author
Roland Filkin
d. 1966
Best remembered for the eerie 1915 novel Agar Halfi the Mystic, this little-known British writer left behind a curious blend of occult adventure and mystery. Surviving records about the author are sparse, which only adds to the book’s strange, half-hidden appeal.
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Agar Halfi the mystic
by Roland Filkin
About the author
Roland Filkin is an obscure early-20th-century British author known today for Agar Halfi the Mystic, published in London by William Rider & Son in 1915. Public-domain and library records consistently connect Filkin with that novel, and major online catalogues currently list no other widely available title under his name.
The novel has endured mainly through archival preservation rather than mainstream fame. It remains available through sources such as Project Gutenberg and library listings, where it is described as a mix of occult adventure, village mystery, and supernatural intrigue. That blend gives Filkin a small but distinctive place among forgotten writers of strange fiction.
Biographical details are hard to verify. A grave record identifies a Roland Filkin who died in August 1966 in Birmingham, and some modern catalogue-style summaries repeat 1966 as his death year, but beyond that, reliable personal information appears to be very limited.