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the fantastic writer's gallery

Writers of horror, mystery, fantasy and science fiction



Robert C. Albright, (1887 + 1935)
Hans Christian Andersen, (April 1805 + 1875)
Poul Anderson, (November 25, 1926)
Isaac Asimov, (1920 + )
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, (1910)
Chas Balun,
Honoré de Balzac, (1799 + 1850)
René Barjavel, (1911)
Clive Barker, (1952)
Charles Baudelaire, (April 9, 1821 + August 31,1867)
William Beckford, (1760 + 1844)
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, (February 17, 1836 + 1868)
Ambrose Bierce, (July 24, 1842 + 1914, uncertain)
Algernon Blackwood, (1869 + 1951)
Robert Bloch, (1917 + 1995)
Jeorge Luis Borges, (August 24, 1899)
Pierre Boulle, (1912)
Jean Louis Bouquet, (1898 + 1978)
Ray Douglas Bradbury, (August 1920)
Edward Bryant,
John Buchan, (August 26, 1875 + February 11, 1940)
Michail Afana's evich Bulgakov, (1891 + March 10, 1940)
Arthur Burks, (could be a pseudonym of Ernest Hoffman Price)
Edgar Rice Burroughs, (September 1, 1875 + 1950)
Dino Buzzati, (1906 + January 1972)
Ramsey Campbell, (1946)
Capitane Danrit (pseudonym of Driant) (1855 + 1916)
Lewis Carroll, (pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (January 27, 1832 + January 14, 1898)
Robert W. Chambers, (1865 + 1933)
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (May 29, 1874 + June 14, 1936)
Agatha Christie,
Nancy Collins,
Carlo Collodi, (pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini) (1826 + 1890)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (May 22, 1859 + July 7, 1930)
Julio Cortàzar, (1914)
Erle H. M. Cox, (1873 + 1950)
Anne Crawford,
Michael Crichton, (1942)
Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, (1619 + July 23, 1655)
Roald Dahl, (1916 + 1990)
Gérard De Nerval, (1808 + January 25, 1855)
August Derleth, (1909)
Raoul De Warren, (September 5, 1905)
Philip Kindred Dick, (December 16, 1928)
Charles John Huffam Dickens, (February 7, 1812 + June 9, 1870)
Umberto Eco, (1932)
Ivan Efremov, (1907 + 1974)
George Eliot, (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans) (November 22, 1819 + December 22, 1880)
Michael Ende, (1929)
Hanns Heinz Ewers, (November 1871 + June 12, 1943)
Philip José Farmer, (1918)
Paul Féval, (nicknamed Jean Farine) (September 1817 + 1887)
Mick Garris,
Ray Garton
Théophile Gautier, (August 30, 1811 + October 23, 1872)
William Gibson, (1948)
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, (August 28, 1749 + March 22, 1832)
Albert Graham, (March 18, 1887 + )
Pierre Gripari,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, (July 4, 1804 + May 19, 1864)
Roparz Hemon / Louis Némo, (1900)
Frank Herbert, (1920)
James Herbert, (1943)
Theodore Herzl, (1860 + 1904)
William Hope Hodgson, (November 15, 1877 + 1918)
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, (1776 + 1822)
Ernest Hoffman Price, (1883 + )
Robert Erwin Howard, (January 22, 1906 + June 11, 1936)
Victor Hugo, (February 26, 1802 + May 22, 1885)
Aldous Leonard Huxley, (1894 + 1963)
Joris-Karl Huysmans, (February 1848 + 1907)
Shirley Jackson, (1919 + 1965)
Henry James, (1843 + 1916)
Montague Rhodes James, (1862 + 1936)
Jerome Klapka Jerome, (1859 + 1927)
Franz Kafka, (July 13, 1883 + June 3, 1924)
Stephen King, (1947)
Rudyard Kipling, (December 30, 1865 + January 18, 1936)
Alfred Kubin, (1877 + 1959)
Roberta Lannes,
Joe R. Lansdale,
Count of Lautréamont, (pseudonym of Isidore Ducasse) (1846 + 1870)
Maurice Leblanc, (1864 + November, 6 1941)
Anatole Le Braz, (1859 + 1926)
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, (August 28, 1814 + February 7, 1873)
