Novelist,
playwright, librettist, essayist, critic, and broadcaster.
Novels
Benighted, William Heinemann Ltd (London), 1927
(Weird and atmospheric with only hints of the
supernatural , but important as a source for many of the tropes in
haunted house films due to its screen adaptation by James Whale as
The
Old Dark House in 1932.)
ditto, as The Old Dark
House, Harper and Bros (New York), 1928
ditto, as The Old Dark
House, Grosset and Dunlap (New York), 1928
Short Stories
Four-in-Hand, Heinemann
(London), 1934
(A
miscellany containing one novel, two plays, and an assortment of
short stories and essays. (Including " Mr. Strenberry’s Tale",
"The Demon King"
Going Up with other stories and
sketches, Pan Books (London), 1950
(A
mass market paperback collecting 25 stories and sketches,
including "The Demon King"
The Other Place and Other Stories of the Same
Sort, William Heinemann (London), 1953
(N.B.: the title on the front of the dustjacket to
Heinemann's reprint edition of the same year reads The Other Place
- Stories on the Edge of the Marvellous, while retaining the
original title elsewhere)
ditto, Harper & Row (New York),
1953
(Including "The Other Place", " The Grey Ones",
"Uncle Phil on TV", "Guest of Honor", "Look After the Strange
Girl" [aka "The Strange Girl"], "The Statues", "The Leadington
Incident", " Mr. Strenberry’s Tale" [aka "Doomsday"], "Night
Sequence".)
The Carfitt Crisis and Two Other
Stories, William Heinemann, (London) 1976
ditto, Stein and Day (New York),
1976
(Includes "Underground")
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