M. R. James was born in Kent, England in 1862. James came to writing fiction relatively late, not publishing his first collection of short stories - Ghost Stori
Along with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Ludwig Tieck is now seen as the pre-eminent German writer of the early Romantic Movement. 'The Bride of the Grave'
Seabury Quinn was one of the most popular pulp authors of the early 20th century. Set in the aftermath of the Salem Witch Trials, 'Is the Devil a Gentleman?' is
Many of the finest stories of magic and fantasy, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We