James L. Campbell

CR 's shorter supernatural fiction was brought together in 1977 in The Collected Ghost Stories of Mrs. J.H. Riddell, edited by E. F. Bleiler . James L. Campbell writes that in general CR 's...

Writing of this book, which he considers the best of her longer ghost stories, James L. Campbell praises CR for resist[ing] the pressures to compromise the supernatural with the sentimental.

The title story considers, with an explicitness not common in CR 's work, issues around the cause of women's rights. Campbell singles out as a weaker story Forewarned, Forearmed, in which one of CR