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𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr
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Around the World Horror Journey! An A to Z. Aug 10, 2021 15:24:06 GMT

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Here is a challange for everyone.
Can we name as many horror/ghost/weird writers with links to actual countries?
There are generally 195 countries recognised. 193 countries that are members of the United Nations and 2 countries that are non-member observer states: the Holy See and the State of Palestine.
I added two more: Kosovo (recognized by 98 UN members) and Taiwan (recognized by 15 countries). This thread isn't political, if you don't agree just ignore.

Some will be hard, if not impossible.

I'll list countries by the letter they start with. As you supply the author I will place he/she/preferred title behind that country, so we will be able to see how we are doing.

This is just a piece of fun.
Good luck!

my source for the list is www.countries-ofthe-world.com/all-countries.html

See if you can name any before looking for names! Let's see how many we can get before having to check Internet of books. It's fine if you remember reading something, and need to check author's name, but try not to just go searching, as that makes it too easy.

And if e'er you should come down to the village or the town, With the cold rain for your garland, and the wind for your renown, You will stand upon the thresholds with a face of dumb desire, Nor be known by any fire. What would you see in your proud land, Petrarch, If you came back again to Italy, And in the Garden of the Medici Could listen to the nightingale or lark And dream of Laura in the fragrent dark?

𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr
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Around the World Horror Journey! An A to Z. Aug 10, 2021 15:24:18 GMT

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A

Afghanistan

Albania

Algeria

Andorra

Angola

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina   Leo Perutz

Armenia

Australia James Doig, James Francis Dwyerm Rosa Praed Guy Boothby Angela Slatter, Margo Lanagan Lionel Sparrow Terry Dowling Kaaron Warren Stephen Dedman

Austria Arthur Schnitzler Gustav Meyrink Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Azerbaijan

B

Bahamas

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium Eddy C Bertin   Julio Cortazar Michel Parry  Jean Muno  Raymundus Joannes de Kremer (Jean Ray)

Belize

Benin

Bhutan

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Botswana

Brazil

Brunei

Bulgaria Michael Arlen

Burkina Faso

Burundi

C

Cabo Verde

Cambodia

Cameroon

Canada Anne Hébert

Central African Republic (CAR)

Chad

Chile

China   Psu Sung-Ling   Feng Meng-Lung

Colombia

Comoros

Congo, Democratic Republic of the

Congo, Republic of the Paul Lomami-Tshibamba

Costa Rica

Cote d'Ivoire Bernard Dadié

Croatia

Cuba

Cyprus

Czechia   Josef Nesvadba Jan Neruda Vítězslav Nezval

D

Denmark Preben Major Sørensen   Tom Kristensen Signe Toksvig

Djibouti

Dominica

Dominican Republic

E

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Estonia

Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)

Ethiopia

F

Fiji

Finland Aino Kallas

France Theophile Gautier Guy de Maupassant Honore de Balzac Marcel Schwob Erckmann-Chatrian  Donatien Alphonse François de Sade Joris-Karl Huysmans Maurice Limat Marc Agapit B. R. Bruss Peter Randa Pierre Kast
Claude Seignolle Marcel Brion Marcel Béalu Michel Bernanos

G

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Germany   Marie Luise Kachnitz

Ghana   Yemoh Ofoli

Greece

Grenada

Guatemala

Guinea Camara Laye

Guinea-Bissau

Guyana Edgar Mittelholzer

H

Haiti

Honduras

Hungary   Mária Szepes

I

Iceland   Yrsa Sigurđardóttir

India Kushwant Singh Rabindranath Tagore

Indonesia

Iran Sadegh Hedayat

Iraq

Ireland Bram Stoker, J. S. Le Fanu, Elizabeth Bowen, Dorothy Macardle

Israel

Italy Giorgio De Maria Dino Buzzati   Luigi Capuana Italo Calvino   Giorgio De Maria

J

Jamaica

Japan   Hirai Teiichi   Edogawa Rampa   Akutagawa Ryunosuke

Jordan

K

Kazakhstan

Kenya    David G. Maillu Karanja we Kang’ethe

Kiribati

Kosovo

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

L

Laos

Latvia

Lebanon

Lesotho   J.G. Mocoancoeng Z.L. Hoeane D.P. Lebakeng

Liberia

Libya   Ibrahim Kuni

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

M

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia   Tunku Halim

Maldives

Mali

Malta

Marshall Islands

Mauritania   Moussa Ould Ebnou

Mauritius   C.S. Mahadoo

Mexico

Micronesia

Moldova

Monaco

Mongolia

Montenegro

Morocco   Mohammed Mirabet

Mozambique

Myanmar (formerly Burma)

