The Blue Room by Lettice Galbraith and read by Christopher Halton

“The Blue Room” by Lettice Galbraith was published in Macmillan’s Magazine, October 1897 (as an uncredited story later attributed to Lettice Galbraith).

At the Towers, a disused blue tapestry bedroom is whispered to be fatal to any woman who sleeps there. When a rational young guest insists on spending the night to debunk the “ghost,” she discovers that the room’s terror is less a wandering spirit than the deadly legacy of an old act of sorcery—one that only courage, love, and a hidden panel in the bed’s carved post can finally lay to rest.

This version is read by Chris Halton.

About the author:

Lettice Galbraith was a pseudonym for Lizzie Susan Gibson (1859–1932), a British writer associated mainly with Victorian and Edwardian supernatural fiction.
She was born on 27 January 1859 in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire. Her family was relatively well-off; she received private schooling (likely in Beverley) and, after her father’s death, lived on the income from the land and investments.

In the late 1880s, she moved with her mother to Reigate, Surrey, closer to London, which enabled her literary connections.

Under the name “L. Galbraith,” she published New Ghost Stories in 1893, a collection of supernatural tales that includes “In the Séance Room.” For some time, her identity was shrouded in mystery: she was called “one of the most mysterious figures in the history of supernatural literature,” as for decades, little was known about her true name and life. After her mother died in 1901, she reverted to using her real name (L. S. Gibson) and turned toward writing novels.

Her later novels include The Freemasons (1905), Burnt Spices (1906), Ships of Desire (1908), and The Oakum Pickers (1912).

She was socially active in her later years: living in Downe (Kent area) with her brother, she helped found local welfare and social organisations (e.g. Women’s Institute, infant welfare). She never married. After a short illness, she died on 8 July 1932 at The Vicarage, Downe, and was buried in St Mary’s Church there.

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