Brian Stableford

Brian Stableford discussed this book in Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, 1986 (the only text by a woman that he considered). He judged that it influenced Aldous Huxley 's far more famous Brave New...

Critic Brian Stableford , while conceding that [p]recedents exist for all the tales here, judged that they still constitute a remarkable compendium, exhibiting considerable sensitivity to the methods and concerns which were to remain central...

Critic Brian Stableford has called for an eclectic collection of her best supernatural short stories—which could dip into Strange Caravan and Cardboard Castle. This, he has argued, is long overdue.

Stableford compares these stories to those by Jack Mann and Algernon Blackwood , and while he judges ML 's work to be less effective and less informed about metaphysics than theirs, he finds her book engaging.

Stableford finds the stories in this second volume as conscientiously long-winded as their predecessors but not as versatile. However, he reads the stories in both volumes as indicative of ML 's maturing as a writer...

ML 's work has suffered the critical neglect that overtakes much popular writing. Her Spiritualist beliefs also generated critical scepticism, particularly since the medium, a central element in her Spiritualist novels, is so often seen...

This volume unfolds within the stories-as-told-to framing device. The detective Miles Pennoyer relates his adventures in investigating strange phenomena to Latimer, a professional writer. Pennoyer's endeavour is to quell supernatural disturbances by healing the experiential...