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According to a mini-biography, accompanied by a photograph, on the rear cover of one of her many gothic novels, Dorothy Daniels was born in Connecticut but by the time she was a full-time writer, in the middle 1960's, was living in California. She was initlally an English teacher at a state college but later wrote articles that appeared in national magazines, which led to her career as a writer of mostly gothic paperbacks. Lancer books, which published more than twenty of her novels, proclaimed her "America's Most Popular Gothic Novelist" while Pocket Books claimed her gothic novels had sold over eleven million copies by the middle 1970's. Her approximately 146 novels were published by a dozen paperback publishers, some had as many as four printings while others were printed only once. Lancer and Warner Books together published more than sixty of her novels. The vast majority of her novels were written in the first person and this was a trademark of sorts with Dorothy Daniels, as she rarely strayed from this pattern. Several of her novels take place in the Old South. Her novels were also considerably more involving plot-wise and contained more character development than other gothic novels. She published her last gothic novel, "House of Silence", in late 1980. Afterward she wrote a handfull of historical romances and her last published novel appears to be "Crisis at Valcour" in 1985.
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The aforementioned photograph on the rear cover of her 1965 book "Cliffside Castle" contradicts some claims that Dorothy Daniels was male, and at least one internet website's author insists that Dorothy Daniels was actually a man named Paul Hugo Little who lived in Chigago and wrote over 700 books under at least a dozen pseudonyms. We may never know for certain who Dorothy Daniels was. Several of her gothic paperbacks, credited to Dorothy Daniels or Suzanne Somers, were copyrighted by Norman Daniels. She published one novel, "House of False Faces", under the pseudonym Helen Gray Weston, but this book was later reissued as "Dorothy Daniels writing as Helen Gray Weston". She wrote three nurse romance books in addition to her many gothic novels.
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==See Also==
 
==See Also==
 
* [[Daniella Dorsett]]
 
* [[Daniella Dorsett]]
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* [[Suzanne Somers]]
 
* [[Suzanne Somers]]
 
* [[Geraldine Thayer]]
 
* [[Geraldine Thayer]]
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==Books==
 
==Books==
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* "[[Affair in Hong Kong ]]" - 1969 [[Pyramid]]
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* "[[Affair In Hong Kong ]]" - 1969 [[Pyramid]]
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* "[[Affair in Marakesh ]]" -  1968 [[Pyramid]]
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* "[[Affair In Marakesh ]]" -  1968 [[Pyramid]]
 
* "[[The Apollo Fountain  ]]" - 1974 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[The Apollo Fountain  ]]" - 1974 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[The Attic Rope ]]" - 1970 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[The Attic Rope ]]" - 1970 [[Lancer]]
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* "[[Bridal Black ]]" - 1980 [[Signet]]
 
* "[[Bridal Black ]]" - 1980 [[Signet]]
 
* "[[The Caldwell Shadow ]]" - 1973 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[The Caldwell Shadow ]]" - 1973 [[Warner]]
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* "[[Candle in the Sun ]]" - 1968 [[Lancer]]
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* "[[Candle In The Sun ]]" - 1968 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[The Carson Inheritance ]]" - 1969 [[Paperback Library]]
 
* "[[The Carson Inheritance ]]" - 1969 [[Paperback Library]]
 
* "[[Castle Morvant ]]" - 1972 [[Paperback Library]]
 
* "[[Castle Morvant ]]" - 1972 [[Paperback Library]]
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* "[[Child of Darkness ]]" - 1974 [[Pocket]]
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* "[[Child Of Darkness ]]" - 1974 [[Pocket]]
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* "[[Circle of Guilt ]]" - 1976 [[Pocket]]
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* "[[Circle Of Guilt ]]" - 1976 [[Pocket]]
 
* "[[Cliffside Castle ]]" - 1965 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[Cliffside Castle ]]" - 1965 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[Conover's Folly ]]" - 1972 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[Conover's Folly ]]" - 1972 [[Warner]]
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* "[[Cruise Ship Nurse ]]" - 1963 [[Paperback Library]]
 
* "[[Cruise Ship Nurse ]]" - 1963 [[Paperback Library]]
 
