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Hugh Walpole

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Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among those who encouraged him were the authors Henry James and Arnold Bennett. His skill at scene-setting and vivid plots, as well as his high profile as a lecturer, brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s but has been largely neglected since his death.

Books

Something Wicked: 560+ Horror Classics, Macabre Tales & Supernatural Mysteries
Something Wicked: 560+ Horror Classics, Macabre Tales & Supernatural Mysteries
Charles Dickens, Robert E. Howard, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Charlotte Brontë, Jack London, Henry James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, H. G. Wells, Lafcadio Hearn, H. P. Lovecraft, Daniel Defoe, E. F. Benson, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oscar Wilde, Francis Marion Crawford, Mary Shelley, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Bram Stoker, Anatole France, W. W. Jacobs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Buchan, Thomas De Quincey, Elizabeth Gaskell, Fiona Macleod, Adelbert von Chamisso, Arthur Machen, William Hope Hodgson, Robert W. Chambers, Jerome K. Jerome, Nikolai Gogol, Ambrose Bierce, Frederick Marryat, Louis Tracy, M. P. Shiel, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, M. R. James, Jane Austen, Edith Nesbit, Emily Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Louisa M. Alcott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Horace Walpole, Washington Irving, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Meade Falkner, Pliny the Younger, Andrew Jackson Davis, Saki, John Kendrick Bangs, Edward Bellamy, Cleveland Moffett, David Lindsay, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Florence Marryat, Hugh Walpole, James Malcolm Rymer, Fergus Hume, Leonid Andreyev, Helena Blavatsky, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Amelia B. Edwards, Grant Allen, Théophile Gautier, Richard Marsh, Fitz-James O'Brien, Catherine Crowe, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Pedro De Alarçon, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Sabine Baring-Gould, Thomas Peckett Prest, Wilhelm Hauff, William F. Harvey, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, William Archer, Katherine Rickford, Ralph Adams Cram, Leopold Kompert, Vincent O'Sullivan, Brander Matthews, Ellis Parker Butler, A. T. Quiller-Couch, William T. Stead, Nizida, Walter F. Prince, Gambier Bolton, Chester Bailey Fernando, Frank R. Stockton, Bithia Mary Croker, Leonard Kip, Catherine L. Pirkis, Richard Le Gallienne, William Thomas Beckford, Ann Radcliffe, Walter Hubbell, George W. M. Reynolds, William Polidori, H. H. Munro
The Horror Beyond Life's Edge: 560+ Macabre Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Dark Tales
The Horror Beyond Life's Edge: 560+ Macabre Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Dark Tales
Charles Dickens, Robert E. Howard, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Charlotte Brontë, Jack London, Henry James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, H. G. Wells, Lafcadio Hearn, H. P. Lovecraft, Daniel Defoe, E. F. Benson, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oscar Wilde, Francis Marion Crawford, Mary Shelley, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Bram Stoker, Anatole France, W. W. Jacobs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Buchan, Thomas De Quincey, Elizabeth Gaskell, Fiona Macleod, Adelbert von Chamisso, Arthur Machen, William Hope Hodgson, Robert W. Chambers, Jerome K. Jerome, Nikolai Gogol, Ambrose Bierce, Frederick Marryat, Louis Tracy, M. P. Shiel, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, M. R. James, Jane Austen, Edith Nesbit, Emily Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Louisa M. Alcott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Horace Walpole, Washington Irving, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Meade Falkner, Pliny the Younger, Andrew Jackson Davis, John Kendrick Bangs, Edward Bellamy, Cleveland Moffett, David Lindsay, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Florence Marryat, Hugh Walpole, James Malcolm Rymer, Fergus Hume, Leonid Andreyev, Helena Blavatsky, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Amelia B. Edwards, Grant Allen, Théophile Gautier, Richard Marsh, Fitz-James O'Brien, Catherine Crowe, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Pedro De Alarçon, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Sabine Baring-Gould, Thomas Peckett Prest, H. H. Munro (Saki), Wilhelm Hauff, William F. Harvey, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, William Archer, Katherine Rickford, Ralph Adams Cram, Leopold Kompert, Vincent O'Sullivan, Brander Matthews, Ellis Parker Butler, A. T. Quiller-Couch, William T. Stead, Nizida, Walter F. Prince, Gambier Bolton, Chester Bailey Fernando, Frank R. Stockton, Bithia Mary Croker, Leonard Kip, Catherine L. Pirkis, Richard Le Gallienne, William Thomas Beckford, Ann Radcliffe, John William Polidori, Walter Hubbell, George W. M. Reynolds
SINISTER OMENS: 560+ Supernatural Thrillers, Macabre Tales & Eerie Mysteries
SINISTER OMENS: 560+ Supernatural Thrillers, Macabre Tales & Eerie Mysteries
