Edgar Jepson

Born in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, on November 28, 1863, he was educated at St Paul's School and Balliol College, Oxford. Before fully turning to fiction, he spent several years in Barbados, an experience that sat within the early part of his adult life before he returned to London and built his writing career.

From the 1890s onward, he became a notably prolific author, publishing adventure novels, detective fiction, and a smaller but lasting body of supernatural and fantasy work. He also wrote under the pseudonym R. Edison Page, and his long career shows a writer comfortable moving between popular forms while keeping his stories readable and energetic.

He died on April 12, 1938. Although not as widely known now as some of his contemporaries, he still has a place in literary history for the sheer range of his fiction and for stories that bridge crime, sensation, and the uncanny.