Some interesting authors going into the public domain in early 2018, having died in 1947:<\/p>\n
Horror:<\/strong><\/p>\n Arthur Machen. (The biggest name for 2018).<\/p>\n Emilio Carrere (The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks<\/em>, later a cult film).<\/p>\n Laurence D’Orsay (wrote some ghost stories, had two stories in Weird Tales<\/em> in the mid 1920s).<\/p>\n Alfred North Whitehead (forgotten today, but a major British philosopher whose 1920s works influenced H. P. Lovecraft).<\/p>\n Science fiction:<\/strong><\/p>\n J. D. Beresford (prolific novelist, admirer and imitator of H.G. Wells — though with less ‘megaphone socialism’ and more human sympathy. Apparently an influence on Stapledon. His The Hampdenshire Wonder<\/em> sounds very similar to Wells’s The Wonderful Visit<\/em> and appears to anticipate The Midwich Cuckoos<\/em>. Also wrote ghost\/mystery stories).<\/p>\n M. P. Shiel (The Purple Cloud<\/em>, a landmark in science fiction, and a number of fantastical stories such as “The Pale Ape”. Lovecraft thought his “The House of Sounds”… “the most haunting thing I have read in a decade.” when he read Shiel circa 1923).<\/p>\n John Ulrich Giesy (wrote stories for the Munsey proto-pulps and early 1920s pulps).<\/p>\n English rural supernatural\/magic:<\/strong><\/p>\n Forrest Reid (his finely-written Tom “trilogy partakes heavily of the marvellous, involving nature worship, guardian angels, ghosts, magic arts and the bridging of the dream and real worlds”).<\/p>\n Hugh John Lofting (the Doctor Dolittle<\/em> series, and the historical novel The Twilight of Magic<\/em> about medieval England transitioning from magic to science).<\/p>\n Charles Henry Cannell (wrote as Jack Mann the ‘Gees’ series of rural supernatural detective novels, in which Gees battles warlocks and werewolves. Also a classic telling of the Adventures of Robin Hood<\/em> for children).<\/p>\n Herbert Asquith (Wind’s End<\/em> was the first novel of this son of the Prime Minister, “a novel of violence, mystery and crime detection” in rural England … “also a touch of the mystical here” … “unusually good in rustic characters”).<\/p>\n Adventure and true-life:<\/strong><\/p>\n Emma Orczy (series of Scarlet Pimpernel<\/em> novels and stories).<\/p>\n E. M. Hull (desert adventure novels).<\/p>\n John Alden Loring (African Adventure Stories<\/em>, written from first-hand experience as a field naturalist).<\/p>\n James Willard Schultz (sympathetic and ethnologically-accurate adventure novels of American Indian life and fur traders in the Old West).<\/p>\n Alan Sullivan (lost world novel, and a minor fantasy novel).<\/p>\n Charles Nordhoff (gritty sea adventure in the Mutiny on the Bounty<\/em> trilogy of novels).<\/p>\n ‘Captain Dingle’ (authentic sea adventure stories written for the Munsey-era proto-pulps by a veteran sailor).<\/p>\n John Henry Patterson (the true-life The Man-eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures<\/em>, filmed three times).<\/p>\n Cecil Madigan (the true-life story of exploring then-unexplored Australia, Crossing the Dead Heart<\/em>).<\/p>\n Also of note:<\/strong><\/p>\n Hector Munro Chadwick (his theory of The Heroic Age<\/em>, in book form in 1912, was an influence on the young Tolkien and tangentially the later sword-and-sorcery genre).<\/p>\n Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes (sister of Hilaire Belloc who produced a popular mystery-crime novel a year, one of which became an early feature-film by Alfred Hitchcock).<\/p>\n Margaret Marshall Saunders (an enormously popular children’s animal-story adventure writer from Canada, now forgotten).<\/p>\n Henry Ford (the famous manufacturer, autobiography ‘My Life and Work’ and ‘My Friend Mr Edison’ – his ghost writer Samuel Crowther also died 1947).<\/p>\n Harry Gordon Selfridge (The Romance of Commerce<\/em>, a popular book-length survey of ancient commerce from Greece onwards, Bodley Head. Might be suitable for adaptation as a non-fiction graphic novel?)<\/p>\n Angela Brazil (cult stories of English girls’ school life, the Chalet School<\/em> series).<\/p>\n Flora Thompson (Lark Rise to Candleford<\/em>, Candelford trilogy)<\/p>\n Donald Henderson (“the 1943 psychological thriller Mr. Bowling Buys a Newspaper<\/em>, which got considerable critical attention in wartime Britain”).<\/p>\n Meredith Nicholson (the best-selling ‘haunted-house\/inheritance\/romance’ mystery The House of a Thousand Candles<\/em>, and mystery\/espionage thriller The Port of Missing Men<\/em>).<\/p>\n C. Louis Leipoldt (a major Afrikaans poet whose poetry does not translate, but he also wrote “detective stories”. His English-language historical fiction Boer trilogy The Valley<\/em> was only published posthumously and with radical surgery to the original drafts, and thus will not be going into the public domain).<\/p>\n Iain MacCormaic (wrote the first novels in Scottish Gaelic).<\/p>\n Bert Kalmar (songwriter for Groucho Marx).<\/p>\n John Archibald Watt Dollar (A Handbook of Horse-Shoeing<\/em>, 1898 but not likely to be out-of-date due to the traditional nature of this rural craft).<\/p>\n In the USA, the 1960s playwright Joe Orton enters the Public Domain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some interesting authors going into the public domain in early 2018, having died in 1947: Horror: Arthur Machen. (The biggest name for 2018). Emilio Carrere (The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks, later a cult film). Laurence D’Orsay (wrote some ghost stories, had two stories in Weird Tales in the mid 1920s). 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