N

Namibia

Nauru

Nepal

Netherlands   Belcampo Bies van Ede

New Zealand

Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria Amos Tutuola J. Ogunsina Ogundele Obi Egbuna Elechi Amadi Dillibe Onyeama Adaora Lily Ulasi Buchi Emechata

North Korea

North Macedonia (formerly Macedonia)

Norway Knut Hamsun Jonas Lie

O

Oman

P

Pakistan

Palau

Palestine

Panama

Papua New Guinea

Paraguay

Peru

Philippines

Poland   Stefan Grabiński Isaac Bashevis Singer Ingrid Pitt

Portugal

Q

Qatar

R

Romania Mircea Eliade

Russia   Leonid Andreyev Helena P. Blavatsky Fyodor Sologub  Alexis Tolstoy  Nikolai Gogol

Rwanda

S

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Samoa

San Marino

Sao Tome and Principe

Saudi Arabia

Senegal   Birago Diop Abdoulaye Sadji Nabil Ali Haïdar

Serbia

Seychelles

Sierra Leone Lenrie Peters

Singapore

Slovakia

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

Somalia

South Africa I.D. du Plessis Maria Elizabeth Rothmann Eric Rosenthal S.M. Mofokeng Anna M. Louw

South Korea

South Sudan

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sudan

Suriname

Sweden John Ajvide Lindqvist

Switzerland   Jeremias Gotthelf

Syria

T

Taiwan

Tajikistan

Tanzania

Thailand

Timor-Leste

Togo

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

Turkey

Turkmenistan

Tuvalu

U

Uganda

Ukraine Valentin Katayev  Val Lewton

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

United Kingdom (UK) Sam Dawson Ramsey Campbell   Craig Herbertson John Llewellyn Probert David A. Riley

United States of America (USA)

Uruguay Horacio Quiroga

Uzbekistan

V

Vanuatu

Vatican City (Holy See)

Venezuela

Vietnam

Y

Yemen

Z

Zambia

Zimbabwe

And if e'er you should come down to the village or the town, With the cold rain for your garland, and the wind for your renown, You will stand upon the thresholds with a face of dumb desire, Nor be known by any fire. What would you see in your proud land, Petrarch, If you came back again to Italy, And in the Garden of the Medici Could listen to the nightingale or lark And dream of Laura in the fragrent dark?

𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr
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Around the World Horror Journey! An A to Z. Aug 10, 2021 15:42:22 GMT

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Remember we are trying to name authors before doing a random search. People on here must have come across writers from different countries in their reading. After all you are all so knowledgeable.
Don't be shy about taking part.

Maybe you could also share the story title, or where you learned of the author too. But only if you want to.

And if e'er you should come down to the village or the town, With the cold rain for your garland, and the wind for your renown, You will stand upon the thresholds with a face of dumb desire, Nor be known by any fire. What would you see in your proud land, Petrarch, If you came back again to Italy, And in the Garden of the Medici Could listen to the nightingale or lark And dream of Laura in the fragrent dark?

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Around the World Horror Journey! An A to Z. Aug 10, 2021 15:43:10 GMT

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Aug 10, 2021 15:24:18 GMT 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr said:

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Afghanistan

[…]

Zimbabwe

This is the most avant garde, zeroistic, Dadaist forum post I have ever seen!
And I have been very active on such online forums since 1999.
And it also bears witness to Aickman’s prophecy of such on-line matters made in his story ‘Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen’.
And that is intended as a compliment from me rather than a condemnation!

Swan Crypt Kicker Storyteller to Swamp Ladies. Posts: 173	Around the World Horror Journey! An A to Z. Aug 10, 2021 16:28:02 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Swan on Aug 10, 2021 16:28:02 GMT I will kick start this. Stefan Grabiński, the "Polish Poe", Poland. Demon Ruchu (The Motion Demon) 1919.
	What makes you pull the rose, the rose? What makes you break the tree? What makes you come to Carterhaugh Without the leave of me?