* "[[The Curse of Mallory Hall ]]" - 1970 [[Fawcett]]
 
* "[[The Curse of Mallory Hall ]]" - 1970 [[Fawcett]]
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* "[[Dance in Darkness ]]" - 1965 [[Lancer]]
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* "[[Dance In Darkness ]]" - 1965 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[Danger Mansion / Nurse at Danger Mansion]]" - 1966 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[Danger Mansion / Nurse at Danger Mansion]]" - 1966 [[Lancer]]
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* "[[Dark Heritage ]]" - 1976 [[Signet]]
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* "[[Dark Heritage - Dorothy Daniels|Dark Heritage]]" - 1976 [[Signet]]
 
* "[[Dark Island ]]" - 1972 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[Dark Island ]]" - 1972 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[Dark Villa ]]" - 1966 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[Dark Villa ]]" - 1966 [[Lancer]]
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* "[[Darkhaven ]]" - 1965 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[Darkhaven ]]" - 1965 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[Diablo Manor ]]" - 1971 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[Diablo Manor ]]" - 1971 [[Warner]]
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* "[[Duet ]]" - 1968 [[Lancer]]
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* "[[Duet - Dorothy Daniels|Duet]]" - 1968 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[The Duncan Dynasty ]]" - 1973 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[The Duncan Dynasty ]]" - 1973 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[The Eagle's Nest ]]" - 1968 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[The Eagle's Nest ]]" - 1968 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[Emerald Hill ]]" - 1970 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[Emerald Hill ]]" - 1970 [[Warner]]
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* "[[The Exorcism of Jenny Slade ]]" - 1974 [[Pocket]]
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* "[[The Exorcism Of Jenny Slade ]]" - 1974 [[Pocket]]
 
* "[[For Love and Valcour ]]" - 1983 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[For Love and Valcour ]]" - 1983 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[Ghost Song ]]" - 1974 [[Pocket]]
 
* "[[Ghost Song ]]" - 1974 [[Pocket]]
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* "[[The Guardian of Willow House ]]" - 1975 [[Pocket]]
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* "[[The Guardian Of Willow House ]]" - 1975 [[Pocket]]
 
* "[[Hermitage Hill ]]" - 1978 [[Signet]]
 
* "[[Hermitage Hill ]]" - 1978 [[Signet]]
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* "[[Hills of Fire ]]" - 1973 [[Warner]]
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* "[[Hills Of Fire ]]" - 1973 [[Warner]]
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* "[[House of False Faces ]]" - 1967 [[Warner]]
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* "[[House Of False Faces ]]" - 1967 [[Warner]]
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* "[[House of Silence ]]" - 1980 [[Signet]]
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* "[[House Of Silence ]]" - 1980 [[Signet]]
 
* "[[House of Stolen Memories / Mansion of Lost Memories ]]" - 1967 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[House of Stolen Memories / Mansion of Lost Memories ]]" - 1967 [[Lancer]]
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* "[[House of the Seven Courts ]]" - 1967 [[Lancer]]
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* "[[House Of The Seven Courts ]]" - 1967 [[Lancer]]
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* "[[The House of Broken Dolls ]]" - 1971 [[Warner]
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* "[[The House Of Broken Dolls ]]" - 1971 [[Warner]]
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* "[[The House of Many Doors ]]" - 1971 [[Warner]]
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* "[[The House Of Many Doors ]]" - 1971 [[Warner]]
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* "[[The House on Circus Hill ]]" - 1972 [[Warner]]
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* "[[The House On Circus Hill ]]" - 1972 [[Warner]]
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* "[[Illusion at Haven's Edge ]]" - 1975 [[Pocket]]
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* "[[Illusion At Haven's Edge ]]" - 1975 [[Pocket]]
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* "[[Image of a Ghost ]]" - 1973 [[Warner]]
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* "[[Image Of A Ghost ]]" - 1973 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[In the Shadows]]" - 1978 [[Signet]]
 
* "[[In the Shadows]]" - 1978 [[Signet]]
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* "[[Island Nurse ]]" - 1964 [[Paperback Library]]
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* "[[Island Nurse - Dorothy Daniels|Island Nurse]]" - 1964 [[Paperback Library]]
 
