The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Hugh Walpole-Volume 1: One Novel 'The Old Ladies' and Fifteen Short Stories of the Strange and Unusual Including 'The White Cat', 'Lizzie Rand', 'Mrs. Porter and Miss Allen', 'The Tiger' and 'The Twisted Inn

The first volume of the works of a literary master of strange fiction

Sir Hugh Walpole was one of the most popular and prolific British authors of the first half of the 20th century. After the publication of his first novel, 'The Wooden Horse', in 1909 he produced one significant work each year including the acclaimed 'Herries' series. Born in New Zealand in 1884, the son of an Anglican clergyman, Walpole was committed to becoming a writer and encouraged in his ambition by Henry James and Ar...