Fritz Leiber, (1910)
Gustave Le Rouge, (1867 + 1938)
Gaston Leroux, (May 6, 1868 + April 15, 1927)
Clive Staples Lewis, (1898 + 1963)
Matthew Gregory Lewis, (1775 + 1818)
Henry Lieferant,
Lord Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany, ( + 1957)
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, (March 20, 1890 + March 15, 1937 h06:00)
Arthur Machen, (1863 + 1947)
Gabriel Garcìa Marquez, (March 26, 1928)
Richard Matheson, (1926)
Charles Robert Maturin, (1782 + 1824)
William Somerset Maugham, (January 15, 1874 + December 15, 1965)
Guy de Maupassant, (August 5, 1850 + July 6, 1893)
Ed McBain,
Thorp McClusky,
Abraham Merritt, (January 20, 1884 + 1943)
Gustav Meyrink, (pseudonym of Gustav Meyer) (January 19, 1868 + December 4, 1932)
Rex Miller,
Michael Moorcock,
Edith Nesbit, (1858 + 1924)
Charles Nodier, (April 1780 + January 1844)
Philip Nutman,
Fitz-James O'Brien, (1828 + 1862)
George Orwell, (pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair) (1903 + 1950)
Thomas Owen, (1910)
Joséphin Pedalan, (March 1859 + 1918)
Charles Perrault, (January 12, 1628 + March 16, 1703)
Edgar Allan Poe, (January 19, 1809 + October 4, 1849)
Frederik Pohl, (1919)
John William Polidori, (September 7, 1795 + August 1821)
Jan Potocki, (1761 + 1815)
Seabury Quinn, (March 7, 1889 + 1969)
Jean Ray, (1887 + 1964)
Francois Rabelais, (1494 + April 1553)
Ranger Gull (pseudonym of Guy Ranger (see))
Guy Ranger, ( + 1929)
Maurice Renard, (1875 + 1939)
René Rilke, (December 4, 1875 + December 29, 1926)
Albert Robida, (May 14, 1848 + October 11, 1926)
Sax Rohmer, (pseudonym of Arthur Henry Ward) (February 15, 1883 + 1959)
J.H. Rosny Ainé, (pseudonym of Joseph-Henry Boex) (1856 + 1940)
Raymond Roussell, (1877 + 1933)
J.S. Russell,
Ray Russell,
Wayne Allen Sallee,
Robert Anthony Salvatore, (1959)
Paul M. Sammon,
Seignolle, Claude (1917)
Robert Sheckley, (1928)
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, (1797 + 1851)
Matthew P. Shiel, (1865 + 1947)
Clifford D. Simak, (August 3, 1904)
John Skipp,
Clark Ashton Smith, (1893 + 1961)
Craig Spector,
Norman Spinrad, (1940)
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, (November 3, 1850 + December 3, 1894)
Abraham Stoker, (called "Bram") (1847 + 1912)
Peter Straub, (1943)
August Strindberg, (January 22, 1894 + May 14, 1912)
George Stroup, (pseudonym of John Malcom Trent) (1875 + March 13, 1937)
Arkadi Strugatski, (1925)
Boris Strugatski, (1933)
Theodore Sturgeon, (pseudonym of Edward Hamilton Waldo) (February 26, 1918)
Guy Thorne, (pseudonym of Guy Ranger (see))
John Ronald Reulen Tolkien, (April 3, 1892 + September 2, 1973)
Alfred Elton Van Vogt, (April 26, 1912)
Jules Verne, (February 8, 1828 + March 24, 1905)
Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, (1838 + 1889)
Horace Walpole, (September 24, 1717 + March 2, 1797)
Manly Wade Wellmann, (1903)
Herbert George Wells, (1866 + 1946)
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, (October 16, 1854 + November 30, 1900)
Charles Walter Stansby Williams, (September 20, 1886 + )
Douglas E. Winter,
Henry Wire, (could be a pseudonym of Guy Ranger (see))
Stanley F. Wright, (1874 + 1945)

A few number of these authors are almost unknown, and there are no information at all about them. Their presence here is justified by their apparition on "Weird Tales", the magazine of the '20s which first published the stories of many famous writers, such as H.P. Lovecraft and Robert Bloch.
The entire collection of "Weird Tales" is composed by 279 issues, and there are only five complete collections known.


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