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Sample of authors
Blædel, Sara
The Danish journalist and author Sara Blædel spent her early life in the Copenhagen district of Østerbro. When she was about eleven years old, the family moved to their former holiday home near Hvalsø in central Jutland where she grew up an only child. Her father was the well-known journalist Leif Blædel and her mother the actor Annegrethe Nissen. As a young girl, Sara Blædel loved horses, and she...
Literary figures
John Silence
Gender: Male
Algernon Blackwood wrote only six short stories about John Silence, ‘physician extraordinary’, but the mysterious, rich doctor with unnatural psychic powers is nevertheless a classic as the ‘occult detective’. Inspired by Sherlock Holmes, he uses logical reasoning to expose ‘magical’ criminal deceptions, but uses his psychic ability to solve mysteries – the result is horror fiction with a detectiv...