Alfred McLelland Burrage (1889 – 1956) was a British

United Kingdom

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 writer.

He was noted in his time as an author of fiction for boys which he published under the pseudonym

Pseudonym

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 Frank Lelland, including a popular series called "Tufty".

He served in the First World War and published a memoir of his experiences, War Is War, as "Ex-Private X".

Burrage is now remembered mainly for his horror fiction

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

, which was originally collected in the books Some Ghost Stories (1927) and Someone in the Room (1931, as by "Ex-Private X") and has been reprinted by Ash-Tree Press.

A critical essay on Burrage's horror fiction appears in S. T. Joshi

S. T. Joshi

Sunand Tryambak Joshi — known as S. T. Joshi — is an award-winning Indian American literary critic, novelist, and a leading figure in the study of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction...

's Classics and Contemporaries (2009).

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