British novelist, poet, playwright, and political figure (not to be confused with his son, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, also poet and statesman) , extremely popular in his time, early mentor and friend of Charles Dickens; best known today for beginning a novel with the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night..."—and thus inspiring both Snoopy and the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. But he also wrote a few ghost stories....
Sites:
Bulwer-Lytton overview
Includes biographical information, critical and contextual discussions, bibliography, and more. [Victorian Web]
Bulwer-Lytton page
Includes chronology and links. [Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya U]
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Includes biography, bibliography, timeline, and more. At the website for Knebworth House, the drop-dead-gorgeous gothic mansion (appropriately enough, and it's complete with ghost tours) that was the home of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (and many more Bulwer-Lyttons).
Brief biographical note
[Gothic Labyrinth]
Biographical and contextual discussion
[John S. Moore]
Brief biographical note
[Columbia Encyclopedia, Bartleby.com]
Brief biographical note
[John W. Cousins, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, 1910]
Bulwer-Lytton Hyper-Concordance
Part of the The Victorian Literary Studies Archive, this concordance allows you to search texts by Bulwer-Lytton including The Haunted and the Haunters among many others.
Portraits
[National Portrait Gallery, London]
The Noel Collection