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Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk (1918-1994)

political scientist, philosopher, literary critic, historian, journalist, peace activist

  • University of St Andrews, Duke University

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The Dark Descent
Dark Forces
Lord of the hollow dark
The Surly Sullen Bell
Eliot and His Age
The Color of Evil
Ghosts
Academic freedom
The Sword of Imagination
Old House of Fear
Edmund Burke
A program for conservatives
The American cause
The conservative mind, from Burke to Santayana
Ancestral shadows
The Politics of Prudence
America's British culture
John Randolph of Roanoke
The Century's Best Horror Fiction. Volume 2
The political principles of Robert A. Taft
Decadence and Renewal in the Higher Learning
The princess of all lands
The Essential Russell Kirk
Watchers at the strait gate
Redeeming the Time
Beyond the dreams of avarice
The roots of American order
The wise men know what wicked things are written on the sky
The Portable conservative reader
The conservative mind : from Burke to Eliot / Russell Kirk
Prospects for conservatives
The intemperate professor
The conservative Constitution
The Assault on religion
Rights and duties
Enemies of the Permanent Things: Observations of Abnormity in Literature and Politics
Economics
Gateway to the Stoics
St. Andrews
What Shadows We Pursue
A creature of the twilight: his memorials
Randolph of Roanoke
Confessions of a bohemian Tory
The intelligent woman's guide to conservatism
Orestes Brownson
What Is Conservatism?
Fiction # 169
Off the Sand Road
Modern age
Lord Acton on revolution
保守主义思想
Muhafazakar Anlayış
Objections to conservatism
Collected Letters of John Randolph to Dr. John Brockenbrough
Government's role in solving societal problems
Russell Kirk's Concise Guide to Conservatism
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
Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen (1863-1947)

translator, literary critic, journalist, stage actor, politician

  • Hereford Cathedral School

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The Nightmare Reader
Cuentos de terror
The Hill of Dreams
The three impostors or The transmutations
The house of souls
The great god Pan, and, The inmost light
The Great God Pan
Selected Letters
Welsh Tales of Terror
The Great God Pan & Xelucha
The autobiography of Arthur Machen
Tales of horror and the supernatural
The Great God Pan and The Hill of Dreams
The white people and other weird stories
The Great God Pan The Shining Pyramid The White People
The Terror & Other Tales
The Caerleon edition of the works of Arthur Machen
Great God Pan and Other Classic Horror Stories
The White People and Other Stories
The Novel Of The Black Seal
The Novel of the White Powder
A Machen Omnibus
Short Fiction
The great god Pan and other horror stories
Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories
The green round
Antología de la literatura fantástica
Famous Modern Ghost Stories
The Terror
The angels of Mons
Tales Of The Occult
Hieroglyphics
Lovecrafts dunkle Idole 02. Das rote Zimmer
Ghostly Clients and Demonic Culprits
Memoirs of Casanova
Five Gothic Masterpieces
The secret glory
Shadows of Carcosa
Dreads and drolls
Arthur Machen & Montgomery Evans
Best Short Stories of All Time
A Fragment of Life
Dr. Stiggins
A Collection of Fiction and Essays by Occult Writers on Supernatural, Metaphysical and Esoteric Subjects
The shining pyramid
Far off things
The Heptameron
The chronicle of Clemendy
Dog and duck, a London calendar et caetera
The great return
A few letters from Arthur Machen
Strange roads, sketches by Joseph Simpson
The Inmost Light
The Necronomicon
The collected Arthur Machen
Guinevere and Lancelot & others
The Canning wonder
Red Hand
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural
Ornaments in jade
Eleusinia and Beneath the Barley
The Ghost Ship and Other Stories
Supernatural Short Stories
Out of the Earth
Holy terrors
The Memoires of Casanova, Volume IV, V and VI
The Caeleon Edition of the Works of ARTHUR MACHEN, the terror, the bowmen, the great return.
The Works of Arthur Machen
Black Seal and Other Stories
The grande trouvaille
The Green Round
The children of the pool
'The Red Hand' and 'The White People'
The London adventure
The White People
Hieroglyphics and Other Essays
Gizli Ihtisam
The Islington Mystery
La casa de las almas
Change
The Secret Glory, Chapters Five and Six
Le Peuple blanc
The Shining Pyramid & The Three Impostors
A Venerable Assembly
The White People and Other Stories (The House of Souls)
Strange roads
Fantastic and Horrific Stories
Arthur Machen
Secret of the Sangraal
Things near and far
The glorious mystery
Black Crusade
Düsler Tepesi. Translated by Büsra N. Erturan.
Ritual
Rus in Urbe and Others
Dr. Stiggins: his views and principles
LA COLLINE DES REVES
The Arthur Machen MEGAPACK ®: 25 Classic Works
Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Machen
Thesaurus incantatus
A note on poetry
Spirits of battle
Spagyric Quest of Beroaldus Comopolita
The novel of the black seal, and other stories
Letters of Arthur Machen [esq
The Ritual and Other Stories
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural: v. 1
The White People and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)
Arthur Machen: Masters of the Weird Tale
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Arthur Machen, best weird stories
Under the Leads
The book of the prophet Jeremiah and that of the Lamentations
The rose garden
War and the Christian faith
Precious balms
Bridles & spurs
Arthur Machen Megapack
The strange world of Arthur Machen
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural
Dehset
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural: v. 2
The anatomy of tobacco
Ciemnosc w poludnie
TALES OF HORROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL. Volume Two
Collected Fiction Volume 3
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural
The day's portion
Notes and queries
Dr. Stiggins
The chronicle of Clemendy
The cosy room and other stories
The three impostors
In the eighties
War and the Christian faith
The hill of dreams
Thesaurus incantatus
The collector's craft
The London adventure
The terror
The shining pyramid
Les Trois imposteurs
Strange roads
Far off things
Tom o'Bedlam and his song
Starrett vs. Machen
Parish of Amersham
Things near and far
Dreads and drolls
Beneath the barley
The autobiography of Arthur Machen
Precious balms
The grande trouvaille (A legend of Pentonville)
David Brooks
David Brooks (born 1953)

