All Souls' Night (Annotated)

All Souls' Night gathers Hugh Walpole's supernatural tales into a volume where the ghost story is treated not as mere sensation but as a study of moral pressure, memory, and fear. Its prose is lucid, atmospheric, and carefully paced, moving from domestic realism into the uncanny with an Edwardian restraint that recalls M. R. James while retaining Walpole's own interest in emotional crisis and haun...