The Former Passengers | A Ghost Story by B. M. Croker | A Bitesized Audiobook
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The Former Passengers | A Ghost Story by B. M. Croker | A Bitesized Audiobook

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En route to his sister's wedding in Singapore, Lawrence has missed his boat and is obliged to beg passage on a cargo ship, The Wandering Star. It's unusually large and well-appointed for a cargo vessel, but it isn't until half way through the crossing that the 'Star's' sinister history is revealed...

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00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:58 The Story begins
00:26:03 Credits, thanks & further listening

Bithia Mary (or May) Croker (c.1848–1920), usually credited as B. M. Croker, is best remembered for her many novels and stories set in British India, as well as for bring a noted writer of ghost stories. She was born Bithia Mary Sheppard in Kilgefin, County Roscommon, Ireland, the daughter of clergyman and author the Rev. William Sheppard. She was educated in England and France and in her youth was a noted and skilled horsewoman. She married John Stokes Croker, an army officer, in 1871, and in 1877 moved with him to Madras, and later to Bengal. They lived in India for 14 years, during which time she began writing – apparently initially as something to keep her occupied, especially during the hot weather. Her first novel, 'Proper Pride', was written secretly and originally shared only with women friends, but she later rewrote it and had it published in England in 1882 under the gender-neutral initials B. M. Croker. Perhaps inevitably for the time, it was assumed to be written by a man, and was hugely successful.

Croker went on to write 42 novels and several collections of short stories, a large number of which were set in India (such as 'The Road to Mandalay') or in Ireland ('Terence'). Her ghost stories were also very popular with contemporary readers; probably her best-known contributions to the genres are 'Number Ninety', a classic haunted house story, and 'To Let' (1893), also set in India, which has appeared in a number of anthologies including the Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories. Upon her husband's retirement in 1892, the couple moved to County Wicklow in Ireland, and then later to England, where John Croker died in Kent in 1911. Bithia Croker died in London in October 1920, survived by her only child, Eileen.

'The Former Passengers' was first published in Croker's 1893 collection, 'To Let, and Other Ghost Stories'.

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