Curated category
American weird fiction writers
- Stephen KingStephen Edwin King was born on the 21st of September 1947 in Portland, Maine. His father Donald Edwin King worked as a traveling vacuum salesman after…
- Edgar Allan PoeOn the 27th of May 1827, a young man named Edgar A. Perry enlisted in the United States Army under an assumed name. He was actually eighteen years old and…
- Henry JamesHenry James was born at 21 Washington Place in Manhattan on the 15th of April 1843. His father Henry James Sr. inherited a fortune from his own father…
- Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis on the 11th of November 1922. He descended from a long line of German Americans whose family fortune rested on the…
- H. P. LovecraftHoward Phillips Lovecraft was born on the 20th of August 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island. His father Winfield Scott Lovecraft suffered a psychotic episode…
- George R. R. MartinGeorge Raymond Martin was born on the 20th of September 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father worked as a longshoreman while his mother's family had once…
- Lin CarterLinwood Vrooman Carter stood in the infantry during the Korean War from 1951 to 1953. He served as a soldier before he ever became a professional author.
- Ambrose BierceAmbrose Gwinnett Bierce was born in a log cabin at Horse Cave Creek in Meigs County, Ohio on the 24th of June 1842. He entered the world as the tenth child…
- Robert E. HowardRobert E. Howard was born on the 22nd of January 1906 in Peaster, Texas. His father worked as a traveling country physician while his mother raised him in a…
- Jack VanceJohn Holbrook Vance arrived in the world on the 28th of August 1916. His family lived in a large house on Filbert Street in San Francisco during his early…
- Fritz LeiberFritz Leiber Jr. entered the world on the 24th of December 1910, in Chicago, Illinois. He was born to actors Fritz Leiber and Virginia Bronson Leiber.