Author: "B"
Bio: Between 1911 and 1914, a series of fine antiquarian ghost stories appeared among the pages of the *Magdalene College Magazine*. The authorship of the tales is as much of a mystery today as it was at the time since the writer only used the pen-name 'B'.
Various suggestions have been made over the years concerning B's identity, with E. G. Swain, Arthur Gray and A. C. Benson all being put forward as possibilities. Problems exist with all these suggestions, though it would seem the stories may have been created in response to Gray's 'Ingulphus' ghost series concerning the history of Jesus College, Cambridge.
Five of the tales were collected by the anthologist Rosemary Pardoe and published in 1986 under her Haunted Library imprint. A further story, "The hare', was included in the Haunted Library magazine *Ghosts and Scholars* (no. 8) in the same year.
-- from *Shadows in the Attic: A Guide to British Supernatural Fiction 1820-1950*, Neil Wilson (2000).