Walter de la Mare
De la Mare was a poet and story writer whose fiction occupies a uniquely dreamlike space between the nursery and the uncanny. His ghost stories and tales of childhood have a luminous, melancholy quality unlike any other writer in English.
Works
- The ReturnGhost story of a man returning to his childhood home with mysterious supernatural consequences
- Memoirs of a MidgetNovel told from the perspective of a dwarf woman navigating relationships and social prejudice
- Henry BrockenDreamlike novel of a man's encounters with literary figures and the borders of reality and imagination
- At First Sight
- On the Edge
- The ListenersNarrative poem of supernatural mystery and dread where travelers arrive at a dark manor house
- Peacock PieCollection of children's poems filled with fantasy, whimsy, and imaginative worlds and creatures
- Collected PoemsComprehensive poetry collection spanning decades of de la Mare's lyrical and haunting verse
- Come HitherAnthology of poetry for children and adults featuring literary works of imagination and wonder