This is a list of some (not all) notable
writers in the horror fictionHorror fiction is a genre of fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle and horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a disturbing supernatural element into everyday human experience...
genre.
Note that some writers listed below have also written in other genres, especially
fantasyFantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. Many works within the genre take place on fictional planes or planets where magic is common...
and
science fictionScience fiction is a genre of fiction. It differs from fantasy in that, within the context of the story, its imaginary elements are largely possible within scientifically-established or scientifically-postulated laws of nature...
.
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- 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 Fordyce Aickman was an English conservationist and writer of fiction and nonfiction. As a writer, he is best known for his short supernatural fiction, which he described as "strange stories".-Life:...
, (1914-1981)
- 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
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)
- Clive Barker
Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction....
, (born 1952)
- Laird Barron
Laird Samuel Barron is an award winning author and poet, much of whose critically acclaimed work falls within the horror, noir, and dark fantasy genres. He has also been the Managing Editor of the online literary magazine Melic Review...
, (born 1970)
- William Thomas Beckford
William Thomas Beckford , usually known as William Beckford, was an English novelist, a profligate and consummately knowledgable 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 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 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
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 David Blackmore is an Australian horror writer, critic, and editor.-Life:Leigh was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of Rod and Beth Blackmore. He was educated at North Sydney Boys High School and Newcastle Boys' High School...
(born 1959)
- Algernon Blackwood
Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE was an English writer of fiction dealing with the supernatural, who was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T...
, (1869-1951)
- William Peter Blatty
William Peter Blatty is an American writer and filmmaker. He wrote the novel The Exorcist and the subsequent screenplay version for which he won an Academy Award.- Early life :...
, (born 1928)
- Robert Bloch
Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction.Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, usually crime fiction, science fiction and, perhaps most influentially, horror fiction . He was one of the youngest members of the...
, (1917-1994)
- Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satirist. Today, he is best known for his short story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and his satirical dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary.The sardonic view of human nature that informed his...
, (1842-1914?)
- 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 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 is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror author.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 was an American writer of fantasy and horror fiction, and also a poet. Brennan's first professional sale came in December 1940 with the publication of the poem, "When Snow Is Hung", which appeared in the Christian Science Monitor Home Forum, and he continued writing poetry up...
, (1918-1990)
- 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. Brite's recent work has moved into the related genre of dark comedy, of which many are set in the New Orleans...
, (born 1967)
- 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
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
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 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 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 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 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 is an author of seventeen techno-thriller and horror novels. Often paired with writing partner Douglas Preston, many of their novels have become bestsellers and one, Relic, was adapted into a feature film...
, (born 1957)
- 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...
- 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)
- 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 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 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 is an American 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....
, (born 1958)
- 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 is a writer based in Adelaide, South Australia. His writes predominantly science fiction and Lovecraftian horror....
, (born 1971)
- Caroline B. Cooney
Caroline B. Cooney is an author of suspense, romance, horror and mystery books for teenagers.- Biography :Caroline B. Cooney was born on May 10, 1947 in Old Greenwich, Connecticut....
, (born 1947)
- Ciaran Corby, (born 1977)
- Lincoln Crisler, (born 1982)
- 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 , 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)
- Les Daniels
-Background:He attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he wrote his master's thesis on Frankenstein, and he has worked as a musician and as a journalist.-Career:...
, (born 1943)
- 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 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 is an Australian author of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels. His short stories have appeared in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Year's Best SF, and The Best Australian Writing: A Fifty Year Collection....
- Ted Dekker
Ted Dekker is a New York Times best-selling author best known for novels which could be broadly described as suspense thrillers with major twists and unforgettable characters, though he has also made a name for himself among fantasy fans. Early in his career he wrote a number of spiritual...
,
- 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 William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...
, (1909-1971)
- C. M. Eddy, Jr.
Clifford Martin Eddy, Jr. was an American author best known for his horror and sci-fi short stories.- Career :...
, (1896-1967)
- Tom Elliott
Tom Elliott MLA is a Northern Ireland Ulster Unionist MLA.-Education:* Ballinamallard Primary School*Duke of Westminster High School, Ballinamallard & Kesh...
, (born 1953)
- 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...
- 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 today known chiefly for his works of horror, particularly his trilogy of novels centered around the adventures of Frank Braun, a character modeled not...
(1871-1943)
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- 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 famous film starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.He was born Charles Farrell Myers in California, and grew up in Coalinga...
, (1920-2006)
- John Farris
John Lee Farris is an American writer. 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 University there...
