of them about lonely misfits out of step with their times." Brian Stableford noted how Metcalfe's stories "build up a unique sense of unease." Works Novels Brenner's Boy (1932) Arm's Length Spring Darkness (US title: Mrs Condover) Foster-Girl (US title: Sally) All Friends Are Strangers The Feasting Dead (1954) (reprinted 2014 by Valancourt Books) Collections The Smoking Leg, and Other Stories (1925) Judas, and Other Stories (1931) Nightmare Jack and Other Tales (1998) References External links 1891 births 1965 deaths English fantasy writers English horror writers English science fiction writers Alumni of the University of London Royal Navy personnel of World War I Royal Naval Air Service personnel of World War I Royal Air Force personnel of World War II People from Heacham British male poets English male short story writers English short story writers English male novelists 20th-century English poets 20th-century English novelists 20th-century British short story writers 20th-century English male writers English male non-fiction writers British emigrants to the United States