The Listeners

Name: The Listeners
Author: Walter de la Mare

by Walter de la Mare

Narrative poem of supernatural mystery and dread where travelers arrive at a dark manor house

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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.

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