Born Dikran Kouyoumdjian in Bulgaria of Armenian
ancestry, Arlen became a naturalised British subject in 1922 and
was a popular writer during the 20s and 30s. He wrote a number of
ghost stories, and Hell! Said the Duchess: is a vampire novel.
Short Stories
These
Charming People, Collins (London), [1923]
Including: "The Ancient Sin", "The Loquacious Lady
of Lansdowne Passage", and "The Smell in the Library" (this last
tale is not supernatural, but was included in Ghost
Stories, 1927)
ditto, Doran (U.S.), 1924
May Fair,
In Which Are Told the Last Adventures of These Charming
People,
Collins (London), [1925]
Including: The Battle of Berkeley
Square: Tarlyon is taken ill to his sister's house where
she is giving birth. Presumably close to death, for a brief period
he appears to exchange bodies with her. "The Prince of the Jews",
"The Revolting Doom of a Gentleman who would not Dance with His
Wife", The Gentleman from America: A rationalised
ghost story in which the gentleman is bet £500 that he will
not stay a night in a supposedly haunted house. "To Lamoir", and
"Farewell, These Charming People."
ditto, Doran (U.S.), [1925]
Ghost
Stories,
Collins (London), [1927]
Including: "The Prince of the Jews", "To Lamoir",
"The Ancient Sin", "The Loquacious Lady of Landsdowne Passage",
"The Gentleman from America", "The Smell in the Library" and "The
Ghoul of Golder's Green" (this last another tenuous supernatural
tale.)
Novels
Hell!
Said the Duchess: A Bed-Time Story, Heinemann (London),
[1934]
ditto, Doran (U.S.), 1934
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