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Die Kritik hat Charles Birkin ( 24. September 1907; 1986) mit Edgar Allan Poe verglichen.

An important, though neglected, figure in twentieth-century British horror fiction, Sir Charles Birkin (1907-1985) began his literary career as editor of the popular - and now highly collectible - "Creeps" series of horror anthologies in the 1930s, which featured tales by well-known writers such as H.R. Wakefield, Lord Dunsany and Russell Thorndike, as well as contributions by Birkin himself.
A master of the "conte cruel," often with a Grand Guignol finish, Birkin found true horror not in ghosts or the supernatural but in man's inhumanity to man. Never before reprinted and extremely...

"Never fails to shock and surprise you . . . brimming with unexpected twists." - "Sunday Express"
" N]ot for the squeamish. Be warned, if you are at all sensitive, leave him well alone. He deals unflinchingly with such subjects as murder, rape, concentration camps, patricide, mutilation and torture." - Hugh Lamb
" M]ore than a definite touch of the great master, Edgar Allan Poe." - Dennis Wheatley
"Horror and fantasy stories . . . engagingly told." - "Publishers Weekly"
"Few writers of horror today approach the standards of Birkin." - "Ulster Star"
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