Harold Alfred Manhood

Who is Harold Alfred Manhood?

Harold Alfred Manhood, who for much of his life lived in a converted railway carriage in the Sussex countryside, was renowned for his imaginative short stories. Many of them had a rural setting, and would often touch upon the weird and supernatural, although his more down-to-earth yarns are also great reads. His short story collections, which include Nightseed and other Tales, Apples by Night and Fierce and Gentle are widely considered to be classics. His novel Gay Agony was published in 1930. Manhood contributed 97 tales to the Evening News between 1934 and 1964. Other short stories appeared in Argosy, Lilliput, The Star and John O'London's Weekly.