Ann Radcliffe was one of the first writers in the Gothic genre. She wrote several popular Gothic novels but inexplicably stopped writing in that style at the age of 32. Her novels include The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789), A Sicilian Romance (1790), The...
[This is a reprint of a column which originally appeared in the January 16, 2003, issue of Hellnotes.] Algernon Blackwood was born on March 14, 1869, in Shooter’s Hill, Kent, England. His parents were Sir Stevenson Arthur Blackwood and the dowager Duchess of...
Best known for his mystery stories starring Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, Arthur Conan Doyle also wrote dozens of horror stories, including his first published tales. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Arthur’s...
