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Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1857–1946) was a prominent and prolific American author of novels, short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers. Her horror stories are particularly popular. The Striding Place (1895) tells the story of a man who is searching for his best friend who’s gone missing. The search takes him to a dangerous waterfall in the forest called the Strid, from which many have fallen and drowned. There he discovers something most terrifying and surreal.
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About Gertrude Atherton
Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948) was an American writer whose novels and short stories are often compared to Henry James and Edith Wharton. Born in San Francisco, she eloped at the age of nineteen. Though her husband disapproved of her writing, she continued, and with his death in 1887, she pursued her writing career full time under the guidance of Ambrose Bierce. Considered one of the early feminists, she wrote sixty books and numerous short works.