Count Stenbock
Count Eric Stanislaus (or Stanislaus Eric) Stenbock was a Baltic German poet and writer of macabre fantastic fiction. He was a symbol of his age, poet, decadent, short story writer, a true member of the aristocracy who mixed with the Socialists and radicals of the late Nineteenth Century. In his time he was known as a 'drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men' a description which serves to confuse more than illuminate. Stenbock's life in Brighton, London and Estonia gives us a window on to the complicated worlds of literature, art and fashion which characterised the late Nineteenth Century.
Stenbock was the count of Bogesund and the heir to an estate near Kolga in Estonia. He was the son of Lucy Sophia Frerichs, a Manchester cotton heir
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Edith Wharton emerged as one of America’s most insightful novelists, deftly exposing the tensions between societal expectation and personal desire through her vivid portrayals of upper-class life. Drawing from her deep familiarity with New York’s privileged “aristocracy,” she offered readers a keenly observed and piercingly honest vision of Gilded Age society.
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Her work reached a milestone when she became the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, awarded for The Age of Innocence. This novel highlights the constraining rituals of 1870s New York society and remains a defining portrait of elegance laced with regret.
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Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a ne
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Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespr -
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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s.
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J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M.R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". Three of his best-known works are Uncle Silas, Carmilla and The House by the Churchyard.
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John William Polidori
John William Polidori was an Italian English physician and writer, known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction.
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Polidori was the oldest son of Gaetano Polidori, an Italian political émigré scholar, and Anna Maria Pierce, a governess. He had three brothers and four sisters.
He was one of the earliest pupils at recently established Ampleforth College from 1804, and in 1810 went up to the University of Edinburgh, where he wrote a thesis on sleepwalking and received his degree as a doctor of medicine on 1 August 1815 at the age of 19.
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Algernon Blackwood
Algernon Henry Blackwood (1869–1951) was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. The literary critic S. T. Joshi stated, "His work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures (1914) "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century".
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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 appallingly narrow religiou -
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon was a British Victorian era popular novelist. She was an extremely prolific writer, producing some 75 novels with very inventive plots. The most famous one is her first novel, Lady Audley's Secret (1862), which won her recognition and fortune as well. The novel has been in print ever since, and has been dramatised and filmed several times.
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Braddon also founded Belgravia Magazine (1866), which presented readers with serialized sensation novels, poems, travel narratives, and biographies, as well as essays on fashion, history, science. She also edited Temple Bar Magazine. Braddon's legacy is tied to the Sensation Fiction of the 1860s.
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Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote "over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unbridled emotion" and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of "a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror."
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He is well known for having created—in the pages of the legendary Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales—the character Conan the Cimmerian, a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.
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Théophile Gautier
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Epicurus
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For Epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to attain the happy, tranquil life, characterized by aponia, the absence of pain and fear, and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends. He taught that pleasure and pain are the measures of what is good and bad, that death is the end of the body and the soul and should therefore not be feared, that the gods do not reward or pun -
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Gottfried Keller
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Nikolai Gogol
People consider that Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Николай Васильевич Гоголь) founded realism in Russian literature. His works include The Overcoat (1842) and Dead Souls (1842).
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Ukrainian birth, heritage, and upbringing of Gogol influenced many of his written works among the most beloved in the tradition of Russian-language literature. Most critics see Gogol as the first Russian realist. His biting satire, comic realism, and descriptions of Russian provincials and petty bureaucrats influenced later Russian masters Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, and especially Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Gogol wittily said many later Russian maxims.
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
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Mary De Morgan
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Montague Rhodes James, who used the publication name M.R. James, was a noted English mediaeval scholar & provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–18) & of Eton College (1918–36). He's best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature. One of James' most important achievements was to redefine the ghost story for the new century by dispensing with many of the formal Gothic trappings of his predecessors, replacing them with more realistic contemporary settings.
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Frank R. Stockton
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Sarah Bernstein
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Kenan Hulûsi Koray
Hikaye yazarı. İstanbul Erkek Lisesi’ni bitirdikten sonra İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi’ne devam etti.
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Öğrencilik yıllarında ilk hikayelerini “Servet-i Fünün” dergisinde yayınlayarak edebiyat dünyasına adım attı. Aynı dergiye yazan diğer altı arkadaşı ile birlikte, edebiyatımızda "Yedi Meşaleciler" adıyla anılan topluluğu oluşturdular. Kenan Hulûsi, içlerindeki tek hikâye yazarıydı. 1928 yılında önce bir antoloji, ardından da bir dergi hazırlayarak çıkış yapan ve Sabri Esat Siyavuşgil, Ziya Osman Saba, Yaşar Nabi Nayır, Muammer Lütfi, Vasfi Mahir Kocatürk, Cevdet Kudret ve Kenan Hulûsi'den oluşan topluluk, milli edebiyatçıların sığlıklarına, gerçekçilikten kopmuş ve içi boşalmış "milli"liklerine bir tepkiyi dillendiriyordu. Ancak -
E.T.A. Hoffmann
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Demokan Atasoy
Eski Ankaralı(3 nesil), yeni İstanbullu. Turizm ve Sinema okudu. Sinemada asistanlık, özel televizyonlarda yönetmenlik ve yapımcılık yaptı. Sektördeki ikinci yılında, “Yaşam Ustaları” adlı programıyla, Çağdaş Gazeteciler Derneği’nin TV Programı dalında Yılın Başarılı Gazetecisi Ödülü’nü kazandı. İstanbul için, maceralı, hikâyeli, müzikli turistik mobil uygulama üretti.
