List of horror fiction authors
This is a list of some notable authors in the horror fiction genre.
Note that some writers listed below have also written in other genres, especially fantasy and science fiction.
- Robert Aickman
- Michael Arnzen
- Clive Barker, (born 1952)
- Jessica Barone, (born 1977)
- Ambrose Bierce, (1842–1914)
- Algernon Blackwood, (1869–1951)
- Robert Bloch, (1917–1994)
- Poppy Z. Brite, (born 1967)
- Ramsey Campbell, (born 1946)
- Jonathan Carroll
- Hugh B. Cave, (1910-2004)
- Nancy A. Collins, (born 1959)
- Caroline B. Cooney, (born 1947)
- Walter de la Mare
- August Derleth, (1909–1971)
- Tananarive Due
- Lord Dunsany (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)
- M. F. Korn
- Richard Laymon, (1947–2001)
- Thomas Ligotti
- Bentley Little, (born 1960)
- H. P. Lovecraft, (1890–1937)
- Brian Lumley, (born 1937)
- Arthur Machen, (1863–1947)
- Walter de la Mare, (1873–1956)
- George R. R. Martin (born 1948)
- Robert R. McCammon
- Guy de Maupassant, (1850–1893)
- Gustav Meyrink, (1868–1932)
- Kim Newman, (born 1959)
- Joyce Carol Oates, (born 1938)
- Fitz-James O'Brien, (1828–1862)
- Norman Partridge
- Christopher Pike, (born 1954) (pseudonym of Kevin McFadden)
- Edgar Allan Poe, (1809–1849)
- Anne Rice, (born 1941)
- Ray Russell, (1924-1999)
- Al Sarrantonio
- Eric Schomburg, (born 1980)
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, (1797–1851)
- Clark Ashton Smith, (1893–1961)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850–1894)
- R.L. Stine, (born 1943) (Robert Lawrence Stine)
- Bram Stoker, (1847–1912)
- Peter Straub, (born 1943)
- Cate Tiernan, (born 1961)
- Manly Wade Wellman, (1903–1986)
- Cherry Wilder, (1930-2002) Cruel Designs
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