During the Second World War he served in the Sherwood Foresters. He succeeded his uncle as 5th Baronet Birkin in 1942. Birkin included stories of his own in most of these volumes, which were later collected as Devil's Spawn (1936). He was educated at Eton College and was later employed by the publisher Philip Allan to edit the Creeps horror story anthologies, the first one of which appeared in 1932. Allen Ltd, 1973)īirkin was the son of Colonel Charles Wilfred Birkin and Claire Howe, the daughter of Alexander Howe. Hugh Lamb, introduction to "Marjorie's On Starlight" from A Wave Of Fear (W. He deals unflinchingly with such subjects as murder, rape, concentration camps, patricide, mutilation and torture. Be warned, if you are at all sensitive, leave him well alone. The stories of Charles Birkin, however, are not for the squeamish. John Pelan, Darkside Press/Midnight House on-line In the 1960's one author was almost solely responsible for keeping the horror genre alive in Britain, Sir Charles Birkin.
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