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Peter Haining


(Peter Alexander Haining)
UK flag (1940 - 2007)

aka Ric Alexander

Peter Alexander Haining was a British journalist, author and anthologist who lived and worked in Suffolk. Born in Enfield, Middlesex, he began his career as a reporter in Essex and then moved to London where he worked on a trade magazine before joining the publishing house of New English Library.

Haining achieved the position of Editorial Director before becoming a full time writer in the early Seventies. He edited a large number of anthologies, predominantly of horror and fantasy short stories, wrote non-fiction books on a variety of topics from the Channel Tunnel to Sweeney Todd and also used the pen names "Ric Alexander" and "Richard Peyton" on a number of crime story anthologies. In the Seventies he wrote three novels, including The Hero (1973), which was optioned for filming.

He wrote several reference books on Doctor Who, including the 21st anniversary special Doctor Who: A Celebration Two Decades Through Time and Space (1983), and also wrote the definitive study of Sherlock Holmes on the screen, The Television Sherlock Holmes (1991) and several other television tie-ins featuring famous literary characters, including Maigret, Poirot and James Bond. Peter Haining's most recent project was a series of World War Two stories based on extensive research and personal interviews: The Jail That Went To Sea (2003), The Mystery of Rommel's Gold (2004), Where The Eagle Landed (2004), The Chianti Raiders (2005) and The Banzai Hunters (2007).

He won the British Fantasy Awards Karl Edward Wagner Award in 2001.
 

Genres: Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery
 
Novels
   The Hero (1973) (with Terry Harknett)
   The Savage (1986)
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Anthologies edited
   Everyman's Book of Classic Horror Stories (1965)
   The Hell of Mirrors (1965)
   Beyond the Curtain of Dark (1966)
   The Craft of Terror (1966)
   Guaranteed Rest in Peace (1966)
   Where Nightmares Are (1966)
   Anyone for Murder? (1967)
   The Gentlewomen of Evil (1967)
   This Day's Evil (1967)
   Dr. Caligari's Black Book (1968)
   The Evil People (1968)
   The Future Makers (1968)
   Legends for the Dark (1968)
   The Midnight Penthouse (1968)
   The Midnight People (1968)
   The Satanists (1969)
   The Unspeakable People (1969)
   The Witchcraft Reader (1969)
   The Freak Show (1970)
   The Hollywood Nightmare (1970)
   The Ghouls Book 1 (1971)
   The Ghouls Book 2 (1971)
   The Necromancers (1971)
   A Circle of Witches (1971)
   The Clans of Darkness (1971)
   The Wild Night Company (1971)
   Great Tales of Terror from Europe and America Volume 2 (1972)
   Great British Tales of Terror (1972)
     aka Gothic Tales of Terror
   Detours Into The Macabre (1972)
     aka Lucifer Society
   The Magicians (1972)
   Nightfrights (1972)
   The Dream Machines (1972)
   The Nightmare Reader Volume 2 (1973)
   The Nightmare Reader Volume 1 (1973)
   Summoned from the Tomb (1973)
   The Nightmare Reader (1973)
   The Ghouls (1974)
   The Magic Valley Travellers (1974)
   Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors (1974)
   The Penny Dreadful (1975)
   The Fantastic Pulps (1975)
   The Ghost's Companion (1975)
   The Black Magic Omnibus Volume 2 (1976)
   Weird Tales Volume 2 (1976)
   The Black Magic Omnibus Volume 1 (1976)
   More of Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors (1976)
   Deadly Nightshade (1977)
   The Frankenstein File (1977)
   More Weird Tales (1978)
   The Shilling Shockers (1978)
   Tales of Unknown Horror (1978)
   Irish Leprechaun's Kingdom (1979)
   The Leprechaun's Kingdom (1979)
   More Tales of Unknown Horror (1979)
   Buried Passions (1980)
   The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1981)
   The Vampire Terror (1981)
   The Book of Ghost Stories (1983)
   Zombie (1985)
   The Ghost Ship (1985)
   Dead of Night (1986)
   The Television Sherlock Holmes (1986)
   LBW - Laughter Before Wicket (1986)
   Tales of Dungeons and Dragons (1986)
   Werewolf (1987)
   The Dracula Centenary Book (1987)
   Poltergeist (1987)
   Scottish Stories of Fantasy and Horror (1988)
   Movie Monsters (1988)
   Doctor Who : 25 Glorious Years (1988)
   Mummy Stories of the Living Corpse (1988)
   Irish Tales of Terror (1988)
   Hook, Line and Laughter (1989)
   Stories of the Walking Dead (1990)
   Murder On the Menu (1991)
   Great Irish Stories of the Supernatural (1992)
   The Television Detectives' Omnibus (1992)
   Masters of the Macabre (1993)
   Vampires at Midnight (1993)
   TV Late Night Horror Omnibus (1993)
   The Armchair Detective (1993)
   Great Tales of Crime and Detection (1993)
   Great Tales of Horror (1993)
   Armchair Horror Omnibus (1994)
   Great Irish Tales Of Fantasy And Myth (1994)
   The Flesh Eaters (1994)
   The Frankenstein Omnibus (1994)
   On Call with Doctor Finlay (1994)
   Peter Cushing's Monster Movies (1994)
   Tales from the Rogues' Gallery (1994)
   The Armchair Horror Collection (1994)
   Great Irish Tales of the Unimaginable (1994)
   Murder by the Glass (1994)
   The Television Crimebusters Omnibus (1994)
   Ghost Movies (1995)
   Space Movies (1995)
   Tales from the Gothic Bluebooks (1995)
   The Vampire Omnibus (1995)
   Great Irish Tales of Horror (1995)
   Murder at the Races (1995)
   London After Midnight (1996)
   Space Movies II (1996)
   The Wizards of Odd (1996)
   Ghost Movies II (1996)
   Murder on the Railways (1996)
   The Vampire Hunters' Casebook (1996)
   On the Case with Agatha Christie's Poirot (1996)
   Pulp Frictions (1996)
   The Orion Book of Murder (1996)
   Cyber-Killers (1997) (as by Ric Alexander)
   The Flying Sorcerers (1997)
   Timescapes (1997)
   Time Travelers (1997)
   Classic Westerns (1998)
   Great Irish Humorous Stories (1998)
   The Unexplained (1998) (as by Ric Alexander)
   Knights of Madness (1998)
   Scary! (1998)
   Classic Science Fiction (1998)
   Classics of the Supernatural (1998)
   Great Irish Stories of Murder and Mystery (1999)
   Vintage Science Fiction (1999)
   Great Irish Tales of Fantasy (1999)
   Laws and Disorders (1999)
   Great Welsh Fantasy Stories (2000)
   The Wizard's Den (2001)
   Scary!: More Stories to Make You Scream!: Vol 2 (2002)
   Great Irish Drinking Stories (2002)
   Magician's Circle (2003)
   Scottish Ghost Stories (2004)
   The Mysterious Novice (2007)
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