R. Thurston (Robert Thurston) Hopkins

Born in 1884 and active through the first half of the twentieth century, R. Thurston Hopkins wrote widely across genres rather than staying in just one lane. Surviving library and bookseller records link him with travel and topographical books, literary studies, and collections of uncanny tales, showing a career built on curiosity and range.

He is especially remembered for ghostly titles such as Adventures with Phantoms, Cavalcade of Ghosts, and Ghosts Over England. At the same time, he also wrote books connected with major literary figures and places, including works on Rudyard Kipling and Thomas Hardy, as well as books celebrating London and the English countryside.

Reliable portrait information was not easy to confirm from the sources available here, so no image is included. Even so, the outline of his career is clear: he was a versatile popular writer whose books blended local history, literary enthusiasm, and a lasting taste for the strange.