Anne Perry

Born: 28 October 1938 Blackheath, London, England
Old name: Juliet Marion Hulme

is an English author of historical detective fiction, best known for her Thomas Pitt series and William Monk series. She was convicted of participating in the murder of her friend's mother in 1954. She changed her name after serving her sentence.
After being released from prison, Hulme returned to England and became a flight attendant. For a period she lived in the United States, where she joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1968. She later settled in the Scottish village of Portmahomack where she lived with her mother. Her father went on to a distinguished scientific career, heading the British hydrogen bomb programme.
Hulme took the name Anne Perry, the latter being her stepfather's surname. Her first novel, The Cater Street Hangman, was published under this name in 1979. Her works generally fall into one of several categories of genre fiction, including historical murder mysteries and detective fiction. Many of them feature a number of recurring characters, most importantly Thomas Pitt, who appeared in her first novel, and amnesiac private investigator William Monk, who first appeared in her 1990 novel The Face of a Stranger. As of 2003 she had published 47 novels, and several collections of short stories. Her story "Heroes", which first appeared in the 1999 anthology Murder and Obsession, edited by Otto Penzler, won the 2001 Edgar Award for Best Short Story.
In 2005, Perry appeared on the Trisha show to discuss the crime on a special themed show.

Works:

 Featuring Thomas Pitt

1. The Cater Street Hangman (1979)
2. Callander Square (1980)
3. Paragon Walk (1981)
4. Resurrection Row (1981)
5. Rutland Place (1983)
6. Bluegate Fields (1984)
7. Death in the Devil's Acre (1985)
8. Cardington Crescent (1987)
9. Silence in Hanover Close (1988)
10. Bethlehem Road (1990)
11. Highgate Rise (1991)
12. Belgrave Square (1992)
13. Farrier's Lane (1993)
14. The Hyde Park Headsman (1994)
15. Traitors Gate (1995)
16. Pentecost Alley (1996)
17. Ashworth Hall (1997)
18. Brunswick Gardens (1998)
19. Bedford Square (1999)
20. Half Moon Street (2000)
21. The Whitechapel Conspiracy (2001)
22. Southampton Row (2002)
23. Seven Dials (2003)
24. Long Spoon Lane (2005)
25. Buckingham Palace Gardens (2008)
26. Treason at Lisson Grove (2011)
27. Dorchester Terrace (2012)
28. Midnight at Marble Arch (2013)
29. Death on Blackheath (2014)
30. The Angel Court Affair (2015)

Featuring William Monk

1. The Face of a Stranger (1990)
2. A Dangerous Mourning (1991)
3. Defend and Betray (1992)
4. A Sudden, Fearful Death (1993)
5. The Sins of the Wolf (1994)
6. Cain His Brother (1995)
7. Weighed in the Balance (1996)
8. The Silent Cry (1997)
9. A Breach of Promise (alt. title: Whited Sepulchres) (1997)
10. The Twisted Root (1999)
11. Slaves of Obsession (alt. title: Slaves and Obsession) (2000)
12. A Funeral in Blue (2001)
13. Death of a Stranger (2002)
14. The Shifting Tide (2004)
15. Dark Assassin (2006)
16. Execution Dock (2009)
17. Acceptable Loss (2011)
18. A Sunless Sea (2012)
19. Blind Justice (2013)
20. Blood on the water (2014)

The World War I series

1. No Graves As Yet (2003)
2. Shoulder the Sky (2004)
3. Angels in the Gloom (2005)
4. At Some Disputed Barricade (2006)
5. We Shall Not Sleep (2007)

The Christmas stories

1. A Christmas Journey (2003)
2. A Christmas Visitor (2004)
3. A Christmas Guest (2005)
4. A Christmas Secret (2006)
5. A Christmas Beginning (2007)
6. A Christmas Grace (2008)
7. A Christmas Promise (2009)
8. A Christmas Odyssey (2010)
9. A Christmas Homecoming (2011)
10. A Christmas Garland (2012)
11. A Christmas Hope (2013)
12. A New York Christmas (2014)

The Christmas Collections

1. An Anne Perry Christmas: Two Holiday Novels (2006) – contains A Christmas Journey (2003) and A Christmas Visitor (2004)
2. Anne Perry's Christmas Mysteries: Two Holiday Novels (2008) – contains A Christmas Guest (2005) and A Christmas Secret (2006)
3. Anne Perry's Silent Nights: Two Victorian Christmas Mysteries (2009) – contains A Christmas Beginning (2007) and A Christmas Grace (2008)
4. Anne Perry's Christmas Vigil: Two Victorian Holiday Mysteries (2011) – contains A Christmas Promise (2009) and A Christmas Odyssey (2010)

