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• Luis G. Abbadie
  Luis G. Abbadie
  Luis G. Abbadie is a Mexican writer specializing in horror, paganism, pseudobibliographies and paramythologies, including horror and fantasy short stories. He has contributed frequently to the Cthulhu Mythos....
  
  , (born 1968)
• Robert Aickman
  Robert Aickman
  Robert Fordyce Aickman was an English conservationist and writer of fiction and nonfiction. As a writer, he is best known for his supernatural fiction, which he described as "strange stories".-Life:...
  
  , (1914–1981)
• V.C. Andrews, (1923–1986) also Cleo Virginia Andrews
• Michael Arnzen
  Michael Arnzen
  Michael A. Arnzen is a horror author and writer of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel, Grave Markings . He won his second Bram Stoker Award for his newsletter and his third for his poetry collection, Freakcidents....
  
  
• Cynthia Asquith
  Cynthia Asquith
  Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn Asquith was an English writer, now known for her ghost stories and diaries. She also wrote novels and edited a number of anthologies, as well as writing for children and on the British Royal family....
  
  , (1887–1960)
• Jonathan Aycliffe, (1949-)
• L. A. Banks
  Leslie Esdaile Banks
  Leslie Esdaile Banks was an American writer. She wrote in various genres, including African American literature, romance, women's fiction, crime suspense, dark fantasy/horror and non-fiction...
  
  , (1959-2011)
• René Barjavel
  René Barjavel
  René Barjavel was a French author, journalist and critic who may have been the first to think of the grandfather paradox in time travel. He was born in Nyons, a town in the Drôme department in southeastern France...
  
  , (1911–1985)
• Clive Barker
  Clive Barker
  Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...
  
  , (born 1952)
• Laird Barron
  Laird Barron
  Laird Samuel Barron is an award winning author and poet, much of whose work falls within the horror, noir, and dark fantasy genres. He has also been the Managing Editor of the online literary magazine Melic Review. He lives in Olympia, Washington.-Biography:Mr...
  
  , (born 1970)
• William Thomas Beckford
  William Thomas Beckford
  William Thomas Beckford , usually known as William Beckford, was an English novelist, a profligate and consummately knowledgeable art collector and patron of works of decorative art, a critic, travel writer and sometime politician, reputed to be the richest commoner in England...
  
  , (1760–1844)
• Edo van Belkom
  Edo van Belkom
  Edo van Belkom is a Canadian author of horror fiction.Born in Toronto, Ontario, he is the author of the novels Wyrm Wolf, Teeth, Martyrs, Scream Queen, Army of the Dead, and Wolf Pack, and the Dragonlance setting novel Lord Soth , amongst others...
  
  , (born 1962)
• John Bellairs
  John Bellairs
  John Anthony Bellairs was an American author, best known for his well-respected fantasy novel The Face in the Frost as well as many gothic mystery novels for young adults featuring Lewis Barnavelt, Anthony Monday, and Johnny Dixon.-Biography:After earning degrees at University of Notre Dame and...
  
  , (1938–1991)
• E.F. Benson, (1867–1940)
• Charles Birkin
  Charles Birkin
  Sir Charles Lloyd Birkin, 5th Baronet was an English author of horror short stories and the editor of the Creeps Library of anthologies...
  
  , (1907–1986)
• John Blackburn, (1923–1993)
• Leigh Blackmore
  Leigh Blackmore
  Leigh David Blackmore is an Australian horror writer, critic, editor, occultist and musician. He served as the second President of the Australian Horror Writers Association . His work has been nominated twice for the Ditmar Award, once for fiction and once for criticism...
  
   (born 1959)
• Algernon Blackwood
  Algernon Blackwood
  Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T...
  
  , (1869–1951)
• Vernon Blake
  Vernon Blake
  Vernon Theodorus Blake was an US author and occultist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He began his career as a war correspondent for various tabloid newspapers in the American South during World War I...
  
  , (1888–1937)
• William Peter Blatty
  William Peter Blatty
  William Peter Blatty is an American writer and filmmaker. The novel The Exorcist, written in 1971, is his magnum opus; he also penned the subsequent screenplay version of the film, for which he won an Academy Award....
  
  , (born 1928)
• Robert Bloch
  Robert Bloch
  Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock...
  
  , (1917–1994)
• Ambrose Bierce
  Ambrose Bierce
  Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satirist...
  
  , (1842–1914?)
• Ray Bradbury
  Ray Bradbury
  Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...
  
  , (1920- )
• Walter Brandorff
  Walter Brandorff
  Walter Brandorff was a German-Austrian author.- Biography :Born in Munich, Brandorff—who led a quite solitary live, and whose biography lies in the dark to a wide extent—spent the largest part of his life in the Austrian state of Carinthia...
  
  , (1943–1996)
• Gary Brandner
  Gary Brandner
  Gary Brandner is an American horror author best known for his werewolf themed trilogy of novels, The Howling. The first book in the series was loosely adapted as a motion picture in 1981...
  
  , (born 1933)
• Gary A. Braunbeck
  Gary A. Braunbeck
  Gary A. Braunbeck is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror author.-Biography:Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio . He writes in a number of different genres, but principally horror...
  
  , (born 1960)
• Joseph Payne Brennan
  Joseph Payne Brennan
  Joseph Payne Brennan was an American writer of fantasy and horror fiction, and also a poet. He lived most of his life in New Haven, Connecticut, and worked at the Yale Library for over 40 years....
  
  , (1918–1990)
• Poppy Z. Brite
  Poppy Z. Brite
  Poppy Z. Brite is an American author. Brite initially achieved notoriety in the gothic horror genre of literature in the early 1990s after publishing a string of successful novels and short story collections...
  
  , (born 1967)
• Bruce Boston
  Bruce Boston
  Bruce Boston is an American speculative fiction writer and poet who was born in Chicago and grew up in Southern California. He received a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, 1965, and an M.A., 1967...
  
  , (born 1943)
• Marjorie Bowen (1885–1952)
• Kealan Patrick Burke
  Kealan Patrick Burke
  Kealan Patrick Burke was born and raised in Dungarvan, Ireland. He is best known as an award-winning author described as "a newcomer worth watching" by Publishers Weekly...
  
  

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• P. D. Cacek
  P. D. Cacek
  Patricia Diana Joy Anne Cacek is an American author, mostly of horror novels. She graduated with a B.A in Creative Writing from California State University, Long Beach in 1975.-Awards:...
  
  , (born 1951)
• Ramsey Campbell
  Ramsey Campbell
  John Ramsey Campbell is an English horror fiction author.Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", while S. T...
  
  , (born 1946)
• Peter Cannon
  Peter Cannon
  Peter H. Cannon is an H. P. Lovecraft scholar and an author of Cthulhu Mythos fiction.Cannon first made his name in Lovecraft studies with his graduate theses written in the 1970s - A Case for Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Lovecraft's New England...
  
  , (born 1951)
• Mort Castle
  Mort Castle
  Mort Castle is a horror author and writing teacher, with more than 350 short stories and a dozen books to his credit, including Cursed Be the Child and The Strangers. Castle's first novel was published in 1967. Since then he has had pieces published in all sorts of places ranging from traditional...
  
  , (born 1946)
• Hugh B. Cave
  Hugh B. Cave
  Hugh Barnett Cave was a prolific writer of pulp fiction who also excelled in other genres.-Life:Born in Chester, England, Hugh B. Cave moved during his childhood with his family to Boston, Massachusetts, following the outbreak of World War I...
  
  , (1910–2004)
• Robert W. Chambers
  Robert W. Chambers
  Robert William Chambers was an American artist and writer.-Biography:He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to William P. Chambers , a famous lawyer, and Caroline Chambers , a direct descendant of Roger Williams, the founder of Providence, Rhode Island...
  
  , (1865–1933)
• Lincoln Child
  Lincoln Child
  Lincoln Child is an author of seventeen techno-thriller and horror novels. He often writes with Douglas Preston. Many of their novels have become bestsellers, and one, Relic, was adapted into a feature film...
  