literary critic, poet

  • University of Toronto, Australian National University

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Black sea
The necessary jungle
Walking to Point Clear
Running wild
The book of Sei
The balcony
The house of Balthus
The book of Sei and other stories
The cold front
A critical-textual study of Cantos I-XVI of Ezra Pound
Derrida's breakfast
Open house
The double looking glass
Poetry and gender
Seditious issues
The fern tattoo
Urban elegies
The Umbrella Club
Carmen Maria Machado
Carmen Maria Machado (born 1986)

essayist, literary critic

  • American University

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Tony Isabella
Tony Isabella (born 1951)

journalist, illustrator, editor, literary critic

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Vincent Starrett
Vincent Starrett (1886-1974)

journalist, literary critic

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The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Fourteen Great Detective Stories
The Spawn of Cthulhu
Profile by Gaslight
"Dear Starrett-", "Dear Briggs-"
Ambrose Bierce
The great All-Star Animal League ball game
The unique Hamlet
World's great spy stories
Bookman's holiday
A modern book of wonders
The return of Jimmie Lavender
Arthur Machen
Stephen Crane
Born in a bookshop
Coffins for two
Seaports in the moon
Buried Caesars
Elia
V4 The New Adventures of Jimmie Lavender
221 B
More books alive
The escape of Alice and other fantasies
Autolycus in limbo
Persons from Porlock
Books alive
The memoirs of Jimmie Lavender
All about Mother Goose
Banners in the dawn
The quick and the dead
Et cetera
The eleventh juror and other mysteries
Sonnets
Ebony flame
The new adventures of Jimmie Lavender
Wayside tales
Murder in Peking
The Moon Terror (Weird Tales Library)
Vincent Starrett's A little anthology
Penny wise and book foolish
Rhymes for collectors
Midnight and Percy Jones
Books and bipeds
The classic gourmet magazine series of Memorable meals together with some memorable morsels
An essay on limited editions
The end of Mr. Garment
Collected poems, Vincent Starrett (1886-1974)
Murder on "B" deck
Flame and dust
Snow for Christmas
Best loved books of the twentieth century
The great hotel murder
In praise of Stevenson
The end of Mr. Garmet
Jimmy Lavender, Chicago detective
The escape of Alice
V6 The Eleventh Juror and other Mysteries
Late, later and possibly last
Coffins for two
V12 Wayside Tales
Persons from Porlock
V5 More Books Alive
A Little Anthology (Vincent Starrett Memorial Library Series)
War Correspondent (Volume 10 The Vincent Starrett Memorial Library)
Oriental encounters
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Volume 15 The Vincent Starrett Memorial Library)
Ambrose Bierce
A catalog of original manuscripts, and first and other important editions of the tales of Sherlock Holmes, as written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
V7 The Escape of Alice and other Fantasies
V1 Collected Poems
Three great documents on human liberties
Sonnets and other verse
V2 Memorable Meals
V8 The Memoirs of Jimmie Lavender
Shaking hands with immortality
Richard Gavin
Richard Gavin (born 2000)

literary critic

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