(Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole was an English novelist. He was born in Auckland in New Zealand and educated in England at the King's School, Canterbury and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He worked as a teacher before turning to writing full time.
Genres: Literary Fiction, Mystery
Series
Herries Chronicles
1. Rogue Herries (1930)
2. Judith Paris (1931)
3. The Fortress (1932)
4. Vanessa (1933)
1. Rogue Herries (1930)
2. Judith Paris (1931)
3. The Fortress (1932)
4. Vanessa (1933)
Novels
Maradick at Forty (1910)
The Gods and Mr. Perrin (1911)
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill (1911)
The Prelude to Adventure (1912)
Fortitude (1913)
The Golden Scarecrow (1915)
The Dark Forest (1916)
The Secret City (1919)
The Young Enchanted (1921)
The Cathedral (1922)
The Old Ladies (1924)
Portrait of a Man with Red Hair (1925)
The Wooden Horse (1925)
Harmer John (1926)
Wintersmoon (1927)
Farthing Hall (1929) (with J B Priestley)
Hans Frost (1929)
Above the Dark Circus (1931)
aka Above The Dark Tumult
Captain Nicholas (1934)
The Inquisitor (1935)
A Prayer for My Son (1936)
John Cornelius (1937)
The Joyful Delaneys (1938)
The Haxtons (1939)
The Sea Tower (1939)
The Bright Pavilions (1940)
Roman Fountain (1940)
The Blind Mans House (1941)
The Killer and the Slain (1942)
Katherine Christian (1944)
The Gods and Mr. Perrin (1911)
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill (1911)
The Prelude to Adventure (1912)
Fortitude (1913)
The Golden Scarecrow (1915)
The Dark Forest (1916)
The Secret City (1919)
The Young Enchanted (1921)
The Cathedral (1922)
The Old Ladies (1924)
Portrait of a Man with Red Hair (1925)
The Wooden Horse (1925)
Harmer John (1926)
Wintersmoon (1927)
Farthing Hall (1929) (with J B Priestley)
Hans Frost (1929)
Above the Dark Circus (1931)
aka Above The Dark Tumult
Captain Nicholas (1934)
The Inquisitor (1935)
A Prayer for My Son (1936)
John Cornelius (1937)
The Joyful Delaneys (1938)
The Haxtons (1939)
The Sea Tower (1939)
The Bright Pavilions (1940)
Roman Fountain (1940)
The Blind Mans House (1941)
The Killer and the Slain (1942)
Katherine Christian (1944)
Collections
The Silver Thorn (1907)
The Thirteen Travellers (1921)
All Souls' Night (1933)
Head in Green Bronze (1938)
The Herries Chronicles (1939)
Mr Huffam (1948)
The Tarn and Other Strange Stories (2019)
The Thirteen Travellers (1921)
All Souls' Night (1933)
Head in Green Bronze (1938)
The Herries Chronicles (1939)
Mr Huffam (1948)
The Tarn and Other Strange Stories (2019)
Novellas
Series contributed to
Black Cat Weekly (with Reginald Bretnor, David Brin, Hal Charles, Jeff Cohen, Leslie Ford, Randall Garrett, Frank Lovell Nelson, Geoff St Reynard and Robert F Young)
2. Black Cat Weekly #2 (2021)
2. Black Cat Weekly #2 (2021)
Anthologies edited
Non fiction
The English Novel (1925)
Anthony Trollope (1928)
A Letter to a Modern Novelist (1932)
The Gateway of Literature (1934)
Claude Houghton (1935) (with Clemence Dane)
Semantics (1941)
Seven Pillars of wisdom (1985)
Anthony Trollope (1928)
A Letter to a Modern Novelist (1932)
The Gateway of Literature (1934)
Claude Houghton (1935) (with Clemence Dane)
Semantics (1941)
Seven Pillars of wisdom (1985)
Anthologies containing stories by Hugh Walpole
The Ghost Book (1926)
The Black Cap (1927)
Shudders (1929)
A Second Century of Creepy Stories (1930)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 2nd Series (1931)
When Churchyards Yawn (1931)
A Century of Creepy Stories (1934)
The Great Book of Thrillers (1935)
The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936)
And the Darkness Falls (1946)
Small Shadows Creep (1963)
The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1966)
The 4th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1967)
A Century of Horror (1971)
Great British Short Stories (1974)
Ten From the Twenties (1975)
The 9th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1975)
Classic Tales of Horror (1976)
Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979)
Realms of Darkness (1985)
Shivers for Christmas (1995)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000)
The Black Cap (1927)
Shudders (1929)
A Second Century of Creepy Stories (1930)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 2nd Series (1931)
When Churchyards Yawn (1931)
A Century of Creepy Stories (1934)
The Great Book of Thrillers (1935)
The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936)
And the Darkness Falls (1946)
Small Shadows Creep (1963)
The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1966)
The 4th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1967)
A Century of Horror (1971)
Great British Short Stories (1974)
Ten From the Twenties (1975)
The 9th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1975)
Classic Tales of Horror (1976)
Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979)
Realms of Darkness (1985)
Shivers for Christmas (1995)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000)
Short stories
| Bachelors | |||
| Mrs Porter and Miss Allen (1921) | |||
| A Little Ghost (1922) | |||
| Mr Oddy (1926) | |||
| Mrs Lunt (1926) | |||
| The Enemy (1928) | |||
| A Carnation for an Old Man (1929) | |||
| The Snow (1929) | |||
| Mr Huffam [short story] (1933) | |||
| The Oldest Talland (1933) | |||
| The Silver Mask (1933) | |||
| Tarnhelm (1933) | |||
| The Adventure of the Imaginative Child (1938) | |||
| The Conjuror (1938) | |||
| The Fear of Death (1938) | |||
| The Field of Five Trees (1938) |
Books about Hugh Walpole
Tradition and Hugh Walpole (1929) by Clemence Dane
Hugh Walpole (1933) by Marguerite Steen
Hugh Walpole (1980) by Rupert Hart-Davis
Hugh Walpole (1933) by Marguerite Steen
Hugh Walpole (1980) by Rupert Hart-Davis
Hugh Walpole recommends
The Purple Cloud (1901)
M P Shiel
"A flaming genius! At his best he is not to be touched, because there is no one else like him."
Thunder on the Left (1925)
Christopher Morley
"It is personal to every reader, it will become for every one a reflection of himself. I fancy that here, as always where work is fine and true, the author has created something not as he would but as he must, and here an interpreter of a world more wonderful than he himself knows."
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