List of horror fiction authors

This is a list of some notable authors in the horror fiction genre.

• 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)
• 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 Plunkett), (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)
• Fitz-James O'Brien, (1828-1862)

• Christopher Pike, (born 1954) (pseudonym of Kevin McFadden)
• 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)
• R.L. Stine, (born 1943) (Robert Lawrence Stine)
• Bram Stoker, (1847-1912)
• Peter Straub, (born 1943)

• Cate Tiernan, (born 1961)

• Cherry Wilder, (1930-2002) Cruel Designs

See also:

• List of science fiction authors
• List of fantasy authors
• Lists of authors

External links

• http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Authors/Horror/