- 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 is a writer of Erotic fiction and Horror fiction, he is also a contributing editor for Black Issues Book Review . He began writing in the early 1970s while studying full-time for a degree in psychology at a local college. His first published works were two books of poetry, Melons in ...
- 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 .-Bryant And May Mysteries:...
, (born 1953)
- 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 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 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 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 is a mystery novelist and singer/songwriter from Western Canada. Her first novel, Touch, was published by Edmonton's NeWest Press in 2005....
, (born 1972)
- 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 Richard Gaiman is an English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novels, comics, audio theatre, and films. His notable works include The Sandman comic series, Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
, (born 1960)
- 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 is an American filmmaker and screenwriter born in Santa Monica, California. He is best known for his adaptations of Stephen King stories, and is the creator of the Showtime series Masters of Horror...
, (born 1951)
- Larry Mike Garmon, (born 1955)
- Ray Garton
Ray Garton is an American author, well known for his work in horror fiction. He has written over fifty books, and in 2006 was presented with the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award.-Novels:...
- Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson , often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. She is perhaps best known for her biography of Charlotte Brontë...
, (1810-1865)
- 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 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 Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist. His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were heavily influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing and identity....
(1809-1852)
- 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 is an award winning author who lives in Loveland, Colorado, United States. She has written eighteen novels and sixteen short stories in fantasy, horror and science fiction....
- Christopher Golden
Christopher Golden is an American author of horror, fantasy, and suspense novels for adults, teens, and young readers.-Biography:Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family...
, (born 1967)
- Ed 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 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 A. Gramlich , is an American writer best known for combining science fiction and horror in his works.-Biography:...
, (born 1958)
- 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...
, (1942-2006)
- Rain Graves
Rain Graves is an award winning author of horror, science fiction and poetry.She is best known for the 2002 Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Poetry Collection, The Gossamer Eye...
- 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 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 female necromancer turned magical investigator as the protagonist...
, (born 1963)
- 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 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...
,
- 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 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 was an American novelist and short story writer.Nathaniel Hathorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne...
, (1804-1864)
- Lafacadio Hearn, (1850-1904)
- 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 is a best-selling English horror writer known for his simple yet compelling sensationalist novels, which are notable for their use of horrific set pieces...
, (born 1943)
- Joe Hill (writer)
Joseph Hillstrom King , better known by the pen name Joe Hill, is an American author and comic book writer.-Biography:...
- 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 is an American author of young adult horror. She grew up in Warren, Pennsylvania but currently resides in Austin, Texas.-Nightmare Hall series:* 1: The Silent Scream- Meaghan, a deaf student is being terrorized by a mysterious stalker....
- 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 is a Jamaican-born writer and editor who lives in Canada. Her science fiction and fantasy 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...
- Anthony Horowitz
Anthony Horowitz , is an English author 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 Hercule...
- 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 Ervin Howard was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. His most famous character — created in the pages of the Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales — is Conan the Barbarian.With Conan and his other heroes, Howard created the genre of...
, (1906-1936)
- 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 is an American author of crime fiction. According to a recent interview with Paradigm, he prefers to be classified as a writer of "pulp" as opposed to "noir".-Career:...
- Shaun Hutson
Shaun Hutson is a prolific writer of bestselling 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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- 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
William Wymark Jacobs , was an Englishauthor of short stories and novels. He is now best remembered for his...
(1863–1943)
- Carl Jacobi
Carl Jacobi may refer to:* Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi , Prussian mathematician and teacher* Carl Richard Jacobi , American author...
(1908–1997)
- 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
Montague Rhodes James, OM, MA, , who used the publication name M. R. James, was a noted British mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge and of Eton College . He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature...
(1862–1936)
- 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 is an American author in the genre of horror.His first novel, An American Haunting, was released in 2004 by Harbor House Books...
(born 1971)
- Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones is an acclaimed editor of numerous award-winning 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 , also known by the pseudonym J.M. Dillard is an American writer of historical and horror fiction....
(born 1954)
- Brian Keene
Brian Keene is an author, primarily of horror and crime fiction. Keene has often been credited with ushering in the new era of zombie popularity in pop culture . -Biography:Brian Keene was born in 1967...
(born 1967)
- 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 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 is the pseudonym of American horror author Dallas Mayr. Born in 1946, Mayr has been praised by such literary icons as Stephen King, and condemned by a Village Voice critic who dismissed his work as violent pornography...
(born 1946)
- Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King is an American writer of contemporary horror fiction, science fiction, fantasy literature, and screenplays. An estimated 300–350 million copies of King's novels and short story collections have been sold, and many of his stories have been adapted for film, television, and...
