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Friday, September 11, 2026

Born on this day – O. Henry:


O. Henry


Writer

September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910

Books:

100 Crooked Little Crime Stories (1994); 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories (1993); 100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories (1992); 100 Hilarious Little Howlers (1999); 100 Selected Stories (1993); 101 Mystery Stories (1986); 41 Stories (1986); 50 Great American Short Stories (1963); A Little Night Reading (1974); A Treasury of Civil War Stories (1991); American Christmas Stories (2021); Best of the West (1988); Black Water (1983); Cabbages and Kings (1904); Christmas with O. Henry (2021); Complete Works Of O. Henry (1953); Cops and Robbers (1948); East Coast Ghosts (1989); Encore (1936); Fifty Great Short Stories (1952); Great Short Stories of the World (1986); Great Tales of the West (1994); Gunfight! (1996); Heart of the West (1907); Let Me Feel Your Pulse (1910); Letters To Lithopolis (1922); Manhattan Mysteries (1987); Manhattan Noir 2 (2008); Mark Twain's Medieval Romance (2012); More O Henry (1933); New Orleans Noir 2 (2016); O Henry Westerns (1961); O. Henry: 101 Stories (2021); Options (1909); Postscripts (1923); Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, Vol. 5 (2020); Roads of Destiny (1909); Selected Short Stories from the 19th Century (2000); Selected Stories (1922); Sherlock (2015); Sixes and Sevens (1911); Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979); Specter! (1982); Stories by O. Henry (1978); Strictly Business (1910); Tales of O. Henry (1969); Tales of Terror (1943); Tales of the Wandering Jew (1993); Tales to Freeze the Blood (2006); Tar Heel Dead (2005); The 10th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1974); The Anthology of Love and Romance (1994); The Arbor House Treasury of Great Western Stories (1985); The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); The Best Of O Henry (1929); The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (1945); The Big Book of Adventure Stories (2011); The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries (2013); The Big Book of Espionage (2020); The Complete Writings Of O. Henry (1917); The Cop and the Anthem and Other Stories (2020); The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories (2023); The Four Million (1906); The Furnished Room (1906); The Gentle Grafter (1908); The Ghost's Companion (1975); The Gift of the Magi (1906); The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories (1985); The Great Book of Humour (1935); The Last Leaf (1907); The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936); The Moonlight Traveller (1949); The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure (2021); The Mystery Book (1934); The New York Stories of O. Henry (2019); The Pocket Book Of O Henry (1948); The Reel West (1984); The Rolling Stone (1912); The Spy's Bedside Book (1957); The Trimmed Lamp (1907); The Voice of the City (1908); Thrillers (1994); Waifs and Strays (1917); Whirligigs (1910);

Movies and television:

