The Wind in the RoseBush, Mary Wilkins
The Wind in the RoseBush, Mary Wilkins
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The Wind in the Rose-Bush
And Other Supernatural Stories

Author: Mary Wilkins

Narrator: John Rayburn

Unabridged: 4 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/09/2024


Synopsis

Ford Village has no railroad station, being on the other side of the river from Porter’s Falls, and accessible only by the ford which gives it its name, and a ferry line.The ferry-boat was waiting when Rebecca Flint got off the train with her bag and lunch basket. When she and her small trunk were safely embarked she sat stiff and straight and calm in the ferry-boat as it shot swiftly and smoothly across stream. There was a horse attached to a light country wagon on board, and he pawed the deck uneasily. His owner stood near, with a wary eye upon him, although he was chewing, with as dully reflective an expression as a cow. Beside Rebecca sat a woman of about her own age, who kept looking at her with furtive curiosity; her husband, short and stout and saturnine, stood near her. Rebecca paid no attention to either of them. She was tall and spare and pale, the type of a spinster, yet with rudimentary lines and expressions of matronhood. She all unconsciously held her shawl, rolled up in a canvas bag, on her left hip, as if it had been a child. She wore a settled frown of dissent at life, but it was the frown of a mother who regarded life as a forward child, rather than as an overwhelming fate. Listen and enjoy.

About Mary Wilkins

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930) was an American author of stories, poems, and verse for children. Although she produced a dozen volumes of short stories and as many novels, Freeman is remembered chiefly for her first two collections of stories, A Humble Romance and Other Stories (1887) and A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891), and the novel Pembroke (1894). In April 1926, Freeman became the first recipient of the William Dean Howells Medal for Distinction in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

About John Rayburn

John Rayburn is a veteran broadcaster. He served as a news/sports anchor and show host, and his TV newscast achieved the largest Share of Audience figures of any major-market TV newscast in the nation. John is a member of a Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Oscar on February 01, 2021

Interesante antología de relatos de la estadounidense Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930). Como tantos otros escritores de la época, la obra de esta autora es sobre todo costumbrista, pero también le dedicó espacio al relato sobrenatural, aunque no estaba muy bien visto. Todos los relatos son de fan......more

Goodreads review by Julio on January 14, 2025

Aunque parezca difícil de creer para muchos, Biblioteca de Carfax ha demostrado que la representación femenina dentro del terror durante el siglo XIX y el siglo XX siempre ha sido alta, cuando no mayor que la masculina. En el mundo anglosajón la ghost story era una institución en sí misma, y no era......more

Goodreads review by Fátima on September 19, 2021

Se trata de una recopilación de seis relatos de corte clásico de fantasmas. Los relatos no dan miedo y tampoco sorprenden demasiado, pero la autora sabe crear con habilidad ese ambiente de tensión que va aumentando conforme avanzas en las historias, aunque algunas terminan abruptamente.  Me ha gustad......more

Goodreads review by Cathy on February 27, 2012

What distinguishes Freeman's ghost stories for me is that they're so psychologically acute. The byplay between characters, and what they are unwilling to come out and say, is really sharp and beautifully observed. She also knows how to make a story damn creepy!......more

Goodreads review by Sophia on December 10, 2021

Disfruté mucho estas historias de casas encantadas. Al final sí me provocan ese escalofríos de una buena historia de fantasmas.......more