Author: Stephen L. Smith

By David G. Hartwell, Stephen King, John Collier, Montague Rhodes James, Lucy Clifford, Russell Kirk, H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ray Bradbury, Michael Shea, Edith Nesbit, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, Thomas M. Disch, Theodore Sturgeon, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Faulkner, Robert Smythe Hichens, Richard Matheson, Joanna Russ, Dennis Etchison, D. H. Lawrence, Tanith Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Ramsey Campbell, Henry James, Gene Wolfe, Charles Dickens, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter De la Mare, Ivan Turguenev, Robert Chambers, Oliver Onions, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Algernon Blackwood and Philip K. Dick

By Peter Haining, Robert Lawrence Stine, Jerome Bixby, Richard Matheson, William F. Nolan, Leon Garfield, Isaac Asimov, Zenna Henderson, Roald Dahl, Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, Joan Aiken, Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell and Robert Bloch

By Smith, Robert L., Robert L. Smith, Stephen L. Herman, Robert Barr Smith and Robert D. Smith

By Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Larry Niven, Charles E. Fritch, Bill Pronzini, George R. R. Martin, Jerome Bixby, Ambrose Bierce, Edward D. Hoch, Alexei Panshin, Martin Gardner, Steven Utley, Gregory Benford, Richard Wilson, Robert Sheckley, Roger Zelazny, Damon Knight, Reginald Bretnor, Frederik Pohl, Laurence M. Janifer, James Blish, Joanna Russ, Ray Russell, Edward Wellen, Donald E. Westlake, Ben Bova, Barry N. Malzberg, Fred Saberhagen, Fritz Leiber, Karen Anderson, Bob Shaw, William F. Nolan, Henry Slesar, Dannie Plachta, Edward Rager, Hayford Peirce, Jeffrey S. Hudson, Walter S. Tevis, James Edward Sutherland, Joe L. Hensley, Duane Ackerson, Stephen Goldin, Robert Emmett Toomey Jr., Alfred Bester, Anthony Boucher, Nelson Slade Bond, F. M. Busby, Maggie Nadler, Grant Carrington, Keith Laumer, E. Michael Blake, James E. Gunn, Paul Dellinger, Lee Killough, Thomas F. Monteleone, Robert T. Kurosaka, James E. Thompson, Robert L. Fish, Bruce McAllister, Paul Bond, Mildred Downey Broxon, Alan Edward Nourse, David Bischoff, Ralph Milne Farley, Daniel A. Darlington, Walt Liebscher and K. W. MacAnn

By Ramsey Campbell, Stephen King, A. A. Attanasio, Brian Lumley, Frank Belknap Long, Basil Copper, T. E. D. Klein, H.P. Lovecraft, Martin S. Warnes and David Drake

By Michael Ashley, Derek Wilson, Peter Berresford Ellis, Claire Griffen, Edward D. Hoch, David Stuart Davies, Barbara Roden, John Betancourt, Denis O. Smith, Guy N. Smith, Eric Brown, Simon Clark, Michael Moorcock, Robert Weinberg, Stephen Baxter, Peter Crowther, Lois H. Gresh, Basil Copper, H. R. F. Keating, David Langford, Roger Johnson, Amy Myers, Martin Edwards, Michael Doyle, Zakaria Erzinçlioglu, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre and L. B. Greenwood

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By Mary Danby, Joan Aiken, Ambrose Bierce, Ramsey Campbell, Roald Dahl, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen King, Richard Matheson and Edgar Allan Poe

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Evil Progeny

By Steve Berman, Charles L. Grant, Norman Partridge, Halli Villegas, Lisa Tuttle, John Schoffstall, Michael Kelly, Joe R. Lansdale, Joe D. Lane, Stephen King, Robert R. McCammon, Michael Marshall Smith, Charles Antin, Ramsey Campbell, Robert McVety, Jeffrey Ford, Will Ludwigsen, Dale Bailey, Gemma Files, Hal Duncan, Stephen Graham Jones, Peter Straub, Gary Raisor, Alex Jeffers, Georgina Bruce, Christine Morgan, Cassandra Clare, Holly Black and Michael Reaves

