Robert Murray Gilchrist

Robert Murray Gilchrist (6 January 1867 – 1917) was an English novelist and author of regional interest books about the Peak District of north central England.

[3] As an English novelist and regional writer, Robert Murray Gilchrist never achieved the recognition his colleagues and many critics thought he deserved.

His friend, Eden Phillpotts wrote that "no record or estimate of the conte in English letters can be complete without study of his contributions thereto.

He worked for noted editor and writer, William Ernest Henley, and he corresponded with Larner Sugden, Kineton Parkes and occasionally H. G. Wells.

Virtually forgotten until horror anthologist Hugh Lamb reprinted his stories during the 1970s, his work includes fin-de-siècle Gothic fiction, similar in many ways to the fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Vernon Lee, Arthur Machen, Eric Stenbock and Richard Marsh.

[6] The Stone Dragon and Other Tragic Romances failed to sell well, and while he occasionally published short stories all his life, the bulk of his output was a score of novels, two plays and two travel guide books.

Photograph of the author that appeared in a book published during 1903.