Ada Buisson

During her life, Buisson published one novel, Put to the Test (1865), published by John Maxwell.^[1] The remainder of her work, consisting of a second novel, A Terrible Wrong: A Novel (1867), published by T. C. Newby, and various short stories, were published shortly after her death. Various of her writings appeared in Belgravia, a magazine edited by her friend, the novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon,^[1] whom she met through Braddon's husband, Buisson's publisher John Maxwell. In this were posthumously published her six ghost stories: "My Aunt's Pearl Ring" (1867), "A Story Told in a Church" (1867), "The Ghost's Summons" (1868), "The Baron's Coffin" (1869), and "My Sister Caroline" (1870).^[6] Buisson's writings were later mistakenly ascribed to Braddon by Montague Summers, a scholar of Gothic literature.^[1] Summers's mistake, published in The Times Literary Supplement on 30 September 1944, was corrected by Buisson's nephew Frederick Buisson Evans (1874-1952) three weeks later.^[6][7]

Buisson's tale "The Ghost's Summons", published posthumously in Belgravia (January 1868),^[8] has been anthologised in collections of ghost stories.^[9][10][11] A collection of five of her ghost stories, originally printed in Belgravia, was published in 2022 as The Baron's Coffin and Other Disquieting Tales.^[12][13]

• "The Ghost's Summons" by Ada Buisson (1868). Archived 21 December 2020 at the Wayback Machine Christmas Ghost Stories: Part 2 – The Gothic Library.
• Works by Ada Buisson at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)