Robert Thurston Hopkins

Robert Thurston Hopkins (1884-1958) was a British writer and ghost hunter.

Hopkins wrote biographical works on Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde. He also wrote books on the English countryside.

Hopkins was a ghost hunter known for his books on ghosts. He described his experiences in his book Adventures with Phantoms (1946). He claimed to have encountered the ghost of a hanged man in a woodland near Burwash on two occasions in the 1930s.

Publications

• Oscar Wilde: A Study of the Man and His Work (1913)
• War and the Weird (1916)
• Kipling's Sussex (1921)
• Rudyard Kipling, a Character Study: Life, Writings and Literary Landmarks (1921)
• H. G. Wells: Personality, Character, Topography (1922)
• Thomas Hardy's Dorset (1922)
• Rudyard Kipling's World (1925)
• The Kipling Country (1925)
• The Literary Landmarks of Devon & Cornwall (1926)
• Old English Mills and Inns (1927)
• This London: Its Taverns, Haunts and Memories (1927)
• London Pilgrimages (1928)
• In Search of English Windmills (1931)
• Old Windmills of England (1931)
• Life and death at the Old Bailey (1935)
• Moated Houses of England (1935)
• Adventures with Phantoms (1946)
• The Heart of London (1951)
• Ghosts Over England (1953)
• Cavalcade of Ghosts (1956)