(born 1947)
- Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk was an American political theorist, 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
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 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
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 (1915–1958)
- 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 Carl Laymon was an American horror writer. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and lived as a child in California...
(1947–2001)
- 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 is a Welsh horror and dark fantasy writer, and a judge at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention. 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 British Fantasy Society for best novel of...
(born 1969)
- Edward Lee
Edward Lee was born Lee Edward Seymour on May 25, 1957, and was raised in Bowie, Maryland. He attended the University of Maryland, College Park as an English major but with a GPA of 3.89 and a few credits left to graduate he dropped out to pursue his dream to be a writer...
(born 1957)
- 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 has also written two episodes of BBC science fiction series Blake's 7.Lee is the daughter of two ballroom dancers...
- J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the premier ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and had a seminal influence on the development of this genre in the Victorian era.-Biography:Sheridan Le Fanu was born at 45 Lower Dominick Street,...
(1814–1873)
- Ira Levin
Ira Levin was an American author, dramatist and songwriter.-Professional life:Levin attended Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. At Drake, he regularly played poker with other notables, such as Martin Erlichman and Eugene Schulman...
(1929-2007)
- 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 was an English novelist and dramatist, often referred to as "Monk" Lewis, because of the success of his classic Gothic novel, The Monk.-Biography:...
(1775–1818)
- Thomas Ligotti
Thomas Ligotti is a writer of horror stories.Something of a cult figure, Ligotti is rather little known, but has seen high praise as one of the most effective and unique horror writers of recent decades: The Washington Post called him "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction"; another...
(born 1953)
- John Ajvide Lindqvist
John Ajvide Lindqvist is a Swedish novelist and short stories author.Lindqvist grew up in the Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg, and his debut novel Låt den rätte komma in , a romantic, social realistic vampire horror story published in 2004, enjoyed great success in Sweden and abroad...
(born 1968)
- Bentley Little
Bentley Little is an American author of horror novels.-Personal history:Little was born one month after his mother attended the world premiere of Psycho. He published his first novel, The Revelation, with St. Martin's Press in 1990...
(born 1960)
- John R. Little
John R. Little is best known as a writer of horror and dark fantasy fiction. He was born in London, Canada on August 16, 1955, and he currently resides in Coquitlam, Canada. John R. Little has a Honours Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Western Ontario where his major was Computer...
(born 1955)
- 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
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, known then simply as weird fiction....
(1890–1937)
- Brian Lumley
Brian Lumley is an English horror fiction writer. Born in County Durham, he joined the British Army and wrote stories in his spare time before retiring from the military in 1980 and becoming a professional writer....
(born 1937)
M to Q
- 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 thrillers...
, (born 1958)
- Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen was a leading Welsh author of the 1890s. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction...
, (1863-1947)
- Nick Mamatas
Nick Mamatas is an American author and editor. His most recent novel, Under My Roof, was published in January 2007.-Biography:...
, (born 1972)
- 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 is an American author.Elizabeth Massie is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of horror novels and short fiction. She has also written historical fiction for young adults....
, (born 1953)
- Graham Masterton
Graham Masterton is a best-selling 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 , is an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres...
, (born 1926)
- 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)
- Charles Maturin
Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C.R. Maturin was an Anglo-Irish Protestant clergyman and a writer of gothic plays and novels.-Biography:...
, (1782-1824)
- Robert McCammon
- Michael McDowell
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)
- Gustav Meyrink
Gustav Meyrink was the Pseudonym of Gustav Meyer, an Austrian author, storyteller, dramatist, translator, banker and Buddhist, most famous for his novel The Golem.-Childhood:...
, (1868-1932)
- China Miéville
China Tom Miéville is an award-winning English fantastic fiction writer. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" China Tom Miéville is an award-winning English fantastic fiction writer. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" China...
, (born 1972)
- 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 killer...
, (1939-2004)
- C. A. Milson, (born 1969)
- 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)
- Brent Monahan, (born 1948)
- 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 is a Canadian-American novelist, best known for his debut 1972 novel First Blood, which would later become a successful film franchise starring Sylvester Stallone. He has written 28 novels, and his work has been translated into 26 languages...
(born 1943)
- W. C. Morrow
William Chambers Morrow was an American writer, now noted mainly for his short stories of horror and suspense...
, (1854-1923)
- 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...
- 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)
- Scott Nicholson
Scott Nicholson is a U.S. author specializing in horror or thrillers, often set in rural Appalachia. His debut, The Red Church, was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award.-Novels:* The Red Church, 2002* The Harvest, 2003* The Manor, 2004...
- 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 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
George Oliver Onions, was a significant English novelist who published over forty novels and story collections...
, (1873-1961)
- 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. He lives near Vancouver, Washington.-Early life:Palahniuk was born in...
(born 1962)
- 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...
- Roy Patten (born 1966)
- James Patterson
James B. Patterson is an American author of thriller novels, largely known for his series about African-American psychologist Alex Cross.-Biography:James Pattersonis a former chairman of the advertising company J. Walter Thompson...
(born 1947)
- John Pelan
John C. Pelan is an 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 founded...
, (born 1957)
- Frank E. Peretti
Frank Edward Peretti is a best-selling contemporary evangelical Christian fiction novelist with more than twelve million copies of his work in print. Best known for his supernatural thriller titles This Present Darkness and The Oath, he primarily focuses on Christian topics, especially those...
- Thomas Piccirilli
Tom Piccirilli is an American novelist and short story writer. He has sold over 150 stories in the mystery, horror, erotica, and science fiction fields...
- Jim G. Payne
- Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, 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...
, (1809-1849)
- 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 creator of the fictional Sweeney Todd, the 'demon barber' immortalized in his The String of Pearls: A Romance...
, (1810-1859)
- Douglas Preston
Douglas Preston is an author of seventeen popular techno-thriller and horror novels, four alone and the rest with Lincoln Child...
, (born 1956)
- Cherie Priest
Cherie Priest is an American novelist living in Seattle, Washington. In addition to her novels Priest publishes a well known blog, and is at the head of the growing presence of authors online, being in contact with many others via their blogs...
, (born 1975)
- Horacio Quiroga
Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza was an Uruguayan author and writer. He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, use the supernatural and the bizarre to show the influence of modernismo, Edgar Allan Poe, and Rudyard Kipling, among others...
, (1878-1937)
R to T
- Ann Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe was an English author, a pioneer of the gothic novel. It was her technique of the explained supernatural, in which every seemingly supernatural intrusion is eventually traced back to natural causes, and the impeccable conduct of her heroines that finally met with the approval of the...
, (1764-1823)
- 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.Rainey's novels include Dark Shadows: Dreams of the Dark Stephen Mark...
, (born 1959)
- Thomas Rengstorff, (born 1970)
- Anne Rice
Anne Rice is a best-selling American author of gothic and religious-themed books from New Orleans, Louisiana. She was married to poet and painter Stan Rice for 41 years until his death from cancer in 2002...
, (born 1941)
- Stephen W. Roberts, (Born 1988)
- 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)
- 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 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 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 movies with his neighborhood friends. He graduated from McLoughlin Union High School in 1985. Roff joined the United States Army in 1989...
, (born 1966)
- Ray Russell
Ray Russell was a writer of short stories, novels, and screenplays. He is probably most well known for "Sardonicus," which appeared in the January 1961 issue of Playboy magazine, and was subsequently adapted by Russell into a screenplay for William Castle's film version, titled Mr. Sardonicus...
, (1924-1999)
- John Russo
- James Malcolm Rymer
James Malcolm Rymer was a Scottish writer of penny dreadfuls and is one of the possible authors of Varney the Vampire . Another possible author was Thomas Preskett Prest....
, (1814-1888)
- Mary Sangiovanni
- Al Sarrantonio
Al Sarrantonio is an American horror and science fiction author who has published, over the past thirty years, more than forty books and sixty short stories. He has also edited numerous anthologies and has been called “a master anthologist” by Booklist.-Background and education:Sarrantonio was...
, (born 1952)
- 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 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 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 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. Schweitzer is also a prolific writer of literary criticism and editor of...
, (born 1952)
- 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 and an elder of the Grove of the Old Ways coven.After graduating Ritenour High School in 1980,...
, (born 1962)
- Darren Shan
Darren O'Shaughnessy who commonly writes under the pen name Darren Shan, is an Irish writer and author of The Saga of Darren Shan. He has also recently published the last book in The Demonata series, as well as writing The City Trilogy, a series of books for adults under the alternative name of D. B...
, (born 1972)
- 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, New Jersey...
, (born 1978)
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, (1797-1851)
- John Shirley
John Patrick Shirley is an American science fiction and horror writer of novels, short stories, and television & film scripts.-Biography:John Shirley was born in Houston, Texas and grew up largely in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon...
, (born 1953)
- Sigma
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 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 is a bestselling author and screenwriter whose eleven books have sold millions of copies and are reprinted in nine languages. His early works were considered seminal to the "splatterpunk" style of modern horror fiction; Skipp split with Spector in 1993 to begin his successful solo career...
- 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 was a poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. It is for these stories, and his literary friendship with H. P. Lovecraft from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937, that he is mostly remembered today. With Lovecraft and Robert E...
