Curated category
British ghost story writers
- Charles DickensOn the 12th of May 1824, twelve-year-old Charles Dickens boarded a small boat to visit his father inside the Marshalsea debtors' prison in Southwark.
- Agatha ChristieAgatha Mary Clarissa Miller entered the world on the 15th of September 1890 in Torquay, Devon. She was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family with her…
- Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson was born at 8 Howard Place in Edinburgh on the 13th of November 1850. His father Thomas worked as a leading lighthouse engineer while…
- Neil GaimanNeil Richard Gaiman was born on the 10th of November 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire. His family background traces to Polish-Jewish and other Ashkenazi…
- Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Ignatius Conan Doyle entered the world on the 22nd of May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place in Edinburgh. His father Charles Altamont Doyle was born in England…