Sleep no more rolt7/7/2023 ![]() "The Cat Returns" is lacking punch, being a fairly standard tale of ghostly appearances with a final "surprise." "Bosworth Summit Pound" has a haunting on a ghostly stretch of canal. "The Mine" tells of subterranean horrors in a lead mine brief, but with a punch. James and his school, but embracing Britain's industrial and transit landscape, which makes him a somewhat different voice in the field of English ghost stories. Sleep No More (published 1948) is interesting as many of the stories eschew the usual manor houses and crumbling churches of M. According to some he was also notable early on for his "green" philosophy. ![]() His ghost stories were a minor part of his literary output his efforts were mostly spent in writing about waterways, railroads, cars, biographies of civil engineers, industrial history, and travel, and he was a promoter of leisure cruising in Britain's inland waterways. ![]() Rolt (1910-1974) is one of those lesser-known writers you wish more people knew about. ![]()
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