A Shade of Vampire 4: A Shadow of Light

Rachilde was the pen name and preferred identity of novelist and playwright Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (February 11, 1860 – April 4, 1953). Born near Périgueux, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire, Rachilde went on to become a symbolist author and the most prominent woman in literature associated with the Decadent Movement of fin de […]

James Havoc is the pen-name of James Williamson, a British extreme writer of esoteric horror and erotica from Plymouth.[1] Moving to Brighton in later life, he made friends with Alan McGee of Creation Records and became chief editor of Creation Books, Creation Records’ book division.[2] McGee has commented on Williamson/Havoc in his autobiography, Creation Stories […]

Pierre-Jean de Béranger (19 August 1780 – 16 July 1857) was a prolific French poet and chansonnier (songwriter), who enjoyed great popularity and influence in France during his lifetime, but faded into obscurity in the decades following his death. He has been described as “the most popular French songwriter of all time” and “the first superstar […]

Pierre Guyotat (born 9 January 1940) is a French writer. Born in Bourg-Argental, Loire, Guyotat wrote his first novel, Sur un cheval, in 1960. He was called to Algeria in the same year. In 1962 he was found guilty of desertion and publishing forbidden material. After three months in jail he was transferred to a […]

Lynn Siprelle, better known by the pen name MeiLin Miranda, is the American author of the fantasy series An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom.[1] She is also the author of the online fantasy western serial Scryer’s Gulch. She co-authored the shared steampunk fantasy series The Drifting Isle Chronicles. Her fantasy and science fiction novels […]