A Bird of Bagdad (1918); A Christmas Revenge (1915); A Departmental Case (1917); A Double-Dyed Deceiver (1920); À la belle étoile (1966); A Lickpenny Lover (1926); A Madison Square Arabian Night (1918); A Man About Town (1927); A Night in New Arabia (1917); A Philistine in Bohemia (1920); A Pink Christmas (1978); A Ramble in Aphasia (1918); A Ruler of Men (1920); A Service of Love (1917); A Social Triangle (1926); A Splendid Scapegrace (1913); A Straightforward Boy (1929); A Summer Tragedy (1910); A visszaesö bünös (1971); A Western Prince Charming (1912); ABC Weekend Specials (1977–1979); Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915 / 1920 / 1928); All on Account of an Egg (1913); Alta comedia (1971); Amatér (1967); American Playhouse (1986); An Afternoon Miracle (1920); An American Live Wire (1918); An Unwilling Hero (1921); Az utolsó levél (2015); Babes in the Jungle (1926); Barg o bad (1984); Beauty and the Bandit (1946); Black Eagle (1948); Blind Man's Holiday (1917); Blue Butterfly (2014); Business People (1963); By Courier (2000); By Injunction (1918); CBS Library (1982); Chandu (2020); Come Along, Harry Higgins (2025); Compliments of the Season (1918); Cupid à la Carte (1926); Cupid and the Clock (1927); Darovete Na Vlahvite (2013); Das Geschenk der Weisen (1964); Deo egseu (2012); Der Liebesdienst (1963); Der wilde und der zahme Westen (1974–1977); Devce za vsechny peníze (1987); Do skoroy vstrechy (2005); Doctor Rhythm (1938); Dreierlei Zutaten (1965); Dzhentlmeny, kotorym ne povezlo (1977); Ein besonderer Abend (1963); Elsie in New York (1926); Estudio 3 (1963–1964); Everybody's Girl (1918); Failure (1925); Falling Leaves (1912); Ficciones (1973); Find the Woman (1918); Fortune's Mask (1922); Fragmentos da vida (1929); Friends in San Rosario (1912 / 1917); From a Cabby's Seat (1926); Fugacious (2021); Gangster Boss (1959); General Electric Theater (1953); Gift of the Magi (2008 / 2010); Girls (1927); Habitación de alquiler (1960); Harlémská tragédie (1963); Hearts and Crosses (1913); Heinz Marecek: Ein Fest des Lachens - Weihnachten einmal anders / Segment: Das Geschenk der Weisen (2017); Henry (2016); His Duty (1909); His Masterpiece (1909); Hora once (1970–1972); Hygeia at the Solito (1917); I Will Repay (1917); In Old Arizona (1928); In Old New Mexico (1945); Jeff und Andy, zwei Unschuldsengel (1963); Jim Valentines großer Coup (1967); Jimmy Hayes and Muriel (1914); Jimmy Valentine (1985); John Tom Little Bear (1917); Katha Sagar (1986); King of the Bandits (1947); Kogda more smeyotsya (1971); Kraft Theatre (1956); Kun ympäri käydään... (1967); Kyvadlo (1966); Láska a chléb (1967); Law and Order (1917); Little Speck in Garnered Fruit (1917); Lost on Dress Parade (1918); Lucky Cisco Kid (1940); Madame Bo-Peep (1917); Magnetické vlny lécí (1965); Main Ki Karaan (1986); Makes the Whole World Kin (2009); Mammon and the Archer (1918); Manga sekai mukashi banashi (1977); Marry Month of May (1926); Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas / Segment: Mickey & Minnie's Gift of the Magi (1999); Mrs. Billings' Scheidung (1961); Napravení Jima Valentina (1964); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1950); Nebusiu gangsteriu, brangioji (1978); Nemesis and the Candy Man (1918); No Deposit, No Return (1976); No Story (1917); Novellen aus dem wilden Westen (1969–1970); Novogodisnji poklon (1962); Nowhere Man (2020); O. Henry's Christmas / Segments: The Last Leaf / One Thousand Dollars / The Gift of the Magi (1996); O. Henry's Full House (1952); Offer (2013); One Dollar's Worth (1917); One Thousand Dollars (1918); Open Eyes (2025); Orson Welles Great Mysteries (1974); Ostatni lisc (1973); Pakinateatteri (1962); Past One at Rooney's (1917); Pat Clancy's Adventure (1911); Policajt a choral (1965); Ponds Theater (1953); Post Tenebras Lux (2017); Potouchlé skotacinky zivota (1964 / 1970); Price iz hotela (1962); Princ z pohádky (1995); Princese un puma (1986); Prva ljubav (1962); Qiu feng can ye (1960); Racun (2017); Raincoat (2004); Ränke in der Probenpause (1964); Ride on Vaquero (1941); Riding the California Trail (1947); Roads of Destiny (1921); Robber (2013); Robin Hood of Monterey (1947); Romance of the Rio Grande (1940); Roses and Romance (1927); Rubaroo (1986); Ruthless People (1986); Sarnawan (2001); Satan's Cradle (1949); Schools and Schools (1918); Servisna stanica (1959); Shadows in the Wind (2009); Shocks of Doom (1919); Shoes (1925); Silent Love (1994); Sisters of the Golden Circle (1918); Smesne i druge price (2004); South of Monterey (1946); South of the Rio Grande (1945); Springtime à la Carte (1918); Strictly Business (1917); Suite Homes (1927); Sunday Story (1965); Ta enteha-ye hozoor (1987); Taraas (2023); Telemachus, Friend (1920); Television Theater (1957–1958); The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear (1917); The Badge of Policeman O'Roon (1913); The Border Terror (1919); The Brief Debut of Tildy (1918); The Buried Treasure (1919); The Buyer from Cactus City (1918); The Caballero's Way (1914); The Call Loan (1920); The Changing Woman (1918); The Church with an Overshot Wheel (1920); The Cisco Kid (1931 / 1950 / 1994); The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939); The Cisco Kid Returns (1945); The Coming Out of Maggie (1917); The Complete Life (1926); The Cop and the Anthem (1917 / 1982); The Daring Caballero (1949); The Day Resurgent (1920); The Defeat of the City (1917); The Discounters of Money (1917); The Dream (1920); The Duplicity of Hargraves (1917); The Enchanted Kiss (1917); The Enchanted Profile (1918); The Fifth Wheel (1918); The Ford Television Theatre (1957); The Fourth in Salvador (1918); The Friendly Call (1920); The Furnished Room (1917); The Garter Girl (1920); The Gay Amigo (1949); The Gay Caballero (1940); The Gay Cavalier (1946); The Ghost of a Chance (1919); The Gift of Love (1978); The Gift of the Magi (1917 / 1958 / 1978 / 1980 / 1981 / 1997 / 2001); The Girl and the Graft (1918); The Girl from San Lorenzo (1950); The Gold That Glittered (1917); The Great Consoler (1933); The Green Door (1917 / 2015 / 2018); The Guardian of the Accolade (1919); The Guilty Party (1917); The Hiding of Black Bill (1918 / 1983); The Imp with Fluffy Tail (1985); The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson (1917); The Last Leaf (1917 / 1983 / 1993 / 2003 / 2004 / 2009 / 2019); The Last of the Troubadours (1917); The Life and Writing of O. Henry (2006); The Llano Kid (1939); The Lonesome Road (1917); The Love Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein (1917); The Marionettes (1917); The Marquis and Miss Sally (1918); The Mexican's Gratitude (1911); The Moment of Victory (1918); The O. Henry Playhouse (1957); The Passing of Black Eagle (1920); The Purple Dress (1918); The Ransom of Mack (1920); The Ransom of Red Chief (1911 / 1959 / 1975 / 1998); The Rathskeller and the Rose (1918); The Red Skelton Hour (1954–1955); The Reformation of Calliope (1913); The Renaissance at Charleroi (1917); The Return of the Cisco Kid (1939); The Roads We Take (1920); The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball (1918); The Sacrifice (1909); The Saving Presence (1914); The Skylight Room (1917); The Song and the Sergeant (1918); The Stirrup Brother; or, the Higher Abdication (1914); The Texan (1930); The Thing's the Play (1918); The Third Ingredient (1917); The Trapper's Five Dollar Bill (1911); The Trimmed Lamp (1918); The Unknown Quantity (1919); The Valiant Hombre (1948); The Venturers (1917); Thimble, Thimble (1920); Thirty Days at Hard Labor (1912); Tobins Handlinien (1963); Tobin's Palm (1918); Transients in Arcadia (1918 / 1925); Tri price o Dzefu Pitersu (1962); Trimble, Trimble (1920); Trying to Get Arrested (1909); Twenty Years (2016); Two Renegades (1917); Úkryt cerného Billa (1965); Úsmevy sveta (1972); Vanity and Some Sables (1917); Ve vlaku je serif (1987); VHS Christmas Carols (2023 / 2024); Viva Cisco Kid (1940); Výkupné za nácelníka (1993); Wehmeier und Sohn (1965); While Auto Waits (2012); While the Auto Waits (1920); Winterquartier (1963); Wishbone's Dog Days of the West (1998); You're Fired (1919).

