The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Hugh Walpole-Volume 2: One Novel 'The Killer and the Slain' and Thirteen Short Stories of the Strange - Paperbackby Hugh Walpole (Author) The second volume of Hugh Walpole's collected strange fiction Sir Hugh Walpole was one of the most popular and prolific British authors of the first half of the 20th century. After the publication of his first novel, 'The Wooden Horse', in 1909 he produced one significant work each year including the acclaimed 'Herries' series. Born in New Zealand in 1884, the son of an Anglican clergyman, Walpole was committed to becoming a