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Sample of authors
Blackwood, Algernon
British writer Algernon Blackwood was born in the South East London district of Shooter’s Hill. In 1871 his family relocated to nearby Crayford. Both parents were stout Calvinists. In his teens, Blackwood broke away from their faith and embraced Buddhist teachings, thus forming a life-long penchant for oriental mysticism, occultism and theosophy. He studied at Wellington College in Berkshire a...
Literary figures
Tabor Süden
Gender: Male
For eleven years, Chief Inspector Süden led the section in the police department in Munich that looks for missing people. But he tired of that, resigned and moved to Cologne where he worked as a waiter, according to his creator Friedrich Ani. After several years, Süden returned, however, to his home city, and became a private detective. He is renowned for his silence – he doesn’t ask many quest...