They Return at Evening: A Book of Ghost Stories (Second Edition)
- ISBN: 1-55310-081-6 (978-1-55310-081-2)
- Format: Hardcover, xxii + 170pp
- Publish Date: Apr 30, 2005
- Original Price: C$58.00 / US$47.50 / £28.00
- Genre: Horror
- Publication Type: Collection
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H. R. Wakefield
H. R. Wakefield (1889–1964) was one of the foremost English writers of supernatural fiction between the wars, often compared to M. R. James for his antiquarian settings and malicious ghosts.
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They Return at Evening: A Book of Ghost Stories (Second Edition),h. R. Wakefield’s ghost stories are marked by undiluted malevolence and a refusal of the “natural” explanation. This edition reprints They Return at Evening with an introduction discussing Wakefield’s agreement with M. R. James on the need for malicious ghosts.
Edition Details
- Dust Jacket illustrated by Paul Lowe.
Contents:
- Preface to Second Edition
- Introduction (They Return at Evening)
- That Dieth Not
- Or Persons Unknown
- "He Cometh and He Passeth By!"
- Professor Pownall's Oversight
- The Third Coach
- The Red Lodge
- "And He Shall Sing..."
- The Seventeenth Hole at Duncaster
- A Peg on Which to Hang
- An Echo
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- They Return at Evening: A Book of Ghost Stories (Second Edition). ISFDB entry for They Return at Evening: A Book of Ghost Stories (Second Edition)