Either way, the ending wasn't my fave, but the story is otherwise pretty enjoyable. This is just wild speculation, but I remember reading something about this story being seen as "too gruesome" for a journal to publish, and I wonder if the ending might have been toned down at some point before it was eventually published? Nothing seems especially gruesome about the story to me, although it could just be the difference between a 2020s and an 1890s perspective. It didn't quite feel like it went with the rest of what the author had built. I get what it was going for, but to me the final sentence sort of bashed my suspension of disbelief in the kneecaps on the way out. That said, I did find the ending abrupt and kind of unsatisfying, more of a "what?" than anything. It's a deeply unsettling stretch of water, and it works incredibly well at the center of a spooky story. I find the real-life Strid absolutely fascinating and terrifying, and knowing a bit of background on it definitely ups the fear factor of this story for me. To stand propped against a sod fence while his host’s workmen routed up the birds with long poles and drove them towards the waiting guns, made him feel himself a parody on the ancestors who had roamed the moors and forests. What I liked most, though, is that this story centers around the Strid. GERTRUDE ATHERTON (1857 1948 ) The Striding Place Weigall, continental and detached, tired early of grouse-shooting. (#64341).I like the atmosphere and the build-up, the little details of the characters' backgrounds and relationship, and the particular style of queer subtext that tends to pop up in literature from this time period. Binding slightly leaned, light rubbing to cloth at head and tail of spine panel and corner tips, lacks front free endpaper, else a very good, sound, externally bright copy. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 101. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. "Excellent stories." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 63. Includes "The Striding Place," her most famous horror story.
This collection of ten stories, including some of Atherton's best supernatural tales, is dedicated to "the master," Henry James. 3-300, inserted frontispiece (photographic portrait of the author), title page printed in orange and black, original dark blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind.
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