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We hope that this Guide will be of interest to connoisseurs of supernatural fiction. It is still a "work in progress", but already contains bibliographical information on over 360 authors and editors of supernatural fiction. We are adding images of dustjackets as thumbnails with the bibliographical information, and those bordered in red/brown can be clicked on to provide a larger image. We hope to "upgrade" images over time, and welcome any scans.
 
There will be many ommissions, which we will endeavour to put right over the coming months (and years!) If you have any suggestions, corrections etc , then we would be very happy to hear from you. The entry that best gives an impression at the moment of how we hope all entries will eventually appear is the one for Arthur Machen.
 
Our definition of "supernatural" is a very catholic but inevitably subjective one, betraying our own interests and prejudices. Not that this means that we would recommend every author or book contained on the database. We have tried to include as much literature of the supernatural as we can (and therefore a great number of ghost stories), but we only skirt around the boundaries of fantasy, and science fiction is poorly represented. If there is a bias towards the macabre and weird genres, though, this reflects our own personal tastes.
 
We have not attempted to create complete author bibliographies, but include only those works which fall into our category of the "supernatural".
 
We welcome any information about writers who have worked/are working in the supernatural tradition. With reference to contemporary writers, we do generally require that an author must have had their work professionally published before they are included.
  
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28th April: Many thanks to James Doig for all of the biographical information he has supplied for the hitherto enigmatic R.R. Ryan.
 
23rd April 2008 - It has been a while, but worth waiting for . . . Robert Eldridge has supplied the images for some rather obscure titles: The Scarecrow and Other Stories by G. Ranger Wormser, The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales by Elia Peattie, Oldham by Catherine M. Verschoyle, Priest or Pagan by John Rathbone Oliver, The Cross of Carl by Walter Owen, The Lost Valley by Algernon Blackwood, The Last Devil by Signe Toksvig, True Ghost Stories by Cheiro, A College Mystery by A.P. Baker and Between the Lights by Margaret Baillie-Saunders.
 
2nd January - Happy New Year! Many thanks to Don Kobetsky for images of The Shrine of Death by Lady Dilke, The Shadowy Thing by H.B. Drake, The Hand of Fate by Cheiro, A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest by Amelia B. Edwards, and The Sweet Singers and Dark Encounters by William Croft Dickinson.
 
5th December 2007:
Many thanks to Granz Henman for images of The Haunted Organist by Rosa Mulholland, a later editon of Ghost Stories by E. & H. Heron, The Ghost of Guir House by Charles Willing Beale, A Sheaf of Yule Log Stories by Rev, A.D. Crake and Told in the Dimpses by H. C. O'Neill.
Many thanks also to Richard Dorsett for images of A Farm In Fairyland by Laurence Housman, L'Apprenti Sorcier by Hanns Heinz Ewers, the title pages of the 1st U.S. edition of Uncle Silas by Le Fanu, Tongues of Conscience by Robert Hichens, and Tales Before Supper which contains Gautier's Avatar.
 
28th November 2007: A few new pictures: The Man With the Scales by Marjorie Bowen (thanks to Jim Rockhill), Beam of Malice and Flies on the Wall by Alex Hamilton and The Woman in Black by Halidom (thanks to Chris Roden), and Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber, Beware After Dark anthlogy, the first paperback edition of The Curse of the Snake by Guy Boothby, the American first of The Brood of the Witch Queen by Sax Rohmer, and The Place Called Dagon by Herbert Gorman (thanks to sean Donnelly).
 
26th November 2007: Thanks to Richard Dorsett for a scan of a Dutch edition of Vampier by Hanns Heinz Ewers. It is only a second edition, but it has a great vignette on the cover.
 
7th october 2007: Thanks to Sean Donnelly for a photograph of John Buchan's Watcher by the Threshold.
 
27th September 2007: Thanks once again to Nick Granger-Taylor for scans of the 3rd British (cheap) edition of Machen's The House of Souls, and for Thomas Burke's Billy and Beryl in Chinatown.
 
30th august: Thanks to Nick Granger-Taylor for emailing to us scans of a number of books by Thomas Burke.
 
25th August: Many thanks again to Robert Eldridge for sharing more scans of rare supernatural books with us. We have now uploaded an illustrated edition of The Tinted Venus and the first edition of The Statement of Stella Maberly by F. Anstey, Through the Night by Mrs G Linnaes Banks, the first US editions of The Ghost by Arnold Bennet and Margery of Quether by Sabine Baring-Gould, The Devil's Mistress by J. Brodie-Innes, and a later edition of Phantastes by George MacDonald.
 
