author
Herbert Russell Wakefield
1888–1964
Best remembered for eerie, elegant ghost stories, this English writer brought a cool, polished style to supernatural fiction. His tales often mix everyday settings with sudden glimpses of dread, which is why horror readers still seek him out.
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They return at evening : A book of ghost stories
by Herbert Russell Wakefield
About the author
Born in Kent in 1888, Herbert Russell Wakefield was an English writer, novelist, publisher, and civil servant who is chiefly remembered for his ghost stories. He was educated at Marlborough College and University College, Oxford, and his life also included military service during the First World War.
Wakefield published a number of supernatural collections, including They Return at Evening and The Clock Strikes Twelve. His fiction is often noted for its controlled tone, sharp atmosphere, and willingness to let the uncanny break into ordinary life without much warning.
He died on August 2, 1964. Although he wrote in several forms, his reputation has lasted because of the strange, unsettling stories that helped keep the classic English ghost story alive in the twentieth century.