1893. With frontispiece. F. Marion Crawford was one of the more famous authors in the English-speaking world at the time of his death in 1909. He wrote over forty novels, most of which were in the style of disposable romances popular at the time. He also wrote stories of the horror and occult, which are generally the ones for which he is remembered today. Katherine Lauderdale begins: I prefer the dark style, myself-like my cousin, said John Ralston, thoughtfully. And you will therefore naturally marry a fair woman, answered his companion, Hamilton Bright, stopping to look at the display in a florist's window. Ralston stood still beside him. Queer things-orchids, he observed. Why? Nothing in the world seemed queer or unnatural to Bright, who was normally constituted in all respects, and had accepted the universe without comment. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.