Saturday, August 1, 2026

Born on this day – M.R. James:


M.R. James


Writer

Medievalist scholar

August 1, 1862 – June 12, 1936

Credits:

Books:

100 Creepy Little Creature Stories (1994); 100 Fiendish Little Frightmares (1990); 65 Great Spine Chillers (1982); A Century of Children's Ghost Stories (1996); A Century of Ghost Stories (1936); A Century of Horror (1971); A Distant Cry (2002); A Little Night Reading (1974); A Neighbour's Landmark (1924); A Pleasing Terror (2001); A School Story (1911); A Second Century of Creepy Stories (1930); A Thin Ghost and Others (1919); A View from a Hill (1925); A Vignette (1936); A Warning to the Curious (1925); Abbeys (1925); After Dark in the Playing Fields (1931); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957); An Episode of Cathedral History (1919); An Evening's Entertainment (1925); Best Black Magic Stories (1960); Best Horror Stories (1957); Best Horror Stories 2 (1965); Between the Tracks (2017); Beyond Midnight (1976); Black Water (1983); Blood Thirst (1997); Casting the Runes (1987); Chamber of Horrors (1984); Christopher Lee's Archives of Evil (1977); Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors (1974); Classic Ghost Stories II (1990); Classic Horror Stories (2024); Classic Tales of Horror (1976); Classic Vampire Tales Volume One (2010); Classics of the Supernatural (1998); Collected Ghost Stories (2018); Complete Ghost Stories (2017); Count Magnus (1904); Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories (2005); Curious Warnings (2012); Dancing with the Dark (1997); Dark Company (1984); December Tales (2021); Dracula's Brood (1987); Dracula's Guest (2010); Dying of Fright (1976); Everyman's Book of Classic Horror Stories (1965); Evil Roots (2019); Fear (1975); Fear and Trembling (1946); Flotsam Fantasique (2013); Gaslight Tales of Terror (1976); Ghost Stories (1988 / 2018 / 2019); Ghost Stories: Stephen Fry's Definitive Collection (2023); Ghostly (2015); Ghosts (2018); Ghosts for Christmas (1988); Ghosts from the Library (2022); Ghosts of Christmas Past (2017); Ghosts That Haunt You (1980); Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary (1904); Great Ghost Stories (1918); H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror (1993); Handle with Care (1985); Hanging By a Thread (1970); Hauntings (1968); Haunts (2011); Holy Ghosts (2023); In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe (2015); Lost Hearts (1895); Martin's Close (1911); Medley Macabre (1966); Mind at Bay (1969); Mind in Chains (1970); Minor Hauntings (2021); More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911); Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance (1911); My Favorite Fantasy Story (1994); My Favorite Horror Story (2000); Number 13 (1904); Nursery Crimes (1993); Phantastic Book of Ghost Stories (2002); Quiver of Horror (1965); Realms of Darkness (1985); Sinister And Supernatural Stories (1978); Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979); Sleep No More (1964); Small Shadows Creep (1963); Sorceress in Stained Glass (1971); Specter! (1982); Spine Chillers (1961); Spirits of the Season (2018); Summoned from the Tomb (1973); Supernatural Horror Short Stories (2017); Supernatural Stories (1995); Tales from the Dead of Night (2013); Tales of the Dark 2 (1977); Tales of the Dark 3 (1988); Tales of the Supernatural (1962); Tales to Freeze the Blood (2006); The 16th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1980); The 4th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1967); The 7th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1972); The Best Ghost Stories of M R James (1944); The Book of Ghost Stories (1983); The Century's Best Horror Fiction Volume One (2004); The Collected Ghost Stories of M R James (1931); The Colour of Evil (1987); The Cthulhu Cycle (1996); The Damnations (2024); The Dark Descent (1997); The Dead of Winter (2023); The Diary of Mr Poynter (1919); The Edge of Never (1973); The Evil Image (1983); The Five Jars (1922); The Fourth Armada Ghost Book (1972); The Ghost Stories (1973); The Ghost Stories of M. R. James (2018); The Ghost's Companion (1975); The Giant Book of Classic Ghost Stories (1997); The Haunted Dolls' House (1925); The Haunted Library (2016); The Haunted Looking Glass (1959); The Horror Hall of Fame (1987); The House of the Nightmare (1967); The Malice of Inanimate Objects (1933); The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21 (2010); The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror (2021); The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories (1990); The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000); The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936); The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992); The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories (1995); The Mammoth Book of Zombies (1993); The Mezzotint (1904); The Midnight People (1968); The Mystery Book (1934); The Nightmare Reader Volume 2 (1973); The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (1998); The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996); The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984); The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984); The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories (1987); The Penguin Complete Ghost Stories of M R James (1931); The Residence at Whitminster (1919); The Rivals of Dracula (1977); The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral (1910); The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (1913); The Third Armada Ghost Book (1970); The Thrill of Horror (1975); The Tractate Middoth (1911); The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1904); The Treasury of the Fantastic (2000); The Vampire Archives (2009); The Weird (2011); The Zinzolin Book of Occult Fiction (2022); There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard (1931); Thirteen Ghost Stories (1935); Thirteen Uncanny Tales (1970); Thrillers (1994); Twisted Yuletide (2025); Two Doctors (1919); Victorian Ghost Stories (1991); Wailing Well (1928); Weird Woods (2020); When Churchyards Yawn (1982); Wizards and Warlocks (1961); Young Ghosts (1985); Zombies! (2013).

