H R Wakefeild (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "That there are many things in Heaven and on Earth for which we have no explanation, and for which, in all prob-ability, we shall never have an explanation is certainly part of my philosophy; and I have never written a tale in which are recorded happenings that I do not believe could occur." Thus writes H. Russell Wakefield in his Introduction to this book: and his thesis is fully borne out by the effect of stories in the realm of the spectral which are all the more nerve-chilling because they have their roots in recognizable reality.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Limited to 2070 copies first edition print In 'Farewell to all Those', the introduction to his 1961 collection "STRAYERS FROM SHEOL," H. R. Wakefield stated, 'I've written my last ghost story,' continuing with the bleak sentence 'I believe ghost story writing to be a dying art.' However, he concluded his introduction on a more cheerful note, urging readers not to be too sure that 'none of the old magic endures;' and the 14 collected in the original edition of the book show Wakefield to have been still very much at the top of his form. Indeed, "STRAYERS FROM SHEOL" opens with one of the author's finest tales, 'The Triumph of Death.'.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Contents (collection by H. Russell Wakefield [as by H. R. Wakefield]) 11 Messrs. Turkes and Talbot short story 27 A Peg on Which to Hang (1928) short story 42 Used Car short story 59 Damp Sheets (1929) short story 70 The Cairn (1929) short story 84 Blind Man's Bluff (1929) short story 90 "Look Up There!" (1929) short story 103 The Frontier Guards (1929) short story 111 Mr. Ash's Studio short story 129 Nurse's Tale (1929) short story 138 A Coincidence at Hunton (1929) short story 153 The Red Hand (1929) short story 162 An Echo (1928) short story 179 Day-Dream in Macedon (1930) short story 188 Knock! Knock! Who's There? short story 194 Epilogue by Roger Bantock (1930) short story 211 The Last to Leave (1929) short story 220 The Central Figure (1929) short story 233 Old Man's Beard (1929) short story 256 Present at the End (1929) short story 270 A Jolly Surprise for Henri (1929) short story.