The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Hugh Walpole-Volume 2: One Novel `the Killer and the Slain` and Thirteen Short Stories of the Strange 9781782827672

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Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Hugh Walpole-Volume 2: One Novel `the Killer and the Slain` and Thirteen Short Stories of the Strange
ISBN: 9781782827672
Издательство: Leonaur Ltd
Классификация:

Художественная литература о приведениях и ужасах

Сказочная художественная литература, фэнтези

ISBN-10: 1782827676
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 336
Вес: 0.43 кг.
Дата издания: 11.06.2018
Язык: English
Размер: 216 x 140 x 19
Поставляется из: США
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The second volume of Hugh Walpoles collected 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, 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 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 second volume are the novel The Killer and the Slain and thirteen short stories of the strange and unusual including Seashore Macabre. A Moments Experience, The Staircase, Miss Morganhurst, The Snow and The Faithful Servant.

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

The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Hugh Walpole-Volume 2: One Novel `the Killer and the Slain` and Thirteen Short Stories of the Strange, Walpole Hugh