Author

Gertrude Atherton

23 standalones · 23 works in the catalog

1857–1948 · San Francisco, California, USA

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton was an American writer. Many of her novels are set in her home state of California. Her bestselling novel Black Oxen (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name. In addition to novels, she wrote short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on such issues as feminism, politics, and war.

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horror
science fiction
gothic
literary & general
alternate history
historical fantasy

Works

Type

Genre

23 of 23 works

The Caves of Death1886short story
Death and the Woman1892short storyhorror
When the Devil Was Well1894short story
The Striding Place1896short storygothic
Talbot of Ursula1899short story
Crowned with One Crest1900short story
A Monarch of a Small Survey1901short story
The Dead and the Countess1902short storyhorror
The Bell in the Fog1903novelettehorror
A Prologue (To an Unwritten Play)1905short story
The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories1905collection
The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number1905short story
The Tragedy of a Snob1905short story
The White Morning: A Novel of the Power of the German Women in Wartime1917novelscience fiction
Black Oxen1923novelliterary & general
Dido, Queen of Hearts1929novelhistorical fantasy
The Foghorn (1933 short story)1933short story
The Eternal Now1934novella
The Foghorn (1934 collection)1934collection
The Sacrificial Altar1934novelette
A Tragedy2008short story
Miss Markham's Wedding Night2008short story
The Caves of Death and Other Stories2008collection