Hugh Walpole bibliography


Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, a 20th-century English novelist, had a large and varied output. Between 1909 and 1941 he wrote thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two original plays and three volumes of memoirs. His range included disturbing studies of the macabre, children's stories and historical fiction, most notably his "Herries" series, set in the Lake District.

Books

Book series

Some of Walpole's stories were parts of series with related themes:
  • The London Novels were Fortitude, The Duchess of Wrexe, The Green Mirror, The Captives, The Young Enchanted, Wintersmoon, Hans Frost and Captain Nicholas.
  • Scenes from Provincial Life included The Cathedral, The Old Ladies, Harmer John and The Inquisitor.
  • The Herries Chronicle comprises Rogue Herries, Judith Paris, The Fortress and Vanessa. Two later Herries books were The Bright Pavilions and Katherine Christian.
  • The Jeremy stories were Jeremy, Jeremy and Hamlet and Jeremy at Crale.
  • Four Fantastic Tales were Maradick at Forty, Prelude to Adventure, Portrait of a Man with Red Hair and Above the Dark Circus.

Short stories

The following stories appeared in The Windsor Magazine:
  • "The Dog and the Dragon in Reminiscence"
  • "Red Amber"
  • "The Garrulous Diplomatist"
  • "The Adventure of Mrs Farbman"
  • "The Adventure of the Imaginative Child"
  • "The Happy Optimist"
  • "The Dyspeptic Critic"
  • "The Man Who Lost His Identity"
  • "The Adventure of the Beautiful Things"
  • "The War Babies are Growing Up!"

Other works

Plays

The Young Huntress, 1933The Cathedral, 1936The Haxtons, 1939

Editor

In 1932 Walpole edited The Waverley Pageant: Best Passages from the Novels of Sir Walter Scott. In 1937 he edited a compilation of short stories, A Second Century of Creepy Stories, by a range of writers including Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, Henry James, Walter de la Mare, Oliver Onions, Walpole himself and twenty-one others.