Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was born in Charlton, Kent. From 1890 to 1908, he worked in the statistics department of the London office of Anglo-American Oil. For the rest of his long life, he was a full-time writer. De la Mare's first collection of poetry,
Songs of Childhood, was published under pseudonym in 1902. With the publication of
The Listeners (1912) and the classic volume of children's poetry
Peacock Pie (1913), he established himself as one of the leading poets of the time. In addition to publishing more than a thousand poems, culminating with
The Traveller (1945) and
Winged Chariot (1951), considered by many - among them T. S. Eliot, his editor at Faber - to be his finest poems, de la Mare published novels, including
Memoirs of a Midget (1921), short stories, drama, stories for children and literary criticism. He also edited celebrated anthologies, including
Come Hither (1923) and
Behold This Dreamer (1939). Walter de la Mare received the Order of Merit in 1953.
The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written
How would your wife react if you came home with the face of someone else? How would you continue to look at your own life? What would you do? Considered one of Walter de la Mare's finest occult stories, this darkly thrilling tale tells the story of Lawford, a dull suburban man who...
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