Hubert Montague Crackanthorpe (12 May 1870 – c. November 1896) was a late Victorian British writer who created works mainly in the genres of the essay, short story, and novella.

After his early death under mysterious circumstances, his name is now little known and has all but vanished from conventional literary biographies of the period.

To create an additional layer of realism, some of Crackanthorpe's characters speak in rural British dialects.

Left to his own philandering devices, Hubert promptly began an affair with a woman named Sissie Welch, sister of Richard Le Gallienne.

Leila walked out the door of the Crackanthorpes' Paris home and boarded a boat for London in December 1896.

[6] Critics tend to group Crackanthorpe together with a clutch of young British writers and artists of the 1890s who suffered untimely deaths caused by various factors, including suicide, alcohol abuse or tuberculosis; e.g. Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, and the two editors of the Yellow Book, Aubrey Beardsley and Henry Harland.