Where Terror Stalked and Other Horror Stories by Charles Birkin

Birkin's short stories have been estimated as numbering over one hundred. He and his wife spent their later years in Sulby, Isle of Man. He married Australian actress Janet Ramsey Johnson, the daughter of Peter Johnson, and had a son and two daughters. His short story A Low Profile (1977) reflects his experiences there. From 1970 to 1974 he lived in Cyprus which he fled after getting caught up in the violence following the Turkish invasion. This last volume was published in the US only.

This was followed by eight collections of original Birkin stories, beginning with The Kiss of Death (1964) and ending with Spawn of Satan (1970). After a long hiatus, Birkin resumed writing in 1960, following a return to London, and two new stories appeared in Dennis Wheatley's anthologies Quiver of Horror (1964) and Shafts of Fear (1964). During the Second World War he served in the Sherwood Foresters. He succeeded his uncle as 5th Baronet Birkin in 1942. Birkin included stories of his own in most of these volumes, which were later collected as Devil's Spawn (1936). He was educated at Eton College and was later employed by the publisher Philip Allan to edit the Creeps horror story anthologies, the first one of which appeared in 1932. Allen Ltd, 1973)īirkin was the son of Colonel Charles Wilfred Birkin and Claire Howe, the daughter of Alexander Howe. Hugh Lamb, introduction to 'Marjorie's On Starlight' from A Wave Of Fear (W. He deals unflinchingly with such subjects as murder, rape, concentration camps, patricide, mutilation and torture. Be warned, if you are at all sensitive, leave him well alone. The stories of Charles Birkin, however, are not for the squeamish. John Pelan, Darkside Press/Midnight House on-line In the 1960's one author was almost solely responsible for keeping the horror genre alive in Britain, Sir Charles Birkin.

Where Terror Stalked and Other Horror Stories by Charles Birkin