Автор: Fitz James O. Brien

Fitz James O”Brien (25 October 1826 6 April 1862) was an Irish American Civil War soldier, writer, and poet often cited as an early writer of science fiction. Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter was an American novelist, most known for Pollyanna (1913). Valery Bryusov was a Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian. He was one of the principal members of the Russian Symbolist movement. John Ulrich Giesy was an American physician, novelist and author. He was one of the early writers in the Sword and Planet genre, with his Jason Croft series.He collaborated with Junius B. Smith on many of his stories. Otis Adelbert Kline (July 1, 1891 October 24, 1946) born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, was a songwriter, an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Much of his work first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. Kline was an amateur orientalist and a student of Arabic, like his friend and sometime collaborator, E. Hoffmann Price. Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began to write stories and verse when still a child; he was president of his high school”s literary society. He published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper. Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist. Barry Pain, english journalist, poet and writer. He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories, but he also wrote many horror stories, which were well received by the lay men and critics alike. Best remembered for his Eliza group of comedic short stories. Gertrude Barrows Bennett, known by the pseudonym Francis Stevens, was a pioneering author of fantasy and science fiction. Bennett wrote a number of fantasies between 1917 and 1923 and has been called “the woman who invented dark fantasy”. Francis Marion Crawford (August 2, 1854 April 9, 1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastic stories.