The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories

by Marjorie Bowen

Book Overview

The Bishop of Hell & Other Stories is a work of mystery and the supernatural. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840225378
• ISBN13: 9781840225372
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Words of an angry woman

The book's rear cover tells us that Marjorie Bowen "spent the early part of her working life providing for a demanding and ungrateful family." An examination of her writing appears to demonstrate just how much that experience embittered her. The stories are well-enough written, and demonstrate a deft touch with the sort of non-explicit horror that marks the period. In ones or twos, the stories are excellent. However, I don't suggest sitting down with the intention of reading the book cover-to-cover, as the effect would prove painful. Each of the stories leads to some unfortunate conclusion, a little reminder of the pain of human interaction or existence itself. The innocent and the guilty alike come to bad ends, as a human or cosmic malice seems designed to overtake all. A Freudian might feast on the clues to unhappiness found in Bowen's short stories; the rest of us might just note that heavy current of bitterness that pervades them.