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Aylık sinema dergisi Rabarba Şenlik’te, “Canavarlar, Yaratıklar, Manyaklar” adlı korku bölümünü hazırlayıp korku sanatlarını sinemaseverlere gerçek yüzüyle tanıttı. Hayalgücünün Merkezine Seyahat, Anadolu Korku Öyküleri, Aşkın Karanlık Yüzü, Karanlık Yılbaşı Öyküleri adlı seçkilere öyküleriyle dahil oldu. Yabani Dergi, Lemur Dergi ve Kabuk Dergi’de öyküleri yayımlandı.
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Uğur Kılınç
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Kenan Hulûsi Koray
Hikaye yazarı. İstanbul Erkek Lisesi’ni bitirdikten sonra İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi’ne devam etti.
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Öğrencilik yıllarında ilk hikayelerini “Servet-i Fünün” dergisinde yayınlayarak edebiyat dünyasına adım attı. Aynı dergiye yazan diğer altı arkadaşı ile birlikte, edebiyatımızda "Yedi Meşaleciler" adıyla anılan topluluğu oluşturdular. Kenan Hulûsi, içlerindeki tek hikâye yazarıydı. 1928 yılında önce bir antoloji, ardından da bir dergi hazırlayarak çıkış yapan ve Sabri Esat Siyavuşgil, Ziya Osman Saba, Yaşar Nabi Nayır, Muammer Lütfi, Vasfi Mahir Kocatürk, Cevdet Kudret ve Kenan Hulûsi'den oluşan topluluk, milli edebiyatçıların sığlıklarına, gerçekçilikten kopmuş ve içi boşalmış "milli"liklerine bir tepkiyi dillendiriyordu. Ancak -
H.B. Marriott Watson
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Marriott Watson was a popular author during his lifetime, best known for his swashbuckling, historical and romance fiction, and had over forty novels published between 1888 and 1919; these included seventeen short story collections and one collection of essays. He was a longtime resident of New Zealand, living there from 1872 to 1885, and often used his childhood home as the setting for many of his novels.
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Mary De Morgan
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Though De Morgan is one of the lesser known authors of literary fairytales, her works, heavily influenced by Hans Christian Andersen, are remarkable in deviating from the fairytale norm – often not including a happy ending, or not having the protagonist gain wealth or power (rather procuring the wisdom of recognising the -
Demokan Atasoy
Eski Ankaralı(3 nesil), yeni İstanbullu. Turizm ve Sinema okudu. Sinemada asistanlık, özel televizyonlarda yönetmenlik ve yapımcılık yaptı. Sektördeki ikinci yılında, “Yaşam Ustaları” adlı programıyla, Çağdaş Gazeteciler Derneği’nin TV Programı dalında Yılın Başarılı Gazetecisi Ödülü’nü kazandı. İstanbul için, maceralı, hikâyeli, müzikli turistik mobil uygulama üretti.
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Aylık sinema dergisi Rabarba Şenlik’te, “Canavarlar, Yaratıklar, Manyaklar” adlı korku bölümünü hazırlayıp korku sanatlarını sinemaseverlere gerçek yüzüyle tanıttı. Hayalgücünün Merkezine Seyahat, Anadolu Korku Öyküleri, Aşkın Karanlık Yüzü, Karanlık Yılbaşı Öyküleri adlı seçkilere öyküleriyle dahil oldu. Yabani Dergi, Lemur Dergi ve Kabuk Dergi’de öyküleri yayımlandı.
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F.G. Loring
Frederick George Loring (1869–1951) was an English naval officer and writer, and an early expert in wireless telegraphy.
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Loring's writing abilities appeared first as a technical journalist and as naval correspondent for the Western Morning News.
Loring also wrote poetry and short stories, of which "The Tomb of Sarah" gained acclaim as a classic vampire story after it appeared in volume XXII of Pall Mall Magazine in 1900. It tells what happens when the tomb of the evil Countess Sarah, murdered in 1630, is disturbed during the restoration of a church. Along with Hume Nisbet's "The Vampire Maid" and E. F. Benson's "Mrs. Amworth", it is among the foremost early 20th-century stories to feature a female vampire.
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Alice Askew
Alice Jane de Courcy Leake Askew
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Alice Askew
She was part of the husband-and-wife team of Alice and Claude Askew, both of whom perished when their passenger ship was torpedoed during the Great War in 1917. Askew was co-author of the Aylmer Vance stories wherein the protagonist, Vance, undertakes investigations on behalf of the ‘Ghost Circle’ and regularly exposes false mediums and the like. -
Franz Hartmann
Franz Hartmann was a German medical doctor, theosophist, occultist, geomancer, astrologer, and author.
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Madeline Yale Wynne
Madeline Yale Wynne was a talented artist of the Arts & Crafts movement who credits her father, Linus Yale, Jr., with giving her metal working experience as a child in his lock shop right beside her brothers. She studied art with artist George Fuller, a close friend of her father's and later at the Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, at the Arts Students' League in New York City and in Europe. Madeline married Henry Winn in 1865 and they had two sons but by 1874 they were separated. She lived and worked with her brother, Julian, in Chicago making jewelry but left when he died. She had a major influence on the Arts & Crafts Movement in Chicago and a group of artists there took the title of her short story "The Little Room" as
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Elizabeth Caroline Grey
Elizabeth Caroline Grey (1798-1869), aka Mrs. Colonel Grey or Mrs. Grey, was a prolific English author of over 30 romance novels, silver fork novels, Gothic novels, sensation fiction and Penny Dreadfuls, active between the 1820s and 1867. There is some controversy about the details of her life story, and if she actually authored any penny dreadfuls.
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Tyra Kleen
Tyra Kleen (1874–1951) var en svensk konstnär, illustratör och författare. Använde även pseudonymen Isis.
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