This individual wrote the novel The Midnight Folk. The author of the semi-satirical novel The Foundation Pit died 10 years before him.
Andrei Platonov (Russian:   , ] ; August 28[O.S. August 16]1899  January 5, 1951) was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov (Russian:    ), a Soviet Russian writer, playwright, and poet, whose works anticipate existentialism. 
John Edward Masefield, OM ( ; 1 June 1878  12 May 1967) English poet and writer, was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930. 
The Foundation Pit (Russian: , "kotlovan") is a gloomy symbolic and semi-satirical novel by Andrei Platonov. 
The Midnight Folk is a children's fantasy novel by John Masefield first published in 1927. 
