...rn February 19, 1963) is an American [[horror fiction|horror]] and science fiction/[[fantasy]] writer. She was born in Heber Springs, Arkansas but grew up in
...ernate history (a subset of [[science fiction]]), [[fantasy]], or [[Horror fiction|horror]]. The dialog and hard-boiled first-person viewpoint has been compa
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...' and ''The Fog'', are gruesome disaster novels, influenced by the science fiction works of [[John Wyndham]]. The horror - mutant man-eating rats in the first
...''The Survivor'', Herbert used supernatural horror rather than the science fiction horror of his first two books. ''The Dark'' showed the novelist's moralisti
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...f fiction in which at least part of the narrative depends on the impact of science, either real or imagined, to generate settings or events which have not yet
...<ref>''Science Fiction: Its Nature, Faults and Virtues'' in ''The Science Fiction Novel: Imagination and Social Criticism'', Advent: Publishers, 1959. (This
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...of theories to account for the occurences of supernatural phenomenon that science fail to explain.
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...faeries of the air. Fantasy authors will sometimes employ sylphs in their fiction.
...rody of heroic poetry and the "dark" and "mysterious" literature of pseudo-science, and in particular the sometimes esoterically Classical heroic poetry of th
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...ates dread among the living. Zombies have become a staple of modern horror fiction, where they usually engage in the consumption of human flesh. The term "zom
...ill be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than gestures of ceremony."
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...irolamo Fabrici (1537-1619) tastefully examines the themes of romanticism, science and art.]]
...d authors, such as Brian Aldiss, claim that it is the very first [[science fiction]] novel.
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...ia) is an American writer. He is best known as a prolific and best-selling fiction author of popular suspense novels.
...ublished in 1968. From there he went on to write over a dozen more science fiction novels.
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..., "say a thing in the name of the man who says it," can be traced to their authors, and are therefore maxims; for example, the saying "Descend a step to choos
==Science fiction==
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The Museum of Natural Science in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada is said to be haunted by the ghost of the Canadi
==Ghosts in fiction==
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...ach the power and fame of Frankenstein; The Last Man, a pioneering science fiction novel of the human apocalypse in the distant future, is, however, sometimes
[[Category:Monstrous authors]]
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In the Middle Ages, what we now call science began to develop, partially through alchemy. Alchemy attempted to codify sp
Mediæval authors, under the control of the Church, confined their magic to compilations of w
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...y theories, most notably those of David Icke, and in science fiction. Some authors refer to them as '''reptoids''', '''dinosauroids''' or '''lizardmen'''.
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...igns waged against the English and their Burgundian allies. Although a few authors have tended to exaggerate the position he held during the latter campaigns,
Some authors have alleged that Rais was framed for murder and heresy by elements within
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...r Peaks'' was one of the few adventures released by TSR to include science-fiction elements, such as ray guns and robots.]]
...me was influenced by [[mythology]], pulp fiction, and contemporary fantasy authors of the 1960s and 1970s.
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...the life of interior Africa. According to Loren Coleman & Patrick Huyghe, authors of the Field Guide to Lake Monsters, "African guides found large, unexplain
According to science writer Willy Ley, while there is a sufficient anecdotal accounts to suggest
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''Dracula'' has been attributed to many literary genres including horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature.
...st another pot-boiler adventure among many. Throughout the 1880s and 1890s authors such as H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur C
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...King evinces a thorough knowledge of the horror genre, as shown in his non-fiction book ''Danse Macabre'', which chronicles several decades of notable works i
...x of his father's old books at his aunt's house, mainly horror and science fiction. He was immediately hooked on these genres.
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...s the only mention of any such sighting, and it has been suggested by some authors that Macnaghten really meant the City Police witness Joseph Lawende, though
...fied by the "only person who had a good view of the murderer", though some authors express skepticism that this identification ever happened, for a variety of
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The authors of the book Science in Culture reason the child looked like the Brahmin because Varuthini belie
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