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A little-known late 19th-century writer, this author is remembered for a compact collection of eerie, suspenseful tales. Her best-known book blends hypnotism, mystery, and psychological tension in a way that still feels unexpectedly lively.
by Charlotte Rosalys Jones
Very little biographical information about this author is easy to confirm today, but surviving catalog records and digital editions show that she wrote The Hypnotic Experiment of Dr. Reeves, and Other Stories, published in 1894.
The collection appeared in London from Bliss, Sands and Foster, with a New York edition from Brentano's. As the title suggests, the stories lean toward sensation and psychological suspense, drawing on late-Victorian interest in hypnotism, medicine, and unusual states of mind.
Although she does not seem to be widely documented in modern reference sources, her work has lasted through preservation projects such as Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive. That survival gives modern listeners a chance to rediscover a writer who worked in the shadowy, curious borderland between gothic fiction and early psychological storytelling.