Howard Phillips Lovecraft HP Lovecraft was perhaps the most influential writer of horror and weird tales of his generation. That may not have been evident during his life or even for a while after his death, but his work continues to...
William Somerset Maugham W. Somerset Maugham was born in 1873 in Paris and died in Nice in 1965, was despite his brith and death places, English. He was a fantastically successful writer, being the highest paid author of the 1930s. His parents...
Richard Henry Malden R H Malden was born in 1879 in England and died in August 1951. He was brought up in East Anglia. He was educated at Eton and King’s College Cambridge and was a long-standing friend of M R...
Vernon Lee Despite sounding so masculine, Vernon Lee was actually a woman called Violet Paget, born in France in 1856 and died in Italy in 1935. Despite these location she identified as English. Her biographer Vineta Colby says that Lee was English...
Oliver Onions Oliver Onions was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England in 1873 and died in Aberystwyth in Wales in 1961, His father was a bank cashier. When he was a young man he was an amateur boxer. He didn’t like the...
The Horla by Guy de Maupassant Welcome to Episode 35 of the Classic Ghost Stories Podcast! What would really help me would be if you could think of one friend or acquaintance who would enjoy the Classic Ghost Stories Podcast and...
Aleksandr Pushkin Aleksandr Sergeyeviçh Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright and novelist. He was born in 1799 in Moscow and died aged on 37 in St Petersburg. Hie was fatally wounded on a duel fought with his brother in law, a soldier who...
Bram Stoker Bram Stoker was an Irish author born in 1847 in Dublin. Stoker is probably the best known horror writer in the world (after Steven King!) and is famous for his fantastically best-selling novel Dracula. Interestingly, Stoker spent his first...
Robert W. Chambers Robert William Chambers was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1865 and died in New York in 1933, aged 68. He was born to a well-off family; his father was a corporate lawyer with his own firm which...
Sam Hicks Sam Hicks is an English writer based in London. She caught my eye when I read the splendid anthology Fiends In The Furrows by Nosetouch Press. The story was then lifted to the The Best Horror of the Year...