  , (born 1957)
• M. Christian
  M. Christian
  M. Christian is an author and anthologist working in a variety of genres including horror, science fiction, erotica and crime. Much of his work combines sexual themes with the horror or science fiction genre.-Selected bibliography:Among his works are:...
  
  
• Richard Chizmar
  Richard Chizmar
  Richard Thomas Chizmar is best known as the publisher and editor of Cemetery Dance magazine and the owner of Cemetery Dance Publications...
  
  , (born 1965)
• Winston Churchill
  Winston Churchill
  Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...
  
  , (1974-1965)
• Michael Cisco
  Michael Cisco
  Michael Cisco is an American writer and teacher currently living in New York City. He is best known for his first novel, The Divinity Student, winner of the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel of 1999....
  
  , (born 1970)
• Joseph A. Citro
  Joseph A. Citro
  Joseph A. Citro is a Vermont author and folklorist. Occasionally referred as the "Bard of the Bizarre" or "the Ghost-Master General", he has extensively researched and documented the folklore, hauntings, ghost stories, paranormal activity and occult happenings of New England.Interested in horror...
  
  
• Alan M. Clark
  Alan M. Clark
  Alan Marshall Clark is an author and an artist who is best known as the illustrator and book cover painter of many pieces of horror fiction. He was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel for his 2005 book Siren Promised .He has won the World Fantasy Award for his illustrations ,...
  
  , (born 1957)
• Douglas Clegg
  Douglas Clegg
  Douglas Clegg is a horror and dark fantasy author, and a pioneer in the field of e-publishing. He maintains a strong Internet presence through his website and LiveJournal.-Biography:...
  
  , (born 1958)
• Nancy A. Collins
  Nancy A. Collins
  Nancy A. Collins is a United States horror fiction writer best known for her series of vampire novels featuring her character Sonja Blue. Collins has alsowritten for comic books, including the Swamp Thing series, Jason Vs...
  
  , (born 1959)
• David Conyers
  David Conyers
  David Conyers writes predominantly science fiction and Lovecraftian horror.Most of his childhood was spent in the Adelaide Hills, before moving to Melbourne. There he achieved a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the University of Melbourne in 1993...
  
  , (born 1971)
• Caroline B. Cooney
  Caroline B. Cooney
  Caroline B. Cooney is an American author of suspense, romance, horror and mystery books for young adults. She currently resides in Fort Mill, South Carolina....
  
  , (born 1947)
• Linda Crockett
  Linda Crockett
  Linda Crockett, born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, is an American author and teacher, best known for her horror, romance, and psychological thrillers. Linda Crockett published over a dozen books which were translated into as many languages, under the pen names Linda Crockett, Linda Crockett Gray,...
  
  , (born 1943)
• Chris Curry
  Tamara Thorne
  Tamara Thorne , who also writes under the nom de plume "Chris Curry", is an American horror writer born in Los Angeles, California. Her novel Winter Scream, co-authored with L...
  
  , (born 1957)
• Roald Dahl
  Roald Dahl
  Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, fighter pilot and screenwriter.Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence agent, rising to the rank of Wing Commander...
  
  , (1916-1990)
• Les Daniels
  Les Daniels
  Leslie Noel Daniels III, known as Les Daniels was an American writer.-Background:He attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he wrote his master's thesis on Frankenstein, and he worked as a musician and as a journalist.-Career:He was the author of five novels featuring the...
  
  , (born 1943)
• L. P. Davies
  L. P. Davies
  Leslie Purnell Davies was a British novelist whose works typically combine elements of horror, science fiction and mystery. He also wrote many short stories under several pseudonyms....
  
  , (1914–1988)
• Chet Day
  Chet Day
  Chet Day is the author of two novels, Halo and The Hacker, published in the mid and late 1980s by Pocket Books.-Synopsis:Halo followed one year in the life of Billy Halo, a psychotic high school teenager starting his senior year in a New Orleans prep school...
  
  , (born 1948)
• Stephen Dedman
  Stephen Dedman
  Stephen Dedman is an Australian author of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ted Dekker
  Ted Dekker
  Ted Dekker is a New York Times best-selling Christian author best known for mystery and thriller novels, though he has also made a name for himself among fantasy fans. Early in his career he wrote a number of books that would best be categorized as Religious thrillers...
  
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• Marcelo Del Debbio
  Marcelo Del Debbio
  Marcelo Del Debbio is a Brazilian Architect and writer, with specialization in semiotics and World Religion. He began his career in 1992, writing short texts and essays for role playing magazines...
  
  , (born 1974)
• August Derleth
  August Derleth
  August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...
  
  , (1909–1971)
• Charles Dickens
  Charles Dickens
  Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...
  
  , (1812-1870)
• A. M. Esmonde
  A. M. Esmonde
  A. M. Esmonde is a horror writer and producer. The zombie horror was his first work to be published, followed by the vampire horror ]] and popular zombie novel ....
  
  , (born 1977)
• C. M. Eddy, Jr.
  C. M. Eddy, Jr.
  Clifford Martin Eddy, Jr. was an American author best known for his horror and supernatural short stories. He is best remembered for his work in Weird Tales magazine.- Career :...
  
  , (1896–1967)
• Tom Elliott
  Tom Elliott
  Tom Elliott MLA is a Northern Ireland Ulster Unionist MLA and the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and former UDR member...
  
  , (born 1953)
• Elizabeth Engstrom
  Elizabeth Engstrom
  Elizabeth Engstrom is best known as a speculative fiction writer. She was born Bette Lynn Gutzmer, but she legally changed her name to Elizabeth Engstom a few years after publishing her first novel under that pseudonym. She is married to Al Cratty, and sometimes writes under the name Liz Cratty as...
  
  
• Brian Evenson
  Brian Evenson
  Brian Evenson is an American academic and writer of both literary fiction and popular fiction. He has received degrees from Brigham Young University and the University of Washington . After leaving a teaching position at BYU, he held positions at Oklahoma State University, Syracuse University...
  
  , (born 1966)
• John Everson
  John Everson
  John Everson of Naperville, Illinois, is an American author. He is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels Covenant, released by Leisure Books in 2008, and Sacrifice, released by Leisure Books in 2009...
  
  , (born 1966)
• Hanns Heinz Ewers
  Hanns Heinz Ewers
  Hanns Heinz Ewers was a German actor, poet, philosopher, and writer of short stories and novels. While he wrote on a wide range of subjects, he is now known mainly for his works of horror, particularly his trilogy of novels about the adventures of Frank Braun, a character modeled on himself...
  
   (1871–1943)

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• Henry Farrell
  Henry Farrell
  Henry Farrell was an American novelist and screenwriter, best known as the author of the renowned gothic horror story What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, which was made into a film starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.-Life and work:He was born Charles Farrell Myers in California, and grew up in...
  
  , (1920–2006)
• John Farris
  John Farris
  John Lee Farris is an American writer, known largely for his work in the southern Gothic genre. He was born 1936 in Jefferson City, Missouri, to parents John Linder Farris and Eleanor Carter Farris . Raised in Tennessee, he graduated from Central High School in Memphis and attended Southwestern...
  
  
• William Faulkner
  William Faulkner
  William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career...
  
  , (1897-1962)
• Julian Osgood Field
  Julian Osgood Field
  Julian Osgood Field was an American socialite and writer. He was born on 23 April 1852, son of Maunsell Bradhurst Field , who was an official of the US Treasury under Lincoln, and Julia Field . Educated in England, he lived largely in London and Paris and became an intimate of the future King...
  
  , (1849–1925)
• Robert Fleming
  Robert Fleming (author)
  Robert Fleming is a journalist and writer of Erotic fiction and Horror fiction. He is also a contributing editor for Black Issues Book Review...
  
  
• Christopher Fowler
  Christopher Fowler
  Christopher Fowler is an English thriller writer. In addition to his numerous horror, satire and crime novels, he has also written a Sherlock Holmes audio drama for BBC 7 entitled The Lady Downstairs...
  
