His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror, with Stephen King describing it as "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language." He is also well known for "The Bowmen", a short story that was widely read as fact, creating ...
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In 1876 Stevenson met Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne, an American woman separated from her husband, and the two fell in love. Stevenson’s parents’ horror at their son’s involvement with a married woman subsided somewhat when she returned toCaliforniain 1878, but it revived with greater force whe...
Mark Twain was a total bookworm, reading nearly any new book he could get his hands on. His favorite titles aren’t well known, but he regularly perused the full works of famous authors of his time, including Macaulay, Plutarch, Crusoe, Gulliver, Shakspeare, Browning, Carlyle, and Sir Th...
With 50 novels published and almost 200 short stories, King is one of the more prolific authors of horror fiction today. He has received numerous awards for his work, including British Fantasy Society Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, and others. He also received the prestigious O. Henry Award for...
Shirleyblends history with imagination, telling a largely fictional story about real-life horror writer Shirley Jackson as she was writing her 1951 novelHangsaman. Josephine Decker, known for her experimental filmmaking style, directs this taut tale of suspense. The newlywed Nemser couple (Logan Lerm...
Bram Stoker is known for his Gothic horror fiction Stoker is arguably the most famous classic horror writer out there. His gothic novel,Dracula, spawned an entire horror fiction genre, not just because of his ghoulish characters. It’s also because of Stoker’s writing talent, where he combine...
“One final note,” wrote the author of Carrie, The Shining and Misery in the back of his novel Dreamcatcher,“This book was written with the world’s finest word processor, a Waterman cartridge fountain pen.” A major US pen brand, Waterman was established in 1884, and King claimed that...