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Poppy Z. Brite
Poppy Z. Brite (born 1967)

biographer

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Shadows over Baker Street
The Lazarus heart
The Living Dead
Darkness
Courtney Love
Prime
Soul Kitchen
Love in Vein II
Wormwood
Liquor
The Value of X
Exquisite corpse
Are You Loathsome Tonight?
Antediluvian Tales
The Century's Best Horror Fiction. Volume 2
The Devil You Know
Self-made Man
Drawing Blood
D*U*C*K
Crossing the Border
Lost Souls
The Crow
Triads
Love in Vein
Second line
Best New Horror 4 (Mammoth Book of Best New Horror)
Plastic Jesus
Swamp foetus
Swamp Foetus
His mouth will taste of wormwood andother stories
Wrong Things
Eros vampire
Guilty but Insane
Contes de la fée verte
Seed of Lost Souls
Sang d'encre
The Lazarus Heart
Penis Is as Penis Does
Coupable
The Crow The Lazarus Heart
Self-made man
Plastic Jésus
La belle rouge
Ames perdues
Swamp Foetus: A Collection of Short Stories
Éros vampire
El arte más íntimo
August Derleth
August Derleth (1909-1971)

anthologist, poet, editor, publisher, biographer

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Murder for Halloween
The Solar Pons omnibus
The Twelve Crimes of Christmas
The Chronicles of Solar Pons
Regarding Sherlock Holmes
The beast in Holger's Woods
Thrillers and More Thrillers
Haunted Stories
The prince goes west
The adventures of Solar Pons
The three straw men
The tent show summer
Mischief in the lane
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
The Vampire Archives
The Nightmare Reader
The Devil's Generation
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult
One Hundred
The Spawn of Cthulhu
Concord rebel
Emerson, our contemporary
BEYOND THE CURTAIN OF DARK
Worlds of If Super Pack #3
The Milwaukee road
Dark of the moon
Some notes on H.P. Lovecraft
Return to Walden West
Quest for Cthulhu
The mask of Cthulhu
Saint Ignatius and the Company of Jesus
HISTOIRES A FAIRE DRESSER LES CHEVEUX SUR LA TETE - Stories to Make the Hair Stand Up on Your Head
Fantastic Stories Presents the Weird Tales Super Pack #1
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Volume 1
The Wisconsin, river of a thousand isles
Father Marquette and the great rivers
The Lurker at the Threshold
The only place we live
The casebook of Solar Pons
Dwellers in darkness
HORROR HUNTERS
Fantastic Stories Presents the Weird Tales Super Pack #2
Vincennes: portal to the West
Walden West
"In re
The Trail of Cthulhu
Weird Legacies
In The Course Of My Walks
The moon tenders
Worlds of tomorrow
Someone in the Dark
The survivor and others
Over the Edge
The house on the mound
Wisconsin earth
Portals of tomorrow
Time to Come
Not long for this world
An August Derleth reader
Writing fiction
The Night Side
The wind leans West
100 Books by August Derleth
Sweet land of Michigan
Dark mind, dark heart
A Praed Street dossier
Sleep No More
The adventure of the unique Dickensians
The Hills Stand Watch
Collected poems, 1937-1967
Caitlin
Joey'S Father
The Mill Creek irregulars
Countryman's journal
Tales of the Cthulhu mythos
In Lovecraft's Shadow
Bright journey
Evening in spring [by] August Derleth
Columbus and the New World
Harrigan's file
Dark things
The outer reaches
No future for Luana
The man on all fours
The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition (Volume 2)
Wisconsin country
Thirty years of Arkham House, 1939-1969
Country matters
Strange ports of call
The Memoirs of Solar Pons (The Solar Pons Series, No 3)
McIlvaine's Star: A Science Fiction Classic
Beachheads in space
Fire and sleet and candlelight
Land of gray gold
Wisconsin Writers and Writing
Horror Gems, Vol. One
Three literary men
Land of sky-blue waters
The captive island
Who knocks?