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By Nance Davidson, Edward Abbey, Abigail Adams, Sherwood Anderson, W. H. Auden, James Baldwin, Donald Barthelme, Ann Beattie, Ambrose Bierce, Elizabeth Bishop, Arna Bontemps, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Mathew B. Brady, Gwendolyn Brooks, William Cullen Bryant, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Pedro de Castenada, Willa Cather, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Diana Chang, Mary Chesnut, Kate Chopin, Sandra Cisneros, Christopher Columbus, Aaron Copland, Stephen Crane, Michel-guillaume Jean De Crevecoeur, Victor Hernández Cruz, E. E. Cummings, James Dickey, Emily Dickinson, Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), John Dos Passos, Frederick Douglass, Rita Dove, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jonathan Edwards, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Olaudah Equiano, Louise Erdrich, Martín Espada, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Frost, Bret Harte, Robert Hayden, H. D. , Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Henry, Alfred J. Hitchcock, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Lawson Fusao Inada, Washington Irving, Randall Jarrell, Thomas Jefferson, Chief Joseph, Sidney Lanier, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Jack London, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Barry Lopez, Amy Lowell, Robert Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Bernard Malamud, Edgar Lee Masters, Cotton Mather, Carson McCullers, Colleen McElroy, Claude McKay, Herman Melville, Edna St. Vincent Millay, N. Scott Momaday, Marianne Moore, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O'Connor, Simon J. Ortiz, Thomas Paine, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, Ezra Pound, Frederick Remington, Adrienne Rich, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Roethke, Carl Sandburg, John Smith, William Stafford, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stevens, Amy Tan, Edward Taylor, Henry David Thoreau, James Thurber, Jean Toomer, Mark Twain, Anne Tyler, John Updike, José García Villa, Alice Walker, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Phillis Wheatley, E. B. White, Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Richard Wilbur, William Carlos Williams, Thomas Wolfe, James Wright, Richard Wright, Frances Earle, Truman Capote, James Fenimore Cooper, Countee Cullen, Elizabeth Enright, John Crowe Ransom, Thornton Wilder and Nathaniel Hawthorne

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By Otto Penzler, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, William Gilbert, Anne Crawford, Eliza Lynn Linton, Mary Cholmondeley, Alecsandri, Vasile, Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, F. G. Loring, Edgar Allan Poe, Hume Nisbet, Eric Stenbock, Luigi Capuana, Franz Hartmann, Carl Jacobi, Anne Rice, Frederick Cowles, Montague Rhodes James, O. Scott-Moncrieff, H.P. Lovecraft, Tanith Lee, Joseph Payne Brennan, Algernon Blackwood, Clark Ashton Smith, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lord Byron, John Keats, Charles Beaumont, Ed Gordon, David J. Schow, Victor Roman, E. F. Benson, Basil Copper, Francis Marion Crawford, Manly Wade Wellman, August Derleth, Alice Askew, Claude Askew, Bram Stoker, H. B. Marriott Watson, Jan Neruda, D. H. Lawrence, Fredric Brown, Stephen King, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Richard Matheson, Roger Zelazny, Lisa Tuttle, Kilworth, Garry, Walter Starkie, Vincent O'Sullivan, Violet M. Firth (Dion Fortune), Everil Worrell, Mary A. Turzillo, Lafcadio Hearn, Steve Rasnic Tem, Brian Stableford, F. Paul Wilson, Sabine Baring-Gould, Clive Barker, Sydney Horler, Hugh B. Cave, Vernon Lee, Guy de Maupassant, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Gardner R. Dozois, Jack Dann, Brian Lumley, Ray Bradbury, Peter Berresford Ellis, Richard Laymon, Dan Simmons, Gahan Wilson and Dana Seitler

By James Edwin Miller, Robert Hayden, Robert O'Neill, William Bradford, John Smith, Anne Bradstreet, Esther Edwards, Taylor, Edward, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Benjamin Franklin, Phyllis Wheatley, Thomas Jefferson, William Bartram, Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Buber, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., James Russell Lowell, James Wilson Pennington, Henry Timrod, Abraham Lincoln, Sidney Lanier, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Ambrose Bierce, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, Prudencio De Pereda, Carson McCullers, Donald Barthelme, John Updike, Americo Paredes, E. B. White, George Santayana, Art Buchwald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Archibald MacLeish, Donald A. Stauffer, Spencer, Theodore, John Dos Passos, Edgar Lee Masters, Jesse Stuart, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, Stephen Vincent Benét, Luis Munoz Marin, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Marianne Moore, John Crowe Ransom, Elinor Wylie, W. H. Auden, Allen Tate, Kenneth Fearing, Robinson Jeffers, Richard Eberhart, Margaret Walker, Theodore Roethke, Gwendolyn Brooks, Howard Nemerov, James Wright, Richard Wilbur, Randall Jarrell, Robert Earl Hayden, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Davis, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William Stafford, Henry Dumas, Mona Van Duyn, Robert Creeley, Amiri Baraka, Michael Harper and Victor Hernández Cruz

By Alistair MacLean, David Niven, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. E. Bates, Richard Hillary, H. G. Wells, Erich Maria Remarque, Лев Толстой, Joseph Heller, Richard Alexander Hough, Stephen Crane, Airey Neave, Robert Graves, David Niven, Joseph Conrad, Larry Forrester, Norman Mailer, Cecil Woodham Smith, Ambrose Bierce, P. C. Wren, Nicholas Monsarrat, William Makepeace Thackeray, Guy Gibson and Frederic Manning