Those Who Remain by Eileen Tremayne (1942)

Shuttling between London and the secluded village of ‘Eldbury’ in the early part of the Second World War, this novel concerns the plight of a single family as they retreat to the relative safety of the countryside, while outside events develop and gradually begin to impinge on their lives. References to the previous war, together … Continue reading →

The Return (1945 revised edition) by Walter de la Mare

Book Review by Sylvia D: Walter de la Mare is probably best known as a writer of children’s stories and for his poem, The Listeners, but he also published a number of psychological horror stories. One of these, The Return, was first published in 1910 and then revised in 1922. The slim edition I read … Continue reading →

Still She Wished for Company (1924), by Margaret Irwin

Still She Wished for Company is a timeslip story – a true one, the author suggests – about a psychic connection between two women living a hundred years apart.  There is independent Jan, perhaps in her mid-20s and living in 1920s London; and innocent Juliana, in her late teens and living with her family in … Continue reading →

The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle (1942)

This novel was initially published as Uneasy Freehold. In 1944 it was made into a film titled The Uninvited and starring Ray Milland. At the beginning of the novel Roddy Fitzgerald and his sister, Pamela, tired of London life, are driving through Devon looking for a house to buy. They come upon Cliff End by … Continue reading →

The Land of Mist (1926) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Land of Mist picks up some of the characters who discovered an island full of prehistoric creatures in Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, and sets them exploring the even stranger world of ghosts and spirits.