When Evil Wakes : An Anthology of The Macabre
Lonesome places
The other side of the moon
Wind over Wisconsin
Empire of fur
Return to Sac Prairie
Mr. Fairlie's final journey
The irregulars strike again
In Lovecraft's shadow
The reminiscences of Solar Pons
Restless is the river
Final Adventures of Solar Pons
Otros Mitos de Cthulhu
The sleeping & the dead
The Dunwich Cycle
Psyche
In a quiet graveyard
Wisconsin in Their Bones
Horror Gems, Vol. Three: August Derleth and others
West of morning
Night's yawning peal
The shadow in the glass
Wisconsin in their bones
The Wisconsin valley
The seven who waited
Beyond time & space
Sentence deferred
Man track here
The country of the Hawk
Sauk County, a centennial history
Travellers by night
Praed Street papers
And you, Thoreau!
Selected Letters I
Wisconsin murders
The shuttered room, and other tales of horror
Poetry out of Wisconsin
The edge of night
Still small voice
By owl light
The Eleanor Poems and Other Sac Prairie Poetry
Last light
The memoirs of Solar Pons
Hawk on the wind
Sweet Genevieve
The house by the river
Country growth
Country poems
It's a boy's world
Mr. George and other odd persons
Sac Prairie People
Sign of fear
The adventure of the Orient Express
A house above Cuzco
La Sombra fuera del Espacio
New poetry out of Wisconsin
The watcher on the heights
Country places
H.P.L
The Narracong riddle
Wind in the elms
Three problems for Solar Pons
Rendezvous in a landscape
The return of Solar Pons
Horror Gems, Volume Eight, Algernon Blackwood and Others
Here on a darkling plain
Something Near
Village year
Still is the summer night
Shadow of night
Murder stalks the Wakely family
The landscape of the heart
Habitant of dusk
Village daybook
Forest orphans
The shield of the valiant
A boy's way
The lost SAC Prairie novels
ALONE BY NIGHT
Place of hawks
Wisconsin Harvest
Any day now
Far boundaries
VAMPIRES AT MIDNIGHT
This wound
Wonders, Florida Reading/Writing Workshop, 4th Grade Student Textbook
A Wisconsin harvest
Traveler in Time
House in the Valley
The Ghost of Black Hawk Island
Dress Thin, Look Thin
Disc Recorder
Time to come
AUGUST DERLETH'S EERIE CREATURES. It's About Time
Anthology of Sci-Fi V15, the Pulp Writers
The Chronicles of Solar Pons
The Novels of Solar Pons
New horizons
Wonders, Florida Reading/Writing Workshop, 5th Grade Student Textbook
THAT IS NOT DEAD : THE BLACK MAGIC & OCCULT STORIES BY AUGUST DERLETH. Not Long for this World
Return to Derleth
The house of moonlight
100 books by August Derleth
Bright journey
Selected poems
Arkham House
Aunt May Strikes Again!
... Writing fiction
THE TIME OF INFINITY
Elegy
Dark of the moon
Korrupsii︠a︡
Theodore Roscoe
Theodore Roscoe (1906-1992)

historian, biographer

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Only in New England
Theodore Roscoe's A grave must be deep
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
True tales of bold escapes
This is your Navy
The Trent Affair, November, 1861: U.S. detainment of a British ship nearly brings war with England
Toughest in the legion
The Lincoln assassination, April 14, 1865
United States submarine operations in World War II
Pig boats
Picture history of the U.S. Navy
The web of conspiracy
United States destroyer operations in World War II
Z Is for Zombie (Starmont Facsimile Fiction Ser. : No. 2)
To live and die in Dixie
Pig Boats
Theodore Roscoe's Z is for zombie
DANGER TRAIL, THE - 08/28
Wonderful Lips of Thibong Linh
On the seas and in the skies
Seven men
Murder on the way!
Poems by Contemporary Women
The web of conspiracy
Pig boats
Pig boats
United States Destroyer/United States Submarine Operations
I'll grind their bones
Colleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough (1937-2015)

