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The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Hugh Walpole-Volume 1: One Novel 'The Old Ladies' and Fifteen Short Stories of the Strange and Unusual

Name: The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Hugh Walpole-Volume 1: One Novel 'The Old Ladies' and Fifteen Short Stories of the Strange and Unusual
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SKU: 9781782827030
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Contributors:

Hugh Walpole

Publisher:

Leonaur Ltd

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Fiction

Book Subcategory:

Ghost, Fantasy, Horror

Book Topic:

Paranormal

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Release Date:

06/11/18

ISBN 13:

9781782827030

Weight:

0.95 lbs

Size:

8.50 x 5.50 x 0.76 inches

Pages:

340

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The first volume of the works of a literary master of strange fiction

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, Walpole's work has been largely ignored since his death in 1941, in part because he was savagely lampooned by Somerset Maugham's fictional characterisation of him in 'Cakes & Ale'. Walpole, in keeping with many of his contemporaries, wrote in several genres of fiction and among his thirty-six 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 of the ghostly and bizarre, which remain highly regarded by aficionados of supernatural fiction, include several novels and a substantial number of short stories all of which are included in this three volume Leonaur collected edition.

Included in this first volume are the novel 'The Old Ladies' and fifteen short stories of the strange and unusual including 'The White Cat', 'Lizzie Rand', 'Mrs. Porter and Miss Allen', 'The Tiger' and 'The Twisted Inn'.

Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.