Fantasy

1. Tathea (1999)
2. Come Armageddon (2001)

Timepiece series (Young Adult Novels)

1. Tudor Rose (2011)
2. Rose of No Man's Land (2011)
3. Blood Red Rose (2012)
4. Rose Between Two Thorns (2012)

Other books

• The One Thing More (2000)
• A Dish Taken Cold (2001)
• Death by Horoscope (2001, short stories by various authors)
• Much Ado About Murder (2002, short stories by various authors)
• Death By Dickens (2004, short stories by various authors)
• I'd Kill For That (2004, one novel written by multiple authors)
• Letters From The Highlands (2004)
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Biblical Mystery Stories (2005, short stories by various authors)
• Heroes (Most Wanted) (2007)
• The Sheen on the Silk: A Novel (2010)
• The Scroll (Short Story) (2013)

John Wyndham

Born: 10 July 1903 Warwickshire, England

Died: 11 March 1969 Hampshire, England

Genre: Science Fiction

was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. Many of his works were set in post-apocalyptic landscapes.

During the Second World War Wyndham first served as a censor in the Ministry of Information, then joined the army, serving as a Corporal cipher operator in the Royal Corps of Signals. He participated in the Normandy landings, although was not involved in the first days of the operation

 After the war, Wyndham returned to writing, inspired by the success of his brother who had four novels published. He altered his writing style and, by 1951, using the John Wyndham pen name for the first time, wrote the novel The Day of the Triffids. His pre-war writing career was not mentioned in the book's publicity, and people were allowed to assume that it was a first novel from a previously unknown writer.

The book proved to be an enormous success and established Wyndham as an important exponent of science fiction. During his lifetime he wrote and published six more novels under the name John Wyndham. In 1963 he married Grace Wilson, whom he had known for more than 20 years; the couple remained married until he died. He moved out of the Penn Club, London, and lived near Petersfield, Hampshire, just outside the grounds of Bedales School.

He died aged 65 at his home in Petersfield, survived by his wife and brother. Subsequently, some of his unsold work was published and his earlier work re-published.

Works: 

 Early novels published under other pen names

• Foul Play Suspected (1935), as John Beynon
• The Secret People (1935), as John Beynon
• Planet Plane (1935), as John Beynon. Also known as The Space Machine and Stowaway to Mars.

Novels published in his lifetime as by John Wyndham

• The Day of the Triffids (1951), also known as Revolt of the Triffids
• The Kraken Wakes (1953), published in the US as Out of the Deeps
• The Chrysalids (1955), published in the US as Re-Birth
• The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), filmed twice as Village of the Damned
• The Outward Urge (1959)
• Trouble with Lichen (1960)
• Chocky (1968)

Posthumously published novels

• Web (1979)
• Plan for Chaos (2009)

Short story collections published in his lifetime

• Jizzle (1954)
• The Seeds of Time (1956)
• Tales of Gooseflesh and Laughter (1956), US edition featuring stories from the two earlier collections
• Consider Her Ways and Others (1956)
• The Infinite Moment (1961), US edition of Consider Her Ways and Others, with two stories dropped, two others added

Posthumously published collections

• Sleepers of Mars (1973), a collection of five stories originally published in magazines in the 1930s: Sleepers of Mars, Worlds to Barter, Invisible Monster, The Man from Earth and The Third Vibrator
• The Best of John Wyndham (1973)
• Wanderers of Time (1973), a collection of five stories originally published in magazines in the 1930s: Wanderers of Time, Derelict of Space, Child of Power, The Last Lunarians and The Puff-ball Menace (a.k.a. Spheres of Hell)
• Exiles on Asperus (1979)
• No Place Like Earth (2003)

Algernon Blackwood

Born: 14 March 1869 Shooter's Hill, Kent, England
Died:  10 December 1951 Bishopsteighton, Kent, England
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Weird fiction

was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that "his work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures (1914) "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century".

