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  1. Frank Baker (writer) Francis Baker (22 May 1908 – 6 November 1983 [1]) was a British writer of novels and short stories, mainly on fantastic or supernatural themes. He was also an actor, musician and television scriptwriter. His best-known works are his novels, The Birds (1936) and Miss Hargreaves (1940), and his memoir, I Follow But Myself ...

  2. Just-in-Penwith, earning £1 a week as an organist. There he began to write. His first novel, 'The Twisted Tree' was published in 1935. Over his life Frank Baker published a series of novels and short stories as well as articles. Frank Baker was born in Hornsey, London in 1908. He was educated at Winchester Cathedral School, where he enjoyed ...

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  3. Dec 22, 2009 · Paperback – Dec 22 2009. When, on the spur of the moment, Norman Huntley and his friend Henry invent an eighty-three-year-old woman called Miss Hargreaves, they are inspired to post a letter to their new fictional friend. It is only meant to be a silly, harmless game―until Miss Hargreaves arrives on their doorstep.

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  4. This 1939 volume was a popular prewar novel displaying the dubious literary talents of organist, actor, BBC editor, and author Frank Baker (1908-83). The work relates the mysterious (but comical) tale of Norman Huntley, who while on vacation in the wilds of Ireland with his friend Henry, whimsically invents a fictional elderly and eccentric woman, the eponymous Miss Hargreaves.

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  5. Frank Baker. Author : 1908 - 1983. Frank Baker was the author of several fantastic novels and short stories, many of which continue to delight readers worldwide. This site has been created by his surviving family and is dedicated to his memory and his work. On this site -. 'The Birds' by Frank Baker - an inspiration for Hitchock and Du Maurier?

  6. Frank Baker, Ken Mogg (Introduction) 3.51. 209ratings31reviews. Kindle $8.99. Those who are old enough to remember still speak of the days “before the birds came.”. For the birds did come, descending on London by the thousands or even millions, inexplicably and seemingly out of nowhere. At first, the birds did little but watch, and ...

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  8. Nov 28, 2013 · Frank Baker (1908-1983) is an unusual and appealing writer, at times quite similar to that grandmaster of the supernatural, Arthur Machen, whom he knew and whose 1917 novel, "The Terror," he has ...