Margaret Gabrielle Long

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Margaret Gabrielle Long, (1 November 1885 on Hayling Island, Hampshire - 23 December 1952) was a novelist and writer. She wrote under the pseudonyms Marjorie Bowen, Joseph Shearing, George Preedy, John Winch, Robert Paye and Margaret Campbell. As Joseph Shearing, she wrote several sinister gothic romances full of terror and mystery. Many of these stories were published as Berkley Medallion Books.

"Mr Shearing is a painstaking researcher, a superb writer, a careful technician, and a master of horror. There is no one else quite like him" - Sally Besnon, The New Yorker, 1965

"Those who want a good workout of the more perilous emotions will do well to read Mr. Shearing's impressive tale of love, death and doom....Join the Shearing cult and meet one of the most malevolent females in song or story" - Will Cuppy, Books, from "The Crime of Laura Sarelle", 1965

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The Viper of Milan (1906)
Black Magic: a Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Antichrist (1909)
A Knight of Spain (1913)
The Cheats, A Romantic Fantasy (1920)
Stinging Nettles (1923)
The Pagoda (1927)
General Crack (1928) (as George Preedy)
The Golden Roof (1928)
Forget-me-Not (1932) (as Joseph Shearing)
The Last Bouquet, Some Twilight Tales (1933)
The Triumphant Beast (1934)
Trumpets at Rome (1936)
This Shining Woman (1937);
God and the Wedding Dress (1938)
Mr. Tyler's Saints (1939)
The Circle in the Water (1939)
The Debate Continues: being the Autobiography of Marjorie Bowen (1939) (as Margaret Campbell)
Ethics in Modern Art (1939)
The Crime of Laura Sarelle (1941) (as Joseph Shearing)
The Spectral Bride. Also known as The Fetch (1942)(as Joseph Shearing)
Airing in a Closed Carriage (1943)
Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales (1976) (short stories, as Marjorie Bowen)