Contributor index to The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural
First published in 1986 by Viking Penguin and edited by Jack Sullivan, The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural was a large-format illustrated reference book on writers, films, music, publishers, and themes relating to weird, ghostly, horror and supernatural fiction. Many of the contributors were actively involved in the world of horror as writers, critics, academics, or publishers, and some were also the subject of entries in the book itself.
I compiled this index of contributors, and the entries they wrote, as I wanted to see what my favourite writers had written about, without having to go through every page, hunting for their initials. I've put it here on my website in the hope someone else might find it useful or interesting, too.
- Agis, Ayse
- Lamb, Caroline
- Barna, John
- Mad Love
- The Old Dark House
- Definitions: Detection and Ghosts
- Romanticism
- Barran, Barbara
- Melville, Herman
- Barran, Thomas
- Baudelaire, Charles
- Pushkin, Aleksandr
- Barzun, Jacques
- Introduction
- Bell, David
- Bava, Mario
- Black Sabbath
- Corman, Roger
- Fisher, Terence
- Hearn, Lafcadio
- Japanese Cinema
- Kwaidan
- Ugetsu Monogatari
- Blaine, Michael
- Disch, Thomas M
- Gogol, Nikolai
- Bleiler, Everett F
- Ainsworth, William Harrison
- Anthologies
- Baring, Maurice
- Beckford, William
- Bennett, Arnold
- Braddon, Mary
- Buchan, John
- Burrage, A M
- Collins, Wilkie
- Cram, Ralph Adams
- Crowley, Aleister
- Dawson, Emma Frances
- Definitions: Horror, Supernatural and Science Fiction
- Edwards, Amelia B
- Ewers, Hanns Heinz
- Fortune, Dion
- Fouqué, Karl Friedrich de la Motte
- Freeman, Mary Eleanor
- Hawthorne, Julian
- Hogg, James
- Houseman, Clemence
- Insects and Arachnids
- Irving, Washington
- Jacobs, W W
- Keller, David Henry
- Lee, Vernon
- Oliphant, Mrs Margaret
- Pain, Barry
- Reynolds, George W M
- Riddell, Mrs J H
- Rymer, James Malcolm
- Simms, William Gilmore
- Briggs, Julia
- De La Mare, Walter
- James, M R
- Bromley, Robin
- Bowen, Elizabeth
- Graveyard Poetry
- Kleist, Heinrich
- Calhoun, John
- The Cat and the Canary
- Chaney, Lon
- De Palma, Brian
- Dreyer, Carl Theodor
- Eraserhead
- Karloff, Boris
- Lewton, Val & Tourneur, Jacques
- Polanski, Roman
- Waxworks
- Whale, James
- Wiene, Robert
- Wise, Robert
- Campbell, Ramsey
- Bardin, John Franklin
- Beast from Haunted Cave
- The Black Cat
- The Bride of Frankenstein
- Cat People
- Curse of the Demon
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- Dr X
- Dracula on Film
- The Fly
- Frankenstein
- The Ghost Ship
- Halloween
- Herbert, James
- The Most Dangerous Game
- The Omen
- The Phantom of the Opera
- The Pits of Terror
- Repulsion
- Rosemary’s Baby
- Salò—The 120 Days of Sodom
- The Shining
- Son of Frankenstein
- The Sorcerers
- The Wolf Man
- Chute, David
- Cinema
- Cronenberg, David
- Eyes Without A Face
- Freaks
- Conger, Syndy McMillen
- Gothic Romance
- Minerva Press
- Crawford, Gary
- Aickman, Robert
- Brennan, Joseph Payne
- Chetwynd-Hayes, R
- Cobb, Irvin S
- Criticism
- Du Maurier, Daphne
- Kirk, Russell Amos