Legacy:

• H. P. Lovecraft included Blackwood as one of the "Modern Masters" in the section of that name in "Supernatural Horror in Literature".
• Authors who have been influenced by Blackwood's work include William Hope Hodgson, George Allan England, H.P. Lovecraft, H. Russell Wakefield, "L. Adams Beck" (Elizabeth Louisa Moresby), Margery Lawrence, Evangeline Walton and Ramsey Campbell.
• The plot of Caitlin R. Kiernan's novel Threshold (2001) is influenced by Blackwood's work. Kiernan has cited Blackwood as an important influence on her writing.
• In The Books in My Life, Henry Miller chose Blackwood's The Bright Messenger as "the most extraordinary novel on psychoanalysis, one that dwarfs the subject."

• Algernon Blackwood appears as a character in the novel The Curse of the Wendigo by Rick Yance.        

 Works: 



Novels
In sequence of first publication:

• Jimbo: A Fantasy (1909a)
• The Education of Uncle Paul (1909b)
• The Human Chord (1910)
• The Centaur (1911)
• A Prisoner in Fairyland (1913); sequel to The Education of Uncle Paul
• The Extra Day (1915)
• Julius LeVallon (1916a)
• The Wave (1916b)
• The Promise of Air (1918a)
• The Garden of Survival (1918b)
• The Bright Messenger (1921); sequel to Julius LeVallon
• Dudley & Gilderoy: A Nonsense (1929)

Children's novels:

• Sambo and Snitch (1927)
• The Fruit Stoners: Being the Adventures of Maria Among the Fruit Stoners (1934)

Plays

In sequence of first performance:

• The Starlight Express (1915), coauthored with Violet Pearn; incidental music by Edward Elgar; based on Blackwood's 1913 novel A Prisoner in Fairyland
• Karma a reincarnation play in prologue epilogue and three acts (1918), coauthored with Violet Pearn;
• The Crossing (1920a), coauthored with Bertram Forsyth; based on Blackwood's 1913 short story "Transition"
• Through the Crack (1920b), coauthored with Violet Pearn; based on Blackwood's 1909 novel The Education of Uncle Paul and 1915 novel The Extra Day
• White Magic (1921a), coauthored with Bertram Forsyth
• The Halfway House (1921b), coauthored with Elaine Ainley
• Max Hensig (1929), coauthored with Frederick Kinsey Peile; based on Blackwood's 1907 short story "Max Hensig – Bacteriologist and Murderer"

Short fiction collections

In sequence of first publication:

• The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories (1906); original collection
• The Listener and Other Stories (1907); original collection
• John Silence (1908); original collection; reprinted with added preface, 1942
• The Lost Valley and Other Stories (1910); original collection
• Pan's Garden: a Volume of Nature Stories (1912); original collection
• Ten Minute Stories (1914a); original collection
• Incredible Adventures (1914b); original collection
• Day and Night Stories (1917); original collection
• Wolves of God, and Other Fey Stories (1921), honorarily coauthored with Wilfred Wilson; original collection
• Tongues of Fire and Other Sketches (1924); original collection
• Ancient Sorceries and Other Tales (1927a); selections from previous Blackwood collections, and pre-publication abridgment of 1932's planned The Willows and Other Queer Tales
• The Dance of Death and Other Tales (1927b); selections from previous Blackwood collections; reprinted as 1963's The Dance of Death and Other Stories
• Strange Stories (1929); selections from previous Blackwood collections
• Short Stories of To-Day & Yesterday (1930); selections from previous Blackwood collections
• The Willows and Other Queer Tales (1932); selected by G. F. Maine from previous Blackwood collections
• Shocks (1935); original collection
• The Tales of Algernon Blackwood (1938); selections from previous Blackwood collections, with a new preface by Blackwood
• Selected Tales of Algernon Blackwood (1942); selections from previous Blackwood collections (not to be mistaken for the identical title to a 1964 Blackwood collection)
• Selected Short Stories of Algernon Blackwood (1945); selections from previous Blackwood collections
• The Doll and One Other (1946); original collection
• Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural (1949); selections from previous Blackwood collections
• In the Realm of Terror (1957); selections from previous Blackwood collections
• The Dance of Death and Other Stories (1963); reprint of 1927's The Dance of Death and Other Tales
• Selected Tales of Algernon Blackwood (1964); selections from previous Blackwood collections (not to be mistaken for the identical title to a 1942 Blackwood collection)
• Tales of the Mysterious and Macabre (1967); selections from previous Blackwood collections
• Ancient Sorceries and Other Stories (1968); selections from previous Blackwood collections
• Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood (1973), selected and introduced by Everett F. Bleiler; selections from previous Blackwood collections; includes Blackwood's own preface to 1938's The Tales of Algernon Blackwood
• The Best Supernatural Tales of Algernon Blackwood (1973); selected and introduced by Felix Morrow; selections from 1929's Strange Stories
• Tales of Terror and Darkness (1977); puts together Tales of the Mysterious and Macabre and Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural.
• Tales of the Supernatural (1983); selected and introduced by Mike Ashley; selections from previous Blackwood collections
• The Magic Mirror (1989); selected, introduced, and notes by Mike Ashley; original collection
• The Complete John Silence Stories (1997); selected and introduced by S. T. Joshi; reprint of 1908's John Silence (without the preface to the 1942 reprint) and the one remaining John Silence story, "A Victim of Higher Space"
• Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories (2002); selected, introduced, and notes by S. T. Joshi; selections from previous Blackwood collections
• Algernon Blackwood's Canadian Tales of Terror (2004); selected, introduced, with notes by John Robert Colombo; eight stories of special Canadian interest plus information on the author's years in Canada.

