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| x Edgar Allan Poe |
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Thomas de Quincey | Walt Whitman |
Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe, January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the...
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| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | William Faulkner | ||||
| Charles Dickens | Herman Melville | ||||
| Paul Valéry | |||||
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| x Jonathan Swift |
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Daniel Defoe | Alexander Pope | H. L. Mencken |
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
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| William Flower, 1st Baron Castle Durrow | H. G. Wells | ||||
| Jorge Luis Borges | |||||
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| Ambrose Bierce | |||||
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| x Guy de Maupassant |
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Honoré de Balzac | Gustave Flaubert | Henry James | |
| Gustave Flaubert | Anton Chekhov | ||||
| Émile Zola | Louis-Ferdinand Céline | ||||
| Arthur Schopenhauer | H. P. Lovecraft | ||||
| W. Somerset Maugham | |||||
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| x Oswald Spengler |
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | William S. Burroughs |
Oswald Manuel Arnold Gottfried Spengler (29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) was a German historian and philosopher whose interests also included mathematics, science, and art. He is best known for his book The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des...
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| Friedrich Nietzsche | Joseph Campbell | ||||
| Friedrich Nietzsche | |||||
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | |||||
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | |||||
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| x H. G. Wells |
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Jonathan Swift | George Bernard Shaw | Karel Čapek |
Herbert George "H.G." Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics...
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| Jules Verne | C. S. Lewis | ||||
| Mary Shelley | Arthur C. Clarke | ||||
| Mark Twain | Brian Aldiss | ||||
| Plato | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||||
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| x Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany |
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Algernon Swinburne | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| John Keats | H. P. Lovecraft | ||||
| Brothers Grimm | J. R. R. Tolkien | ||||
| Hans Christian Andersen | Michael Moorcock | ||||
| Neil Gaiman | |||||
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| x A. Merritt |
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Edgar Rice Burroughs | H. P. Lovecraft |
Abraham Grace Merritt (January 20, 1884–August 21, 1943) — known by his byline, A. Merritt — was an American editor and author of works of fantastic fiction.
Born in Beverly, New Jersey, he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1894. Originally...
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| Gertrude Barrows Bennett | Gary Gygax | ||||
| H. Rider Haggard | Jack Williamson | ||||
| Vladimir Colin | |||||
| x Stanley G. Weinbaum |
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H. G. Wells | Isaac Asimov |
Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (April 4, 1902 – December 14, 1935) was an American science fiction author. His career in science fiction was short but influential. His first story, "A Martian Odyssey", was published to great (and enduring) acclaim in July...
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| Edgar Allan Poe | Stephen King | ||||
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | Arthur C. Clarke | ||||
| Jules Verne | H. P. Lovecraft | ||||
| Mary Shelley | Robert A. Heinlein | ||||
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| x Clark Ashton Smith |
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Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany | H. P. Lovecraft | Emil Petaja | |
| H. P. Lovecraft | David A. Hargrave | ||||
| Edgar Allan Poe | Jack Vance | ||||
| M. R. James | Robert E. Howard | ||||
| Richard Francis Burton | H. P. Lovecraft | ||||
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| x Robert E. Howard |
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Clark Ashton Smith | H. P. Lovecraft | Fritz Leiber |
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is probably best known for his character, Conan the Barbarian, he is regarded as the father of the sword and...
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| Edgar Rice Burroughs | Gary Gygax | ||||
| Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany | George R. R. Martin | ||||
| Alexandre Dumas | Michael Moorcock | ||||
| Thomas Bulfinch | Richard L. Tierney | ||||
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| x M. R. James |
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Sheridan Le Fanu | John Betjeman |
Montague Rhodes James, OM, MA, (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936), who used the publication name M. R. James, was an English mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered...
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| Ramsey Campbell | |||||
| John Bellairs | |||||
| Stephen King | |||||
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| x Arthur Machen |
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Robert Louis Stevenson | Mark Samuels | ||
| Edgar Allan Poe | Graham Joyce | ||||
| M. P. Shiel | Ramsey Campbell | ||||
| Charles Dickens | Robert E. Howard | ||||
| François Rabelais | H. P. Lovecraft | ||||
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| x William Hope Hodgson |
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Algernon Blackwood | H. P. Lovecraft |
William Hope Hodgson (November 15, 1877 – April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science...
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| Clark Ashton Smith | |||||
| China Miéville | |||||
| Gene Wolfe | |||||
| Dennis Wheatley | |||||
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| x Algernon Blackwood |
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Ramsey Campbell |
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....
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| Evangeline Walton | |||||
| William Hope Hodgson | |||||
| x Robert W. Chambers |
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Ambrose Bierce | Robert Shea | ||
| Brian Stableford | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||||
| Edgar Allan Poe | Robert Anton Wilson | ||||
| James Blish | |||||
| H. P. Lovecraft | |||||
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| x Hanns Heinz Ewers |
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Edgar Allan Poe | H. P. Lovecraft |
Hanns Heinz Ewers (3 November 1871 in Düsseldorf – 12 June 1943 in Berlin) was a German actor, poet, philosopher, and writer of short stories and novels. While he wrote on a wide range of subjects, he is now known mainly for his works of horror,...
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| x Gertrude Barrows Bennett |
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H. P. Lovecraft |
Gertrude Barrows Bennett (1883–1948) was the first major female writer of fantasy and science fiction in the United States, publishing her stories under the pseudonym Francis Stevens. Bennett wrote a number of highly acclaimed fantasies between 1917...
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