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Van Greenaway, Peter
Peter Van Greenaway was a British author of unconventional crime stories that included elements of horror and science fiction. He was extremely shy, and little is known about his life. Allegedly, he only gave two interviews in the last 25 years of his life, both with Swedish crime fiction aficionados Jan Broberg and Ulf Örnklo.
No birth or death certificates have ever been found, so there is ...
Photo: The Granger Collection / TT (c. 1950)
Sample of authors
Derleth, August
American author, poet, editor and publisher, who wrote his first published novel Bat’s Belfry when he was 15 years old. When he died, he had written more than 150 books in a row of literary genres, and he left behind him a large number of unpublished manuscripts. His publisher’s, Arkham House, are rather legendary when it comes to primarily fantasy and horror literature, and he was a respected lec...