Rex Warner

Born: 9 March 1905
Died: 24 June 1986

He was an English classicist, writer and translator. He is now probably best remembered for The Aerodrome (1941) He was born Reginald Ernest Warner in Birmingham, England.

Warner's work can be separated into three distinct stages. The first one, the shorter is the one devoted to poetry. While at Oxford, he worked in a series of poems that eventually published in 1937 in the volume Poems. The second stage comprises Warner their first novels. Written in the mid-twentieth century primerta, Warner shows in them a strong social conscience and concern about the concerns of the man of his time. This pattern obeys his early works such as Hunting the Wild Goose (1936), Professor (1938), The Aerodrome (1941) and Why Was I Killed? (1943). As for the third stage, is undoubtedly the best known and acclaimed. Warner took a turn for the historical novel, reaching its zenith in the field of the fake biography. At this prolific part of his literary career belong the works Young Caesar (1958), the continuation of this, Imperial Caesar (1960), which was awarded the James Tait Black, Pericles Athenian (1963) and The Converts (1967).

Works:

 Novels:

• The Wild Goose Chase (1937)
• The Professor (1938)The Aerodrome (1941)
• Why Was I Killed? (1943) (US Title: Return of the Traveller (1944))
• Men of Stones; A melodrama (1949)
• Escapade (1953)
• Young Caesar (1958)
• Imperial Caesar (1960)
• Pericles the Athenian (1963)
• The Converts (1967)

Poetry:

• Poems (1937)
• Poems and Contradictions (1945)
• New Poems 1954 (with Laurie Lee and Christopher Hassall) (1954)

Nonfiction:

• The Kite (1936)
• We're Not Going To Do Nothing: A reply to Mr. Aldous Huxley's pamphlet "What are you going to do about it?" (1936); (with Cecil Day-Lewis) 
• English Public Schools (1945)
• The Cult of Power (1946)
• John Milton (1949)
• E. M. Forster (1950); Second edition (1960) (with John Morris)
• Men and Gods (1950)
• Greeks and Trojans (1951)
• Views of Attica (1951)
• Ashes to Ashes. A post-mortem on the 1940–51 Tests (1951) (with Lyle Blair);
• Eternal Greece (1953) with Martin Hürlimann
• Athens (1956) with Martin Hürlimann
• The Greek Philosophers (1958)
• Look at Birds (1962)
• The Stories of the Greeks (1967)
• Athens at War (1970) "retelling" of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War
• Men of Athens: the story of fifth century Athens (vt. The Story of Fifth Century Athens) (1972) (with photographs by Dimitrios Harissiadis)

Translations from Ancient Greek:

• Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound (1947)
• Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (1954)
• Xenophon, A History of My Time and The Persian Expedition
• Plutarch, Parallel Lives (as The Fall of the Roman Republic) and Moral Essays
• Euripides, Medea (1944)
• Euripides, Helen (1958)
• Euripides, Hippolytus (1958)

Translations from the Latin:

• War Commentaries of Caesar (1960) Gallic & Civil Wars
• The Confessions of St. Augustine (1963)

Personal opinion: The literature is the language of the interior of a person, in this case an author. These authors listed here are the thoughts of the English person or they saw and how they see their world. Besides their stories give us entertainment, enjoyment and knowledge.