List of horror fiction authors This is a list of some notable
authors in the
horror fiction genre.
Clive Barker , (born 1952)
Ambrose Bierce , (1842-1914)
Algernon Blackwood , (1869-1951)
Robert Bloch , (1917-1994)
Poppy Z. Brite , (born 1967)
Ramsey Campbell , (born 1946)
Jonathon Carroll
Nancy A. Collins , (born 1959)
Caroline B. Cooney , (born 1947)
August Derleth , (1909-1971)
Lord Dunsany (better known as a writer of fantasy fiction)(Edward John Dunsay), (1878-1957)
Sheridan le Fanu , (1814-1873)
Neil Gaiman , (born 1960)
Charles L. Grant, (born 1942)
Laurell K. Hamilton, (born 1963)
Nathaniel Hawthorne , (1804-1864)
James Herbert
Brian Hodge
William Hope Hodgson
M.R. James , (1862-1936)
Stephen King , (born 1947)
Dean R. Koontz , (born 1945)
Bentley Little, (born 1960)
H.P. Lovecraft , (1890-1937)
Brian Lumley , (born 1937)
Arthur Machen , (1863-1947)
Walter de la Mare , (1873-1956)
Robert R. McCammon
Guy de Maupassant , (1850-1893)
Gustav Meyrink , (1868-1932)
Kim Newman , (born 1959)
Joyce Carol Oates , (born 1938)
Edgar Allan Poe , (1809-1849)
Anne Rice , (born 1941)
Al Sarrantonio
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , (1797-1851)
Clark Ashton Smith , (1893-1961)
Robert Louis Stevenson , (1850-1894)
Bram Stoker , (1847-1912)
Peter Straub , (born 1943)
Cate Tiernan , (born 1961)
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