neurologist, biographer

  • University of Sydney

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Too Many Murders
Sins of the Flesh
On, Off
The Prodigal Son
Naked Cruelty
The Thorn Birds
The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet
Bittersweet
An Indecent Obsession
Antony and Cleopatra
The Thorn Birds (adaptation)
Caesar
The Song of Troy
The First Man in Rome
The Touch
The Ladies of Missalonghi
Cooking with Colleen McCullough and Jean Easthope
The Grass Crown
A Creed for the Third Millennium
Tim
Angel
The October Horse
Angel Puss
Caesar's Women
Morgan's Run
Fortune's Favourites
Caesar's Women [2/2]
Caesar's Women [1/2]
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 3 1987
The Courage And The Will The Life Of Roden Cutler Vc
The First Man in Rome [1/2]
Three complete novels
Roden Cutler, V. C.
Les maîtres de Rome. La revanche de Sylla
The Thorn Birds [2/2]
Insel der Verlorenen
The Thorn Birds [1/2]
Cesar Imperator
Bittersweet
Fortune's Favorites Part 2
The Grass Crown - Part 2
The Grass Crown Part 1
Fortune's Favorites Part 1
Australian Cookbook
Tsiporim metot be-seter
Ṭeruf meguneh
First Man in Rome-V2
La pasión del Dr. Christian
Land der Dornen
Killing the fatted calf
The song of Troy
Tsipor ḳeshuḥah
Poi͡ushchie v ternovnike
Life without the boring bits
Po vole sudʹby
Uccelli di rovo
A creed for the third millennium
Jan Guillou
Jan Guillou (born 1944)

journalist, autobiographer, businessperson

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El Espia Del Norte/the North Spy
Krasnyĭ petukh
Fiendens fiende
Vägen till Jerusalem
The Road To Jerusalem
Riket vid vägens slut
Den enda segern
Vägen till Jerusalem
Den hedervärde mördaren
The Knight Templar
The Templar Knight
Ingen mans land
Häxornas försvarare
Men inte om det gäller din dotter
En medborgare höjd över varje misstanke
I nationens intresse
Birth of the Kingdom
Den demokratiske terroristen
The Road To Jerusalem
Ondskan
The Road To Jerusalem
Coq Rouge
Birth of the kingdom
The Templar knight
Tempelriddaren
I Hennes Majestäts tjänst
Tjuvarnas marknad
Arvet efter Arn
Trilogia De Las Cruzadas 1
Vendetta
El Caballero Templario
Die Krone von Götaland. Ein Roman aus der Zeit der Kreuzfahrer
Madame Terror
Feind des Feindes. Ein Coq- Rouge- Thriller
Ingen mans land
Irak--det nya Arabien
Fabrique de violence
Svenskarna, invandrarna och svartskallarna
Det stora avslöjandet
Brobyggarna
Trilogia De Las Cruzadas II
El Legado del Templario
Der demokratische Terrorist. Ein Coq- Rouge- Thriller
Artister
Men inte om det gäller din dotter
Madame Terror
Justitiemord
Birth of the kingdom
Camino A Jerusalen Trilogia de las Cruzadas I (Novela Historica)
Im Interesse der Nation. Ein Coq- Rouge- Thriller
Die Frauen von Götaland. Ein Roman aus der Zeit der Kreuzfahrer
Regreso al Norte
Der ehrenwerte Mörder. Ein Coq- Rouge- Thriller
Die Büßerin von Gudhem. Ein Roman aus der Zeit der Kreuzfahrer
Het kwaad
Trilogia De Las Cruzadas
Mellan rött och svart
Evil - das Böse
Kolumnisten
Vägen till Jerusalem
Den demokratiske terroristen
Journalistik 1967-1976
Fienden inom oss
Reporter
Ingen mans land
La badessa
Om kriget kommer
Att inte vilja se
Riket vid vägens slut
Dandy
Tempelriddaren
Trilogma de las Cruzadas II
Den enda segern
Den hedervärde mördaren
The Templar knight
Feind des Feindes
Arvet efter Arn
Berättelser
Unternehmen Vendetta
Les ingénieurs du bout du monde
Berättelser från det nya riket
Vendetta
Veien Til Jerusalem
Nya berättelser
Im Namen ihrer Majestät
Trilogia de Las Cruzadas III. Regreso Al Norte
Niemandsland
Der demokratische Terrorist
Fiendens fiende
En medborgare höjd över varje misstanke
De vijand van de vijand
Fienden inom oss
Entre rouge et noir
Trilogma de las Cruzadas I
Les dandys de Manningham
I nasjonens interesse
Ordets makt och vanmakt
I Hennes Majestäts tjänst
I nationens intresse
Los puentes del mañana
Tyvenes Marked
Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser (born 1932)

