Michael Cox

25 October 1948 – 31 March 2009

Michael Cox was born in Wellingborough in 1948, and grew up in Northamptonshire where his parents worked in the shoe industry. Bed-bound at three with a prolonged ear infection, he learnt to read. A key moment in Cox's life occured when, staying with his grandparents, he saw from a window that the neighbours were burying fine Victorian books – well bound, lavishly tooled – as they thought such things harboured disease. He and his grandparents saved them, and he was ever after absorbed in them, especially the Arabian Nights tales. Fiction became a passion, and from Wellingborough Grammar Sch

• The Oxford book of English ghost stories
• Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection
• Victorian Ghost Stories
• The Oxford book of Victorian ghost stories
• The concise Oxford chronology of English literature
• The glass of time
• A dictionary of writers and their works
• Oxford Book of Twentieth-century Ghost Stories
• The concise Oxford chronology of English literature
• The glass of time
• The incredible internet
• The Oxford chronology of English literature