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H. Russell Wakefield

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H. Russell Wakefield


Born
in Kent, The United Kingdom
May 09, 1884

Died
February 08, 1964


Herbert Russell Wakefield was an English short story writer, novelist, publisher, and civil servant chiefly remembered today for his ghost stories.
Pseudonyms: H.R. Wakefield, H. Russell Wakefield
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The Best Ghost Stories of H...

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Lucky's Grove

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Look Up There!

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The Third Shadow

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The Third Coach

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El triunfo de la muerte y o...

3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1949 — 3 editions
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The Green Bicycle Case

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Lucky's Grove

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The Arkham Sampler, Winter ...

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Landru

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“I believe ghost story writing is a dying art.”
H.R. Wakefield

“The trees were tinted exquisitely to an uncertain glory as the great red sinking sun flashed its rays on their crystal mantle. The vale of Aylesbury was drowsing beneath a slowly deepening shroud of mist. Above it the hills, their crests rounded and shaded by silver and rose coppices, seemed to have set in them great smoky eyes of flame where the last rays burned in them.

'It is like some dream world,' thought Mr. Cort. 'It is curious how, wherever the sun strikes, it seems to make an eye, and each one fixed on me; those hills, even those windows. But, judging from that mist, I shall have a slow journey home...

("Blind Man's Bluff")”
H.R. Wakefield

“Man is better off without the confusion and fear of psychic experience and his progress will be faster.' If telepathy ever becomes a possibility he was not sure it would be a good thing, '...for it may put us back in contact with the spirits of the dead and progress does not lie in that direction.”
H.R. Wakefield

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