Alice Askew (18 June 1874 6 October 1917) along with her husband, Claude Askew (27 November 1865 6 October 1917) were British authors, who together wrote ‘over ninety novels, many published in sixpenny and sevenpenny series, between 1904 and 1918’.
Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction. He was a leading ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as ‘absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories’.
William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 19 April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction.
Hesketh Vernon Prichard, (17 November 1876 14 June 1922) was an explorer, adventurer, big-game hunter and marksman who made a significant contribution to sniping practice within the British Army during the First World War. Flaxman Low is a fictional character created by British authors Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard and his mother Kate O’Brien Ryall Prichard, published under the pseudonyms ‘H. Heron’ and ‘E. Heron’.