A. M. Burrage

A. M. Burrage (1889–1956), during the first four decades of this century, Alfred McLelland Burrage, was one of the most prolific British writers of short popular fiction. There was scarcely a mainstream weekly, fortnightly, or monthly whose Contents page did not, at one time or another, feature his name.

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Someone in the Room: Strange Tales Old and New,this was the third volume in Ash-Tree Press's ambitious series collecting all of A.M. Burrage's known supernatural fiction. Burrage had been a prolific contributor to periodicals during the first four decades of the twentieth century, and his supernatural tales had earned recognition from both Conan Doyle and M.R. James. Yet much of his work had remained scattered and difficult to find, making this comprehensive collection project essential for preserving his legacy.

This volume contains twenty-eight stories. Fourteen of the stories comprise Burrage's rare second collection, Someone in the Room, published under the pseudonym "Ex-Private-X" in 1931. Five stories are the sole original tales from the almost equally elusive Between the Minute and the Hour (1967). Of the rest, seven are now collected in book form for the first time, making this volume essential for anyone interested in Burrage's complete supernatural fiction. The volume ends with two fascinating articles: one semi-autobiographical, on real-life ghosts; the second (previously uncollected) detailing Burrage's ghost story preferences.

Edition Details

• Dust Jacket illustrated by Douglas Walters.
• This is a full clothbound edition limited to 500 copies.

External Links

• A. M. Burrage. ISFDB entry for A. M. Burrage
• Someone in the Room: Strange Tales Old and New. ISFDB entry for Someone in the Room: Strange Tales Old and New