- Lawrence, Margery
- Levin, Ira
- Onions, Oliver
- Schiff, Stuart David
- Sinclair, May
- Small Press Magazines
- Specialist Publishing
- Summers, Montague
- Walton, Evangeline
- Wellman, Manly Wade
- Wright, Farnsworth
- Crowley, John
- Shakespeare’s Ghosts
- Dalby, Richard
- Baker, Denys Val
- Campbell, Gilbert (Sir)
- Gift, Theo
- Lewis, L A
- Mulholland, Rosa
- Nisbet, Hume
- Northcote, Amyas
- Phillpotts, Eden
- Quinn, Seabury
- Ropes, Arthur R
- Ryan, R R
- Small, Austin J
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Stoker, Bram
- Turner, James
- Dirda, Michael
- Balzac, Honoré de
- The Continental Tradition
- Hoffmann, E T A
- Maupassant, Guy de
- Mérimée, Prosper
- Disch, Thomas M
- The Supernatural: Belief and the Reader
- Duncan, Ian
- Aiken, Conrad
- Eng, Steve
- Clarke, Harry
- Counselman, Mary Elizabeth
- Dadd, Richard
- Darley, George
- Doré, Gustave
- Gawsworth, John
- Hood, Thomas
- Moskowitz, Sam
- Rossetti, Christina
- Small Press Magazines
- Stenbock, Eric (Count)
- Sterling, George
- Tennyson, Alfred (Lord)
- Everitt, David
- Atwill, Lionel
- Carpenter, John
- Carradine, John
- Castle, William
- Chaney, Lon, Jr
- Clive, Colin
- Florey, Robert
- Laughton, Charles
- Lee, Christopher
- Manners, David
- Price, Vincent
- Rains, Claude
- Rathbone, Basil
- Siegel, Don
- Van Sloan, Edward
- Fiedler, Leslie
- Commercial Fiction
- Horror and Science Fiction
- Finello, Dominick
- Cortázar, Julio
- Quiroga, Horacio
- Rulfo, Juan
- Frentzen, Jeffrey
- Browning, Tod
- Carnival of Souls
- Cushing, Peter
- Hammer Films
- Lorre, Peter
- Lugosi, Bela
- Romero, George A
- Slasher Movies
- Television
- The Vampire Bat
- Veidt, Conrad
- Garisto, Leslie
- Gorey, Edward
- Lanchester, Elsa
- Goulart, Ron
- Comics
- The Pulps
- Guimond, James
- Buzzati, Dino
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Hadji, Robert
- Akinari, Ueda
- Atherton, Gertrude Franklin
- Biss, Gerald
- Bowen, Marjorie
- Brodie-Innes, J W
- Brussof, Valery
- Busson, Paul
- Caldecott, Andrew (Sir)
- Campbell, Ramsey
- Capes, Bernard
- Carrington, Leonora
- Chappell, Fred
- Cowles, Frederick I
- Crowe, Catherine
- Dare, M P
- Derleth, August W
- Dickinson, William Croft
- Drake, H B
- Dumas, Alexandre
- Falconer, Lanöe
- Féval, Paul
- Gautier, Théophile
- Glasgow, Ellen
- Gordon, John
- Gorman, Herbert S
- Grabinski, Stefan
- Gracq, Julien
- Gray, Arthur (Sir)
- Grubb, Davis
- Hedayat, Sadegh
- Heron-Allen, Edward
- Honeycombe, Gordon
- Hunt, Violet
- Huysmans, Joris-Karl
- Kerruish, Jessie Douglas
- Landon, Percival
- Leiber, Fritz
- Lippard, George
- Lowery, Bruce
- Macardle, Dorothy
- Malden, R H
- Mayor, F M
- Munby, A N L
- Nesbit, E
- Nicolson, John U
- O’Sullivan, Vincent
- Owen, Thomas
- Prichard, K & Prichard, H
- P’u Sung-Ling
- Ray, Jean
- Sarban
- Schwob, Marcel
- Scott, Eleanor
- Seignolle, Claude
- Sologub, Fyodor
- Sturgeon, Theodore
- Sue, Eugène
- Susperia
- Thomson, Christine Campbell
- Tolstoi, Alexis (Count)
- Topor, Roland
- Haiblum, Isidore
- Radio
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Herron, Don
- Howard, Robert E
- Jacobi, Carl
- King, Stephen
- Klein, T E D
- Morrow, W C
- Munn, H Warner
- Potocki, Jan
- The Saragossa Manuscript
- Smith, Basil A
- Smith, Clark Ashton
- Wagner, Karl Edward
- Wandrei, Donald
- Wandrei, Howard
- Indick, Ben
- Dahl, Roald
- Grand Guignol Theatre of Paris
- Level, Maurice
- Long, Frank Belknap
- McDowell, Michael
- Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, Philippe-August, Comte de
- Israel, Peter
- The Invisible Man
- Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
- The Wicker Man
- Jaffe, Jacqueline
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Joshi, S T
- Finney, Charles G
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Kapschutschenko, Ludmilla
- Anderson Imbert, Enrique
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Fuentes, Carlos
- GarcĂa Márquez, Gabriel
- Klein, T E D
- Arkham House
- Birkin, Charles
- Blatty, William Peter
- Boucher, Anthony
- Brown, Fredric
- Chambers, Robert W
- Collier, John
- Copper, Basil
- Harvey, W F
- Hichens, Robert S
- Hodgson, William Hope
- Jerome, Jerome K
- Kuttner, Henry
- London, Jack
- McCauley, Kirby
- Machen, Arthur
- Metcalfe, John
- Saki
- Spielberg, Steven
- The Supernatural: Belief and the Writer
- The Twilight Zone
- White, Edward Lucas
- Whitehead, Henry S
- Wilson, Colin
- Krystal, Arthur
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Lamb, Hugh
- Arlen, Michael
- Barr, Robert
- Beaumont, Charles
- Bell, Neil
- Benson, Arthur Christopher, Edward Frederic & Robert Hugh
- Beresford, John Davys
- Blackburn, John
- Boothby, Guy
- Broster, D K
- Bullett, Gerald
- Christie, Agatha
- Danby, Mary
- Erckmann, Émile, and Chatrian, Alexandre
- Falkner, J Meade
- Hamilton, Alex
- Heard, H F
- Irwin, Margaret
- Lie, Jonas
- Marsh, Richard
- O’Brien, Fitz-James
- O’Donnell, Elliott
- Parry, Michel
- Quiller-Couch, Arthur (Sir)
- Reynolds, Mars L Baillie
- Roberts, Richard Ellis
- Rohmer, Sax
- Sloane, William
- Van Thaal, Herbert
- Visiak, Edward Harold
- Walter, Elizabeth
- Wheatley, Dennis
- Zombies
- LeVert, Liberté E
- The Devil, Devils, Demons
- Occult Fiction
- Moran, John C
- Fraser, Mrs High
- Gordon, Julien
- Lathom, Francis
- Pater, Roger
- Rabe, Anne Crawford von (Baroness)
- Newman, Kim
- The Abominable Dr Phibes
- Alien
- The Birds
- The Corpse
- Dawn of the Dead
- Dead of Night
- Demon
- Duel
- The Exorcist
- The Fearless Vampire Killers
- Friday the 13th
- The Haunted Palace
- The Haunting
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- The Hour of the Wolf
- The Howling
- I Walked with a Zombie
- The Incredible Shrinking Man
- Inferno
- Island of Lost Souls
- Isle of the Dead
- Jaws
- The Last Wave
- The Leopard Man
- Let’s Scare Jessica to Death
- The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
- The Mummy
- Murders in the Rue Morgue
- Mystery of the Wax Museum
- Night of the Hunter
- Night of the Living Dead
- The Night Stalker
- Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror
- Onibaba
- Peeping Tom
- Poltergeist
- The Quatermass Xperiment, Quatermass 2, Quatermass and the Pit, Quatermass
- Rabid
- Salem’s Lot
- Seconds
- The Seventh Victim
- Shock Corridor
- The Stone Tape
- Swain, E G
- Tarantula
- Targets
- The Tenant
- Them!