* "[[Island of Bitter Memories ]]" - 1974 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[Island of Bitter Memories ]]" - 1974 [[Warner]]
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* "[[Island of Evil Strange Paradise #2]]" - 1970 [[Paperback Library]]
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* "[[Island Of Evil - Dorothy Daniels|Island Of Evil]]" - 1970 [[Paperback Library]]
 
* "[[Jade Green ]]" - 1973 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[Jade Green ]]" - 1973 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[Jennifer James, R.N. ]]" - 1962 [[Gold Medal]]
 
* "[[Jennifer James, R.N. ]]" - 1962 [[Gold Medal]]
 
* "[[Journey Into Terror ]]" - 1971 [[Pyramid]]
 
* "[[Journey Into Terror ]]" - 1971 [[Pyramid]]
 
* "[[Juniper Hill ]]" - 1976 [[Pocket]]
 
* "[[Juniper Hill ]]" - 1976 [[Pocket]]
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* "[[Knight in Red Armor ]]" - 1966 [[Lancer]]
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* "[[Knight In Red Armor ]]" - 1966 [[Lancer]]
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* "[[Lady of the Shadows ]]" - 1968 [[Warner]]
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* "[[Lady Of The Shadows ]]" - 1968 [[Warner]]
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* "[[The Lanier Riddle ]]" - 1072 [[Paperback Library]]
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* "[[The Lanier Riddle ]]" - 1972 [[Paperback Library]]
 
* "[[Larrabee Heiress ]]" - 1972 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[Larrabee Heiress ]]" - 1972 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[The Last of the Mansions / Survivors of Darkness ]]" - 1966 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[The Last of the Mansions / Survivors of Darkness ]]" - 1966 [[Lancer]]
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* "[[The Lily Pond ]]" - 1965 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[The Lily Pond ]]" - 1965 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[The Lonely Place ]]" - 1978 [[Signet]]
 
* "[[The Lonely Place ]]" - 1978 [[Signet]]
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* "[[]The Magic Ring ]" - 1978 [[Warner]]
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* "[[The Magic Ring ]]" - 1978 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[The Man from Yesterday ]]" - 1970 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[The Man from Yesterday ]]" - 1970 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[The Marble Hills ]]" -  1975 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[The Marble Hills ]]" -  1975 [[Warner]]
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* "[[The Mistress of Falcon Hill ]]" - 1965 [[Pyramid]]
 
* "[[The Mistress of Falcon Hill ]]" - 1965 [[Pyramid]]
 
* "[[Monte Carlo ]]" - 1981 [[Leisure]]
 
* "[[Monte Carlo ]]" - 1981 [[Leisure]]
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* "[[Mostly by Moonlight ]]" - 1968 [[Lancer]]
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* "[[Mostly By Moonlight ]]" - 1968 [[Lancer]]
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* "[[Mystic Manor ]]" - [[Paperback Library
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* "[[Mystic Manor ]]" - [[Paperback Library]]
 
* "[[Nicola ]]" - 1980 [[Leisure]]
 
* "[[Nicola ]]" - 1980 [[Leisure]]
 
* "[[Night Shade ]]" - 1976 [[Pocket]]
 
* "[[Night Shade ]]" - 1976 [[Pocket]]
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* "[[Night Shadow ]]" - 1979 [[Signet]]
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* "[[Night Shadow - Dorothy Daniels|Night Shadow]]" - 1979 [[Signet]]
 
* "[[Nightfall ]]" - 1977 [[Pocket]]
 
* "[[Nightfall ]]" - 1977 [[Pocket]]
 
* "[[Perrine ]]" - 1978 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[Perrine ]]" - 1978 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[Poison Flower ]]" - 1977 [[Pocket]]
 
* "[[Poison Flower ]]" - 1977 [[Pocket]]
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* "[[Portrait of a Witch ]]" - 1976 [[Pocket]]
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* "[[Portrait Of A Witch ]]" - 1976 [[Pocket]]
 
* "[[The Possessed ]]" - 1975 [[Pocket]]
 
