All Souls' Night (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by Hugh Walpole

All Souls' Night (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by Hugh Walpole

Hugh Walpole (1884-1941) was one of the most popular and prolific English authors of his time, best known for his historical fiction and novels for boys. But it was in the field of the macabre and supernatural that Walpole was at his best, and this collection of sixteen tales contains many of his finest, including the classic werewolf story 'Tarnhelm'; the oft-anthologized 'The Little Ghost'; 'The Snow', a chilling story of vengeance from beyond the grave; and perhaps the highlight of the collection, 'The Silver Mask', which one critic has called 'a masterpiece, a classic example of how a tale can be truly terrible and ghostly with no ghost and only the wispiest hint of the supernatural.'

This new edition, which reprints the unabridged text of the 1933 first edition and includes a new introduction by John Howard, will allow a new generation of readers to discover an unjustly forgotten master of the eerie and macabre.

'Excellently written and displaying a wide range of interests . Mr. Walpole knows well how to make the flesh creep.' - Sydney Morning Herald

'There are sixteen stories in Walpole's collection, and they all reach a high degree of merit; all are marked by the distinguished literary quality one is sure to find in his work.' - New York Times

'A macabre master whose understanding of the night side of human experience makes him indispensable fire-side reading.' - Flesh and Blood Magazine

Hugh Walpole was highly praised by contemporaries, including Henry James and J B Priestley. In his turn, he was supportive of other authors, especially young men just starting out. This short study of Joseph Conrad is acute in its conclusions and well worth rescuing from the obscurity into which it had fallen.

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ISBN 13	9781943910359
ISBN 10	1943910359
Title	All Souls' Night (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
Author	Hugh Walpole
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Valancourt Books
Year published	2016-04-26
Number of pages	238
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