Editing Sabine Baring-Gould (section)

==Literature==
Baring-Gould wrote many novels, including ''The Broom-Squire'' set in the [[Devil's Punch Bowl]] (1896), ''Mehalah: a story of the salt marshes'' (1880),<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mehalah:_a_story_of_the_salt_marshes_(1880) |title=Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes |last=Baring-Gould |first=Sabine |publisher=Smith, Elder, and Co. |year=1880}}</ref> ''Guavas the Tinner'' (1897),<ref>{{cite book |first=Sabine |last=Baring-Gould |year=1897 |title= Guavas, the Tinner |publisher=Methuen & Co., London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qz8OAAAAIAAJ}}</ref> the 16-volume ''[[The Lives of the Saints (Baring-Gould)|The Lives of the Saints]]'', and the biography of the eccentric poet-vicar of [[Morwenstow]], [[Robert Stephen Hawker]]. He also published nearly 200 short stories in assorted magazines and periodicals.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Sabine_Baring-Gould#Short_stories|title=Sabine Baring-Gould – Wikisource, the free online library|website=en.wikisource.org|access-date=2018-01-19}}</ref> Many of these short stories were collected together and republished as anthologies, such as his ''[[wikisource:A Book of Ghosts|Book of Ghosts]]'' (1904), ''Dartmoor Idyllys'' (1896), and ''In a Quiet Village'' (1900). His folkloric studies resulted in ''The Book of Were-Wolves'' (1865), one of the most frequently cited studies of [[lycanthropy]]. He habitually wrote while standing, and his [[standing desk]] can be seen in the manor.

One of his most enduringly popular works was ''Curious Myths of the Middle Ages,''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/stream/curiousmythsofmi00bariuoft/curiousmythsofmi00bariuoft_djvu.txt |title= Curious Myths of the Middle Ages |year= 1876 |via=archive.org}}</ref> first published in two parts during 1866 and 1868, and republished in many other editions since then. "Each of the book's twenty-four chapters deals with a particular medieval superstition and its variants and antecedents," writes critic Steven J. Mariconda.<ref>Steven J. Mariconda, "Baring-Gould and the Ghouls: The Influence of ''Curious Myths of the Middle Ages'' on '[[The Rats in the Walls]]'", ''The Horror of It All'', p. 42.</ref> [[H. P. Lovecraft]] termed it "that curious body of medieval lore which the late Mr. Baring-Gould so effectively assembled in book form."<ref>[[H. P. Lovecraft]], "Supernatural Horror in Literature", ''Dagon and Other Macabre Tales'', p. 352; cited in Mariconda, p. 42.</ref>

He wrote much about the [[Westcountry|West Country]]: his works of this topic include:
* ''A Book of the West''. 2 vols. I: Devon; II: Cornwall. London : Methuen, 1899
* ''Cornish Characters and Strange Events''. London: John Lane, 1909 (reissued in 1925 in 2 vols., First series and Second series)
* ''Devonshire Characters and Strange Events''.

Baring-Gould served as president of the [[Royal Institution of Cornwall]] for ten years from 1897.<ref>{{cite ODNB |last=Colloms |first=Brenda |year=2004 |title=Gould, Sabine Baring- (1834–1924) |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/30587 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30587 |access-date= 15 November 2007}}</ref>