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Around the World Horror Journey! An A to Z. Aug 10, 2021 16:42:34 GMT

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The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat (Iran)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Owl

The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio De Maria (Italy)

Mademoiselle Christina by Mircea Eliade (Romania)

Children of the Black Sabbath by Anne Hébert (Canada)

The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf (Switzerland)

Serbia is a haunted place itself, they have a great horror director

www.imdb.com/name/nm0434337/?ref_=tt_ov_dr

Norvegia has its own "Dracula"

www.goodreads.com/book/show/29075452-powers-of-darkness

My Bones And My Flute by Edgar Mittelholzer (Guyana).

Midnight Encounters by Hirai Teiichi (Japan)

How quickly you changed your mind! You arrived to find a gold Dunsanian city of arches and domes and fantastic spires... or so you told us. Yet when you fled two years later you could see only “alien hordes.”[br] T. E. D. Klein

weirdmonger Slime Beast Jan 18, 1948, 5.40 pm, Essex, UK Posts: 1,504	Around the World Horror Journey! An A to Z. Aug 10, 2021 16:59:17 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by weirdmonger on Aug 10, 2021 16:59:17 GMT DENMARK Preben Major Sørensen

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Around the World Horror Journey! An A to Z. Aug 10, 2021 17:37:01 GMT

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Post by helrunar on Aug 10, 2021 17:37:01 GMT

A couple of days ago I unexpectedly recalled Theophile Gautier's much anthologised story "The Dead Leman," originally published 1836. Here's a spoiler-heavy page about the tale:

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheDeadLeman

cheers, H.

dem bones Janitor Of Lunacy Hail Horrors, Hail Thirsty Dog Posts: 17,461	Around the World Horror Journey! An A to Z. Aug 10, 2021 18:25:56 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by dem bones on Aug 10, 2021 18:25:56 GMT Belgium, Eddy C Bertin, The Whispering Horror, et al. Morocco. Mohammed Mirabet, The Big Mirror Uruguay, Horacio Quiroga, The Feather Pillow
	From the first, I set myself against "literature"; the story was the thing, and no amount of style could persuade me to select a story that lacked genuine, unadulterated horror. For those who wanted something high-brow there was plenty. - Christine Campbell Thomson

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Around the World Horror Journey! An A to Z. Aug 10, 2021 18:57:21 GMT

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J. J. Strating's European Tales of Terror (1968) includes stories by:

Austria
Arthur Schnitzler - The Fate Of The Baron

Belgium
Julio Cortazar - The Idol Of The Cyclades

Czechoslovakia
Josef Nesvadba - Vampires Ltd.
Franz Kafka - In The Penal Settlement

France:
Guy de Maupassant - Who Knows?
Honore de Balzac - The Executioner

Germany:
Marie Luise Kachnitz - Ghosts

Italy:
Dino Buzzati - Just The Very Thing They wanted

Netherlands
Belcampo - The Great Happening

Norway
Knut Hamsun - An Apparition

Ukraine
Valentin Katayev - Our Father Who Art in Heaven

The same editor's Oriental Tales Of Terror (1971) includes stories from;

China:
Psu Sung-Ling – The Magistrate Of Hu-Nan
Psu Sung-Ling – The Inn At Ts’ia-Tien
Feng Meng-Lung – The Canary Murderers

Denmark:
Tom Kristensen – The Vanished Faces

India:
Kushwant Singh – Death Comes To Daulat Ram

Japan:
Edogawa Rampa – The Hell Of Mirrors
Akutagawa Ryunosuke – Hell Screen

From the first, I set myself against "literature"; the story was the thing, and no amount of style could persuade me to select a story that lacked genuine, unadulterated horror. For those who wanted something high-brow there was plenty. - Christine Campbell Thomson

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Around the World Horror Journey! An A to Z. Aug 10, 2021 19:31:37 GMT

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Updated countries. We have started well.

And if e'er you should come down to the village or the town, With the cold rain for your garland, and the wind for your renown, You will stand upon the thresholds with a face of dumb desire, Nor be known by any fire. What would you see in your proud land, Petrarch, If you came back again to Italy, And in the Garden of the Medici Could listen to the nightingale or lark And dream of Laura in the fragrent dark?

dem bones Janitor Of Lunacy Hail Horrors, Hail Thirsty Dog Posts: 17,461	Around the World Horror Journey! An A to Z. Aug 10, 2021 20:21:54 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by dem bones on Aug 10, 2021 20:21:54 GMT Spoilt for choice for Australians; James Francis Dwyer, Rosa Praed, Guy Boothby. Lionel Sparrow, James Doig, Terry Dowling, Kaaron Warren, Stephen Dedman ....
	From the first, I set myself against "literature"; the story was the thing, and no amount of style could persuade me to select a story that lacked genuine, unadulterated horror. For those who wanted something high-brow there was plenty. - Christine Campbell Thomson

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Around the World Horror Journey! An A to Z. Aug 10, 2021 21:23:52 GMT

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Aug 10, 2021 20:21:54 GMT dem bones said:

Spoilt for choice for Australians;

Certainly look for Angela Slatter, Sourdough et al, and Margo Lanagan, whose first collection, Black Juice, caused a sensation when it appeared in 2004.

