October 20, 2014
M. R. James was an English author, scholar and inspiration to Lovecraft, though the world may have forgotten it.
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M. R. James was an English author, scholar and inspiration to Lovecraft, though the world may have forgotten it.
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Though they may have been atheists, both the German philosopher and Russian-American author are undoubtedly channeled in Anton LaVey’s Satanic Bible.
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English occultist Aleister Crowley led a raucous life as either a great charlatan or the “Great Beast 666.”
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At the height of dime novel and pulp magazine popularity, alarmist writers concocted — to great fanfare — racist images of Asian super villains and military takeovers.
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As a founder of science fiction, Wells got a surprising share the future right. He also got some things very, very wrong.
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Born 124 years ago today, Christie may be a write-off for snobs, but her continued popularity proves her significance.
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Most famous for The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux was also an accomplished — though now largely forgotten — journalist and short story writer.
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Uruguayan fiction writer, poet and playwright Quiroga was a master of the bizarre but also an ancestor of the magical realists.
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Considering his revelry in poetry, sex and rebellion, you might assume that Charles Baudelaire was a man of the political left … but you’d be wrong.
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As cosmic as H. P. Lovecraft’s thoughts often were, New England and his home city of Providence, Rhode Island influenced his fiction just as much as his imagination.
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