A. M Burrage
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A sensitive writer flees the clatter of London for a sleepy French city. After settling in at quiet hotel, he spies a ghostly, solitary young woman weeping in a walled garden, her features hidden from view. Compelled to see the woman's face, he ventures forward.... Originally published on Christmas in 1931, "One Who Saw" is regarded as A.M. Burrage's masterpiece.
2) War Is War
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Alfred Burrages War is War is his sincere and successful attempt to record his experiences as a private soldier in France during the First World War, his reactions to abnormal conditions and his observations.
Written in the 1920s he wanted the curious to know what war was really like. Burrage realized that nearly all such memoirs were written by ex-officers who inevitably saw the war from a different view point to Tommy Atkins as he put it, the officers...
3) Smee
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Smee is a crackling ghost story about a guest in a haunted house telling other visitors of the death of a young girl, years ago, playing a game of hide-and-seek.
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A collection of stories concerning shunned and disreputable houses.
Contents:
Nobody's House by A. M. Burrage (1927)
The history of a haunted house.
A Night of Horror by Dick Donovan (1899)
A haunted castle in the hills of Wales.
The Room in the Tower by E. F. Benson (1912)
A recurring nightmare.
The House of the Nightmare by Edward Lucas White (1906)
A night at a remote country house.
The Shunned House by H. P. Lovecraft (1937)
An abandoned house...