William Wymark Jacobs - the funniest horror                                      writer

William Wymark Jacobs was an Englishman and a master of short humorous stories. He was born in London in not so rich family but still was tought in the privat school. He worked as a clerk and was published summultaniously. He married Agnes Eleanor. Five children appered as a result of their love.
The majority of his output was humorous in tone. His favourite subjects were marine life: "men who go down to the sea in ships of moderate tonnage" said Punch, reviewing his first collection of stories, Many Cargoes, which achieved great popular success on its publication in 1896.

 It was followed in 1897 by a novelette titled The Skipper's Wooing and in 1898 by another collection of short stories Sea Urchins. But to the wide public he's famous for his horrors. But they stillhave the soft irony and a humour before the tragedy.