Writer Daniel Farson led quite the eccentric life. He started his career as a journalist and appeared on several groundbreaking, investigatory news programs in the 1950s and early 1960s. He abruptly quit television and left London in 1964 to become a full-time writer. His 27 books include biographies (including one on his great-uncle, Bram Stoker), several memoirs of bohemian Soho (of which he was a contributing rake), travelogues, and two horror novels. He also wrote a volume for Aldus Books’ A New Library of the Supernatural called Vampires, Zombies, and Monster Men (1976), and a volume for Smithmark’s Great Mysteries series, Mysterious Monsters (1980). Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-10-27 04:09:57 Boxid IA40274623 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

Hamlyn Book of Horror by Daniel Farson (1979-07-27) The Hamlyn Book of Horror by Daniel Farson (1979-07-27)

Special thanks to The Cobwebbed Room for an excellent entry on the Hamlyn series, including full artist credits and contents lists. Ghosts in Fact and Fiction is not quite as garishly illustrated as Usborne’s All About Ghosts, though Hamlyn would ramp up the intensity for The Hamlyn Book of Horror. Usborne responded in kind—or maybe it was simple coincidence—with their Supernatural Guides (1979), three of the most delightfully gruesome introductions to occult subjects ever published.urn:lcp:hamlynbookofghos0000fars:epub:198f59c0-02da-4e88-b3c2-0142c4bd28fd Foldoutcount 0 Identifier hamlynbookofghos0000fars Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3vv4cq2f Invoice 1652 Isbn 0600340538 Lccn 79310079 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-beta-20210815 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9607 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000506 Openlibrary_edition