Contents
“Introduction” – Richard Dalby
“Number Ninety”
“The Former Passengers”
“If You See Her Face”
“The Khitmatgar”
“Her Last Wishes”
“The Dâk Bungalow at Dakor”
“To Let”
“The North Verandah”
“The First Comer”
“Trooper Thompson’s Information”
“Who Knew the Truth?”
“La Carcassone”
“Mrs. Ponsonby’s Dream”
“The Door Ajar”
“Mrs. Croker” – Helen C. Black
“Hindi and Urdu Glossary”
“Acknowledgements”
B. M. Croker
B. M. Croker was born in Co. Roscommon in 1849. She married John Stokes Croker, an officer in the Royal Scots Fusiliers, in 1870, and accompanied him to India, there commencing a long literary career. Authoring some fifty-two books, her novel The Road to Mandalay was filmed in 1926. Mrs. Croker died at a nursing home in London, after a short and sudden illness, on 20 October 1920.
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“[Croker’s] Indian stories evoke colonial life vividly and there is no imperial condescension towards the native characters who are treated with the same respect and sharpness of vision as her British ones . . . What makes them all readable are the well-observed characters and settings which, besides India, include Britain, Ireland, Australia, the South of France and the American Deep South.” – Reggie Oliver, Wormwood
“This is a solid collection of stories that deserve to be better known . . . they are all enjoyable ghostly tales, and ideal reading for the long winter nights.” – Supernatural Tales

“Number Ninety” & Other Ghost Stories by B. M. Croker. Cover art by Alan Corbett; jacket design by Meggan Kehrli; selected and introduced by Richard Dalby; edited by Brian J. Showers; copyedited by Jim Rockhill; typeset by Ken Mackenzie; published by Swan River Press.
Hardback: Published on 16 August 2019; limited to 300 copies of which 100 are embossed and hand numbered; xvi + 200 pages; lithographically printed on 80 gsm paper; dust jacketed; illustrated boards; sewn binding; head- and tail-bands; issued with one postcard; ISBN: 978-1-78380-028-5.
Paperback: Published on 3 October 2021; no limitation; print on demand paperback; ISBN: 978-1-78380-753-6.
