Alex Hamilton

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Alex Hamilton was born in 1930 and was educated first in South America, then England and Oxford University. After experimenting with a wide variety of jobs, he turned to writing full-time in the early 1960s, beginning by alternating novels with short story collections such as Wild Track (1963), which, although not macabre, caught the attention of Herbert Van Thal, editor of the popular Pan Books of Horror Stories series. Hamilton went on to contribute stories to this and many other series, including his most celebrated, ‘The Attic Express’, and in 1966 he published his own collection, Beam of Malice, which won widespread acclaim in both England and the United States. During the 1960s and ’70s he also edited several collections of macabre an ...more

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Sign Here: The enterprise g...

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Beam of Malice: Fifteen Sho...

3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1966 — 4 editions
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Splinters

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3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1968 — 5 editions
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The Attic Express and Other...

3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2007
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Writing Talk

3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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The dead needle

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1969
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The Cold Embrace: Stories O...

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1966 — 2 editions
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Flies on the Wall

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1972
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The Christmas pudding that ...

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As if She were Mine

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