Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, a 20th-century English novelist, had a large and varied output.
Between 1909 and 1941 he wrote thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two original plays and three volumes of memoirs.
His range included disturbing studies of the macabre, children's stories and historical fiction, most notably his "Herries" series, set in the Lake District.
Some of Walpole's stories were parts of series with related themes: The following stories appeared in The Windsor Magazine: In 1932 Walpole edited The Waverley Pageant: Best Passages from the Novels of Sir Walter Scott.
In 1937 he edited a compilation of short stories, A Second Century of Creepy Stories (Hutchinson, 1937), by a range of writers including Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, Henry James, Walter de la Mare, Oliver Onions, Walpole himself ("Tarnhelm") and twenty-one others.