I decided to read this on a random basis - it will never be possible to read everything on this website of course - sadly.
What a terrific read it was - from the extraordinarily productive Charles Hamilton. Apparently, every day, he locked himself in a shed in his garden (with all the amenities) and wrote practically from dawn to dusk - spent his life living inside his head.
Do you think the this Drear Manor setting was the inspiration for Kim Newman's wonderful (if truly bizarre and unsettling) Drearcliff Manor stories?
Link to the book:
The Schoolgirl 354