On the Edge

Name: On the Edge
Author: Walter de la Mare

About the author

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.

More by Walter de la Mare

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
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