  , (born 1953)
• Andrew Fox
  Andrew Fox
  Andrew Fox is an American author from New Orleans. He has written two comic novels, Fat White Vampire Blues and Bride of the Fat White Vampire. Both novels feature Jules Duchon, a morbidly obese vampire who resides in New Orleans and works as a taxi driver...
  
  
• Gary Frank
  Gary Frank
  Gary Frank is a British comic book artist, notable for pencilling on Midnight Nation and Supreme Power, both written by J. Michael Straczynski...
  
  
• Brian Freeman
  Brian Freeman
  Brian James Freeman is an author whose fiction has been published in magazines and anthologies including Borderlands 5, Corpse Blossoms, and all four volumes of the Shivers series. His first novel, Black Fire, was written under the pseudonym James Kidman...
  
  , (born 1979)
• Fran Friel
  Fran Friel
  Fran Friel is an author of horror fiction and resides in rural New England.Mama's Boy, Friel's debut novella, was a finalist in the category of Long Fiction for the 2007 Bram Stoker Award...
  
  
• Gayleen Froese
  Gayleen Froese
  Gayleen Froese is a mystery novelist and singer/songwriter from Western Canada. Her first novel, Touch, was published by Edmonton's NeWest Press in 2005. The sequel, "Grayling Cross" was published by NeWest Press in 2011.Froese was educated at Ryerson University in Toronto and currently lives in...
  
  , (born 1972)
• Polly Frost
  Polly Frost
  Polly Frost is a New York City-based writer, journalist, and playwright specializing in humor and erotic horror. Frost's current work can be seen performed by various NYC-based actors at the Cornelia Street Cafe...
  
  
• Neil Gaiman
  Neil Gaiman
  Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
  
  , (born 1960)
• Stephen Gallagher
  Stephen Gallagher
  Stephen Gallagher is an English writer.He has written several novels and television scripts, including for the BBC television series Doctor Who — for which he wrote two serials, Warriors' Gate and Terminus — as well as for the series Rosemary & Thyme and Bugs, for two seasons of...
  
  , (born 1954)
• Mick Garris
  Mick Garris
  Mick Garris is an American filmmaker and screenwriter born in Santa Monica, California.-Biography:He is best known for his adaptations of Stephen King stories, such as directing the horror film Sleepwalkers starring Madchen Amick and is the creator of the Showtime series Masters of Horror...
  
  , (born 1951)
• Ray Garton
  Ray Garton
  Ray Garton is an American author, well known for his work in horror fiction. He has written over sixty books, and in 2006 was presented with the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award.-Novels:...
  
  
• Elizabeth Gaskell
  Elizabeth Gaskell
  Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson , often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was a British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era...
  
  , (1810–1865)
• Stephen R. George
  Stephen R. George
  Stephen R. George is a Canadian author of horror fiction, suspense and dark fantasy. He writes under his own name and the pseudonyms Jack Ellis and Valerie Stephens. He has published 14 novels. His novels have been translated into Italian, Polish, Russian, and Norwegian...
  
  , (born 1959)
• Greg F. Gifune
  Greg F. Gifune
  Greg F. Gifune is a critically acclaimed horror author, the recipient of multiple Bram Stoker Award and International Horror Guild Award nominations in addition to one for the British Fantasy Award....
  
  , ( born 1963)
• Nikolai Gogol
  Nikolai Gogol
  Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism...
  
   (1809–1852)
• Owl Goingback
  Owl Goingback
  Owl Goingback is an American author of horror and children's books, a fiction ghostwriter, and a writer of non-fiction.-Works:Having served as a jet engine mechanic in the Air Force, and the former owner of a restaurant and lounge, Owl Goingback became a full time writer in 1987. He has written...
  
  
• Christie Golden
  Christie Golden
  Christie Golden is an award-winning author who lives in Loveland, Colorado, United States. She has written over thirty novels and several short stories in fantasy, horror and science fiction.-Career:...
  
  
• Christopher Golden
  Christopher Golden
  Christopher Golden is an American author of horror, fantasy, and suspense novels for adults, teens, and young readers.Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He is a graduate of Tufts University...
  
  , (born 1967)
• Ed Gorman
  Edward Gorman
  Ed Gorman is an award-winning American author best known for his crime and mystery fiction. He wrote The Poker Club which is currently in post production for a film of the same name directed by Tim McCann....
  
  , (born 1941)
• Stefan Grabiński
  Stefan Grabinski
  Stefan Grabiński was a Polish writer of horror fiction, sometimes called "the Polish Poe".Grabiński worked as teacher in Lwów and Przemyśl and is famous for his train stories collected in Demon ruchu . A number of stories were translated by Miroslaw Lipinski into English and published as The Dark...
  
  , (1887–1936)
• Charles Gramlich
  Charles Gramlich
  Charles A. Gramlich , is an American writer best known for combining science fiction and horror in his works.-Biography:...
  
  , (born 1958)
• Charles L. Grant
  Charles L. Grant
  Charles Lewis Grant was a novelist and short story writer specializing in what he called "dark fantasy" and "quiet horror." He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Marsh, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Felicia Andrews, and Deborah Lewis.Grant won a World Fantasy Award for his novella collection...
  
  , (1942–2006)
• Rain Graves
  Rain Graves
  Rain Graves is an award winning author of horror, fantasy, science fiction and poetry.She is best known for the 2002 Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Poetry Collection, The Gossamer Eye...
  
  
• Justin Gustainis
  Justin Gustainis
  Joseph Justin Gustainis is an American college professor and fiction writer. When younger, he wrote and published a great deal of academic writing, including the book American Rhetoric and the Vietnam War . Beginning in the mid-1990s, while retaining his academic job, he began to write fiction...
  
  , (born 1951)
• Laurell K. Hamilton
  Laurell K. Hamilton
  Laurell Kaye Hamilton is an American fantasy and romance writer. She is the author of two series of stories. Hamilton is known for her New York Times-bestselling Anita Blake series, featuring a professional zombie raiser/supernatural consultant for the police as the protagonist in a world where...
  
  , (born 1963)
• Daniel Harms
  Daniel Harms
  Daniel Harms is the author of the Encyclopedia Cthulhiana , co-author of The Necronomicon Files, and the originator of The Shadow over Usenet: a detailed online discussion of the works of H. P. Lovecraft. He is a lecturer on Lovecraft Circle literature and occult films...
  
  
• Kim Harrison
  Kim Harrison
  Kim Harrison is a nom de plume of American author Dawn Cook. Under the name of Harrison, she is best known for her Rachel Morgan urban fantasy series set in an alternate history where a worldwide pandemic caused by genetically modified tomatoes led to the death of a large portion of the world's...
  
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• L. P. Hartley
  L. P. Hartley
  Leslie Poles Hartley was a British writer, known for novels and short stories. His best-known work is The Go-Between , which was made into a 1970 film, directed by Joseph Losey with a star cast, in an adaptation by Harold Pinter...
  
   (1895–1972)
• David G. Hartwell
  David G. Hartwell
  David Geddes Hartwell is an American editor of science fiction and fantasy. He has worked for Signet , Berkley Putnam , Pocket , and Tor Books David Geddes Hartwell (b. July 10, 1941) is an American editor of science fiction and fantasy. He has worked for Signet (1971–1973), Berkley Putnam...
  
  , (born 1941)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials...
  
  , (1804–1864)
• Lafacadio Hearn, (1850–1904)
• Victor Heck
  Victor Heck
  Victor Heck, born David Nordhaus, July 20, 1967, in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American editor and horror fiction author whose novels and short stories are published under his pen name. He is the former owner/operator of DarkTales Publications...
  
  , (born 1967)
• James Herbert
  James Herbert
  James Herbert, OBE is a best-selling English horror writer who originally worked as the art director of an advertising agency. He is a full-time writer who also designs his own book covers and publicity.-Family:...
  
