Arthur Conan Doyle

Charles Dickens

Henry James

Edgar Allan Poe

Jack London

E. F. Benson

Washington Irving

Mark Twain

Mary Shelley

Thomas Hardy

John Buchan

Guy de Maupassant

Daniel Defoe

H. P. Lovecraft

Bram Stoker

Ambrose Bierce

George MacDonald

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wilhelm Hauff

Wilkie Collins

Harriet Beecher Stowe

M. R. James

William Hope Hodgson

W. W. Jacobs

Anatole France

James Malcolm Rymer

Fergus Hume

Margaret Oliphant

Grant Allen

William T. Stead

Frank R. Stockton

Arthur Machen

Walter Hubbell

Lafcadio Hearn

Richard Le Gallienne

A. T. Quiller-Couch

Théophile Gautier

Francis Marion Crawford

Ellis Parker Butler

Leonard Kip

Florence Marryat

Katherine Rickford

Bithia Mary Croker

Catherine L. Pirkis

William Archer

Pliny the Younger

Brander Matthews

John William Polidori

Helena Blavatsky

Pedro De Alarçon

Thomas Peckett Prest

William F. Harvey

Ralph Adams Cram

Leopold Kompert

Vincent O'Sullivan

Fiona Macleod

Gambier Bolton

Andrew Jackson Davis

Nizida

Walter F. Prince

Chester Bailey Fernando

M. P. Shiel

Villiers de l'Isle Adam

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