Wakefield: Ghost Stories and Weird Tales

This anthology brings together two early collections (and a few later tales) of ghost stories and supernatural forays by H. Russell Wakefield.

Review:

“The ghostly influences at work in these stories are all malignant, powerful. One seeks in vain to escape the sinister fate that they bring. Wakefield does not dispel the ghastly atmosphere by explaining as natural phenomena, his ghosts. He leaves them there, ghosts to the end. They are horrible and fantastic, and fearsome.” (1928)

Review:

“These are stories of lasting quality, stories which should go on the library shelf, to be read or reread on dark Winter evenings. They are far superior in plot to many of the so-called classics of the Victorian era, and every bit as finely written.” (1929)