Walnut-Tree House, by Charlotte Riddell

Walnut-Tree House

by Charlotte Riddell

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Edgar Stainton returns to his native England, having made his fortune in the colonies, to take possession of Walnut-Tree House, an abandoned mansion inherited from a cousin who died in an asylum. What had driven his relative out of his wits, and can he solve the mystery which surrounds the old house, driving tenants away and causing local tradespeople to refuse to visit?

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released October 30, 2022

Read by Simon Stanhope.

Charlotte Riddell (1832–1906), often credited as "Mrs. J. H. Riddell", was born Charlotte Eliza Lawson Cowan in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland. She moved to London in 1855 and married Joseph Hadley Riddell, a civil engineer, two years later. She apparently turned to writing to make a living after her husband lost all his money, early in their marriage. In all she wrote 56 novels and short stories, of which several had a supernatural theme. Her best remembered shorter ghost stories include 'A Strange Christmas Game' and 'The Open Door'. She was also the co-proprietor and editor of the periodicals 'Home' and 'St. James's Magazine' in the 1860s and 70s. Her husband died in 1880; there were no children from their marriage, and from 1886 she "retired in seclusion" to Upper Halliford, Middlesex, until her death in September 1906.

'Walnut-Tree House' first appeared in The Illustrated London News on 28 December 1878. It was subsequently republished in book form as part of 'Weird Stories', a collection of Charlotte Riddell's shorter fiction, in 1882.