  , (born 1943)
• Joe Hill (writer)
  Joe Hill (writer)
  Joseph Hillstrom King , better known by the pen name Joe Hill, is an American author and comic book writer. He has published two novels—Heart Shaped Box and Horns—and a collection of short stories entitled 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the author of the graphic novel series Locke & Key...
  
  
• William Hope Hodgson
  William Hope Hodgson
  William Hope Hodgson was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his...
  
  , (1877–1918)
• Diane Hoh
  Diane Hoh
  Diane Hoh is an American author of young adult horror. She grew up in Warren, Pennsylvania but currently resides in Austin, Texas.-Nightmare Hall:# The Silent Scream: Jess is disturbed by a girl, Giselle, in her room who hung herself....
  
  
• Nancy Holder
  Nancy Holder
  Nancy Holder is an American writer and the author of several novels, including numerous tie-in books based on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She's also written fiction related to several other science fiction and fantasy shows, including Angel and Smallville.Holder is a four-time winner...
  
  
• Nalo Hopkinson
  Nalo Hopkinson
  Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican science fiction and fantasy writer and editor who lives in Canada. Her novels and short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling.Hopkinson has...
  
  
• Anthony Horowitz
  Anthony Horowitz
  Anthony Craig Horowitz is an English novelist and screenwriter. He has written many children's novels, including The Power of Five, Alex Rider and The Diamond Brothers series and has written over fifty books. He has also written extensively for television, adapting many of Agatha Christie's...
  
  
• Gerard Daniel Houarner
  Gerard Daniel Houarner
  -Novels & Short Fiction Collections:*The Bard of Sorcery *Painfreak *Inside the Works *I Love You and There Is Nothing You Can Do About It *Road to Hell *Black Orchids from Aum...
  
  
• Robert E. Howard
  Robert E. Howard
  Robert Ervin Howard was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. Best known for his character Conan the Barbarian, he is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre....
  
  , (1906–1936)
• Del Howison
  Del Howison
  Del Howison is an American horror author, editor and actor.-Life and career:Howison was born in Detroit, Michigan but moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting; with his distinctive long white hair, he was a natural for low-budget horror films, and has since played the character "Renfield"...
  
  
• Charlie Huston
  Charlie Huston
  Charlie Huston is an American author of crime novels and superhero comic books. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the actress Virginia Louise Smith...
  
  
• Shaun Hutson
  Shaun Hutson
  Shaun Hutson is a writer of novels including horror novels and dark urban thrillers. A native of Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire, England, Hutson now lives and writes in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire....
  
  , (born 1958)

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• Stephen M. Irwin (born 1966)
• Shirley Jackson
  Shirley Jackson
  Shirley Jackson was an American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years...
  
   (1916–1965)
• Charlee Jacob
  Charlee Jacob
  Charlee Jacob is an American author specializing in horror fiction, dark fantasy, and poetry. Her writing career began in 1981 with the publication of several poems under the name Charlee Carter Broach...
  
   (born 1952)
• W. W. Jacobs
  W. W. Jacobs
  William Wymark Jacobs , was an English author of short stories and novels.-Writings:Jacobs is now remembered for his macabre tale "The Monkey's Paw" and "The Toll House"...
  
   (1863–1943)
• Carl Jacobi
  Carl Richard Jacobi
  Carl Richard Jacobi was an American author. He wrote short stories in the horror, fantasy, science fiction and crime genres for the pulp magazine market.-Biography:...
  
   (1908–1997)
• Henry James
  Henry James
  Henry James, OM was an American-born writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr., a clergyman, and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James....
  
  , (1843-1916)
• L. Dean James
  L. Dean James
  L. Dean James is an American fantasy and horror writer. Her novel Winter Scream, co-authored with Chris Curry, was nominated for the 1991 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel.-Novels:*Sorcerer's Stone...
  
   (born 1947)
• M. R. James
  M. R. James
  Montague Rhodes James, OM, MA, , who used the publication name M. R. James, was an English mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge and of Eton College . He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre...
  
   (1862–1936)
• K. W. Jeter
  K. W. Jeter
  Kevin Wayne Jeter is an American science fiction and horror author known for his literary writing style, dark themes, and paranoid, unsympathetic characters...
  
   (born 1950)
• Scott A. Johnson
  Scott A. Johnson
  Scott A. Johnson is an American author in the genre of horror.His first novel, An American Haunting, was released in 2004 by Harbor House Books. He currently serves as the Literary and Paranormal Studies Editor for Dread Central, where he pens "Cold Spots", an article series about real haunted...
  
   (born 1971)
• Stephen Jones
  Stephen Jones (author)
  Stephen Jones is an editor of horror anthologies, and the author of several book-length studies of horror and fantasy films as well as an account of Lovecraft's early British publications....
  
  
• Jeanne Kalogridis
  Jeanne Kalogridis
  Jeanne Kalogridis , also known by the pseudonym J.M. Dillard is an Greek-American writer of historical and horror fiction.She was born in Florida and studied at the University of South Florida, earning first a BA in Russian and then an MA in Linguistics...
  
   (born 1954)
• Brian Keene
  Brian Keene
  Brian Keene is an American author, primarily of horror, crime fiction, and comic books. He has won two Bram Stoker Awards.- Background :Keene was born in 1967. He grew up in both Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and many of his books take place in these locales. After graduating high school, he...
  
   (born 1967)
• Ronald Kelly
  Ronald Kelly
  Ronald Kelly is best known as a speculative fiction and "southern-fried" horror writer. His tales are usually set in the Southern United States and feature language and actions that are associated with those regions.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1959)
• Rick Kennett
  Rick Kennett
  Rick Kennett is an Australian writer of science fiction, horror and ghost stories. He is the most prolific and widely-published author in Australia after Paul Collins, Terry Dowling and Greg Egan, with stories in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies in Australia, the US and the UK.His first...
  
   (born 1956)
• Jack Ketchum
  Jack Ketchum
  Jack Ketchum is the pseudonym for American author Dallas Mayr . He is the recipient of four Bram Stoker Awards and three further nominations. Many of his novels have been adapted to film, including The Girl Next Door and Red...
  
   (born 1946)
• Stephen King
  Stephen King
  Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
  
   (born 1947)
• Russell Kirk
  Russell Kirk
  Russell Kirk was an American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and fiction author known for his influence on 20th century American conservatism. His 1953 book, The Conservative Mind, gave shape to the amorphous post–World War II conservative movement...
  
   (1918–1994)
• T. E. D. Klein
  T. E. D. Klein
  Theodore "Eibon" Donald Klein is an American horror writer and editor.Klein has published very few works, but they have all achieved positive notice for their meticulous construction and subtle use of horror: critic S. T...
  
   (born 1947)
• Kathe Koja
  Kathe Koja
  Kathe Koja is an American writer. She was initially known for her intense speculative fiction for adults, but over the past few years has turned to writing young adult novels....
  
   (born 1960)
• Dean R. Koontz (born 1945)
• M. F. Korn
  M. F. Korn
  Michael F. Korn is an American author who writes horror and science fiction. He has written eleven novels and had over 220 story appearances in magazines worldwide. He lives in Louisiana.-Bibliography:*All the Mutant Trash in All the Galaxies...
  
  
• Henry Kuttner
  Henry Kuttner
  Henry Kuttner was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror.-Early life:Henry Kuttner was born in Los Angeles, California in 1915...
  
   (1915–1958)
• Joe R. Lansdale
  Joe R. Lansdale
  Joe R. Lansdale is an American author and martial-arts expert. He has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense...
  
   (born 1951)
• Richard Laymon
  Richard Laymon
  Richard Carl Laymon was an American author of suspense and horror fiction, particularly within the splatterpunk subgenre. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and lived as a child in California...
  
   (1947–2001)
• Deborah LeBlanc
  Deborah LeBlanc
  Deborah LeBlanc is an American horror author. LeBlanc was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, the oldest of three children. She grew up in Scott, a small town west of Lafayette, where she learned to love reading and writing at an early age. LeBlanc is an active member of several writers groups and has...
  
