The final volume of the collected strange fiction of a literary master Sir Hugh Walpole was one of the most popular and prolific British authors of the first half of the 20th century. After the publication of his first novel, The Wooden Horse, in 1909 he produced one significant work each year including the acclaimed Herries series. Born in New Zealand in 1884, the son of an Anglican clergyman, Walpole was committed to becoming a writer and encouraged in his ambition by Henry James and Arnold Bennett. A. C. Benson was also a mentor and early influence upon his writing. Despite his acknowledged talent as a storyteller, Walpoles work has been largely ignored since his death in 1941, in part because he was savagely lampooned by Somerset Maughams fictional characterisation of him in Cakes Ale. Walpole, in keeping with many of his contemporaries, wrote in several genres of fiction and among his thirtysix novels, five volumes of short stories and two plays are historical, juvenile and even detective stories. His associations with A. C. Benson, Henry James, H. G. Wells and the fact that Horace Walpole (author of the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto) and Richard Harris Barham (author of the Ingoldsby Legends) were both among his ancestors surely stimulated his taste for gothic and macabre fiction. In fact, during the 1930s Walpole edited two well received anthologies of creepy stories in which some of his own material appeared. His own literary excursions into the world...

Binding: Paperback;344 pages; Publisher: Oakpast; Classification: N/A; Weight: 558.62 g; Dimensions: N/A

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