Marjorie Bowen was born Margaret Gabrielle Vere Campbell Long in 1885, on Hayling Island, Hampshire. She would go on to write over 150 books, primarily historical fiction, but also mystery novels, horror stories, biographies and nonfiction. Bowen passed away in 1952, at the age of 67.
Black Magic by Marjorie Bowen
The British publishing firm Sphere Books had a really wonderful thing going for itself back in the 1970s: a series of 45 books, both fiction and nonfiction, curated by the hugely popular English supernatural novelist Dennis Wheatley, and titled Dennis Wheatley’s Library of the Occult. This reader had already experienced seven of these novels in the natural order of things, in other editions – titles such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), Read More