  
• Tim Lebbon
  Tim Lebbon
  Tim Lebbon is a horror and dark fantasy writer, and a judge at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention.-Life and career:Lebbon was born in London. His short story "Reconstructing Amy" won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction in 2001 and his novel Dusk won the 2007 August Derleth Award from the...
  
   (born 1969)
• Edward Lee
  Edward Lee (writer)
  Edward Lee is an American novelist specializing in the field of horror who has written 40 books, more than half of which have been published by mass-market New York paperback companies such as Leisure/Dorchester, Berkley, and Zebra/Kensington. He is a Bram Stoker award nominee for his story “Mr...
  
   (born 1957)
• Tanith Lee
  Tanith Lee
  Tanith Lee is a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy. She is the author of over 70 novels and 250 short stories, a children's picture book and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of BBC science fiction series Blake's 7...
  
  
• Vernon Lee
  Vernon Lee
  Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget . She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she also wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music, and travel.-Biography:She was born at Château...
  
   (1856–1935)
• J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873)
• Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright, expert chess player and a champion fencer. Possibly his greatest chess accomplishment was winning clear first in the 1958 Santa Monica Open.. With...
  
   (1910–1992)
• Ira Levin
  Ira Levin
  Ira Levin was an American author, dramatist and songwriter.-Professional life:Levin attended Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa...
  
   (1929–2007)
• Edward Levy
  Edward Levy
  Edward Levy is an American horror novelist with three books published. Came a Spider was written in 1978, and The Beast Within followed in 1981. Reprints of both books are available at iUniverse.com. He wrote The People Next Door in 1983, but copies are very scarce...
  
  
• Matthew Gregory Lewis
  Matthew Gregory Lewis
  Matthew Gregory Lewis was an English novelist and dramatist, often referred to as "Monk" Lewis, because of the success of his classic Gothic novel, The Monk.-Family:...
  
   (1775–1818)
• Thomas Ligotti
  Thomas Ligotti
  Thomas Ligotti is a contemporary American horror author and reclusive literary cult figure. His writings are unique in style, have been noted as major continuations of several literary genres – most prominently Lovecraftian horror – and have overall been variously described as works of...
  
   (born 1953)
• John Ajvide Lindqvist
  John Ajvide Lindqvist
  John Ajvide Lindqvist is a Swedish writer, mostly of horror novels and short stories. Ajvide Lindqvist grew up in the Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg. His debut novel Let the Right One In a romantic, social realistic vampire horror story published in 2004, enjoyed great success in Sweden and abroad...
  
   (born 1968)
• Bentley Little
  Bentley Little
  Bentley Little is an American author of horror novels.-Personal history:Little's first novel, The Revelation, was published with St...
  
   (born 1960)
• John R. Little
  John R. Little
  John R. Little is best known as a writer of horror and dark fantasy fiction. He was born in London, Ontario, Canada on August 16, 1955, and he currently resides in Coquitlam, BC, Canada. John R. Little has a Honours Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Western Ontario where his major...
  
   (born 1955)
• Frank Belknap Long
  Frank Belknap Long
  Frank Belknap Long was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to...
  
   (1901–1994)
• H. P. Lovecraft
  H. P. Lovecraft
  Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....
  
   (1890–1937)
• Brian Lumley
  Brian Lumley
  Brian Lumley is an English horror fiction writer.Born in County Durham, he joined the British Army's Royal Military Police and wrote stories in his spare time before retiring with the rank of Warrant Officer Class 1 in 1980 and becoming a professional writer.He added to H. P...
  
   (born 1937)

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• Jonathan Maberry
  Jonathan Maberry
  Jonathan Maberry is the multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Ghost Road Blues, the first of the Pine Deep Trilogy, a series of supernatural horror novels...
  
  , (born 1958)
• Arthur Machen
  Arthur Machen
  Arthur Machen was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror...
  
  , (1863–1947)
• Nick Mamatas
  Nick Mamatas
  Nick Mamatas is an American horror, science fiction and fantasy author and editor for the Haikasoru line of translated Japanese science fiction novels for Viz Media...
  
  , (born 1972)
• Brandon Massey
  Brandon Massey
  Brandon Massey was born June 9, 1973, in Waukegan, Illinois. He grew up in Zion, a suburb north of Chicago. Brandon is a writer of thriller fiction who has at this writing six published novels, one story collection, and has edited three anthologies....
  
  , (born 1973)
• Elizabeth Massie
  Elizabeth Massie
  Elizabeth Massie is an American author.Elizabeth Massie is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of horror novels and short fiction. She won her awards for Sineater and Stephen. She has also written historical fiction for young adults....
  
  , (born 1953)
• Graham Masterton
  Graham Masterton
  Graham Masterton is a British horror author. Originally editor of Mayfair and the British edition of Penthouse, Graham Masterton's first novel The Manitou was released in 1976. This novel was adapted in 1978 for the film The Manitou...
  
  , (born 1946)
• Richard Matheson
  Richard Matheson
  Richard Burton Matheson is an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is perhaps best known as the author of What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, A Stir of Echoes, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and I Am Legend, all of which have been...
  
  , (born 1926)
• Richard Christian Matheson
  Richard Christian Matheson
  Richard Christian Matheson is an American writer of horror fiction and screenplays. He is the author of the short story collections Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks and Dystopia; the novel Created By; and the screenplay for the Showtime Masters of Horror installments Dance of the Dead and...
  
  , (born 1953)
• Araminta Star Matthews
  Araminta Star Matthews
  Araminta Star Matthews is an American writer, editor and teacher. Her most notable work is her debut novel, Blind Hunger, published by Dark Moon Books in 2011.-Biography:...
  
  
• Charles Maturin
  Charles Maturin
  Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C.R. Maturin was an Irish Protestant clergyman and a writer of gothic plays and novels.-Biography:...
  
  , (1782–1824)
• Robert McCammon
• Michael McDowell
  Michael McDowell (author)
  Michael McEachern McDowell was an American novelist and screenwriter. He received a B.A. and an M.A. from Harvard College and a Ph.D in English from Brandeis University in 1978...
  
  , (1950–1999)
• John Metcalfe
  John Metcalfe (writer)
  William John Metcalfe was a teacher, short story writer and novelist.- Biography :John Metcalfe was born in Heacham, Norfolk, England, on October 6, 1891. He graduated from the University of London in 1913, after which he taught in Paris until 1914...
  
   (1891–1965)
• Gustav Meyrink
  Gustav Meyrink
  Gustav Meyrink was the pseudonym of Gustav Meyer, an Austrian author, storyteller, dramatist, translator, and banker, most famous for his novel The Golem.-Childhood:...
  
  , (1868–1932)
• China Miéville
  China Miéville
  China Tom Miéville is an award-winning English fantasy fiction writer. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" , and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird. He is also active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party...
  
  , (born 1972)
• Rex Miller
  Rex Miller
  Rex Miller, born Rex Miller Spangberg, wrote novels detailing the investigations of Jack Eichord, a fictional homicide detective who specialized in tracking down serial killers. Slob, the first novel of the series, introduced Daniel Bunkowski, a half-ton killing-machine serial murderer...
  
  , (1939–2004)
• Susie Moloney
  Susie Moloney
  Susie Moloney is a Canadian author of horror fiction. The film rights to her book, A Dry Spell, were purchased by Cruise/Wagner Productions in 1997, for a reported seven figures.- Works :...
  
  , (born 1962)
• James A. Moore
  James A. Moore
  James Arthur Moore is an American horror novelist and short story writer.In 2003, he was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for "Best Novel" for his book Serenity Falls. In 2006, the novella Bloodstained Oz was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for "Best Long Fiction"...
  
  , (born 1965)
• David Morrell
  David Morrell
  David Morrell is a Canadian-American novelist, best known for his debut 1972 novel First Blood, which would later become the successful Rambo film franchise starring Sylvester Stallone. He has written 28 novels, and his work has been translated into 26 languages...
  
