The supernatural reader

1904 – 1968,

Edward Groff Conklin was born in New Jersey. He graduated from Columbia University in 1927. He was a leading science fiction anthologist, having edited 41 anthologies of science fiction. He also wrote books on home improvement and was a freelance writer on scientific subjects. From 1950 to 1955, he was the book critic for Galaxy Science Fiction.

22 August 1920 – 5 June 2012

Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative. Once read, his words are never forgotten. His best-known and most beloved books, *The Martian Chronicles*, *The Illustrated Man*, *Fahrenheit 451* and *Something Wicked This Way Comes*, are masterworks that readers carry with them over a lifetime. His timeless, constant appeal to audiences young and old has proven him to be one of the truly classic authors of the 20th Century -- and the 21st. In recognition of his s…

1842 – 1914?

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist.