(Herbert Russell Wakefield was an English short story writer, novelist, publisher, and civil servant chiefly remembered today for his ghost stories.
Genres: Horror
Novels
Collections
They Return at Evening (1928)
Old Man's Beard (1929)
Imagine a Man in a Box (1931)
Ghost Stories (1932)
A Ghostly Company (1935)
The Clock Strikes Twelve (1940)
Strayers from Sheol (1961)
The Best Ghost Stories of H Russell Wakefield (1978)
Reunion at Dawn (2000) (with Peter Ruber)
Horror Gems, Volume Three (2012) (with Stanton A Coblentz, August Derleth, John Jakes, Fritz Leiber, Gordon MacCreagh, Rog Phillips, Seabury Quinn and Evangeline Walton)
Old Man's Beard (1929)
Imagine a Man in a Box (1931)
Ghost Stories (1932)
A Ghostly Company (1935)
The Clock Strikes Twelve (1940)
Strayers from Sheol (1961)
The Best Ghost Stories of H Russell Wakefield (1978)
Reunion at Dawn (2000) (with Peter Ruber)
Horror Gems, Volume Three (2012) (with Stanton A Coblentz, August Derleth, John Jakes, Fritz Leiber, Gordon MacCreagh, Rog Phillips, Seabury Quinn and Evangeline Walton)
Novellas
Anthologies containing stories by H Russell Wakefield
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 3rd Series (1934)
The Great Book of Thrillers (1935)
And the Darkness Falls (1946)
Who Knocks? (1946)
The Night Side (1947)
Night's Yawning Peal (1952)
Spine Chillers (1961)
Dark Mind Dark Heart (1962)
Small Shadows Creep (1963)
When Evil Wakes (1963)
Over the Edge (1964)
Sleep No More (1964)
Medley Macabre (1966)
The 3rd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1968)
Hauntings (1968)
Mind at Bay (1969)
The 8th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1972)
The Ghost's Companion (1975)
Weird Tales Volume 2 (1976)
Christopher Lee's Archives of Evil (1977)
Chamber of Horrors (1978)
Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979)
The 14th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1981)
Realms of Darkness (1985)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
Dancing with the Dark (1997)
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000)
The Great Book of Thrillers (1935)
And the Darkness Falls (1946)
Who Knocks? (1946)
The Night Side (1947)
Night's Yawning Peal (1952)
Spine Chillers (1961)
Dark Mind Dark Heart (1962)
Small Shadows Creep (1963)
When Evil Wakes (1963)
Over the Edge (1964)
Sleep No More (1964)
Medley Macabre (1966)
The 3rd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1968)
Hauntings (1968)
Mind at Bay (1969)
The 8th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1972)
The Ghost's Companion (1975)
Weird Tales Volume 2 (1976)
Christopher Lee's Archives of Evil (1977)
Chamber of Horrors (1978)
Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979)
The 14th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1981)
Realms of Darkness (1985)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
Dancing with the Dark (1997)
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000)
Short stories
| The Animals in the Case | |||
| 'And He Shall Sing...' (1928) | |||
| An Echo (1928) | |||
| 'He Cometh and He Passeth By' (1928) | |||
| Or Persons Unknown (1928) | |||
| A Peg on Which to Hang (1928) | |||
| Professor Pownall's Oversight (1928) | |||
| The Seventeenth Hole at Duncaster (1928) | |||
| That Dieth Not (1928) | |||
| The Third Coach (1928) | |||
| Blind Man's Buff (1929) | |||
| The Cairn (1929) | |||
| A Coincidence at Hunton (1929) | |||
| The Frontier Guards (1929) | |||
| A Jolly Surprise for Henri (1929) | |||
| The Last to Leave (1929) | |||
| 'Look Up There!' (1929) | |||
| Nurse's Tale (1929) | |||
| Old Man's Beard [short story] (1929) | |||
| Present at the End (1929) | |||
| The Red Hand (1929) | |||
| The Central Figure (1931) | |||
| Corporal Humpit of the Fourth Musketeers (1931) | |||
| Damp Sheets (1931) | |||
| Day-Dream in Macedon (1931) | |||
| Epilogue by Roger Bantock (1931) | |||
| The Inevitable Flaw (1931) | |||
| Knock! Knock! Who's There? (1932) | |||
| Messrs Turkes and Talbot (1932) | |||
| Mr Ash's Studio (1932) | |||
| Used Car (1932) | |||
| Death of a Poacher (1935) | |||
| A Fishing Story (1935) | |||
| The First Sheaf (1936) | |||
| Lucky's Grove (1940) | |||
| Ghost Hunt (1947) | |||
| A Kink in Space Time (1948) | |||
| From the Vasty Deep (1949) | |||
| The Triumph of Death (1949) | |||
| The Third Shadow (1950) | |||
| Woe Water (1950) | |||
| The Gorge of the Churels (1951) | |||
| The Sepulchre of Jasper Sarasen (1953) | |||
| The Caretaker (1961) | |||
| 'Four Eyes' (1961) | |||
| 'Immortal Bird' (1961) | |||
| The Middle Drawer (1961) | |||
| Monstrous Regiment (1961) | |||
| The Last Meeting of Two Old Friends (1964) |