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Bringing Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole back into the limelight he once enjoyed!
https://hughwalpole.org/
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bookish-anchorite.bsky.social
Oooo gonna spend some time here. I’ve read Mysteries of Udolpho and Rookwood, I’m aware Hugh Walpole exists…aaaand that’s about it
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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hollandhousebooks.bsky.social
Nicola Wilson on Hugh Walpole, chairman of the Book Society - listen to the full podcast on our Spotify & Youtube channels :
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#spotify #youtubechannels #booksky #books #bookchat #podcastshow
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November 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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theghostmonk.bsky.social
"She fell forward, and even as she fell a hand, far colder than the snow, caught her neck. She lay struggling in the snow and as she struggled there two hands of an icy fleshless chill closed about her throat. Then she lay still."
- Hugh Walpole, 'The Snow'
#BookologyThursday #booksky #ghoststory
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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hollandhousebooks.bsky.social
The Woolfs, the Hogarth Press and the Book Society - Nicola Wilson guides us around crucial landmarks, personalities and influencers in book reading culture in the Holland House Podchat - now on Spotify & Youtube :

youtu.be/OOPKQKMFsZQ
open.spotify.com/episode/51gH...

#newtitles #booksky #outnow
November 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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teepeecider.bsky.social
Rev Hugh Walpole  born 1884 was an English novelist. In his The Apple Trees: Four Reminiscences, the apple trees are real and significant symbolic touchstones for memory, nostalgia, and the passage of time, representing the enduring connection between characters and their past. #books #apples
Title page of his book. Chapter page from his book.
November 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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romgothsam.bsky.social
If you missed last week's absolutely fantastic talk by John Hartley on Hugh Walpole, catch it here!

youtu.be/2_elR9E53lc

Early 20th century pulp Gothic!
Hugh Walpole: Wild Excursions into the Macabre with John Hartley
YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic
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November 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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collhamilton.bsky.social
I’ve added Christmas Cards to my shop - there are four designs inspired by short Ghost Stories set a Christmas Card with an illustration in the front and a passage of text from the story on the back - collhamilton.bigcartel.com/category/gho... #art #illustration
October 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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drjchartley.bsky.social
‘Horace Walpole planted his absurd helmet just where he pleased and you could take it or leave it.’

Hugh Walpole, ‘The Waverley Pageant’ (London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1932), pp. xxiv-xxv.
October 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
hughwalpolesociety.bsky.social
The latest issue of 'The Hugh Walpole Review', Vol. 6, Number 2, Autumn 2025.
The cover of ‘The Hugh Walpole Review’ with a drawing of Walpole laughing, by Joseph Simpson, from T. P.’s Portrait Gallery, ‘T. P.’s Weekly’, June 1928.
October 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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romgothsam.bsky.social
This talk was SO GOOD! You should absolutely come join us for the 7pm!
October 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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romgothsam.bsky.social
I don't know if you've read many but I feel like Hugh's murder-y homoerotic Gothic pulp might fall into your wheelhouse... @kjcharleswriter.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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romgothsam.bsky.social
If you like lesser known queer Gothic authors, we'll be exploring the work of Hugh Walpole tomorrow. If you haven't read any of his stuff, I'll pop a story link in the next post!

Join us tomorrow (25th)

10am - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...

7pm- www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
Select tickets – Hugh Walpole: Wild Excursions into the Macabre with John Hartley – Zoom
Hugh Walpole: Wild Excursions into the Macabre with John Hartley – Zoom, Sat 25 Oct 2025 - Our series of talks is funded exclusively by donations. The talks are free to access but if you can support t...
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October 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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robertsnickc.bsky.social
Hugh Walpole (1884-1941)...

#Sculpture, Anatolia, 4500–3500 B.C.
October 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
hughwalpolesociety.bsky.social
Coming soon
'Gifts for My Friends and Other Stories'
from those nice people at The Hugh Walpole Society
& Grayswood Press.
The cover of 'Gifts For My Friends and Other Stories, by Hugh Walpole. The cover shows three ornaments against a green background, a horse, a figurine, & what looks like a printing block.
October 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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juliajoyce.bsky.social
Day 19 of #AScareADay is Hugh Walpole's 1936 short story "The Tarn."

You know, I only ever come across the word "tarn" in short horror fiction. There's Poe, Blackwood, and now Walpole. Does anything good ever happen at a tarn?

