Barbara Roden
Auteur de Northwest Passages
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Séries
Œuvres de Barbara Roden
The Case Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Blue Carbuncle (1999) — Directeur de publication — 8 exemplaires
Lady Stanhope's Manuscript and Other Supernatural Tales (1994) — Directeur de publication — 8 exemplaires
The Case Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Dying Detective (1998) — Directeur de publication — 7 exemplaires
Forgotten Ghosts: The Supernatural Anthologies of Hugh Lamb (1996) — Directeur de publication — 7 exemplaires
The Brink of Eternity 3 exemplaires
Flu Season 2 exemplaires
The Speckled Band 1 exemplaire
The Musgrave Ritual 1 exemplaire
The Case Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Musgrave Ritual [Taschenbuch] by Sir A... (1996) 1 exemplaire
The Hiding Place (in Strange Tales II - PARKER) 1 exemplaire
The Things That Shall Come Upon Them 1 exemplaire
Dead Man's Pears 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection (2006) — Contributeur — 236 exemplaires
The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales (1890) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 124 exemplaires
Willful Impropriety: 13 Tales of Society, Scandal, and Romance (2012) — Contributeur — 82 exemplaires
A Pleasing Terror: The Complete Supernatural Writings (2001) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 52 exemplaires
Reunion at Dawn and Other Uncollected Ghost Stories (2000) — Postface, quelques éditions — 15 exemplaires
Subterranean Magazine Summer 2010 — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
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- Date de naissance
- 1963
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Lieu de naissance
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 28
- Aussi par
- 37
- Membres
- 159
- Popularité
- #132,375
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 22
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 2
Varying in length from just a few pages to around thirty, the stories here cover everything from vampires to haunted houses, with nods to everyone from Algernon Blackwood to Peter Straub. In general, the stories centre around isolation, people or things being where they don't belong, and the futility of... humanity, I guess. So they definitely plug into the Blackwood/Machen tradition rather than your M.R James.
The chill-factor will vary between readers - though fans of oft-times violent and explicit contemporary horror will find little to please them here. The horror here is generally allusive and metaphorical.
In terms of originality, the collection is a bit of a mixed bag.I found the ant/arctic tales to be the most compelling. It's hard for me to as I'm a bit of a ghost story addict and have read several hundred myself, and the genre as a whole tends to cluster around sub-types. Suffice to say, I never felt there was anything blatantly derivative, though I did find myself comfortably slotting the bulk of the stories into one format or another within a page or so.
Prose-wise, Roden is confident and competent. There's nothing flashy or sublime here. She goes for a quiet, almost detached tone (this is not to say the characters do so). It's very well put together, but I think something with a slightly stronger flavour could have helped a few stories, and increased the originality.
For all that, Northwest Passages is a more than worthy addition to the genre - and I think several of the stories are likely to pop up in anthologies over the years, they are solid.… (plus d'informations)