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Peter Berresford Ellis
Peter Berresford Ellis (born 1943)

historian, literary critic, biographer

  • University of East London, University of London

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Flight or Fright
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
The Vampire Archives
Shadows over Innsmouth
The Morgow rises!
Aisling and Other Irish Tales of Terror
Angelus!
Swamp
Snowbeast!
Kiss of the Cobra
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Murder in Baker Street
The Spider's Web
Whispers of the Dead
The Subtle Serpent
Hemlock at Vespers
Absolution by Murder
The Haunted Abbot
The Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends
A history of the Irish working class
Act of Mercy
The Cornish language and its literature
Suffer Little Children
The Rising of the Moon
Dancing With Demons
A dictionary of Irish mythology
H. Rider Haggard
Celt and Roman
The Monk Who Vanished
Erin's blood royal
The Leper's Bell
Badger's Moon
Valley of the Shadow
Smoke in the Wind
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures
Shroud for the Archbishop
A Prayer for the Damned
The Celts
Dictionary of Celtic mythology
The Druids
The Council of the Cursed
Our Lady of Darkness
A brief history of the Druids
The Dove of Death
Celt and Greek
Behold a Pale Horse
The Celtic revolution
Celtic Women
Penance of the Damned
The Celtic Dawn
Eyewitness to Irish history
By Jove, Biggles!
The Ants
The Ancient World of the Celts (Celtic Interest)
Caesar's Invasion of Britain
The Celtic Empire
Celtic inheritance
The Cornish saints
The Scottish Insurrection of 1820
The Boyne Water
A Brief History of the Celts
Master of Souls
Beeston Castle, Cheshire
The Shapeshifter's Lair
The Revenge of Dracula
James Connolly
The Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends
Hell or Connaught!
Dracula Unborn
Macbeth
The Book of Deer
Celt and Saxon
Biggles!
The Great Fire of London
The Chronicles of the Celts
The Seventh Trumpet
The Chalice of Blood
Atonement of blood
An ensuing evil and others
The Story of the Cornish Language
Une Lune de Sang
The last adventurer
Bloodmoon
Bloodright
Kitchener's Gold
A guide to early Celtic remains in Britain
Raven of destiny
Wales—a nation again
The fires of Lan-Kern
The Radical Rising
The Destroyers of Lan-Kern
Night of the Lightbringer
The Second Death
The Valkyrie directive
Scotland not only free but Gaelic
DRACULA LIVES - Book (1) (i) One: Dracula Unborn; Book (2) (ii) Two: The Revenge of Dracula; Book (3) (iii) Three
The devil's seal
The creed of the Celtic revolution
Orangeism
Champion Trees
The curse of Loch Ness
Death of a Heretic
Fireball
The Judas Battalion
The Un-Dead
The liberty tree
Zombie!
Creeper's Secret War
Airship
Irish Masters of Fantasy
Spiteful Shadow
Blood in Eden
The Doomsday Decree
Publishing in the Welsh language today
Trollnight
My Lady of Hy-Brasil
The Windsor Protocol
Nicor!
Revisionism in Irish historical writing
The Pilgrim of Hate
The Vengeance of She
The confession
The House of Death
The problem of language revival
The buccaneers of Lan-Kern
HOUND OF FRANKENSTEIN
Islands of Shadows
Ravenmoon
Made for Murders : a Collection of Twelve Shakespearean Mysteries
Bloodmist
Wondersmith
Celtic Myths and Legends
Sister Fidelma Novels, 1-3
Gwels Nownek Ha Hwedhlow Erell
A New Book of Rights; Being a complete transcript of the legal verdicts handed down by the courts of the Republic of Italy concerning the heraldic rights, ... de la Floresta, Castile & Leon King of Arms
The Return of Raffles
Revenge of the Stormbringer
Dracula, My Love
Li an Sows
Darrell Schweitzer
Darrell Schweitzer (born 1952)