Charles Dickens, Robert E. Howard, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Charlotte Brontë, Jack London, Henry James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, H. G. Wells, Lafcadio Hearn, H. P. Lovecraft, Daniel Defoe, E. F. Benson, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oscar Wilde, Francis Marion Crawford, Mary Shelley, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Bram Stoker, Anatole France, W. W. Jacobs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Buchan, Thomas De Quincey, Elizabeth Gaskell, Fiona Macleod, Adelbert von Chamisso, Arthur Machen, William Hope Hodgson, Robert W. Chambers, Jerome K. Jerome, Nikolai Gogol, Ambrose Bierce, Frederick Marryat, Louis Tracy, M. P. Shiel, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, M. R. James, Jane Austen, Edith Nesbit, Emily Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Louisa M. Alcott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Horace Walpole, Washington Irving, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Meade Falkner, Pliny the Younger, Andrew Jackson Davis, Saki, John Kendrick Bangs, Edward Bellamy, Cleveland Moffett, David Lindsay, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Florence Marryat, Hugh Walpole, Fitz James O'Brien, James Malcolm Rymer, Fergus Hume, Leonid Andreyev, Helena Blavatsky, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Amelia B. Edwards, Grant Allen, Théophile Gautier, Richard Marsh, Catherine Crowe, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Pedro De Alarçon, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Thomas Peckett Prest, Wilhelm Hauff, William F. Harvey, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, William Archer, Katherine Rickford, Ralph Adams Cram, Leopold Kompert, Vincent O'Sullivan, Brander Matthews, Ellis Parker Butler, A. T. Quiller-Couch, William T. Stead, Nizida, Walter F. Prince, Gambier Bolton, Chester Bailey Fernando, Frank R. Stockton, Bithia Mary Croker, Leonard Kip, Catherine L. Pirkis, Richard Le Gallienne, William Thomas Beckford, Ann Radcliffe, Walter Hubbell, George W. M. Reynolds, William Polidori, Sabine Baring Gould
The Power of Darkness: 560+ Supernatural Thrillers, Macabre Tales & Eerie Mysteries
The Power of Darkness: 560+ Supernatural Thrillers, Macabre Tales & Eerie Mysteries
Charles Dickens, Robert E. Howard, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Charlotte Brontë, Jack London, Henry James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, H. G. Wells, Lafcadio Hearn, H. P. Lovecraft, Daniel Defoe, E. F. Benson, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oscar Wilde, Francis Marion Crawford, Mary Shelley, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Bram Stoker, Anatole France, W. W. Jacobs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Buchan, Thomas De Quincey, Elizabeth Gaskell, Fiona Macleod, Adelbert von Chamisso, Arthur Machen, William Hope Hodgson, Robert W. Chambers, Jerome K. Jerome, Nikolai Gogol, Ambrose Bierce, Frederick Marryat, Louis Tracy, M. P. Shiel, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, M. R. James, Jane Austen, Edith Nesbit, Emily Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Louisa M. Alcott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Horace Walpole, Washington Irving, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Meade Falkner, Pliny the Younger, Andrew Jackson Davis, John Kendrick Bangs, Edward Bellamy, Cleveland Moffett, David Lindsay, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Florence Marryat, Hugh Walpole, James Malcolm Rymer, Fergus Hume, Leonid Andreyev, Helena Blavatsky, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Amelia B. Edwards, Grant Allen, Théophile Gautier, Richard Marsh, Fitz-James O'Brien, Catherine Crowe, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Pedro De Alarçon, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Sabine Baring-Gould, Thomas Peckett Prest, H. H. Munro (Saki), Wilhelm Hauff, William F. Harvey, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, William Archer, Katherine Rickford, Ralph Adams Cram, Leopold Kompert, Vincent O'Sullivan, Brander Matthews, Ellis Parker Butler, A. T. Quiller-Couch, William T. Stead, Nizida, Walter F. Prince, Gambier Bolton, Chester Bailey Fernando, Frank R. Stockton, Bithia Mary Croker, Leonard Kip, Catherine L. Pirkis, Richard Le Gallienne, William Thomas Beckford, Ann Radcliffe, John William Polidori, Walter Hubbell, George W. M. Reynolds
Beware The Silence
Beware The Silence
Charles Dickens, Robert E. Howard, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Charlotte Brontë, Jack London, Henry James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, H. G. Wells, Lafcadio Hearn, H. P. Lovecraft, Daniel Defoe, E. F. Benson, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oscar Wilde, Francis Marion Crawford, Mary Shelley, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Bram Stoker, Anatole France, W. W. Jacobs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Buchan, Thomas De Quincey, Elizabeth Gaskell, Fiona Macleod, Adelbert von Chamisso, Arthur Machen, William Hope Hodgson, Robert W. Chambers, Jerome K. Jerome, Nikolai Gogol, Ambrose Bierce, Frederick Marryat, Louis Tracy, M. P. Shiel, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, M. R. James, Jane Austen, Edith Nesbit, Emily Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Louisa M. Alcott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Horace Walpole, Washington Irving, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Meade Falkner, Pliny the Younger, Andrew Jackson Davis, John Kendrick Bangs, Edward Bellamy, Cleveland Moffett, David Lindsay, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Florence Marryat, Hugh Walpole, James Malcolm Rymer, Fergus Hume, Leonid Andreyev, Helena Blavatsky, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Amelia B. Edwards, Grant Allen, Théophile Gautier, Richard Marsh, Fitz-James O'Brien, Catherine Crowe, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Pedro De Alarçon, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Sabine Baring-Gould, Thomas Peckett Prest, H. H. Munro (Saki), Wilhelm Hauff, William F. Harvey, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, William Archer, Katherine Rickford, Ralph Adams Cram, Leopold Kompert, Vincent O'Sullivan, Brander Matthews, Ellis Parker Butler, A. T. Quiller-Couch, William T. Stead, Nizida, Walter F. Prince, Gambier Bolton, Chester Bailey Fernando, Frank R. Stockton, Bithia Mary Croker, Leonard Kip, Catherine L. Pirkis, Richard Le Gallienne, William Thomas Beckford, Ann Radcliffe, John William Polidori, Walter Hubbell, George W. M. Reynolds