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October 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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sarahalba.bsky.social
#AScareADay Day 19 – The Tarn by Hugh Walpole

Loved this one. The way the setting is described and the build up to what seems to be an inescapable conclusion.
As soon as the words were out of his lips he felt as though someone else had said them for him. He even turned half round to see whether anyone else were there. Ever since Foster's arrival on the evening before he had been conscious of this sensation. A walk? Why should he take Foster for a walk, show him his beloved country, point out those curves and lines and hollows, the broad silver shield of Ullswater, the cloudy purple hills hunched like blankets about the knees of some recumbent giant? Why? It was as though he had turned round to someone behind him and had said: "You have some further design in this."
October 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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romgothsam.bsky.social
25) 'The Tarn' by Hugh Walpole

I loved this short story of murder and watery revenge. Hugh Walpole's a writer that I've really been getting into this year and I look forward to reading more!
October 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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romgothsam.bsky.social
Day 19 of #AScareADay was 'The Tarn' by Hugh Walpole

Loved this one! Ominous, queer, watery deaths and weird vengeance. Gotta love it!
October 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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#AScareADayashtag/AScareADay" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#AScareADay – Day 19 – The Tarn by Hugh Walpole

#AScareADay - Day 19 - I enjoyed this short story. For this one, I thought about the themes of darkness, oblivion, inevitability, and being consumed by your negative emotions, your shadow side, if you will. I thought I'd share a piece from…
#AScareADay – Day 19 – The Tarn by Hugh Walpole
#AScareADay - Day 19 - I enjoyed this short story. For this one, I thought about the themes of darkness, oblivion, inevitability, and being consumed by your negative emotions, your shadow side, if you will. I thought I'd share a piece from Pagham-on-Sea, set in the council estate on the edge of the town.
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October 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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romgothsam.bsky.social
This is such a good reading of the story!

For those intrigued, you can find it here!

gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/070...
October 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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robtwilliams.bsky.social
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#AScareADay Walpole "The Tarn"
Rather I refer in a non-supernatural way to Fenwick's conscience holding him accountable. He does not survive the trauma of the tarn's betrayal, his only worldly friend.
However, if one wishes supernatural causation, then the tarn & Foster get the drop (?!) on him.
October 19, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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robtwilliams.bsky.social
#AScareADay Walpole "The Tarn"
The story foregrounds betrayal most foul. A deep, abiding friendship is felt more keenly by one but not the other. With this imbalance, death comes unexpectedly & horrifically.

I'm not referring to Fenwick's faux friendship w/ Foster. That's a different betrayal.
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October 19, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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vrling.bsky.social
📚💙 Hugh Walpole is another classic ghost writer who, since his initial success in the 1920s/30s, has fallen into obscurity. If you'd like to delve into his work "Mr Huffam" is an enchanting way to begin. You can also listen to some of his stories on the "Encrypted" podcast read by Jasper L'Estrange.
October 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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runalongwomble.bsky.social
Oh I like this - Reading by Hugh Walpole
ejsreads. -0:2 READING The great moment of the day is come, one stands watching the last sweep of violet into dun above the line of the hill. Now the only sound in all the world is the running stream; you turn down the path, open the door, find light of theFire to ye lan, light it and then turn. The books crowd in upon you, they are pressing, urgent, upon every side. Is you stand by one of the bookcases there is a glorious instant of indecision that you would prolong if nature would but allow then the book, almost without 1t Aeliberate consciousness, is in your hand, your chair is drawn to the blaze, and with a sigh of content you are off and away. Hugh Walpole
October 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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selv.bsky.social
Anyone know why R.C. Hutchinson isn’t more well-known these days? Was lent this and (whilst slightly on the dense and melodramatic side for me) the dust-jacket has serious praise from the likes of Hugh Walpole, J.B. Priestley and Cecil Day Lewis. Tastes change, I suppose.
Elephant & Castle by R.C.Hutchinson What leading English critics have said about the work of R. C. HUTCHINSON SIR HUGH WALPOLE "R. C. Hutchinson should be of the first importance to the English novel." COMPTON MACKENZIE "The best male novelist his generation has produced in England." J. B. PRIESTLEY "R. C. Hutchinson is a born novelist .... a real creative writer, and we must cherish him." RALPH STRAUS (Sunday Times) "R. C. Hutchinson steps into the front rank of contemporary novelists." J. D. BERESFORD "His work should be judged as literature." RICHARD CHURCH "A survivor for critics looking back later in the twentieth century." C. DAY LEWIS "R. C. Hutchinson is one of the very few living English novelists who will be read fifty-perhaps a hundred-years hence." 15/ - NET
October 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM