Dinah Maria Mulock enjoyed a highly successful and diverse writing career and is perhaps best known today for her novel *John Halifax, Gentleman* (1857). A prolific author of fiction, essays and poetry, Mulock contributed many items, including supernatural material, to the popular magazines of the mid-Victorian period. Her short stories were subsequently collected in a variety of works. Following her marriage in 1864, her work was attributed to 'Mrs Craik'. -- from *Shadows in the Attic: A Guide to British Supernatural Fiction 1820-1950*, Neil Wilson (2000)