3rd August 2007: Thanks to Robert Eldridge for sending on pictures of the US edition of Cold Harbour by Francis Brett Young and What Cuthbert Knew by Grace V. Christmas.
 
27th July 2007: Thanks to Robert Eldridge for sending on images of the folowing: Rhoda Broughton's Betty' Visions, Mark Hansom's The Shadow on the House, Q's Mystery Stories, Saki's The Square Egg, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Russell Thorndyke's The Master of the Macabre, Evelyn Underhill's The Gray World, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Mary E Wilkins Freeman's The Wind in the Rose-Bush.
 
18th June, 2007: Many thanks to Charles Oliver for sending through scans of Twilight Stories by Rhoda Broughton, and the The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards.
 
1st June 2007: We have had problems with our old server, which is frozen, and are now in the process of transfering all of our websites to a new one. This will take some time (as we still use dial-up rather than broadband) so please be patient with the links and pictures here for the next few weeks. - All best wishes, Ray
 
26th march 2007: Thanks once again to Don Kobetsky - this time for a picture of Ghostly Tales by the Countess of Munster.
 
22nd March 2007: Thanks once again to Don Kobetsky who has sent on images for Madeleine Dahlgren's The Woodly Lane Ghost, Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce and Arabesques by Mrs Richard S. Greenough.
 
12th March 29007: Don Kobetsky has generously sent on scans of Violet Hunt's Tales of the Uneasy and More Tales of the Uneasy, and Death, The Knight And The Lady: A Ghost Story by H. de Vere Stacpoole.
 
16th February 2007: Thanks again to Nick Granger-Taylor who has sent scans of The Shrine of Death by Lady Dilke, and a curious variant binding of Arthur Machen's The Three Impostors.
 
13th February 2007: Thanks to Nick Granger-Taylor who has sent scans of the US edition of Arthur Machen's The Three Impostors, and a later issue of The Great God Pan.
 
19th December 2006: A Merry Christmas to you all! If, over the Christmas season, you'd like to discuss classic ghost and horror stories you might like to check out the Fireside Frights reading group.
 
1st December 2006: Many thanks again to Nick Granger-Taylor who has sent a scan of the super-rare Thesaurus Incantatus by Arthur Machen.
 
26th November 2006: Many thanks to Nick Granger-Taylor for a scan of An Exchange of Souls by Barry Pain.
 
29th October 2006: Thanks to Richard Molyneux for sending a picture of the jacket of a later edition of Walter de la Mare's The Riddle
 
22nd October 2006: Further scans very gratefully received from John Pinkney: US editions of de la Mare's The Riddle and On the Edge, and Hector Bolitho's The House in Half Moon Street
 
20th September.: Scans gratefully received from John Pinkney: Tales of Mysetry and Revenge by Noel Langley, The Rent in the Veil by Margery Lawrence, and two later editions of books by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ralph the Bailiff and Weavers and Weft.
 
18th September 2006: Once again John Pinkney has generously sent on more scans - this time of the UK edition of The Street of Queer Houses and Two and Two Make Five by Vernon Knowles, along with The Eternal Moment by E.M. Forster and Ghost Stories by H.R. Wakefield.
 
4th September 2006: Thanks to Don Kobetsky for images for Not for the Night Time by Theo Gift, Ghost Stories by Michael Arlen, and Fear by Edith Nesbit.
 
30th August 2006: Thanks again to James Doig for help with creating a page for H.B. Marriott Watson, and sending scans for Marahuna and Diogenes of London.
 
22nd August: Many thanks to James Doig for sending through a scan of Nigel Tourneur's Hidden Witchery.
 
19th July 2006: Rather belatedly, I'd like to thank Don Kobetsky for sending us images for A Hair Divides by Claude Houghton, the Chatto edition of Black Spirits and White by Ralph Adams Cram, and Revenge! by Robert Barr.
 
9th june 2006: Thanks again to John Pinkney, this time for taking the trouble to photograph The Horned Shepherd by Edgar Jepson
 
5th June 2006: Many thanks to John Pinkney for a scan of a new edition of Mrs Campbell Praed's The Soul of Countess Adrian, A Romance
 
12th March 2006: Thanks to Nick Granger-Taylor who has sent images of three titles by Evelyn Underhill: The Grey World, The Lost Word and A Column of Dust.
 
