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MICHAEL ARLEN
 b.1895 d.1956
Born Dikran Kouyoumdjian in Bulgaria of Armenian ancestry, Arlen became a naturalised British subject in 1922 and was a popular writer during the 20s and 30s. He wrote a number of ghost stories, and Hell! Said the Duchess: is a vampire novel.
 
Short Stories
These Charming People, Collins (London), [1923]
Including: "The Ancient Sin", "The Loquacious Lady of Lansdowne Passage", and "The Smell in the Library" (this last tale is not supernatural, but was included in Ghost Stories, 1927)
ditto, Doran (U.S.), 1924
 
May Fair, In Which Are Told the Last Adventures of These Charming People, Collins (London), [1925]
Including: The Battle of Berkeley Square: Tarlyon is taken ill to his sister's house where she is giving birth. Presumably close to death, for a brief period he appears to exchange bodies with her. "The Prince of the Jews", "The Revolting Doom of a Gentleman who would not Dance with His Wife", The Gentleman from America: A rationalised ghost story in which the gentleman is bet £500 that he will not stay a night in a supposedly haunted house. "To Lamoir", and "Farewell, These Charming People."
ditto, Doran (U.S.), [1925]
 
Ghost Stories, Collins (London), [1927]
Including: "The Prince of the Jews", "To Lamoir", "The Ancient Sin", "The Loquacious Lady of Landsdowne Passage", "The Gentleman from America", "The Smell in the Library" and "The Ghoul of Golder's Green" (this last another tenuous supernatural tale.)

 

Novels
Hell! Said the Duchess: A Bed-Time Story, Heinemann (London), [1934]
 
ditto, Doran (U.S.), 1934
 
  
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