(Alfred McLelland Burrage was a British writer.
He was noted in his time as an author of fiction for boys which he published under the pseudonym Frank Lelland, including a popular series called "Tufty".
He served in the First World War and published a memoir of his experiences, War Is War, as "Ex-Private X".
Burrage is now remembered mainly for his horror fiction, which was originally collected in the books Some Ghost Stories (1927) and Someone in the Room (1931, as by "Ex-Private X") and has been reprinted by Ash Tree Press
Novels
Collections
Some Ghost Stories (1927)
Someone in the Room (1931) (as by Ex-Private X)
Between the Minute and the Hour (1967)
Warning Whispers (1988)
Unpaying Guests (1989)
Intruders (1995)
The Occult Files of Francis Chard (1996)
Someone in the Room (1931) (as by Ex-Private X)
Between the Minute and the Hour (1967)
Warning Whispers (1988)
Unpaying Guests (1989)
Intruders (1995)
The Occult Files of Francis Chard (1996)
Anthologies containing stories by A M Burrage
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1st Series (1928)
A Second Century of Creepy Stories (1930)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 3rd Series (1934)
And the Darkness Falls (1946)
Small Shadows Creep (1963)
Medley Macabre (1966)
A Little Night Reading (1974)
The 11th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1975)
Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979)
Don't Open This Book! (1998)
A Second Century of Creepy Stories (1930)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 3rd Series (1934)
And the Darkness Falls (1946)
Small Shadows Creep (1963)
Medley Macabre (1966)
A Little Night Reading (1974)
The 11th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1975)
Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979)
Don't Open This Book! (1998)
Short stories
| Footprints (1912) | |||
| The Last of the Kerstons (1912) | |||
| The Chalk Pit (1913) | |||
| The Lady of Graeme (1914) | |||
| The Breaking of the Spell (1915) | |||
| By the Looe River (1915) | |||
| The Fourth Wall (1915) | |||
| The Green Bungalow (1919) | |||
| The Lady of the Chateau (1919) | |||
| The Mystery of the Sealed Garret (1920) | |||
| The Recurring Tragedy (1920) | |||
| For One Night Only (1921) | |||
| The Lovers (1922) | |||
| Warning Whispers [short story] (1922) | |||
| The Intruder (1923) | |||
| The Pace Maker (1923) | |||
| The Case of Thissler and Baxter (1924) | |||
| The Imperturbable Tucker (1924) | |||
| Miss Jessica (1924) | |||
| The Acquittal (1926) | |||
| The Attic (1926) | |||
| Crookback (1926) | |||
| The Garden of Fancy (1926) | |||
| Between the Minute and the Hour [short story] (1927) | |||
| Browdean Farm (1927) | |||
| The Caricature (1927) | |||
| Furze Hollow (1927) | |||
| The Gambler's Room (1927) | |||
| The Green Scarf (1927) | |||
| Nobody's House (1927) | |||
| Playmates (1927) | |||
| The Room Over the Kitchen (1927) | |||
| The Summer-house (1927) | |||
| Wrastler's End (1927) | |||
| The Wrong Station (1927) | |||
| The Yellow Curtains (1927) | |||
| The Ticking of the Clock (1928) | |||
| Top Floor Back (1928) | |||
| Wine of Summer (1928) | |||
| The Box in the Attic (1929) | |||
| The Boy with Red Hair (1929) | |||
| Father of the Man (1929) | |||
| For the Local Rag (1930) | |||
| House o'Dreams (1930) | |||
| The Little Blue Flames (1930) | |||
| "Orders from Brigade" (1930) | |||
| The Spanish Captain (1930) | |||
| The Blue Bonnet (1931) (as by Ex-Private X) aka The Blue Sunbonnet | |||
| The Case of Mr Ryalstone (1931) (as by Ex-Private X) | |||
| The Cottage in the Wood (1931) (as by Ex-Private X) | |||
| Mr Carshaw's Companion (1931) (as by Ex-Private X) | |||
| The Oak Saplings (1931) (as by Ex-Private X) | |||
| One Who Saw (1931) (as by Ex-Private X) | |||
| The Running Tide (1931) (as by Ex-Private X) | |||
| The Shadowy Escort (1931) (as by Ex-Private X) | |||
| The Sisters of Changton Margery (1931) | |||
| Smee (1931) (as by Ex-Private X) | |||
| Someone in the Room [short story] (1931) (as by Ex-Private X) | |||
| The Strange Case of Dolly Frewan (1931) (as by Ex-Private X) | |||
| The Sweeper (1931) (as by Ex-Private X) | |||
| Through the Eyes of a Child (1931) (as by Ex-Private X) | |||
| The Waxwork (1931) (as by Ex-Private X) | |||
| Fellow Mortals (1932) | |||
| In the Waters under the Earth (1933) | |||
| The Bargain (1934) | |||
| Portrait of an Unknown Lady (1935) | |||
| The Man on the Corner (1937) | |||
| Passengers on the Eleven-Ten (1941) | |||
| Corner Cottage (1960) |
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