Arthur Quiller-Couch the source of the popular writers' adage "murder your darlings". He is mentioned briefly in "The Well of Lost Plots" by Jasper Fforde as one of the few authors with a name beginning with the letter "Q". It is Quiller-Couch who originated the saying "kill your darlings": A collected edition of Q's fiction appeared as "Tales and Romances" (30 volumes, 1928–29). Arthur Quiller-Couch Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (; 21 November 186312 May 1944) was a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication "The Oxford Book Of English
Castle of Frankenstein the first published comics page by Marvel artist-writer-editor Larry Hama. "Castle of Frankenstein" also carried an unusual original comic strip, "Baron von Bungle", by Richard Bojarski, who gave a humorous twist to the world depicted in Universal horror films. Beck, with an editorial assist by fantasy fiction scholar Haywood P. Norton, assembled the paperback anthology, "The Frankenstein Reader" (Ballantine Books, 1962). The two brought together a roster of vintage horror-fantasy tales by E.F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Robert W. Chambers, Ralph Adams Cram, Charles Dickens, Amelia B. Edwards, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Richard Middleton, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H.G.