SOURCE: A review of They Return at Evening. Times Literary Supplement 1364 (22 March 1928): 223.

In the following review, Wakefield's first collection of ghost stories, They Return at Evening, is favorably reviewed.

Mr. Wakefield in this collection of ghost stories [They Return at Evening] provides a pleasing variety in the activities of his spectral characters. In “The Third Coach,” for instance, he permits an anticipatory revelation of a railway accident to prove invaluable in a rogue who is able to make use of his knowledge to secure the removal of an ungrateful hussy who seeks to blackmail her former partner in crime for the benefit of a consumptive but respectable lover. Two baronets play parts consonant] with the worst traditions, in fiction, of their order. The one is driven to despair by the post-mortem vindictiveness of the wife he has had every excuse for murdering; the other falls a victim to...