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Claude Houghton

Born

in Sevenoaks, Kent, The United Kingdom

May 01, 1989

Died

February 10, 1961

Website

http://www.valancourtbooks.com/claude-houghton....

Genre

Fiction, Horror, Thriller

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Claude Houghton Oldfield was born in 1889 in Sevenoaks, Kent and was educated at Dulwich College. He trained as an accountant and worked in the Admiralty in the First World War, rejected for active service by poor eyesight. In 1920 he married a West End actress, Dulcie Benson, and they lived in a cottage in the Chiltern Hills. To a writers’ directory, Houghton gave his hobbies as reading in bed, riding, visiting Devon and abroad, and talking to people different to himself. He added: “I like dawn, and the dead of night, in great cities.” He disliked fuss, noise, crowds, rows, and being misquoted, or being told how much he owed “to some writer I’ve never read”.

Houghton’s earliest writing was poetry and drama before turning to prose fiction wi ...more

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Average rating: 3.95 · 253 ratings · 63 reviews · 49 distinct works

	I Am Jonathan Scrivener by Claude Houghton, Michael Dirda (Foreword), Hugh Walpole (Preface) 4.03 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 1930 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Neighbours by Claude Houghton, Mark Valentine (Introduction) 3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1926 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Was Ivor Trent by Claude Houghton, Mark Valentine (Introduction) 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1935 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Hair Divides really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1930 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Julian Grant Loses His Way 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1933 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chaos is Come Again 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1932 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hudson Rejoins The Herd 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1939 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Transformation Scene 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1946 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Passing of the Third Floor Back 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1935	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Fantastic Tales 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1934 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If love is what the world thinks it is," she went on with passionate emphasis, "then I am incapable of it. It is monotony, and I loathe monotony more than anything else in the universe. To live with a person, year in, year out; to see that person at nearly every meal; to hear his opinions again and again! My God, is that what they call love? I call it death! I need passion, colour, the unexpected—the romance of the unknown!”
― Claude Houghton, I Am Jonathan Scrivener

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“There is in all of us a spirit of scepticism which remains with us all our lives. Our most treasured beliefs dwell in its shadow. It exists because we are all afraid of being duped. And with some of us, who have knelt before many idols only to discover eventually that they are things of stone made by men, this spirit of scepticism persists no matter how convincing the evidence may be that our doubts are baseless. For some of us it is not enough to see Lazarus raised from the dead.”
― Claude Houghton, I Am Jonathan Scrivener

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