Old Ladies
Author: first_name: Hugh
last_name: Walpole
Language: English
Year: 1924

“Quite a number of years ago there was an old rickety building on the rock above Seatown in Polchester, and it was one of a number in an old grass-grown square known as Pontippy Square.  In this house at one time or another lived three old ladies,…  It was a windy, creaky, rain-bitten dwelling-place for three old ladies….”  (excerpt from the book)  During the mid 1920s Walpole produced two of his best-known novels in the macabre vein that he drew on from time to time, exploring the fascination o