Rosemary Timperley

(1920 - 1988)

Rosemary Kenyon Timperley was born in Crouch End, North London on March20, 1920. Her father, George Kenyon Timperley, was an architect and her mother, Emily Mary(nee Lethem), was a teacher. Rosemary Timperley was educated at Hornsey High School andKing's College, London University, where she achieved a B.A. Honours degree in History.After her graduation in 1941, Timperley began a spell as a teacher of English and Historyat South-East Essex County Technical School in Dagenham, Essex.

Novels

   The Haunted Garden (1966)
   Washers-up (1968)
   The Cat-Walk (1969)
   Doctor Z (1970)
   Mask Shop (1970)
   House of Secrets (1971)
   Walk to San Michele (1971)
   Summer Visitors (1971)
   Passionate Marriage (1972)
   The Long Black Dress (1972)
   Journey with Doctor Godley (1973)
   Echo-game (1973)
   Shadows in the Park (1973)
   Juliet (1974)
   White Zig-zag Path (1974)
   Ali and Little Camel (1975)
   Private Prisoners (1975)
   Egyptian Woman (1976)
   The Stranger (1976)
   The Man with the Beard (1977)
   The Devil of the Lake (1977)
   The Phantom Husband (1977)
   The Nameless One (1978)
   Syrilla Black (1978)
   Suspicion (1978)
   The Secretary (1979)
   Justin and the Witch (1979)
   Miss X (1980)
   The House of Mad Children (1980)
   Homeward Bound (1980)
   That Year at the Office (1981)
   The Spell of the Hanged Man (1981)
   Secret Dancer (1981)
   Face in the Leaves (1982)
   Night Talk (1982)
   Chidori's Room (1983)
   The Office Party and After (1984)
   Love and Death (1985)
   Tunnel of Shadows (1986)
   The Wife's Tale (1986)
   After School Hours (1987)
   Inside (1988)
   Shadow on the Roof (1989)

Collections

Child in the Dark (1956)
aka The Listening Child

Anthologies edited

   The 5th Ghost Book (1969)
   The 6th Ghost Book Book 1 (1970)
   The 6th Ghost Book Book 2 (1970)
   The 7th Ghost Book (1971)
   The 8th Ghost Book (1972)
   The 9th Ghost Book (1973)

Non fiction

Give the Best Away (2017) (with MBE Lancaster and Murray Watts)

Anthologies containing stories by Rosemary Timperley

Short stories

	A Backwards Shadow
	The Bandaged Man
	Christmas Meeting
	The Mistress In Black
	On the Theatre Steps
	The Peg-Doll
	The Power Cut
	The Private Torture Chamber
	Rachel and Simon
	Street of the Blind Donkey
	Supper with Martha
	The Thug
	The Unknown Caller
	Walk on the Water
	What Happened To Sally?
	The Woman With the Mauve Face
	Harry (1955)
	Hell on Both Sides of the Gate (1962)
	The Ghosts in the Garden (1972)
	The Tunnel (1973)
	To Keep Him Company (1974)
	Mr Nobody (1975)
	From Another World (1976)
	The Maid, the Madman and the Knife (1976)
	The Man with the Flute (1977)
	The Eye of the Mandala (1978)
	Masks and Voices (1978)
	The Deathly Silence (1979)
	No Man Living So Tall... (1979)
	Some Travellers Return... (1980)