Question about weird tale by English horror writer (8)

I believe the answer is:

wheatley

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'horror writer' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.

'question about weird tale by english' is the wordplay.
'question' becomes 'why' (why is a question word).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'weird' is an anagram indicator.
'by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'english' becomes 'E' (abbreviation).
'tale'+'e'='talee'
'talee' anagrammed gives 'eatle'.
'why' enclosing 'eatle' is 'WHEATLEY'.

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