   (born 1943)
• W. C. Morrow
  W. C. Morrow
  William Chambers Morrow was an American writer, now noted mainly for his short stories of horror and suspense...
  
  , (1854–1923)
• Lisa Morton
  Lisa Morton
  Lisa Morton is an American horror author and screenwriter.Morton was born in Pasadena, California, and entered the film industry in 1979 as a modelmaker on Star Trek: The Motion Picture...
  
  , (born 1958)
• Gary Myers
  Gary Myers (writer)
  Gary Myers is an American writer of fantasy and horror. He is a resident of Fullerton, California. His first book, The House of the Worm, was a collection of Cthulhu Mythos stories in the fantasy manner of H. P. Lovecraft and Lord Dunsany; it was published by Arkham House in 1975 and is now out...
  
   (born 1952)
• Joseph Nassise
  Joseph Nassise
  Joseph Nassise is an American horror author. His debut novel, Riverwatch, was nominated for both the Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Guild Award...
  
  
• Yvonne Navarro
  Yvonne Navarro
  Yvonne Navarro is an American author who has published over twenty books. Of those twenty, the titles AfterAge, deadrush, Final Impact, Red Shadows, DeadTimes, That's Not My Name and Mirror Me were solo novels, or fiction created solely by her...
  
  
• Kim Newman
  Kim Newman
  Kim Newman is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. Recurring interests visible in his work include film history and horror fiction—both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dracula at the age of eleven—and alternate fictional versions of history...
  
  , (born 1959)
• William F. Nolan
  William F. Nolan
  William Francis Nolan is an American author, who wrote stories in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. He is best known for coauthoring the novel Logan's Run, with George Clayton Johnson. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1976 horror film Burnt Offerings which starred Karen Black and...
  
   (born 1928)
• Weston Ochse
  Weston Ochse
  Weston Ochse is an American author and educator. He has won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize for his short fiction.- Biography :Weston Ochse was born in Gillette, Wyoming...
  
  , (born 1965)
• Gene O'Neill
  Gene O'Neill
  Gene O'Neill is best known as a multi-award nominated writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction.O'Neill's professional writing career began after completing the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 1979. Since that time, over 100 of his works have been published...
  
   (born 1938)
• Michael Oliveri
  Michael Oliveri
  Michael Oliveri is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Deadliest of the Species. His work has appeared in several anthologies and magazines including A Walk on the Darkside, New Dark Voices, The Best of Horrorfind, and the upcoming In Laymon’s Terms. He is one of the collaborators on the...
  
  
• Oliver Onions
  Oliver Onions
  George Oliver Onions was a significant English novelist who published over forty novels and story collections. Originally trained as a commercial artist, he worked as a designer of posters and books, and as a magazine illustrator, before starting his career in writing...
  
  , (1873–1961)
• Chuck Palahniuk
  Chuck Palahniuk
  Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist. He is best known for the award-winning novel Fight Club, which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter...
  
   (born 1962)
• Norman Partridge
  Norman Partridge
  Norman Partridge is an American author of horror and mystery fiction. He has written two detective novels about retired boxer Jack Baddalach, Saguaro Riptide and The Ten Ounce Siesta. He is also the author of a Crow novel, The Crow: Wicked Prayer, which was adapted in 2005 into the fourth Crow...
  
  
• James Patterson
  James Patterson
  James B. Patterson is an American author of thriller novels, largely known for his series about American psychologist Alex Cross...
  
   (born 1947)
• John Pelan
  John Pelan
  John C. Pelan is an American author, editor and publisher in the small press science-fiction, weird and horror fiction genres.He first founded Axolotl Press in 1986 and published several volumes by authors such as Tim Powers, Charles de Lint, Michael Shea and James P. Blaylock. Following this, he...
  
  , (born 1957)
• Frank E. Peretti
  Frank E. Peretti
  Frank Edward Peretti is a New York Times best-selling author of Christian fiction, whose novels primarily focus on the supernatural. To date, his works have sold over 15 million copies worldwide. Peretti is best known for his novels This Present Darkness and The Oath...
  
  
• Thomas Piccirilli
  Thomas Piccirilli
  Tom Piccirilli is an American novelist and short story writer. He has sold over 150 stories in the mystery, thriller, horror, erotica, and science fiction fields. Piccirilli is a two-time winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for "Best Paperback Original" . He is a four-time winner of...
  
  
• Sarah Pinborough
  Sarah Pinborough
  Sarah Pinborough is an English-born horror writer whose books have found success in the United States. Her works have previously been compared to that of Bentley Little, Richard Laymon and Dean Koontz. She also writes fantasy novels for children under the name Sarah Silverwood.-Biography:Pinborough...
  
  
• Edgar Allan Poe
  Edgar Allan Poe
  Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...
  
  , (1809–1849)
• Thomas Peckett Prest
  Thomas Peckett Prest
  Thomas Peckett Prest was a British hack writer, journalist and musician. He was a prolific producer of penny dreadfuls. He is now remembered as the co-creator of the fictional Sweeney Todd, the 'demon barber' immortalized in his The String of Pearls...
  
  , (1810–1859)
• Douglas Preston
  Douglas Preston
  Douglas Preston is an American author who has written seventeen popular techno-thriller and horror novels, four alone and the rest with Lincoln Child...
  
  , (born 1956)
• Cherie Priest
  Cherie Priest
  Cherie Priest is an American novelist and blogger living in Seattle, Washington.-Biography:Priest is a Florida native, born in Tampa in 1975. She graduated from Forest Lake Academy in Apopka, Florida in 1993. She moved around quite a bit as a child of an Army father, living in many places such as...
  
  , (born 1975)
• Horacio Quiroga
  Horacio Quiroga
  Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza was an Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer....
  
  , (1878–1937)

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• Ann Radcliffe
  Ann Radcliffe
  Anne Radcliffe was an English author, and considered the pioneer of the gothic novel . Her style is romantic in its vivid descriptions of landscapes, and long travel scenes, yet the Gothic element is obvious through her use of the supernatural...
  
  , (1764–1823)
• Gary Raisor
  Gary Raisor
  Gary Raisor is an American horror author best known for the novels Less Than Human, Graven Images, Sinister Purposes, and his extensive short fiction work. His novels garnered great reviews and sold-out print-runs...
  
  
• Stephen Mark Rainey
  Stephen Mark Rainey
  Stephen Mark Rainey is an author of novels, short stories, and various works of nonfiction. From 1987 to 1997, he edited Deathrealm, a magazine of horror and dark fantasy fiction, for which he won several awards for Best Editor.-Biography:...
  
  , (born 1959)
• Anne Rice
  Anne Rice
  Anne Rice is a best-selling Southern American author of metaphysical gothic fiction, Christian literature and erotica from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history...
  
  , (born 1941)
• Tod Robbins
  Tod Robbins
  Clarence Aaron "Tod" Robbins was an American author of horror and mystery fiction. Robbins attended Washington and Lee University and—along with Mark W...
  
  , (1888–1949)
• Ormond Robbins
  Ormond Robbins
  Ormond Orlea Robbins was an American author of hardboiled detective fiction and weird fiction. His work was primarily published in the Popular Publications catalog of pulp fiction...
  
  , (1910–1984)
• Wayne Robbins
  Wayne Robbins
  Windom Wayne Robbins was an American author of horror and weird fiction. His work was primarily published in the Popular Publications catalog of weird menace pulp fiction...
  
  , (1914–1958)
• John Reeves
  John Reeves
  John Reeves , was a British judge, public official and conservative activist. In 1792 he founded the Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers to campaign against the ideas of the French Revolution and their British supporters...
  
  , (1979)
• Regina Maria Roche
  Regina Maria Roche
  Regina Maria Roche is considered today to be a minor Gothic novelist who wrote very much in the shadow of Ann Radcliffe. She was, however, a best seller in her own time...
  