8th March 2006: Many thanks to Nick Granger-Taylor for sending images of Vincent O'Sullivan's The Houses of Sin. Thanks also to Malcolm F. Lawrence for information on the Peruvian writer Clemente Palma
 
10th February 2006: John Pinkney has sent on some fine scans of Some Ghost Stories by Burrage, The Floating Cafe by Margery Lawrence, and The Painted Face by Oliver Onions.
 
9th February 2006: Thanks to Sean Donnelly for sending scans of George Sylvester Viereck's The House of the Vampire, A.M. Burrage's Seeker to the Dead, E.R. Morrough's The Temple Servant and Other Stories, Maurice Level's Tales of Mystery and Horror, Frank Owen's The Porcelain Magician, Henri Beraud's Lazarus, Conrad Aiken's Among the Lost People, Margaret Oliphant's The Open Door and The Portrait: Two Stories of the Seen and Unseen and Gustav Meyrink's The Golem..
 
29th December 2005: I have added a scan of a jacketed copy of Arthur Machen's The Secret Glory. It is a pretty unremarkable jacket, but in over twenty years of collecting machen it is the first one that I think I have seen.
 
30th September 2005: Many thanks to John Pinkney for supplying an image of the jacket of The Horror of Abbot's Grange by Frederick Cowles.
 
19th September 2005: Thanks to John Ricketts for a scan of Gerald Gardner's High Magic's Aid.
 
11th September 2005: Many thanks to Luther Martin for a scan of Robert Bloch's Dragons and Nightmares.
 
19th July 2005: Thanks to Charles Oliver for a scan of Spook Stories by E.F. Benson
 
1st July 2005: Many thanks once again to Dave Scroggs for sending through scans of The Centaur by Algernon Blackwood, The Room in the Tower and The Flint Knife by E.F. Benson, and The Lady of the Island and The Lust of Hate by Guy Boothby.
 
24th June 2005: Many thanks to Dave Scroggs for sending through scans of Algernon Blackwood's The Dance of Death and Other Tales and Short Stories of Today and Yesterday, and also the great jacket for Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter.
 
17th June 2005: Work on the database has slowed for the last few months as I work on the revisions to the Tartarus Press Guide to First Edition Prices. However, in the autumn I hope to get back to work on the webpages, providing more bibliographical information and descriptive material. In the meantime, we are pleased to have been sent by Sean Donnelly images for The Moon Terror by A.G. Birch, the boards of Lukundoo by Edward Lucas White, and the boards of the first American edition of The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen.
 
21st May 2005: Many thanks to John Pinkney for a scan of Gertrude Dunn's Unholy Depths
 
27th March: Many thanks to Brian Lavelle for images of A Beginning by Walter de la Mare, and The Surly Sullen Bell and Watchers at the Straight Gate by Russell Kirk
 
24th March 2005: Many thanks to John Pinkney for scans of the US edition of Richard Marsh's Tom Ossington's Ghost and a yelowback reprint of Catherine Crowe's The Night Side of Nature.
 
14th March: Jim Rockhill has kindly sent through a scan of the cover of Algernon Blackwood's John Silence in the unauthorised, 1909 US edition, featuring a solemn-looking John Silence on the cover.
 
1st March: Thanks to Sean Donnelly for sending a couple more scans: The Sorcery Club by Elliott O'Donnell, and Stories of the Seen and Unseen by Margaret Oliphant
 
27th February: It has been quite quiet here recently, but Sean Donnelly has recently sent through images of the cover of The Garden at 19, the American edition of Jepson's book which has Arthur machen and the New Bohemians amongst it's real-life charatcers. He has also sent through the image of the d/w for Talbot Mundy's Om. Simon Strantzas has also sent scans of a few more recent titles: The Nightmare Exhibition by Quentin S. Crisp, Black Altars by Mark Samuels, Conference With the Dead and Dark Matters by Terry Lamsley, the Collected Ghost Stories of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, and Kecksies by Marjorie Bowen.
 

16th January: More great scans from John Pinkney: The Goat-Foot God by Dion Fortune, From Out of the Silence by Lady Bessie Kyffin-Taylor, The Vampire by Reginald Hodder, Stories in the Dark by Barry Pain, The Haunted Station by Hume Nisbet, and Gerard by M.E. Braddon.

 
1st January 2005: Happy New Year! John Pinkney has generously supplied a number of interesting scans: The Yellow Death by Uel Key, The Discovery of the Dead by Allen Upward, In Ghostly Company by Amyas Northcote, and The Insane Root by Mrs Campbell Praed.
 
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