, (1893-1961)
- Guy N. Smith
Guy Newman Smith is an English writer of horror fiction.-Biography:Smith wrote his first horror book, Werewolf by Moonlight in 1974, which spawned two sequels. He is probably best known for a series of six Crabs books, the first of which, Night of the Crabs, was published in 1976...
, (born 1939)
- S.P. Somtow, (born 1952)
- 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 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)
- Bryce J. Stevens
Bryce John Stevens is a long-term Australian resident and horror writer/artist.At age 22 he came to Sydney to see what Australia was like and lived in a flat at Bondi where he bought the landlady’s old typewriter for $5. As an artist doing much drawing, he eventually held four gallery exhibitions...
(born 1957)
- R. L. Stine
Robert Lawrence Stine , known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American writer. Stine, who is often called the "Stephen King of children's literature", is the author of dozens of horror fiction novels, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare...
, (born 1943) (Robert Lawrence Stine)
- Bram Stoker
Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned.-Early life:He...
, (1847-1912)
- Peter Straub
This article is about Peter Straub the novelist. For the German statesman, see Peter Straub .Peter Francis Straub is an American author and poet, most famous for his work in the horror genre...
, (born 1943)
- Paul M. Strickler
Paul M. Strickler, born in Ludington, Michigan, is a writer of fiction and best known as the author of the novel The Calling set in Boyne City, where he lived for more than a decade.-Biography:Paul M. Strickler was born in Ludington, Michigan...
- 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...
, (born 1945)
- 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 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 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 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 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 is an American writer of horror novels and short stories. He has also written poetry and drama.- Overview :...
, (born 1947)
- Jeffrey Thomas
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 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 , 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)
U to Z
- Peter Van Greenaway
Peter Van Greenaway was a British novelist, the author of numerous thrillers with elements of horror and satire.His first novel, The Crucified City, is the story of the aftermath of a nuclear attack on London. A motley group of people, accompanied by a mysterious, apparently mute man, undertake a...
, (1929-1988)
- James Viscosi
James Viscosi is an American author of horror and fantasy fiction. He has written the novels A Flock of Crows is Called a Murder and Night Watchman, as well as a number of short stories. His literary agent is Arlene Cardoza....
- 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 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
Herbert Russell Wakefield was an English short story writer, novelist, publisher, and civil servant chiefly remembered today for his ghost stories.-Life:Wakefield was the third of four children of Henry Russell Wakefield, Bishop of Birmingham...
, (1888-1964)
- Robert Weinberg
Robert Weinberg is an American author. His work spans several genres including non-fiction, science fiction, horror, and comic books.-Biography:...
, (born 1947)
- 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 in the 1950s and 1960s.-Early life:...
, (1897-1977)
- Dan Wells
Dan Wells is an American horror fiction author. A Utah native, he currently resides in Orem, Utah. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University, with a bachelor degree in English with a writing and editing emphasis. He is the author of I Am Not A Serial Killer, a horror novel published in the...
, (born 1977)
- Timothy Willard, (born 1969)
- 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. He was born in 1948 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania, receiving a B.S...
, (born 1948)
- 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
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)
- Douglas E. Winter, (born 1950)
- Douglas E. Wright, (born 1955)
- X.L.
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 is an American writer.-Biography:She was born in Berkeley, California. She attended Berkeley schools through high school followed by three years at San Francisco State College ....
(born 1942)
See also
List of horror fiction sub-genres
- Body horror
Body Horror, Biological Horror, or Organic 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
The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared universe created in the 1920s by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. The term Lovecraft Mythos is preferred by some — most notably the Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi....
- Dark Fantasy
Dark Fantasy was an American old-time radio show featuring horror and suspense stories. It had a short run of 31 episodes, debuting on November 14, 1941 and ending on June 19, 1942. Its writer was Scott Bishop, also known for his work on The Mysterious Traveler. It originated from station WKY in...
- 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
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
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 is a sub-genre of horror fiction which emphasizes the psychological 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 is a subgenre of horror fiction that relies on character fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects, rellevant music and emotional instability to build tension and further the plot...
- 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 literature covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires and laup. The literary vampire first appeared in eighteenth century poetry, before becoming one of the stock figures of gothic fiction with the publication of Polidori's The Vampyre , which...
- Werewolf fiction
Werewolf fiction denotes the portrayal of werewolves and other shapeshifting man-beasts, in the media of literature, drama, film, games, and music. Werewolf literature includes folklore, legend, saga, fairy tales, Gothic and Horror fiction, fantasy fiction and poetry. Such stories may be...
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