literary critic, poet, journalist

  • Villanova University

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The Living Dead
Darker masques
Speaking of horror
Discovering Modern Horror Fiction I
Discovering Stephen King
Weird Tales 338
Discovering Classic Horror Fiction I (Discovering (Wildside))
Discovering Modern Horror Fiction II
Discovering Modern Horror Fiction II (Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No 16)
Discovering modern horror fiction
Discovering modern horror fiction
Discovering H.P. Lovecraft
Discovering classic horror fiction I
Essays, Lovecraftian
Discovering H.P. Lovecraft
Discovering Stephen King
Discovering H.P. Lovecraft
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Cosmic Knights
Isaac Asimov präsentiert Märchenwelt der Fantasy. Die schönsten Geschichten [20 short stories]
Excalibur
Conan's world and Robert E. Howard
The Secret History Of Vampires
Swords Against Darkness V
The Neil Gaiman Reader
Windows of the imagination
Discovering Classic Fantasy Fiction
Mask of the Sorcerer
On writing science fiction
Full moon city
The shattered goddess
The Thomas Ligotti Reader
Cthulhus Reign
Speaking of the Fantastic II
The dream quest of H. P. Lovecraft
Another Round at the Spaceport Bar
The White Isle (Weird Tales)
Science Fiction Voices, No. 1 (Popular Writers of Today, Vol. 23)
Sekenre
Tom O'Bedlam's night out and other strange excursions
Pathways to Elfland
We are all legends
The Robert E. Howard Reader
The Great World & the Small
Weird Tales 336
Discovering H.P. Lovecraft
The white isle
Transients, and other disquieting stories
The meaning of life and other awesome cosmic revelations
Nightscapes
Refugees from an Imaginary Country
More Science Fiction Voices
Exploring Fantasy Worlds
Exploring fantasy worlds
Science Fiction Story Reader 12
Speaking of the Fantastic
Science Fiction Voices, No. 5
Another round at the spaceport bar
Science fiction voices no. 1
Horror of Horrors
The Barsoom Chronicles 4 Thuvia Maid of Mars
Another round at the spaceport bar
Discovering Classic Horror Fiction I (Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, #27)
Tales fromthe spaceport bar
Discovering classic fantasy fiction
Discovering Stephen King
Three Suns of Amara
Groping Toward the Light
Necromancies and Netherworlds
Romance of the Forest
Necromancies and Netherworlds
Groping Toward the Light
Weird Trails
Great World and the Small
Macintyre's Improbable Bestiary
Tim Lucas
Tim Lucas (born 1956)

journalist, film critic, composer

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The book of Renfield
Throat sprockets
Throat Sprockets: A Novel of Erotic Obsession
Videodrome
The Video Watchdog Book
We Are The Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale
Mario Bava
Carmen Maria Machado
Carmen Maria Machado (born 1986)

essayist, literary critic

  • American University

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Gretchen Felker-Martin
Gretchen Felker-Martin (born 1986)

journalist, film critic

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Leo Perutz
Leo Perutz (1882-1957)

mathematician, playwright, critic, translator

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By night under the stone bridge
The Swedish cavalier
Wohin rollst du, Äpfelchen?
Meister des jüngsten Tages
Le cavalier suédois
Marques de Bolibar
Saint Peter's Snow: A Novel
Judas des Leonardo
Nachts unter der steinernen Brücke
La nuit sous le pont de pierre
Zwischen neun und neun
Mainacht in Wien
El maestro del juicio final
The Marquis of Bolibar (Der Marques de Bolibar)
Master of the Day of Judgment
Zwischen neun und neun
Saint Peter's Snow
Leo Perutz, 1882-1957
El Maestro del Juicio Final
Le marquis de Bolibar
Die dritte Kugel
Master of the Day of Judgement
By Night Under the Stone Bridge
Saint Peter's snow
Der Meister des jüngsten Tages
La troisième balle
Le tour du cadran
Der Judas des Leonardo
Die Geburt des Antichrist
Little Apple
El Judas de Leonardo
Swedish Cavalier
Turlupin
Der Marques de Bolibar
Der schwedische Reiter
Mientras Dan Las Nueve (Ancora Y Delfin)
Maestro del Juicio Final, El
La Neige de Saint Pierre
Leonardonun Yahudasi
De noche, bajo el puente de piedra
Wohin rollst du, Äpfelchen ...
The Swedish cavalier
Der Meister des Jüngsten Tages
The Virgin's brand
Der Joclas des Leonardo
Der Kosak und die Nachtigall
Sankt-Petri-Schnee
Judas van Leonardo, de
Judas de Leonardo
Où roules-tu, petite pomme?
Dokuzla Dokuz Arasinda
La Troisième Balle
Tempo di spettri
Between nine and nine
Where will you fall?
From nine to nine
Marques de Bolibar, El
Kiyamet Gunu Ustasi
Åžeytan Tozu
Leonardo'nun Yahuda'si
Zwischen Neun und Neun
The Marquis de Bolibar
Das Mangobaumwunder. Der Kosak und die Nachtigall
Sankt-Petri-Schnee
Herr erbarme dich meiner
St. Petri-Schnee
Die dritte Kugel
Die dritte Kugel
Der Marques de Bolibar
Le Judas de Léonard
Helena 2022
Le Cavalier suédois
Où roules-tu, petite pomme?
Le Miracle du manguier
De noche baja el puente de piedra
Das Mangobaumwunder
Der Meister DES Jungsten Tages (German Edition)
Seigneur, Ayez Pitie de Moi !
Cosaque et le Rossignol (le)
Der Marques de Bolibar
Der schwedische Reiter
Nachts unter der steinernen Brücke
Die Geburt des Antichrist
Between nine and nine
Tony Isabella
Tony Isabella (born 1951)

journalist, illustrator, editor, literary critic

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John Pelan
John Pelan (1957-2021)

literary critic, journalist, publisher, editor

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