historian, biographer, aristocrat

  • University of Oxford, Dragon School

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The wild island
Great Tales of Crime and Detection
Quiet As a Nun
Political death
A splash of red
Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave and other stories
Your royal hostage
Cool repentance
The Cavalier Case
Oxford Blood (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
Jemima Shore's first case, and other stories
A splash of red
Jemima Shore's first case
Jemima Shore's first case, and other stories
Splash of Red (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
Cool Repentence
The cavalier case.
Quiet as a Nun (Jemima Shore Mystery)
Oxford blood
Quiet As a Nun (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
Tartan Tragedy
Three Great Novels Jemima Shore On The Case
A splash of red
Tartan tragedy
More women of mystery
The cavalier case
Cool repentance
Oxford blood
Jemima Shore's first case
Three great novels
The weaker vessel
Marie Antoinette
King James VI of Scotland, I of England
The warrior queens
Royal Charles
Love and Louis XIV
The Gunpowder Plot
King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table
The gunpowder plot
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Cromwell, the Lord Protector
Mary, Queen of Scots
The wives of Henry VIII
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England
Cromwell, our chief of men
My history
The Virago Book Of Ghost Stories
King Charles II
Must you go?
Cromwell, Our Chief of Men
A history of toys
Love letters
Love and Louis XIV
Charles II
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
A la carte
Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave
The Warrior Queens (Women in History)
Mary Queen of Scots (Women in History)
English crime stories of today
Mary Queen of Scots
Cool Repentance
Kings and Queens of England
Faith and Treason
Heros and Heroines
The Lives of the kings & queens of England
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England
Cromwell
The weaker vessel
Must You Go?
The Wild Island (Jemima Shore Mystery S.)
Quiet as a nun
Love and Louis XIV
Scottish Love Poems
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Women in History)
KING CHARLES II
Wild Island, The
Mary, Queen of Scots
Cromwell, the Lord Protector
Warrior Queens
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England
Boadicea's chariot
Love Letters
Love Letters
Love letters
Perilous Question The Drama Of The Great Reform Bill 1832
Your Royal Hostage (Jemima Shore Mystery S.)
Cromwell, the Lord Protector
Perilous Question Reform Or Revolution Britain On The Brink 1832
Must you go?
Shroud for Delilah
The Pleasure of reading
The Stuarts (A Royal History of England)
Las Seis Esposas de Enrique VIII
Love Letters
Oxford blood
The six wives of Henry VIII, volume 1
A Splash of Red (Jemima Shore Mystery)
The lives of the kings & queens of England
Las Seis Mujeres de Enrique VIII
The Weaker Vessel (Women in History)
Marie Antoinette
Dolls
Robin Hood - Fraser
Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave
OXFORD BLOOD (JEMIMA SHORE MYSTERY)
The weaker vessel
The lives of the kings and queens of England
The Weaker vessel
Thew arrior queens
La Conspiracion De La Polvora
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, Revised and Updated (Kings & Queens of England)
Six Wives of Henry the VIII
Robin Hood
MARY,QUEEN OF SCOTS
Robin Hood
Mary, Queen Of Scots Part 1 Of 2
The cavalier case
The Warrior Queens
Pleasure of reading
