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Bricket Bottom
Amyas Northcote’s Bricket Bottom is a strange and disturbing tale from the golden age of ghost stories. His style produces unnerving chills rather than shocks. The tales of Amyas Northcote make the reader uneasy and unsettled
- GenresShort StoriesHorror
12 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 12, 2014
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February 26, 2020
This is an extremely uncanny tale set in the country side. Rev Arthur Maydew and his two daughters Alice and Maggie spend their summer holiday in Overbury. Alice detects a mysterious old-fashioned brick house in the glen Bricket Bottom. Colonel Paxton and his wife seem to be very friendly. After some more visits they invite her in for tea. Since then Alice wasn't heard of. What about this mysterious Col. Paxton and his wife? There are only rumours, local lore and few facts. Great tale with a sinister atmosphere. A real creeper. Absolutely recommended!
November 29, 2017
This story was a major creeper.
March 27, 2023
The reader of strange stories in this day and age doesn't know how good they have it. There are enough classics in print that we can go a lifetime and never need to read a living writer. (James, Machen, and Blackwood each wrote at least a dozen masterpieces. So did Poe and Bierce.)
Of course not all dead writers in the genre are classic. Amyas Northcote is a good example. Most of the stories in his lone collection, In Ghostly Company, are pretty basic nurses' or travelers' tales; Matt Cowan does an outstanding job exploring them here.
But there are two outstanding exceptions which shine out as exceptional in Northcote's collection, "Brickett Bottom" and "The Late Mrs. Fowke".
"Brickett Bottom" is the story of a young lady's disappearance. All anyone knows is what she told them: that she found a house in Brickett Botton where a charming older couple live.
Full: http://jayrothermel.blogspot.com/2019...
Of course not all dead writers in the genre are classic. Amyas Northcote is a good example. Most of the stories in his lone collection, In Ghostly Company, are pretty basic nurses' or travelers' tales; Matt Cowan does an outstanding job exploring them here.
But there are two outstanding exceptions which shine out as exceptional in Northcote's collection, "Brickett Bottom" and "The Late Mrs. Fowke".
"Brickett Bottom" is the story of a young lady's disappearance. All anyone knows is what she told them: that she found a house in Brickett Botton where a charming older couple live.
Full: http://jayrothermel.blogspot.com/2019...
November 18, 2023
My entry from Otto Penzler's Big Book of Ghost Stories
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