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English Horror Writers: Neil Gaiman, Mary Shelley, Saki, Clive Barker, M. R. James, Ann Radcliffe, William Hope Hodgson, Ramsey Campbell
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-07.
ISBN 9781155905549
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Neil Gaiman, Mary Shelley, Saki, Clive Barker, M. R. James, Ann Radcliffe, William Hope Hodgson, Ramsey Campbell, Edward Frederic Benson, Brian Lumley, Colin Wilson, Algernon Blackwood, Charles Birkin, China Miéville, William Thomas Beckford, Christopher Priest, Kim Newman, Hugh B. Cave, Dennis Wheatley, Robert Aickman, Walter de La Mare, Guy N. Smith, Steve Green, James Herbert, Vernon Lee, Eliza Parsons, Steven Savile, Matthew Lewis, Basil Copper, Tim Dedopulos, Gerald Kersh, Shaun Hutson, H. Russell Wakefield, Reggie Oliver, Paul Meloy, Nigel Bennett, Mark Morris, Jasper Kent, Bernard Taylor, Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, Oliver Onions, Oscar Cook, Celia Rees, Mel Hague, John Blackburn, Christopher Fowler, John Metcalfe, David Moody, Regina Maria Roche, E. H. Visiak, Sarah Pinborough, Peter Van Greenaway, Mark Samuels, Sam Stone, Lady Cynthia Asquith, Joel Lane, David Pirie, Walter S. Masterman, Margery Lawrence, Tim Lebbon, Elizabeth Walter, Violet Van Der Elst, Uel Key, Dean Vincent Carter. Excerpt: Algernon Blackwood Algernon Henry Blackwood , CBE (14 March 1869 10 December 1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that "his work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany 's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century". Life and work Blackwood was born in Shooter's Hill (today part of south-east London , but then part of northwest Kent ) and educated at Wellington College . His father was a Post Office administrator who, according to Peter Penzoldt , "though not devoid of genuine good-heartedness, had appa
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