List of horror fiction authors - Definition and Overview

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)
• Jonathon 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

See also

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

External links

• Horror Writers Association (http://www.horror.org)
• Open Directory Project: Horror Fiction Writers (http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/Horror/)