D. K. Broster

Dorothy Kathleen Broster, usually known as D. K. Broster, was an English novelist and short-story writer. Her fiction consists mainly of historical romances set in the 18th or early 19th centuries. Her best known novel is The Flight of the Heron (1925), set during the Jacobite rising of 1745. Broster's horror fiction stories depict haunted artists, psychic girls, haunted chairs, and supernatural entities tormenting living humans. In 2022, several of her weird fiction stories were reprinted in the collection From the Abyss: Weird Fiction, 1907 - 1945