Curated category
Writers of Gothic fiction
- 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.
- 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…
- Oscar WildeOscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde entered the world on the 16th of October 1854 at 21 Westland Row in Dublin. His mother Jane, née Elgee, wrote poetry…
- Herman MelvilleHerman Melville was born on the 1st of August 1819, in New York City. He entered the world as the third child of Allan Melvill and Maria Gansevoort.
- Walter ScottOn the 15th of August 1771, a boy named Walter Scott was born in a third-floor apartment on College Wynd in Edinburgh. His life changed dramatically in 1773…
- 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…
- Percy Bysshe ShelleyOn a summer day in 1804, Percy Bysshe Shelley stood before the wooden paling fence at Eton College. He held a bag of gunpowder he had stolen from the school…
- Jules VerneJules Gabriel Verne was born on the 8th of February 1828 on Île Feydeau in Nantes. This small artificial island sat within the river Loire before it was…
- Mary ShelleyMary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born in Somers Town, London on the 30th of August 1797. Her mother died just eleven days after giving birth to her from…
- Jane AustenJane Austen arrived in the world on the 16th of December 1775 within the quiet valley of Steventon, Hampshire. Her father George Austen wrote to his wife…
- Lewis CarrollCharles Lutwidge Dodgson entered the world on the 27th of January 1832 at All Saints' Vicarage in Daresbury, Cheshire. He was the oldest boy and third of…
- 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…
- Victor HugoVictor-Marie Hugo was born on the 26th of February 1802 in Besançon, a city in eastern France. His father Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo served as a general…
- 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…
- Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hathorne, as his name was originally spelled, arrived in the world on the 4th of July 1804, within the historic streets of Salem, Massachusetts.
- Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft was born on the 27th of April 1759 in Spitalfields, London. Her father Edward John Wollstonecraft squandered a comfortable family income…
- 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…
- Michael CrichtonJohn Michael Crichton was born on the 23rd of October 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up in Roslyn, New York, where he walked to school and rode his bike…
- 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…
- Leonid AndreyevLeonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was born in Oryol, Russia, to a middle-class family. His mother came from an old Polish aristocratic family that had fallen on…
- Aleksey Konstantinovich TolstoyAleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy was born in Saint Petersburg to the famed family of Tolstoy. His parents, Count Konstantin Petrovich Tolstoy and Anna…