W W Jacobs
My mother read The Monkey's Paw at a Halloween party when I was a child (here in the US, we have scary stories at Halloween, not Christmas like you Britons do) and it terrified all of us. I've never wanted to read it again ever since.
I've read a lot of stories by Georgette Heyer and I think that the bar in one of those old inns was separate from the coffee room.
My mother read The Monkey's Paw at a Halloween party when I was a child (here in the US, we have scary stories at Halloween, not Christmas like you Britons do) and it terrified all of us. I've never wanted to read it again ever since.
I've read a lot of stories by Georgette Heyer and I think that the bar in one of those old inns was separate from the coffee room.