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.
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.
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