* "[[The Possessed ]]" - 1975 [[Pocket]]
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* "[[The Possession of Tracy Corbin ]]" - 1973 [[Warner]]
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* "[[The Possession Of Tracy Corbin ]]" - 1973 [[Warner]]
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* "[[The Prisoner of Malville Hall ]]" - 1973 [[Warner]]
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* "[[The Prisoner Of Malville Hall ]]" - 1973 [[Warner]]
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* "[[The Purple and the Gold ]]" - 1980 [[Signet]]
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* "[[The Purple And The Gold ]]" - 1980 [[Signet]]
 
* "[[The Raging Waters ]]" - 1970 [[Pyramid]]
 
* "[[The Raging Waters ]]" - 1970 [[Pyramid]]
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* "[[Raxl, Voodoo Priestess Strange Paradise #3 ]]" - 1970 [[Paperback Library]]
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* "[[Raxl, Voodoo Priestess]]" - 1970 [[Paperback Library]]
 
* "[[Saratoga]]" - 1981 [[Leisure]]
 
* "[[Saratoga]]" - 1981 [[Leisure]]
 
* "[[Screen Test for Laurel ]]" - 1967 [[Avon]]
 
* "[[Screen Test for Laurel ]]" - 1967 [[Avon]]
 
* "[[The Sevier Secrets ]]" - 1967 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[The Sevier Secrets ]]" - 1967 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[Shadow Glen ]]" - 1965 [[Popular]]
 
* "[[Shadow Glen ]]" - 1965 [[Popular]]
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* "[[Shadow of a Man ]]" - 1975 Warner]]
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* "[[Shadow Of A Man ]]" - 1975 [[Warner]]
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* "[[Shadows from the Past ]]" - 1972 [[Warner]]
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* "[[Shadows From The Past ]]" - 1972 [[Warner]]
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* "[[Shadows of Tomorrow ]]" - 1971 [[Warner]]
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* "[[Shadows Of Tomorrow ]]" - 1971 [[Warner]]
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* "[[The Silent Halls of Ashenden ]]" - 1973 [[Warner]]
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* "[[The Silent Halls Of Ashenden ]]" - 1973 [[Warner]]
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* "[[The Sisters of Valcour ]]" - 1981 [[Warner]]
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* "[[The Sisters Of Valcour ]]" - 1981 [[Warner]]
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* "[[The Spanish Chapel ]]" - 1972 [[ Belmont]]
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* "[[The Spanish Chapel ]]" - 1972 [[Belmont]]
 
* "[[The Stone House ]]" - 1973 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[The Stone House ]]" - 1973 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[Strange Paradise]]" - 1969 [[Paperback Library]]
 
* "[[Strange Paradise]]" - 1969 [[Paperback Library]]
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* "[[The Summer House]]" - 1976 [[Warner]]
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* "[[The Summer House - Dorothy Daniels|The Summer House]]" - 1976 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[The Templeton Memoirs ]]" - 1966 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[The Templeton Memoirs ]]" - 1966 [[Lancer]]
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* "[[Terror of the Twin ]]" - 1976 [[Berkeley]]
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* "[[Terror Of The Twin ]]" - 1976 [[Berkley]]
 
* "[[This Ancient Evil ]]" -  1966 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[This Ancient Evil ]]" -  1966 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[The Tide Mill ]]" - 1975 [[Popular]]
 
* "[[The Tide Mill ]]" - 1975 [[Popular]]
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* "[[The Tower Room ]]" - 1965 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[The Tower Room ]]" - 1965 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[Traitor's Road ]]" - 1967 [[Magnum]]
 
* "[[Traitor's Road ]]" - 1967 [[Magnum]]
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* "[[Twilight at the Elms ]]" - 1976 [[Signet]]
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* "[[Twilight At The Elms ]]" - 1976 [[Signet]]
 
* "[[The Two Worlds of Peggy Scott ]]" - 1974 [[Pocket]]
 
* "[[The Two Worlds of Peggy Scott ]]" - 1974 [[Pocket]]
 
* "[[The Unearthly ]]" - 1970 [[Magnum]]
 
* "[[The Unearthly ]]" - 1970 [[Magnum]]
 
