25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873
An English politician, poet, playwright, and prolific novelist. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined the phrases "*the great unwashed*", "*pursuit of the almighty dollar*", "*the pen is mightier than the sword*", and that famous opening line, "*it was a dark and stormy night*."
The Last Days of Pompeii
1800
The Coming Race
1871
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult
1989
The Nightmare Reader
1973
Zanoni
1842
Harold
1848
The Haunted and the Haunters, Or, The House and the Brain
1800
Pelham
1828
Vril
1958
The Parisians
1850
Night and morning
1800
The best ghost stories
1919
My Novel
1800
Paul Clifford
1800
Classic Ghost Stories
1975
Alice or the Mysteries
1838
Lucretia, or The children of night
1846
Athens, its rise and fall
1837
What Will He Do With It
1800
Eugene Aram
1800
Kenelm Chillingly
1800
England and the English
1833
A strange story
1850
The Caxtons
1800
