Intersection of North Terrace and King William Street viewed from Parliament House, Adelaide | Parliament House, 1938.

Many modern writers of horror ( or indeed other types of fiction ) exhibit considerable Gothic sensibilities — examples include the works of Anne Rice, as well as some of the sensationalist works of Stephen King The Romantic strand of Gothic was taken up in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca ( 1938 ) which is in many respects a reworking of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.

* 1885 – Joe " King " Oliver, American cornet player and bandleader ( d. 1938 )

Besides his Oscar-winning scores, some of Steiner's popular works include King Kong ( 1933 ), Little Women ( 1933 ), Jezebel ( 1938 ), Casablanca ( 1942 ), and the film score for which he is possibly best known, Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ).

" Double Vision: Ernest Lapointe, Mackenzie King and the Quebec Voice in Canadian Foreign Policy, 1935-1939 ," Journal of Canadian Studies 1999 34 ( 1 ): 93-111 ; argues Lapointe guided the more imperialist Mackenzie King through three explosive situations: the Ethiopian crisis of 1935, the Munich crisis of 1938, and the formulation of Ottawa's ' no-neutrality-no-conscription ' pact in 1939.

* December 19 – Joe " King " Oliver, American jazz musician ( d. 1938 )

* September 7 – David King Udall, American politician ( d. 1938 )

Joe " King " Oliver ( May 11, 1885 – April 10, 1938 ) was a jazz cornet player and bandleader.

In summer 1938, a state visit to France by the King and Queen was postponed for three weeks because of the death of the Queen's mother, Lady Strathmore.

After the Munich Agreement of 1938 appeared to forestall the advent of armed conflict, the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was invited onto the balcony of Buckingham Palace with the King and Queen to receive acclamation from a crowd of well-wishers.

However, when the King and Queen greeted Chamberlain on his return from negotiating the Munich Agreement in 1938, they invited him to appear on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with them.

* Robert Neumann, Zaharoff the Armaments King ( 1935, revised 1938 ) London: George Allen & Unwin

Buchan put great effort into securing a positive response to the invitation sent to King George in May 1937 ; after more than a year without a reply, in June 1938 Buchan headed to the United Kingdom for personal holidays, but also to procure a decision on the possible royal tour.

* " The King in Yellow " is the name of a 1938 short story by Raymond Chandler.

* Vincent Starrett wrote a poem called " Cordelia's Song from The King in Yellow ", which was published in the April 1938 issue of Weird Tales.

* Eddie King, was born on April 21, 1938, in Talladega, and played as a sideman to many other blues musicians including Sonny Boy Williamson II and Koko Taylor.

Recognised by English Heritage as a fine example of a 1930s art deco cinema, the cinema was designed by architect David Evelyn Nye for the Shipman and King circuit and opened in 1938.

He thereafter appeared in a number of notable films including Raffles, The Masquerader, Clive of India, A Tale of Two Cities in 1935, Under Two Flags, The Prisoner of Zenda and Lost Horizon in 1937, If I Were King in 1938, and The Talk of the Town in 1941.

King George VI presented a replacement standard to the corps in 1938.

The stance taken by Eliade resulted in his arrest on July 14, 1938 after a crackdown on the Iron Guard authorized by King Carol II.

Henry Wilcoxon, Colin Tapley and C. V. France in If I Were King ( 1938 )

Florey hit a peak at Paramount in the late 30s with Hollywood Boulevard ( 1936 ), King of Gamblers ( 1937 ), and Dangerous to Know ( 1938 ), all marked by fast pace, cynical tone, Dutch angles, and dramatic lighting.

* King of Alcatraz, 1938

Despite the fact that Hergé was in favor of the neutrality of Belgium, King Ottokar's Sceptre ( 1938 – 1939 ) could be read as anti-Nazi: Müsstler ( a possible contraction of Mussolini and Hitler ) is the leader of a conspiracy that seeks to merge the kingdom of Syldavia with its old enemy Borduria.

* 1938 – Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist

* Marie of Romania ( 1875 – 1938 ), queen consort of Romania, the daughter of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ; the wife of Ferdinand I of Romania ; and the mother of Carol II of Romania

Hurricane landfalls have occurred along the Connecticut coast in 1903, 1938, 1944, 1954 ( Carol ), 1960 ( Donna ), and 1985 ( Gloria ).

The kingdom of Romania was a constitutional monarchy for most of its existence with the exception of 1938 – 1944, during the dictatorships of Carol II ( 1938 – 1940 ) and Marshal Ion Antonescu ( 1940 – 1944 ).

He often played doctors or butlers, but he made notable appearances as Marley's ghost in A Christmas Carol ( 1938 ) and as Joseph in Wuthering Heights ( 1939 ).

* A Christmas Carol ( 1938 )

* Carol McCain ( born 1937 or 1938 ), Former wife of U. S. Senator and former 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain.

The early months of 1938 saw Nicolae Iorga joining the national unity government of Miron Cristea, formed by Carol II's right-wing power base.

A Crown Councillor, he then threw his reluctant support behind the National Renaissance Front, created by Carol II as the driving force of a pro-fascist but anti-Guard single-party state ( see 1938 Constitution of Romania ).

It was repealed by King Carol II in 1938, when an authoritarian regime formed around the National Renaissance Front adopted a new, corporatist constitution on 27 February this document was, in turn, cancelled in 1940 by the Iron Guard's National Legionary State government.

When Carol felt he had enough control of the situation, he ordered a brutal suppression of the Iron Guard and had Codreanu arrested on the charge that he had slandered Iorga, based on a letter Codreanu sent to the latter on March 26, 1938, in which he had attacked Iorga for collaborating with Carol, calling him " morally dishonest ".

Since 1938 the northeastern United States was struck by the Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944, Hurricane Carol, Hurricane Edna, and Hurricane Hazel in 1954, the flooding remnants of Hurricane Connie, Hurricane Diane, Hurricane Ione in 1955, Hurricane Donna in 1960, Hurricane Gloria in 1985, Hurricane Bob in 1991, and Hurricane Irene in 2011.

Călinescu remained in office during the authoritarian regime established by King Carol after that date — he was also a founding member of the National Renaissance Front ( FRN ) created by as the sole legal party in December 1938, and was generally seen as very close to Carol.

Lovitura de stat din 10 februarie 1938 " (" At the Origin of Carol II's Regime of Monarchic Authority.

* Joyce Carol Oates ( 1938 – ), American novelist

* Joyce Carol Thomas ( 1938 – ), African American playwright, illustrator and author of children's books

* A Christmas Carol ( 1938 )

Two major natural disasters that affected East Hampton include the Hurricane of 1938 and Hurricane Carol, in 1954, both of which found the Atlantic Ocean splitting the town in two at Napeague.

At MGM, Rutherford appeared as the Spirit of Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol ( 1938 ) and Lydia Bennet in Pride and Prejudice ( 1940 ) among other roles.

She made her acting debut opposite her parents in a film version of A Christmas Carol, in 1938.