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Around the World Horror Journey! An A to Z. Aug 11, 2021 6:11:11 GMT

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Austria:
Gustav Meyrink
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Belgium:
Michel Parry. Eddy C Bertin, while widely identified as a Belgian author, was actually born in Germany, so perhaps transfer him across? Michel was born in Brussels, so no such complication with him.

Bulgaria
Michael Arlen, of 'The Gentleman from America' fame, was born Dikran Kouyoumdjian, in Rousse.

Irish Republic:
Bram Stoker, J. S. Le Fanu, Elizabeth Bowen, Dorothy Macardle ....

Malaysia:
Tunku Halim

Netherlands:
Bies van Ede

Poland:
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Russia:
Leonid Andreyev
Helena P. Blavatsky
Fyodor Sologub

From the first, I set myself against "literature"; the story was the thing, and no amount of style could persuade me to select a story that lacked genuine, unadulterated horror. For those who wanted something high-brow there was plenty. - Christine Campbell Thomson

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Around the World Horror Journey! An A to Z. Aug 11, 2021 8:35:14 GMT

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Russia+Ukraine +Belarus doesn't have horror fiction

There are scary naturalistic stories, depressing realism, psychedelic literature, fantastic satire - but not horror fiction.Today generation of very young amateur writers try hard to imitate King, Barker, McCammon and other stuff of their youth.

Nikolai Gogol (romanticism)

americanliterature.com/author/nikolai-vasilievich-gogol/short-story/the-mysterious-portrait

famous fairy tale

www.online-literature.com/gogol/4439/

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anti-war novella

woolrich3.tripod.com/red.htm

wild russian soul

woolrich3.tripod.com/blossom.htm

decadance

Now That I'm Awake by Valery Bryusov (The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse)

Sacrifice by Aleksey Remizov

www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?717963

The Rat-Catcher by Alexander Grin

www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?765043

more often than not, stories are spoiled by social grotesque and insufficient flight of fantasy too bound by realities.

to Dem-bones :

Julio Cortazar - uruguayan writer

Guy de Maupassant - Who Knows? -

I love it much more than famous "Horla"

Belgium

Shadowy Street, The Marlyweck Cemetery by Jean Ray (must read)

libgen.is/fiction/FCC1ACE3F1276E50FC80A5A85382CBBB

The House of Oracles and Other Stories by Thomas Owen

libgen.is/fiction/28F0BF3AA1A9DB72A6D0E85B60E5AB05

France

The Vampires of Alfama by Pierre Kast

Black Cupboard by Claude Seignolle

Waystations of the Deep Night by Marcel Brion

The Experience of the Night by Marcel Béalu

The Other Side of the Moutain by Michel Bernanos

The Child Stealer by Erckmann-Chatrian (Birkinesque)

vaultofevil.proboards.com/thread/2844

The Strigae,The Embalming-women by Marcel Schwob (short stories based on Appuleius)

The Tenant by Roland Topor

Germany

Hanns Heinz Ewers

libgen.is/fiction/C30C6FAC57D37457F0470F2267C5D7D5

libgen.is/fiction/B7DAAFABBB1AC9E9EB9F4733D7970B8E

There are a lot another guys that never have translation.

Austria

Karl Hans Strobl

anarchistbanjo.medium.com/the-head-by-karl-hans-strobl-and-translated-by-joe-bandel-221e851b6f2e

Nicaragua

Thanatophobia by Rubén Darío

Czechoslovakia

Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders by Vitezslav Nezval

Switzerland

Maze by Maurice Sandoz

Japan

www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?38398

Denmark

Child's Play by Villy Sørensen (Fine Frights ed. Ramsey Campbell)

How quickly you changed your mind! You arrived to find a gold Dunsanian city of arches and domes and fantastic spires... or so you told us. Yet when you fled two years later you could see only “alien hordes.”[br] T. E. D. Klein

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