Authors

Classics

Authors who died before 1980, most shelved first.
  1. 1J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973
  2. 2H. G. Wells1866–1946
  3. 3C. S. Lewis1898–1963
  4. 4Aldous Huxley1894–1963
  5. 5Mary Shelley1797–1851
  6. 6L. Frank Baum1856–1919
  7. 7Charles Dickens1812–1870
  8. 8E. Nesbit1858–1924
  9. 9Sheridan Le Fanu1814–1873
  10. 10Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930
  11. 11Edgar Rice Burroughs1875–1950
  12. 12John Wyndham1903–1969
  13. 13Henry James1843–1916
  14. 14George MacDonald1824–1905
  15. 15Bram Stoker1847–1912
  16. 16T. H. White1906–1964
  17. 17Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849
  18. 18H. Rider Haggard1856–1925
  19. 19Dalton Trumbo1905–1976
  20. 20James Blish1921–1975
  21. 21E. E. "Doc" Smith1890–1965
  22. 22Vladimir Nabokov1899–1977
  23. 23Sax Rohmer1883–1959
  24. 24C. M. Kornbluth1923–1958
  25. 25Charles Kingsley1819–1875
  26. 26Mendal W. Johnson1928–1976
  27. 27Charlotte Perkins Gilman1860–1935
  28. 28William Morris1834–1896
  29. 29G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
  30. 30Ann Radcliffe1764–1823
  31. 31A. Merritt1884–1943
  32. 32William March1893–1954
  33. 33H. Beam Piper1904–1964
  34. 34Hope Mirrlees1887–1978
  35. 35W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965
  36. 36Lord Dunsany1878–1957
  37. 37Alexander Key1904–1979
  38. 38John Buchan1875–1940
  39. 39Shirley Jackson1916–1965
  40. 40Enid Blyton1897–1968
  41. 41Ruth Plumly Thompson1891–1976
  42. 42Anna Kavan1901–1968
  43. 43Richard Marsh1857–1915
  44. 44August Derleth1909–1971
  45. 45Algernon Blackwood1869–1951
  46. 46Robert E. Howard1906–1936
  47. 47Eric Frank Russell1905–1978
  48. 48Leigh Brackett1915–1978
  49. 49Pat Frank1908–1964
  50. 50Edwin Balmer1883–1959
  51. 51Charles Maturin1782–1824
  52. 52Fredric Brown1906–1972
  53. 53John Masefield1878–1967
  54. 54Joan Samson1937–1976
  55. 55William Hope Hodgson1877–1918
  56. 56Andrew Lang1844–1912
  57. 57Mervyn Peake1911–1968
  58. 58James De Mille1833–1880
  59. 59M. P. Shiel1865–1947
  60. 60Gustav Meyrink1868–1932