#HBD Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) 🎂

Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) entry in Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural (1986)

BRITISH SCHOLAR AND AUTHOR (GENERALLY REFERRED TO AS Q); WROTE SEVERAL GHOST' STORIES THAT ARE IN HIS NUMEROUS COLLECTIONS, SOME OF WHICH HAVE BEEN REPRINTED by Arno Press. 

Quillcr-Couch’s “A Pair of Hands" (1900) is a gentle talc of a child's ghost in a Cornish cottage. On another plane altogether is "The Seventh Man" (1900), a truly chilling story of six men trapped in the Arctic who may or may not have a seventh in their midst. Of his books of stories, two are especially worth reading: Wandering Heath. Stories, Studies, and Sketches (1895) and Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts (1900, rpt. 1973). His novel Dead Man's Rock (1887) also rewards digging out. Robert AICKMAN, himself no slouch at writing good scenes, declared that it "contains the best face-at-the-window scene ever written." Other works by Quiller-Couch include Noughts and Crosses (1891, rpt. 1977), The Laird’s Luck (stories, 1901), I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter's Tales (1902, rpt. 1977), and Two Sides of the Face: Midwinter Tales (1903). 

H.L. [Hugh Lamb, a connoisseur of quality supernatural fiction, is the editor of three Victorian collections: Terror by Gaslight, Victorian Nightmares, and Victorian Tales of Terror.]O