- Wolfen
- X the Unknown
- Nicoll, Gregory
- Ellison, Harlan
- Paxton, Arthur
- Opera
- Paxton, Helen Sive
- Schubert, Franz
- Pierson, Melissa
- Crane, Stephen
- Rathbun, Mark
- Matheson, Richard
- Robillard, Douglas
- James, Henry
- Lovecraft, H P
- Ryan, Robert
- Frankenstein: The Myth
- Schechter, Harold
- Special Effects
- Schweitzer, Darrell
- Dunsany, Lord
- Middleton, Richard Barham
- Searing, Helen
- Architecture
- B Movies
- Rackham, Arthur
- Silber, Joan
- Dickens, Charles
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
- Skarda, Patricia
- Adams, Richard George
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Coppard, A E
- Dinesen, Isak
- Faulkner, William
- Gothic Parodies
- Grotesque and Arabesque
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- O’Connor, Flannery
- Polidori, John William
- Rice, Anne
- Southern Gothic
- Straub, Peter
- Tryon, Thomas
- Welty, Eudora
- Slung, Michele
- Sex
- Violence
- Squires, John D
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George
- Cline, Leonard Lanson
- Crawford, F Marion
- Endore, Guy S
- Shiel, M P
- Streep, Peg
- The Fury
- House of Wax
- Kafka, Franz
- Psycho
- Streiber, Whitley
- Books into Film
- Sullivan, Jack
- Albright, William
- Allen, Grant
- Asquith, Cynthia (Lady)
- Atmosphere
- Bartók, Béla
- Berg, Alban
- Berlioz, Hector
- Bierce, Ambrose
- Blackwood, Algernon
- Bleiler, E F
- Bloch, Robert
- Bradbury, Ray
- Britten, Benjamin
- Broughton, Rhoda
- Carroll, Jonathan
- Conrad, Joseph
- Crumb, George
- Davies, Peter Maxwell
- Debussy, Claude
- Donovan, Dick
- Etchison, Dennis
- The Fourth Man
- Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Ghosts
- Gilchrist, R Murray
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkin
- Golden Age of the Ghost Story
- Goldsmith, Jerry
- Haining, Peter
- Hardy, Thomas
- Hartley, L P
- Herrmann, Bernard
- Humor
- The Innocents
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- Ives, Charles
- Jackson, Shirley
- Kersh, Gerald
- Lamb, Hugh
- Le Fanu, Sheridan
- Leroux, Gaston
- Ligeti, Gyorgy
- Liszt, Franz
- Mahler, Gustav
- Messiaen, Olivier
- Molesworth, Mrs Mary Louisa
- Mussorgsky, Modest
- Penderecki, Krzysztof
- Prokofiev, Sergei
- Rachmaninoff, Sergei
- Ravel, Maurice
- Rolt, L T C
- Russell, W
- Schönberg, Arnold
- Scriabin, Alexander
- Shostakovich, Dmitri
- Stravinsky, Igor
- Timperley, Rosemary
- The Tingler
- Turgenev, Ivan
- Vampires
- Varèse, Edgard
- Viereck, G S
- Wakefield, H R
- Walpole, Hugh
- Webern, Anton
- Wells, H G
- Wharton, Edith
- Wilde, Oscar
- Williams, John
- Xenakis, Iannis
- Yeats, William Butler
- Sullivan, Timothy
- Bedlam
- Black Sunday
- Blood and Roses
- The Body Snatcher
- Brides of Dracula
- The Brood
- Burn Witch Burn
- The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
- Carrie
- Communion
- The Creature from the Black Lagoon
- The Curse of Frankenstein
- The Curse of the Cat People
- Curse of the Werewolf
- Daughters of Darkness
- The Devil Doll
- Les Diaboliques
- Faust
- Freund, Karl
- The Ghoul
- The Golem
- The Hands of Orlac
- Hatton, Rondo
- King Kong
- Kosleck, Martin
- London After Midnight
- Mark of the Vampire
- Martin
- Masque of the Red Death
- Night is the Phantom
- The Other
- The Pit and the Pendulum
- Sayles, John
- Sisters
- The Thing (From Another World)
- The Tomb of Ligeia
- Ulmer, Edgar G
- The Uninvited
- Vampyr
- Village of the Damned
- White Zombie
- Tibbetts, John C
- Brown, Charles Brockden
- Varma, Devendra P
- Lewis, Matthew Gregory
- Maturin, Charles Robert
- Radcliffe, Ann
- Walpole, Horace
- Weinberg, Robert
- Blaine, Mahlon
- Bok, Hannes
- Brosnatch, Andrew
- Brundage, Margaret
- Cartier, Edd
- Coye, Lee Brown
- Finlay, Virgil
- Fox, Matt
- Frazetta, Frank
- Howitt, John Newton
- Illustration
- Kley, Heinrich
- Lawrence
- Powers, Richard M
- Rankin, Hugh
- Rowena
- Senf, Curtis C
- Smith, Wallace
- Tilburne, A
- Utpatel, Frank
- Ward, Lynd
- Wesso, Hans Waldemer
- Whelan, Michael
- Wilson, Gahan
- Wilson, Colin
- Poltergeists
- Possession
- Werewolves
- Winter, Douglas
- Mad Doctors
- Urban and Pastoral Horror
- Writers of Today
- Woodring, Carl
- Beardsley, Aubrey
- Blake, William
- Böcklin, Arnold
- The Brontës
- Byron, George Gordon (Lord)
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- De Quincey, Thomas
- English Romantic Poets
- Femme Fatale
- Fuseli, Henry
- Goya
- Keats, John
- Munch, Edvard
- Scott, Walter (Sir)
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe
- The Sublime