This article is from the Books FAQ, by Evelyn C. Leeper eleeper@jaguar.stc.lucent.com with numerous contributions by others.
William Wymark Jacobs (1863-1943), an English writer of sketches of
seafaring and rural life, mostly comic. He wrote a few other horror
stories, notably "The Toll-House." For more information see E. F.
Bleiler's THE GUIDE TO SUPERNATURAL FICTION, Kent State Univ., 1983.
 
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