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H. Russell Wakefield (1889–1964)

Auteur de The Clock Strikes Twelve

35+ oeuvres 299 utilisateurs 9 critiques 3 Favoris

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Œuvres de H. Russell Wakefield

The Clock Strikes Twelve (1946) 45 exemplaires
Strayers from Sheol (1961) 35 exemplaires
They Return at Evening (1995) 32 exemplaires
The Red Lodge (2011) 30 exemplaires
Imagine a Man in a Box (1997) 13 exemplaires
Old Man's Beard (1929) 13 exemplaires
Ghost Stories (1932) 12 exemplaires
A Ghostly Company (1935) 8 exemplaires
Belt of Suspicion (1936) 4 exemplaires
The Frontier Guards 2 exemplaires
Ghost Hunt 2 exemplaires
Ingrediënt X 1 exemplaire
Look Up There! 1 exemplaire
The First Sheaf 1 exemplaire
Damp Sheets 1 exemplaire
Hostess to death 1 exemplaire
Gallimaufry 1 exemplaire
A Fortnight at the Front (2020) 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories (1986) — Contributeur — 541 exemplaires
Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old & New (1981) — Contributeur — 332 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000) — Contributeur — 295 exemplaires
Weird Tales (1988) — Contributeur — 271 exemplaires
Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural (1968) — Contributeur — 227 exemplaires
Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology (2021) — Contributeur — 103 exemplaires
65 Great Spine Chillers (1988) — Contributeur — 79 exemplaires
Spirits of the Season: Christmas Hauntings (2018) — Contributeur — 76 exemplaires
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996) — Contributeur — 70 exemplaires
Chamber of Horrors: Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (1984) — Contributeur — 64 exemplaires
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998) — Contributeur — 63 exemplaires
65 Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979) — Contributeur — 59 exemplaires
The Century's Best Horror Fiction Volume 1 (2011) — Contributeur — 51 exemplaires
Dancing With the Dark (1999) — Contributeur — 49 exemplaires
Alfred Hitchcock's Fear and Trembling (1948) — Contributeur — 49 exemplaires
Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights (2021) — Contributeur — 48 exemplaires
Ten Tales Calculated to Give You Shudders (1972) — Contributeur — 48 exemplaires
Masters of Horror (1968) — Contributeur — 46 exemplaires
Ghosts for Christmas (1988) — Contributeur — 45 exemplaires
The Third Omnibus of Crime (1935) — Contributeur — 44 exemplaires
Realms of Darkness (1985) — Contributeur — 44 exemplaires
The Moons at Your Door (2016) — Contributeur — 41 exemplaires
The Television Late-night Horror Omnibus (1993) — Contributeur — 39 exemplaires
The Eighth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1972) — Contributeur — 37 exemplaires
Small Shadows Creep (1974) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
Over the Edge (1964) — Contributeur — 32 exemplaires
Dark Mind, Dark Heart (1962) — Contributeur — 32 exemplaires
The Great Book of Thrillers (1935) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
The Night Side: Masterpieces of the Strange and Terrible (1947) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
The Night Wire: and Other Tales of Weird Media (2022) — Contributeur — 26 exemplaires
Travellers by Night (1967) — Contributeur — 23 exemplaires
More Weird Tales (1976) — Contributeur — 23 exemplaires
Dr. Caligari's Black Book (1968) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires
The Young Oxford Book of Supernatural Stories (1996) — Contributeur — 15 exemplaires
Paha vieras (1996) 15 exemplaires
The Ghost's Companion (1975) — Contributeur — 15 exemplaires
Fifty Masterpieces of Mystery (1937) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
The Second Century of Detective Stories (1938) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
A wave of fear: A classic horror anthology (1973) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
The Fifty Most Amazing Crimes Of The Last 100 Years (1936) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
More Devil's Kisses (1977) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
Tales of the Undead: Vampires and Visitants (1947) — Contributeur, quelques éditions9 exemplaires
Uncanny Tales 3 (1975) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
Uncanny Tales of Unearthly and Unexpected Horrors (1983) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
Death on Wheels (1999) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
The Thrill of Horror: 22 Terrifying Tales (1975) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
Armchair Horror Collection (1994) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
A Tide of Terror; An Anthology of Rare Horror Stories. (1972) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
More Ghosts, Ghosts, Ghosts (1981) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Ghosts in Country Houses (1981) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
The Sleeping and the Dead (1963) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Great Unsolved Crimes (1975) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Horror Gems, Vol. One (2011) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Horror Gems, Vol. Three: August Derleth and others (2012) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires

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'The Red Lodge' is a horror story classic about a pretty house by a river that the owner rents out. The owner knows the place is haunted and that there is a good chance that one or more of his renters will die each time. He doesn't care. This summer the Red Lodge is being rented by a couple, their little boy, and a few servants.

Sometimes patches of green slime show up in the house. The little boy is afraid of 'the green monkey'. He's also afraid of the river, although he has enjoyed water before. The wife, who fell for the Red Lodge's attractiveness, has not been sleeping well. As the odd happenings mount up, the man consults a neighbor and learns about the house's unsavory history.

Will they leave in time, or will the Red Lodge claim another victim?
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JalenV | 1 autre critique | Jan 13, 2024 |
Taken on loan from my local for a DEEP ONES reading of one story ("Professor Pownall's Oversight"), that effort was strong enough I renewed the book several times in order to read through the rest. "Pownall" features an unusual occurrence, the haunting of chess matches, and the end hints at a wholly unexpected spectral transference.

Other stories seem built around a pun or phrase ("Day-Dream in Macedon", "Blind Man's Buff", "Damp Sheets") but are not novelty stories for that, providing some of Wakefield's most memorable hauntings. At other times, HRW appears to go for pathos over horror: "The Gorge of the Churels" most emphatically, but also "Triumph of Death". Typically there is a coda or epilogue after the narrator dies, several times a written document.

Worth picking up any hardbound edition, Wakefield writes well and his tales reflect a distinct take on the ghost story. Alongside that chess story, for example, mathematicians feature in two stories here ("Kink in Space-Time" and "Immortal Bird"), surely atypical of the genre. That epistemological slant on horror is an attribute I particularly appreciate in such fiction.
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elenchus | 3 autres critiques | Jan 10, 2019 |
A friend recommended Wakefield as being in the same class as M.R. James. My own feeling is that his stories are competently done but they lack the antiquarian touches I enjoy in James, and they are rarely as terrifying. They generally involve ordinary middle class English people of the 1920s (when they were probably written), usually living in ordinary homes, apartment, and offices (in one case an artist's studio) where something unpleasant(murder, suicide) has happened in the fairly recent past, living immaterial traces behind --not necessarily supernatural in the strict sense --some of his characters advocate Doyle's theory that events leave a kind of "recording" in the atmosphere where they occur, which plays out over and over without have a conscious spirit behind it. On the other hand, there s one story of two mountain (or at least hill) climbers who encounter a creature that only manifests when there is snow on the ground around a certain cairn. That one remains unexplained.Another involves a car in which an American gangster coupe were bumped off. I believe I have read a more recent story which handles the same idea more smoothly, with only one victim. I don;t know if the other writer (whose name I don't remember) was influenced by Wakefield or it was an independent invention. In a fair number of cases, the people who have these encounters are frightened but survive, which I prefer to the others in which they die horribly. Sometimes there is a victim of vengeance from beyond the grave who deserves the punishment, but the reader is not usually in that person;s mind, which makes it more bearable.… (plus d'informations)
 
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antiquary | Nov 23, 2016 |
"H. R. Wakefield, in They Return at Evening (a good title) gives us a mixed bag, from which I should remove one or two that leave a nasty taste. Among the residue are some admirable pieces, very inventive." In "Some Remarks on Ghost Stories" in The Bookman (December 1929)
 
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