**W. J. Wintle** (1861-1934), full name **William James Wintle**, wrote extensively for both newspapers and magazines in the late Victorian and early Edwardian periods. Wide-ranging in his interests, he produced books on subjects as diverse as Prince Albert, Florence Nightingale, and old English songs. *Armenia and Its Sorrows* (1896) is one of his most notable works. He was also an amateur natural historian who published books on shells and microscopy, and was a fellow of the London Zoological Society. A religious man, Wintle later became a lay brother at the Abbey on Caldey Island off the Welsh coast. *Ghost Gleams*, published in 1921, was a collection of fifteen tales of the uncanny which he had first invented to entertain the boys who attended the Abbey school. (In his introduction, Wintle noted that 'the gruesome ones met with the best reception.') [Biographical note from *Supernatural Sherlocks* (2017), edited by Nick Rennison]