Rosemary Timperley was a British novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. She wrote a wide range of fiction, publishing 66 novels in 33 years, and several hundred short stories, but is best remembered for her ghost stories which appear in many anthologies. She also edited several volumes of ghost stories.

Her story Harry has been filmed several times.

Novels

• A Dread of Burning (1956, James Barrie, UK)
• Web of Scandal (1957, James Barrie, UK)
• The Fairy Doll (1959, Robert Hale, UK)
• Dreamers in the Dark (1960, Robert Hale, UK)
• Shadow of a Woman (1960, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Velvet Smile (1961, Robert Hale, UK)
• Yesterday's Voices (1961, Robert Hale, UK)
• Twilight Bar (1962, Robert Hale, UK)
• Across a Crowded Room (1962, Robert Hale, UK)
• Let Me Go (1963, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Bitter Friendship (1963, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Veiled Heart (1964, John Gresham, UK)
• Broken Circle (1964, John Gresham, UK)
• The Suffering Tree (1965, Robert Hale, UK)
• Devils' Paradise (1965, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Haunted Garden (1966, Robert Hale, UK)
• They Met in Moscow (1966, Robert Hale, UK)
• Blind Alley (1967, Robert Hale, UK)
• Forgive Me (1967, Robert Hale, UK)
• My Room in Rome (1968, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Washers-Up (1968, Robert Hale, UK)
• Lights on the Hill (1968, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Cat-Walk (1969, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Tragedy Business (1969, Robert Hale, UK)
• Doctor Z (1970, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Mask Shop (1970, Robert Hale, UK)
• Rome With Mrs. Evening (1970, Robert Hale, UK)
• House of Secrets (1971, Robert Hale, UK) Sequel to The Tragedy Business (1969).
• The Summer Visitors (1971, Robert Hale, UK)
• Walk to San Michele (1971, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Long Black Dress (1972, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Passionate Marriage (1972, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Echo-Game (1973, Robert Hale, UK)
• Journey With Doctor Godley (1973, Robert Hale, UK) Sequel to The Tragedy Business (1969) and House of Secrets (1971).
• Shadows in the Park (1973, Robert Hale, UK)
• Juliet (1974, Robert Hale, UK)
• The White Zig-Zag Path (1974, Robert Hale, UK)
• Ali and Little Camel (1975, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Private Prisoners (1975, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Egyptian Woman (1976, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Stranger (1976, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Devil of the Lake (1977, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Phantom Husband (1977, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Man With the Beard (1977, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Nameless One (1978, Robert Hale, UK)
• Syrilla Black (1978, Robert Hale, UK)
• Suspicion (1978, Robert Hale, UK) Sequel to The Tragedy Business (1969), House of Secrets (1971) and Journey With Doctor Godley (1973).
• Justin and the Witch (1979, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Secretary (1979, Robert Hale, UK)
• Homeward Bound (1980, Robert Hale, UK)
• The House of Mad Children (1980, Robert Hale, UK)
• Miss X (1980, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Spell of the Hanged Man (1981, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Secret Dancer (1981, Robert Hale, UK)
• That Year at the Office (1981, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Face in the Leaves (1982, Robert Hale, UK)
• Night Talk (1982, Robert Hale, UK)
• Chidori's Room (1983, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Office Party - and After (1984, Robert Hale, UK)
• Love and Death (1985, Robert Hale, UK)
• Tunnel of Shadows (1986, Robert Hale, UK)
• The Wife's Tale (1986, Robert Hale, UK)
• After School Hours (1987, Robert Hale, UK)
• Inside (1988, Robert Hale, UK)
• Shadow on the Roof (1989, Robert Hale, UK)

• A Trilogy (1976, Robert Hale, UK) An omnibus edition of The Washers-Up (1968), The Tragedy Business (1969) and Doctor Z (1970).

Collections

• The Listening Child: Three Short Novels (1956, James Barrie, UK) Published in the US as Child in the Dark: Three Novelettes (1956, Crowell, US)
• Home From the Sea (2012, Richard Simms, UK)

Anthologies edited and introduced

• The 5th Ghost Book (1969, Barrie & Rockliff, UK)
• The 6th Ghost Book (1970, Barrie & Rockliff, UK) Pan
  Pan Books
  Pan Books is an imprint which first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers owned by German publishers, Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group....
  
  published the 1972 paperback in two volumes.
• The 7th Ghost Book (1971, Barrie & Rockliff, UK)
• The 8th Ghost Book (1972, Barrie & Rockliff, UK)
• The 9th Ghost Book (1973, Barrie & Rockliff, UK)

External links

• Official website.