A. M. Burrage facts for kids
Alfred McLelland Burrage (1889–1956) was a British writer. He was known for writing adventure stories for boys. He used the pen name Frank Lelland for these stories. One popular series he wrote was called "Tufty." After he passed away, Burrage became most famous for his spooky ghost stories.
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Life and Work
Alfred Burrage was born in Hillingdon, London, in 1889. His father and uncle were also writers. They wrote many stories for boys' magazines. Burrage went to St Augustine's Abbey School in Ramsgate.
After his father died in 1906, A. M. Burrage started writing. He did this partly to help support his family. Burrage mainly wrote for British pulp magazines. These were cheap magazines printed on low-quality paper. Some of them were The Grand Magazine, The Novel Magazine, and Cassell's Magazine.
He served in the Artists Rifles during the First World War. Later, Burrage's publisher, Victor Gollancz Ltd., printed a book about his war experiences. It was called War Is War and was published under the name "Ex-Private X". This book received good reviews.
Burrage also wrote a funny novel for children called Poor Dear Esme (1925). It was about a boy who had to pretend to be a girl. He even had to go to a girls' school! This book was very popular and was reprinted many times. Burrage also wrote historical and romance fiction. His historical stories were often set in England in the 1600s.
Today, Burrage is mostly remembered for his horror fiction. These scary stories were first put together in books like Some Ghost Stories (1927) and Someone in the Room (1931).
Alfred Burrage passed away at Edgware General Hospital on December 18, 1956. He was sixty-seven years old.
His Books
Here are some of the books Alfred Burrage wrote:
Novels
- The St. Austin's Mystery: A Rattling School Story (1908)
- The Cad of the College (1921)
- The Golden Barrier (1925)
Collections
- Poor Dear Esme (1925)
- Some Ghost Stories (1927)
- Someone in the Room (1931)
- Seeker to the Dead (1942)
- Don't Break the Seal (1946)
- Between the Minute and the Hour (1967)
