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Walter de la Mare

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Born: April 24 1873

Died: 2121 06 19561956

Walter John de la Mare was an English poet, short story writer and novelist, probably best remembered for his works for children and The Listeners. He was descended from a family of French Huguenots, and was educated at St Paul's School. His first book, Songs of Childhood, was published under the name Walter Ramal. He worked in the statistics department of the London office of Standard Oil for eighteen years while struggling to bring up a family, but nevertheless found enough time to write, and, in 1908, through the efforts of Sir Henry Newbolt he received a Civil List pension which enabled him to concentrate on writing;

One of de la Mare's special interests was the imagination, and this contributed both to the popularity of his children's writing and to his other work occasionally being taken less seriously than it deserved.

De la Mare also wrote some subtle psychological horror stories; "Seaton's Aunt" and "Out of the Deep" are noteworthy examples. His 1921 novel, Memoirs of a Midget, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

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Walter de la Mare

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Books from Walter de la Mare

The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories

Memoirs of a Midget

Seaton's Aunt

Out of the Deep: And Other Supernatural Tales

The Listeners and Other Poems

The Complete Poems of Walter de la Mare

Peacock Pie

Wendigo ja muita yliluonnollisia kauhukertomuksia

Summer Evening

The Ride-by-Nights

El horror según Lovecraft

The House of the Nightmare and Other Eerie Tales

The Three Mulla-Mulgars

Englantilaiset aaveet

Vampire Tales: The Big Collection (80+ stories in one volume: The Viy, The Fate of Madame Cabanel, The Parasite, Good Lady Ducayne, Count Magnus, For the ... Fang, Blood Lust, Four Wooden Stakes...)

Told Again: Old Tales Told Again

Down-Adown-Derry: A Book of Fairy Poems

Collected Stories for Children

Uncanny Tales 2 (The Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult)

Desert Islands