Marjorie Bowen Archives - A Passion for Horror

“The House by the Poppy Field” is one of 12 stories included in Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales, published by

The Crown Derby Plate by Marjorie Bowen

It’s unclear when or where “The Crown Derby Plate” was first published. Some sources indicate the story may have been

Marjorie Bowen is one of several pen-names that were adopted by the writer Margaret Gabrielle Vere Campbell Long (1885 –