Charlotte Eliza Riddell

Charlotte Eliza Riddell (aka "Mrs. Riddell", "F. G. Trafford") was a Victorian supernatural writer, born in Belfast in 1832.

Names

• Charlotte Cowan (birth name)
• Mrs. J. H. Riddell (married name)
• R. H. Riddell
• Mrs. Riddell
• F. G. Trafford

Bibliography

• sourced from wikipedia 2010/11/28:

Her publications included:

Novels

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Cover of the Uninhabited House

• The Haunted House at Latchford (aka Fairy Water) (1872)
• The Uninhabited House (1875)
• The Haunted River (1877)
• The Disappearance of Jeremiah Redworth (1878)
• The Nun's Curse (1888)
• Maxwell Drewitt (1879)
• The Earl’s Promise (1873)

Collections

• Frank Sinclair's Wife: And Other Stories (1874)
• Weird Stories (1882)
• Idle Tales (1887)
• Princess Sunshine: And Other Stories (1889)
• Handsome Phil: And Other Stories (1899)
• The Collected Ghost Stories of Mrs J H Riddell (1977)

Anthologies containing stories by Mrs J H Riddell

• The 7th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1971)
• Victorian Tales of Terror (1972)
• The Penguin Book of Classic Fantasy by Women (1977)
• Gaslit Nightmares (1988)
• 100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories (1992)
• The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000)

Short stories

• Banshee's Warning (1867)
• A Strange Christmas Game (1868)
• Forewarned, Forearmed (1874)
• Hertford O'Donnell's Warning (1874)
• Nut Bush Farm (1882)
• The Old House in Vauxhall Walk (1882)
• Old Mrs Jones (1882)
• The Open Door (1882)
• Sandy the Tinker (1882)
• Walnut-Tree House (1882)
• The Last of Squire Ennismore (1888)
• A Terrible Vengeance (1889)
• Why Dr Cray Left Southam (1889)
• Conn Kilrea (1899)
• The Rusty Sword (1893)
• Diarmid Chittock's Story (1899)
• Handsome Phil (1899)

Further reading

• wikipedia
• http://www.charlotteriddell.co.uk/
• Charlotte Riddell at The Literary Gothic

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