  , (1764–1845)
• Alan Rodgers
  Alan Rodgers
  Alan Rodgers is a science fiction and horror writer, editor, and poet. In the mid-eighties he was the editor for Night Cry. His short stories have been published in a number of venues, including Weird Tales, Twilight Zone and a number of anthologies, such as Darker Masques, Prom Night, and...
  
  , (born 1959)
• Don Roff
  Don Roff
  Don Roff is a writer and filmmaker.Roff grew up in Milton-Freewater, Oregon. He worked at the local drive-in theater and made Super 8 mm and VHS movies with his neighborhood friends. He graduated from McLoughlin Union High School in 1985. Roff joined the United States Army in 1989 and became a US...
  
  , (born 1966)
• Ray Russell
  Ray Russell
  Ray Russell was an American writer of short stories, novels, and screenplays. In 1991 he received the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement....
  
  , (1924–1999)
• John Russo
• James Malcolm Rymer
  James Malcolm Rymer
  James Malcolm Rymer was a British nineteenth century writer of penny dreadfuls, and is the probable author of Varney the Vampire and co-author of The String of Pearls , in which the notorious villain Sweeney Todd makes his literary debut.Information about Rymer is sketchy...
  
  , (1814–1888)
• Al Sarrantonio
  Al Sarrantonio
  Al Sarrantonio is an American horror and science fiction author who has published, over the past thirty-five years, more than forty-five books and eighty short stories...
  
  , (born 1952)
• John Saul
  John Saul
  John Saul is an American author of suspense and horror novels. Most of his books have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller List.-Biography:...
  
  , (born 1942)
• William Schoell
  William Schoell
  William Schoell is an American author, biographer and film historian, born November 30, 1958 in Manhattan and educated in Vermont, earning a B.A. from Castleton State College in 1978. He has written several horror and science fiction novels, such as Late at Night and Saurian...
  
  , (born 1958)
• David J. Schow
  David J. Schow
  David J. Schow is an American author of horror novels, short stories, and screenplays. His credits include films such as The Crow and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Most of Schow's work falls into the sub-genre splatterpunk, a term he is sometimes credited with coining...
  
  , (born 1955)
• Darrell Schweitzer
  Darrell Schweitzer
  Darrell Charles Schweitzer is an American writer, editor, and essayist in the field of speculative fiction. Much of his focus has been on dark fantasy and horror, although he does also work in science fiction and fantasy...
  
  , (born 1952)
• M. R. Sellars
  M. R. Sellars
  M. R. "Murv" Sellars is a fiction author of cross genre novels in the occult - thriller - horror vein. Born in Fulton, KY he now resides in the midwest. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association....
  
  , (born 1962)
• Darren Shan
  Darren Shan
  Darren O'Shaughnessy , who commonly writes under the pen name Darren Shan, is an Irish author. Darren Shan is also the main character in Shan's The Saga of Darren Shan young-adult fiction series. He also wrote The Demonata series as well as the stand-alone books, Koyasan and The Thin Executioner...
  
  , (born 1972)
• Eric Shapiro
  Eric Shapiro
  Eric Shapiro is an American author of novels, short stories, and essays, as well as a feature filmmaker.-Biography:Eric Shapiro was born in Freehold Borough, New Jersey...
  
  , (born 1978)
• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, (1797–1851)
• John Shirley
  John Shirley
  John Shirley is an American fantasist, author of noir fiction, and science-fiction writer. Shirley is a prolific writer of novels and short stories, TV scripts and screenplays who has published over 30 books and 10 collections...
  
  , (born 1953)
• Sigma
  Julian Osgood Field
  Julian Osgood Field was an American socialite and writer. He was born on 23 April 1852, son of Maunsell Bradhurst Field , who was an official of the US Treasury under Lincoln, and Julia Field . Educated in England, he lived largely in London and Paris and became an intimate of the future King...
  
  , (1849–1925)
• Dan Simmons
  Dan Simmons
  Dan Simmons is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle....
  
  , (born 1948)
• John Skipp
  John Skipp
  John Skipp is a splatterpunk horror and fantasy author and anthology editor, as well as a songwriter, screenwriter, film director, and film producer. He collaborated with Craig Spector on the 1989 anthology Book of the Dead, and has also collaborated with Marc Levinthal and Cody Goodfellow...
  
  
• Michael Slade
  Michael Slade
  Michael Slade is the pen name of Canadian novelist Jay Clarke, a lawyer who has participated in more than 100 criminal cases and who specializes in criminal insanity. Before Clarke entered law school, his undergraduate studies focused on history...
  
  , (born 1947)
• Clark Ashton Smith
  Clark Ashton Smith
  Clark Ashton Smith was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne...
  
  , (1893–1961)
• Guy N. Smith
  Guy N. Smith
  Guy Newman Smith is a prolific English writer best known for his pulp fiction-style horror fiction, though he has also written non-fiction, soft-porn, and children's literature..-Biography:...
  
  , (born 1939)
• S.P. Somtow, (born 1952)
• Craig Spector
  Craig Spector
  Craig Spector is a bestselling author and screenwriter whose eleven books have sold millions of copies and are reprinted in nine languages.-Biography:...
  
  
• William Browning Spencer
  William Browning Spencer
  William Browning Spencer is an award-winning American novelist and short story writer living in Austin, Texas. His science fiction and horror stories are often darkly and surreally humorous. His novel Resume With Monsters conflates soul-destroying H. P...
  
  , (born 1946)
• Robin Spriggs
  Robin Spriggs
  Robin Spriggs is an American writer, actor, and poet. Known primarily as a dark fabulist, he is the author of the critically acclaimed Diary of a Gentleman Diabolist and Wondrous Strange: Tales of the Uncanny; the co-author of The Dracula Poems: A Poetic Encounter with the Lord of Vampires; and...
  
  
• Bryce J. Stevens
  Bryce J. Stevens
  Bryce John Stevens is a horror writer/artist.Between 1987 and 1992 he co-edited, , Terror Australis: The Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine...
  
   (born 1957)
• R. L. Stine
  R. L. Stine
  Robert Lawrence Stine , known as R. L. Stine, and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American writer. Stine, who is called the "Stephen King of children's literature," is the author of hundreds of horror fiction novels, including the books in the Fear Street, Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, and The...
  
  , (born 1943) (Robert Lawrence Stein)
• Bram Stoker
  Bram Stoker
  Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula...
  
  , (1847–1912)
• Peter Straub
  Peter Straub
  Peter Francis Straub is an American author and poet, most famous for his work in the horror genre. His horror fiction has received numerous literary honors such as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award, placing him among the most-honored horror authors in...
  
  , (born 1943)
• Whitley Strieber
  Whitley Strieber
  Louis Whitley Strieber is an American writer best known for his horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger and for Communion, a non-fiction account of his perceived experiences with non-human entities. Strieber also co-authored The Coming Global Superstorm with Art Bell, which inspired the film about...
  
  , (born 1945)
• Joel A. Sutherland
  Joel A. Sutherland
  Joel A. Sutherland is a Canadian author and editor of thriller, horror and fantasy short stories and novels, anthologies and children's books. His notable works include Frozen Blood and Be a Writing Superstar Sutherland's writing has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award and the Black Quill Award...
  
  , (born 1980)
• Koji Suzuki
  Koji Suzuki
  Koji Suzuki is a Japanese writer, who was born in Hamamatsu and currently lives in Tokyo. Suzuki is the author of the Ring cycle of novels, which has been adapted into a manga series. He has written several books on the subject of fatherhood...
  
  
• Karen E. Taylor
  Karen E. Taylor
  Karen E. Taylor is the author of The Vampire Legacy Series of novels, published by Kensington Books. A voracious reader of vampire/horror novels, Karen first started writing Blood Secrets in January, 1988. She conceived of writing the novel while living across the street from a very large cemetery...
  
  
• Lucy Taylor
  Lucy Taylor
  Lucy Taylor is a horror novel writer. Her novel, The Safety of Unknown Cities was awarded the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel in 1995, and the Deathrealm Award for Best Novel in 1996...
  
