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Sample of authors
MacInnes, Helen
Helen Clark MacInnes was a Scottish-American author born in Glasgow. She moved with her family to Helensburgh in 1912 where she attended the Hermitage School and the Glasgow High School for Girls before enrolling at the University of Glasgow in 1925, graduating with an MA in German and French in 1928. She then worked in libraries and schools around Glasgow and Dunbartonshire. She received a...
Literary figures
Simon Ark
Gender: Male
If you were to believe what he implies, he is a Coptic priest who is between 1,500 and 2,000 years old and who was condemned to forever wander the earth and battle against the devil. The tall, sun-tanned Simon Ark does this by solving a number of horror-like crime cases, many of them with an occult or religious background. The explanations in the short stories by Edward D. Hoch are, however,...