere Campbell Long in 1885, on Hayling Island, Hampshire. She would go on to write over 150 books, primarily historical fiction, but also mystery novels, horror stories, biographies and nonfiction. Bowen passed away in 1952, at the age of 67.
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The British publishing firm Sphere Books had a really wonderful thing going for itself back in the 1970s: a series of 45 books, both fiction and nonfiction, curated by the hugely popular English supernatural novelist Dennis Wheatley, and titled Dennis Wheatley’s Library of the Occult. This reader had already experienced seven of these novels in the natural order of things, in other editions – titles such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897),
Sandy Ferber´s rating: 5 | Marjorie Bowen | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 6 comments |
The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories by Marjorie Bowen
At the tail end of my recent review of D. K. Broster’s Couching at the Door, I mentioned that I so enjoyed this volume of creepy stories that I was minded to immediately begin another book from British publisher Wordsworth Editions’ Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural division … and I’m so glad that I followed through on that! My latest discovery from this wide-ranging series is Marjorie Bowen’s The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories,
Sandy Ferber´s rating: 4 | Marjorie Bowen | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
COMMENT Book #3 of this trilogy is very much a heist story, and I quite enjoyed it!
Pirate stories and heist stories... Do we ever get enough of them?
Very interesting, Ulrich! Thanks for clueing me in!
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