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Writers of horror, mystery, fantasy and science fiction



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