Publisher's Synopsis
Collected Twilight Stories is a compilation of sixteen of Marjorie Bowen's supernatural horror stories. "She is a painstaking researcher, a superb writer, a careful technician, and a master of horror. There is no one else quite like her. Contents: Scoured Silk; The Breakdown; One Remained Behind - A Romance a la Mode Gothique; The House By The Poppy Field; Half-Past Two; Elsie's Lonely Afternoon; The Extraordinary Adventure of Mr John Proudie; Ann Mellor's Lover; Dark Ann; Decay; Giuditta's Wedding Night; A Stranger Knocked; They Found My Grave; Brent's Folly; The Housekeeper (The Confession of Beau Sekforde); The Folding Doors.Marjorie Bowen (pseudonym of Mrs Gabrielle Margaret Vere Long nee Campbell) was a British author who wrote historical romances, supernatural horror stories, popular history and biography. Her books are much sought after by aficionados of gothic horror and received praise from critics. Graham Greene stated in his Paris Review interview in 1953, "I chose Marjorie Bowen [as a major influence] because as I have told you, I don't think that the books that one reads as an adult influence one as a writer...But books such as Marjorie Bowen's, read at a young age, do influence one considerably." Horror reviewer Robert Hadji described Bowen as "one of the great supernatural writers of this century."
