The Waxwork - About the Author

Alfred McLelland Burrage or A.M. Burrage was born in  England in 1889. His father and uncle were both successful authors, and Alfred also started his writing  career at a young age. He published his first story Footprints  at the age of 23.

He lived in London for many years and was a prolific writer of short stories – many of them ghost stories – for magazines. During the First World War he served as a private in the Artists Rifles (28th Battalion, London Regiment). He was evacuated in April 1918 due to trench foot. Some years later he went on to write about his war experiences under the pseudonym of Ex-Private X.

This book War is War was published in 1930. The Waxwork was published in 1931, also under the name of Ex-Private X. It was very popular in America and is a great example of the suspense genre.

A.M. Burrage died in 1956.