Movies and television:

A Ghost Story for Christmas (1971–1975 / 2005–2022); Camera Three (1959); Christmas Tales (1990); Cineficción Radio (2019); Classic Ghost Stories (1986); Count Magnus (2015); Doctors (2014); Ghost Stories for Christmas (2000); Great Ghost Tales (1961); Hello Humans (2022); ITV Playhouse (1979); Lights Out (1951); Lost Hearts (2007 / 2012); M R James: Ghost Stories for Christmas (2022); Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance (1976); Mystery and Imagination (1966–1968); Night of the Demon / aka Curse of the Demon (1957); Octoberpod AM (2024); Omnibus (1968); Play Me a Note (2015); Post Tenebras Lux (2017); Rats by M.R. James (2011); Scary Stories Around the Fire (2025); Shadows at the Door (2019–2020); Spine Chillers (1980); Tales of Ghosts and Demons (2023); The Church (1989); The Conception of Terror (2019); The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (2016); Vampirismus (1980); Wailing Well (2019); Whistle and I'll Come to You! (1957).

Saturday, January 24, 2026

Born on this day – Edith Wharton:


Edith Wharton


Writer

Designer

January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1921 for her novel The Age of Innocence (1920).

Credits:

Books:

A Backward Glance (1934); A Motor-Flight Through France (1908); A Son at the Front (1923); Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse (1909); Bunner Sisters (1916); Certain People (1930); Crucial Instances (1901); Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings: 1888–1920 (1995); Edith Wharton: The Uncollected Critical Writings (1996); Ethan Frome (1911); Fast and Loose: A Novelette (1938); Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (1915); French Ways and Their Meaning (1919); Ghosts (1937); Here and Beyond (1926); Hudson River Bracketed (1929); Human Nature (1933); In Morocco (1920); Italian Backgrounds (1905); Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904); Madame de Treymes (1907); Madame de Treymes and Others: Four Novelettes (1970); Old New York (1924); Roman Fever and Other Stories (1964); Sanctuary (1903); Shadow of a Doubt (1901); Summer (1917); Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910); The Age of Innocence (1920); The Book of the Homeless (1916); The Buccaneers (1938); The Children (1928); The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton (1998); The Cruise of the Vanadis (1910); The Custom of the Country (1913); The Decoration of Houses (1897); The Descent of Man and Other Stories (1904); The Fruit of the Tree (1907); The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton (1973); The Glimpses of the Moon (1922); The Gods Arrive (1932); The Greater Inclination (1899); The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories (1908); The House of Mirth (1905); The Marne (1918); The Mother's Recompense (1925); The New York Stories of Edith Wharton (2007); The Old Maid (1924); The Reef (1912); The Spinster (1921); The Touchstone (1900); The Valley of Decision (1902); The World Over (1936); The Writing of Fiction (1925); Twelve Poems (1926); Twilight Sleep (1927); Verses (1878); Xingu and Other Stories (1916).

Movies and television:

The Buccaneers (2023); Roman Fever (2014); Life (2011); Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome (2010); The House of Mirth (2000); Passion's Way (1999); The Buccaneers (1995); The Age of Innocence (1993); Ethan Frome (1992); The Children (1990); Shades of Darkness (1983); Great Performances (1971); The House of Mirth (1981); The DuPont Show of the Month (1960); Matinee Theatre / The House of Mirth (1955–1956); Ponds Theater (1954); General Electric Theater (1953); Goodyear Playhouse (1952); Lights Out / Pomegranate Seed (1951); The Ford Theatre Hour (1951); Starlight Theatre (1950); The Old Maid (1939); Strange Wives (1934); The Age of Innocence (1934); The Marriage Playground (1929); The Age of Innocence (1924); The Glimpses of the Moon (1923); The House of Mirth (1918).

Saturday, November 29, 2025

Sunday, October 19, 2025

Born on this day – Auguste Lumière:


Auguste Lumière

Director

Producer

Actor

Engineer

Biologist

Co-inventor of the cinematograph

Regarded as one of the pioneers of cinema

October 19, 1862 – April 10, 1954