  
• Melanie Tem
  Melanie Tem
  Melanie Tem is an American Horror/Dark fantasy author. She is married to author Steve Rasnic Tem. The couple have three kids and live in a large house in Colorado.-Novels:* Prodigal * Blood Moon * Wilding...
  
  
• Steve Rasnic Tem
  Steve Rasnic Tem
  Steve Rasnic Tem was born in Jonesville, Virginia, which is in the heart of Appalachia. He went to college at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and also at Virginia Commonwealth University. He got a B.A. in English education. In 1974, he moved to Colorado and studied creative...
  
  
• Thomas Tessier
  Thomas Tessier
  Thomas Tessier is an American writer of horror novels and short stories. He has also written poetry and drama.- Overview :...
  
  , (born 1947)
• Jeffrey Thomas
  Jeffrey Thomas (writer)
  Jeffrey Thomas is a prolific writer of science fiction and horror, best known for his stories set in the nightmarish future city called Punktown, such as the novel Deadstock and the collection Punktown , from which a story was reprinted in St. Martin's The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #14...
  
  
• Christine Campbell Thomson
  Christine Campbell Thomson & Not At Night
  Christine Campbell Thomson was a British horror fiction author best known for the Not At Night series. She also wrote under the name Flavia Richardson....
  
  , (1897–1985)
• Tamara Thorne
  Tamara Thorne
  Tamara Thorne , who also writes under the nom de plume "Chris Curry", is an American horror writer born in Los Angeles, California. Her novel Winter Scream, co-authored with L...
  
  , (born 1957)
• Tom Tryon
  Tom Tryon
  Tom Tryon was an American film and television actor, best known for playing the title role in the film The Cardinal and the Walt Disney television character Texas John Slaughter...
  
  , (1926–1991)

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• Peter Van Greenaway
  Peter Van Greenaway
  Peter Van Greenaway was a British novelist, the author of numerous thrillers with elements of horror and satire.He was born and educated in London, worked briefly in commercial art and acted in theatre....
  
  , (1929–1988)
• Tim Waggoner
  Tim Waggoner
  Tim Waggoner is the author of numerous novels, two short story collections, and over one hundred published stories in the Fantasy, Horror, and Thriller genres. He graduated from Wright State University in 1989 with a Master of Arts in English with a Creative Writing Concentration...
  
  
• Karl Edward Wagner
  Karl Edward Wagner
  Karl Edward Wagner was an American writer, editor and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist. His disillusionment with the medical profession can be seen in the stories "The Fourth Seal" and "Into...
  
  , (1945–1994)
• H. Russell Wakefield
  H. Russell Wakefield
  Herbert Russell Wakefield was an English short story writer, novelist, publisher, and civil servant chiefly remembered today for his ghost stories.-Life:...
  
  , (1888–1964)
• Robert Weinberg
  Robert Weinberg (author)
  Robert Weinberg is an American author. His work spans several genres including non-fiction, science fiction, horror, and comic books.-Biography:...
  
  , (born 1947)
• David Wellington, (born 1971)
• Dennis Wheatley
  Dennis Wheatley
  Dennis Yates Wheatley was an English author. His prolific output of stylish thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors from the 1930s through the 1960s.-Early life:...
  
  , (1897–1977)
• Dan Wells
  Dan Wells (author)
  Dan Wells is an American horror fiction author. A Utah native, he currently resides in Orem, Utah.-Early life:Wells wrote his first novel, Choose Your Own Adventure, when he was in second grade. He followed up with several novellas, a serial and a series of comic books when he was in high school....
  
  , (born 1977)
• Sidney Williams
  Sidney Williams
  Sidney Williams , is an American author of five novels under his own name and three young adult novels under the pseudonym Michael August. He has also authored numerous short stories and comic book scripts. Williams received a Master of Fine Arts from Goddard College.Williams grew up and worked as...
  
  , (born 1962)
• Chet Williamson
  Chet Williamson
  Chet Williamson is the author of nearly twenty books and over a hundred short stories published in The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, and many other magazines and anthologies.-Biography:...
  
  , (born 1948)
• David Niall Wilson
  David Niall Wilson
  David Niall Wilson is an American writer primarily known for his works of horror, science fiction, and fantasy fiction.-Background:...
  
  , (born 1959)
• F. Paul Wilson
  F. Paul Wilson
  Francis Paul Wilson is an American author, primarily in the science fiction and horror genres. His debut novel was Healer . Wilson is also a part-time practicing family physician. He made his first sales in 1970 to Analog while still in medical school , and continued to write science fiction...
  
  , (born 1946)
• Gahan Wilson
  Gahan Wilson
  Gahan Wilson is an American author, cartoonist and illustrator known for his cartoons depicting horror-fantasy situations...
  
  , (1930 - )
• Douglas E. Winter, (born 1950)
• Douglas E. Wright, (born 1955)
• X.L.
  Julian Osgood Field
  Julian Osgood Field was an American socialite and writer. He was born on 23 April 1852, son of Maunsell Bradhurst Field , who was an official of the US Treasury under Lincoln, and Julia Field . Educated in England, he lived largely in London and Paris and became an intimate of the future King...
  
  , (1849–1925)
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  -Biography:She was born in Berkeley, California. She attended Berkeley schools through high school followed by three years at San Francisco State College .In November 1969 she married Donald Simpson and divorced in February 1982...
  
   (born 1942)

See also

• Body horror
  Body horror
  Body horror, biological horror, organic horror or venereal horror is horror fiction in which the horror is principally derived from the graphic destruction or degeneration of the body. Such works may deal with disease, decay, parasitism, mutilation, or mutation...
  
  
• Cthulhu Mythos
  Cthulhu Mythos
  The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, based on the work of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu - a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus...
  
  
• Dark fantasy
  Dark fantasy
  Dark fantasy is a term used to describe a fantasy story with a pronounced horror element.-Overview:A strict definition for dark fantasy is difficult to pin down. Gertrude Barrows Bennett has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy". Both Charles L...
  
  
• Erotic horror
  Erotic horror
  Erotic horror, alternately noted as Dark Erotica, is a term applied to works of horror fiction in which sensual or sexual imagery are blended with horrific overtones or story elements....
  
  
• Fantastique
  Fantastique
  The Fantastique is a French term for a literary and cinematic genre that overlaps with science fiction, horror and fantasy.The fantastique is a substantial genre within French literature...
  
  
• Ghost story
  Ghost story
  A ghost story may be any piece of fiction, or drama, or an account of an experience, that includes a ghost, or simply takes as a premise the possibility of ghosts or characters' belief in them. Colloquially, the term can refer to any kind of scary story. In a narrower sense, the ghost story has...
  
  
• Lovecraftian horror
  Lovecraftian horror
  Lovecraftian horror is a sub-genre of horror fiction which emphasizes the cosmic horror of the unknown over gore or other elements of shock, though these may still be present. It is named after American author H. P...
  
  
• Psychological horror
  Psychological horror
  Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that relies on character fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects, relevant music and emotional instability to build tension and further the plot...
  
  
• Splatterpunk
  Splatterpunk
  Splatterpunk—a term coined in 1986 by David J. Schow at the Twelfth World Fantasy Convention in Providence, Rhode Island—refers to a movement within horror fiction distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depiction of violence and "hyperintensive horror with no limits." It is regarded as a revolt...
  
  
• Vampire fiction
  Vampire fiction
  Vampire literature covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires. The literary vampire first appeared in 18th century poetry, before becoming one of the stock figures of gothic fiction with the publication of Polidori's The Vampyre , which was inspired by...
  
  
• Werewolf fiction
  Werewolves in fiction
  Werewolf fiction denotes the portrayal of werewolves and other shapeshifting man/woman-beasts, in the media of literature, drama, film, games, and music. But They Are Real! But we are hard to find.Werewolf literature includes folklore, legend, saga, fairy tales, Gothic and Horror fiction, fantasy...
  
  

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