It features something called 'The Strid.' That is a reference to a water feature on the River Wharfe in Yorkshire, England.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd ISBN: 9781840225402 Weight: 116 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 9 mm Edition: New edition You may also be interested in. The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton This story requires a bit of background and introduction. Is she a reincarnation of her ancestor? And will she turn out as unangelic in adulthood as that distant ancestor turned out before her? And in 'The Bell in the Fog' (reminiscent of 'The Turn of the Screw', and dedicated to Henry James) the supernatural and psychological combine to brilliant effect: an angelic child bears a striking resemblance to an old portrait. The Striding Place - Gertrude Atherton - YouTube A man disappears is he lost, or hiding His friend goes out looking for him, and finds something terrifying. Striding Place' for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Fantastic Tales. The Striding Place is set in a real place on the River Wharfe. Elsewhere, ('The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number', 'The Tragedy of a Snob', and 'A Monarch of a Small Survey') the psychological takes precedence over the supernatural. 'The Striding Place' was rejected by one editor as 'far too gruesome', but was in Atherton's view 'the best short story I ever wrote'.
She eloped at the age of nineteen, took up writing against her husband's wishes, and after his death became a protegee of Ambrose Bierce, whose influence can be seen here in those stories, 'The Dead and the Countess', 'Death and the Woman' and 'The Striding Place', which have an overtly supernatural element. Gertrude Atherton was born in San Francisco in 1857, and died in 1948.
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