Charles Birkin

(Charles Lloyd Birkin)

(1907 - 1985)

aka Charles Lloyd

In the 1960's one author was almost solely responsible for keeping the horror genre alive in Britain, Sir Charles Birkin. In the years from 1964 to 1971 the author produced a string of powerful collections including The Kiss of Death, Spawn of Satan, and The Smell of Evil.

Novels

The Witch-Baiter (1967)

Collections

   Death Spawn
   Devil's Spawn (1936)
   The Kiss of Death (1964)
   The Smell of Evil (1964)
   My Name Is Death (1966)
   Where Terror Stalked (1966)
   Dark Menace (1968)
   So Pale, So Cold, So Fair (1970)
   Spawn of Satan (1970)
   A Haunting Beauty (2000)

Anthologies edited

   Monsters
   Creeps (1932)
   Shivers (1932)
   Shudders (1932)
   Horrors (1933)
   Nightmares (1933)
   Quakes (1933)
   Terrors (1933)
   Panics (1934)
   Powers of Darkness (1934)
   The Creeps Omnibus (1935)
   Tales of Fear (1935)
   Thrills (1935)
   Tales of Dread (1936)
   The Tandem Book of Ghost Stories (1965)
     aka The Haunted Dancers
   The Tandem Book of Horror Stories (1965)

Anthologies containing stories by Charles Birkin

The 3rd Pan Book of Horror Stories (1962)
The 11th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1970)
The 8th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1973)
The Star Book of Horror 1 (1975)
Tales of Terror From Outer Space (1975)
Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979)
Zombie (1985)

Short stories

	Au Clair de Lune
	Ballet Negre
	An Eye for an Eye
	Havelock's Farm
	The Last Night
	Little Boy Blue
	No More For Mary
	A Poem and a Bunch of Roses (as by Charles Lloyd)
	Special Diet (as by Charles Lloyd)
	Waiting for Trains
	The Finger of Fear (1966)
	Hard to Get (1966)
	Hosanna! (1966)
	King of the Castle (1966)
	Kitty Fisher (1966)
	My Name is Death [short story] (1966)
	Parlez Moi d'Amour (1966)
	Who's Your Lady Friend? (1966)

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