✒ Sir #HughWalpole, British novelist, was #BOTD 13 March 1864. #Theatre #Literature

This one is just for @hughwalpolesociety.bsky.social: a spread from the February 1936 edition of The Strand Magazine.
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The face of a malignant old woman, with spooky whited out eyes. The illustration (cropped) by Nathan Clair, used on the cover of 'Night Shivers: The Ghost Stories of J H Riddell', published by Wordsworth, 2008

"Her face was one of the wickedest, most malignant and furtive I have ever seen..."
- Hugh Walpole, 'Mrs Lunt'

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This 1936 #ChildrensBook was a #fundraiser for the #PrincessElizabethofYorkHospital in #London. #Stories by many #British #authors. #B&W #illustrations and seven stunning #ColourPlates. $40. #Booksky #QueenElizabethII #JMBarrie #RudyardKipling #GKChesterton #AlgernonBlackwood #HughWalpole

Today's reading #GhostBook #CynthiaAsquith #AlgernonBlackwood #LPHartley #HughWalpole #ArthurMachen #DHLawrence #WalterDeLaMare #OliverOnions

“The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase."

✒️ Sir #HughWalpole, British novelist and playwright, #DOTD 1 June 1941. #Theatre #Literature

A terrified man feels himself pulled under a deep pool of water which has mysteriously formed in his bedroom. The top half of a bookcase can be seen in the background.

Fenwick gets his #supernatural comeuppance in 'The Tarn' by Hugh Walpole, dramatically illustrated by A Gilbert. From the story's first appearance in print, in the December 1923 issue of The Strand Magazine.

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Hugh Walpole English journalist and novelist Hugh Walpole was BOTD in 1884. Born in Auckland, New Zealand (then part of the British Empire) where his father was an Anglican vicar, he was sent to England to be e…

English journalist, novelist, intelligence agent and notorious homosexual Hugh Walpole was BOTD in 1884. #hughwalpole #supergays #bornonthisday

✒ Sir #HughWalpole, British novelist and playwright, was #BOTD 13 March 1864. #Theatre #Literature

#HughWalpole wrote a lot of books.
Who remembers him now?
The members of the Hugh Walpole Society that's who!
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