num_pages: 207
description: The bestselling Irish author B. M. Croker enjoyed a highly successful literary career from 1880 until her death forty years later. Her novels were witty and fast moving set mostly in India and her native Ireland. Titles such as Proper Pride (1882) and Diana Barrington (1888) found popularity for their mix of romantic drama and Anglo-Indian military life. And like many late-Victorian authors Croker also wrote ghost stories for magazines and Christmas annuals. From the colonial nightmares such as The Dak Bungalow at Dakor and The North Verandah to the more familiar streets of haunted London in Number Ninety this collection showcases fifteen of B. M. Crokers most effective supernatural tales.ContentsIntroduction by Richard DalbyNumber NinetyThe Former PassengersIf You See Her FaceThe KhitmatgarHer Last WishesThe Dak Bungalow at DakorTo LetThe North VerandahThe First ComerTrooper Thompsons InformationWho Knew the Truth?La CarcassoneMrs. Ponsonbys DreamThe Door AjarMrs. CrokerHindi and Urdu GlossaryAcknowledgementsB. M. Croker was born in Co. Roscommon in 1849. She married John Stokes Croker an officer in the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1870 and accompanied him to India there commencing a long literary career. Authoring some fifty-two books her novel The Road to Mandalay was filmed in 1926. Mrs. Croker died at a nursing home in London after a short and sudden illness on 20 October 1920.
language: English
title: Number Ninety & Other Ghost Stories
publisher: Swan River Press