* "[[The Unguarded ]]" - 1965 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[The Unguarded ]]" - 1965 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[The Unlamented ]]" - 1975 [[Pocket]]
 
* "[[The Unlamented ]]" - 1975 [[Pocket]]
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* "[[Valley of Shadows ]]" - 1980 [[Signet]]
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* "[[Valley Of Shadows - Dorothy Daniels|Valley Of Shadows]]" - 1980 [[Signet]]
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* "[[Veil of Treachery ]]" - 1979 [[Signet]]
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* "[[Veil Of Treachery ]]" - 1979 [[Signet]]
 
* "[[The Vineyard Chapel ]]" - 1976 [[Pocket]]
 
* "[[The Vineyard Chapel ]]" - 1976 [[Pocket]]
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* "[[Voice on the Wind ]]" - 1969 [[Paperback Library]]
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* "[[Voice On The Wind ]]" - 1969 [[Paperback Library]]
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* "[[A Web of Peril ]]" - 1974 [[Pyramid]]
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* "[[A Web Of Peril ]]" - 1974 [[Pyramid]]
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* "[[Whistle in the Wind ]]" - 1976 [[Pocket]]
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* "[[Whistle In The Wind ]]" - 1976 [[Pocket]]
 
* "[[Willow Weep ]]" - 1970 [[Pyramid]]
 
* "[[Willow Weep ]]" - 1970 [[Pyramid]]
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* "[[The Wines of Cyprien ]]" -  1977 [[Pyramid]]
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* "[[The Wines Of Cyprien ]]" -  1977 [[Pyramid]]
 
* "[[Witch's Castle ]]" -  1971 [[Paperback Library]]
 
* "[[Witch's Castle ]]" -  1971 [[Paperback Library]]
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* "[[A Woman in Silk and Shadows]]" -  1977 [[Signet]]
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* "[[A Woman In Silk And Shadows]]" -  1977 [[Signet]]
 
* "[[World's Fair Nurse ]]" - 1964 [[Paperback Library]]
 
* "[[World's Fair Nurse ]]" - 1964 [[Paperback Library]]
 
* "[[Yesterday's Evil]]" - 1979 [[Signet]]
 
* "[[Yesterday's Evil]]" - 1979 [[Signet]]

Latest revision as of 16:42, 29 August 2015


According to a mini-biography, accompanied by a photograph, on the rear cover of one of her many gothic novels, Dorothy Daniels was born in Connecticut but by the time she was a full-time writer, in the middle 1960's, was living in California. She was initlally an English teacher at a state college but later wrote articles that appeared in national magazines, which led to her career as a writer of mostly gothic paperbacks. Lancer books, which published more than twenty of her novels, proclaimed her "America's Most Popular Gothic Novelist" while Pocket Books claimed her gothic novels had sold over eleven million copies by the middle 1970's. Her approximately 146 novels were published by a dozen paperback publishers, some had as many as four printings while others were printed only once. Lancer and Warner Books together published more than sixty of her novels. The vast majority of her novels were written in the first person and this was a trademark of sorts with Dorothy Daniels, as she rarely strayed from this pattern. Several of her novels take place in the Old South. Her novels were also considerably more involving plot-wise and contained more character development than other gothic novels. She published her last gothic novel, "House of Silence", in late 1980. Afterward she wrote a handfull of historical romances and her last published novel appears to be "Crisis at Valcour" in 1985.

The aforementioned photograph on the rear cover of her 1965 book "Cliffside Castle" contradicts some claims that Dorothy Daniels was male, and at least one internet website's author insists that Dorothy Daniels was actually a man named Paul Hugo Little who lived in Chigago and wrote over 700 books under at least a dozen pseudonyms. We may never know for certain who Dorothy Daniels was. Several of her gothic paperbacks, credited to Dorothy Daniels or Suzanne Somers, were copyrighted by Norman Daniels. She published one novel, "House of False Faces", under the pseudonym Helen Gray Weston, but this book was later reissued as "Dorothy Daniels writing as Helen Gray Weston". She wrote three nurse romance books in addition to her many gothic novels.

See Also

Books

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