THE WARRIOR QUEENS
CROMWELL, OUR CHIEF OF MEN
Quiet As a Nun
The Cavalier Case
Reinas Guerreras
Lawrence Durrell
Maria Stuart. Eine Biographie
Scottish love poems
Scottish love poems
Oxford and Oxfordshire in verse
Cavalier Case, The
Your royal hostage
Cromwell Our Chief of Men
Cromwell, our chief of men. --
Marie Antoinette (MTI)
POLITICAL DEATH
Las Seis Esposas De Enrique VIII/ the Wives of Henry VIII
The Tudors (A Royal History of England)
Oxford and Oxfordshire in verse
Gunpowder Plots
Your royal hostage
Jemima Shore's First Case and Other Stories (Jemima Shore Mystery S.)
Oxford blood
Sukottorando joō meari
Cromwell-V01
Spielzeug
Mary, Queen of Scots Part 1 of 2
Mary, Queen Of Scots Part 2 Of 2
The King and the Catholics
Cromwell Part 2 of 3
Your Royal Hostage (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
Cromwell Part 3 Of 3
Six Wives of Henry the VIII
Marie-Antoinette
Scottish love poems
Twentieth Century
Cool Repentance a Fraser
Normans and Angevins
Quiet As a Nun
Cromwell-V02
The pleasure of reading
Gunpowder Plot Terror and Faith In 1605
Heroes & heroines
Oxford Blood (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
Cromwell Part 2 Of 3
Heroes and Heroines
Heroes & heroines
S&J;Robin Hood Frazer A
El Enigma Del Vizconde
Cromwell Part 1 of 3
Cromwell Part 3 of 3
Mary Queen of Scot
Die sechs Frauen Heinrichs VIII
Maria Estuardo
Het wilde eiland =
Oxford and Oxfordshire in Verse
The lives of the kings & queens of England
Scottish love poems
The Lives of the kings & queens of England
Perilous question
Quiet as a Nun (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
The six wives of Henry V111
Mary Queen of Scots and the historians
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
Cavalier Case (Bloomsbury Modern Library)
The six wives of Henry VIII
Cromwell
Cromwell-V03
Mary, Queen of Scots Part 2 of 2
The Lives Of The Kings & Queens Of England
Cool Repentance (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
The lives of the kings & queens of England
Cromwell Part 1 Of 3
Political death
My history
Love letters
Scottish love poems
King Charles II
The warrior queens
A red rose or a satin heart
Mary Queen of Scots
The weaker vessel
Oxford Blood & Cavalier Case
Love letters
The gunpowder plot
Heroes & heroines
Cromwell, our chief of men
Mary Queen of Scots and Marie Antoinette
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots
Die Nonne
Vous partez déjà?
The warrior queens
Poems
Blanche d'Alpuget
Blanche d'Alpuget (born 1944)

biographer, journalist

  • University of Sydney

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White eye
The Turtle Beach
Winter in Jerusalem
Robert J.Hawke
Robert Hawke
Hawke
Mediator
Monkeys in the dark
Rosa Campbell Praed
Rosa Campbell Praed (1851-1935)

autobiographer, playwright

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The brother of the shadow
AFFINITIES A ROMANCE OF TODAY
Nadine
Lady Bridget in the Never-never land
Australian life, black and white
Mrs. Tregaskiss
The scourge-stick
Fugitive Anne: A Romance of the Unexplored Bush
The insane root
The bond of wedlock
Outlaw and Lawmaker (Australian Women Writers Literary Heritage)
Madame Izan
Sister sorrow
Zero
Nùlma
The luck of the Leura
The head station
As a watch in the night
My Australian girlhood
Policy and Passion: A Novel of Australian Life
Moloch
The soul of Countess Adrian
Ariane, or, The bond of wedlock
Australian Heroine
Affinities
The Ladies Gallery: A Novel
Nyria
My Australian girlhood, sketches and impressions of bush life