Fear Walks the Night

About the Book

Frederick Cowles (1900–1948) was a librarian by profession who occupied his leisure hours writing on the subjects of topography and gipsy lore. In addition he wrote sixty-one ghost stories. FEAR WALKS THE NIGHT contains seventeen of those stories, and the collection did not see publication until 1993, forty-five years after the author's death. The remainder of Cowles's supernatural fiction is collection in the companion volumes, THE HORROR OF ABBOT'S GRANGE and THE NIGHT WIND HOWLS.

Contents:

    • Fear Walks the Night
    • Punch and Judy
    • The Florentine Chest
    • Variety Show
    • Prince of Darkness
    • Death of a Rat
    • The Echo of a Song
    • The House in the Forest
    • Goosefeather Bed
    • Christmas Eve
    • Three Shall Meet
    • Lisheen
    • Voodoo Drums
    • The Strange Affair at Upton Stonewold
    • Gypsy Hands
    • The End of the Lane
    • Twilight
    • Do You Believe in Ghosts?
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      Frederick Cowles

      Frederick Ignatius Cowles (1900 - 1948): English author of supernatural fiction, English travelogues, history, folklore, and children's books. Cowles' supernatural fiction is similar, and compares favorably, to that of M.R. James.

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