- Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of over 200 stories including over 50 bestselling horror and fantasy novels. King was the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. King evinces a thorough knowledge of the horror genre, as shown in his nonfiction book "Danse Macabre", which chronicles several decades of notable works in both literature and cinema. - H. P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He is notable for blending elements of science fiction and horror; and for popularizing "cosmic horror": the notion that some concepts, entities, or experiences are barely comprehensible to human minds, and those who delve into such risk their sanity. Lovecraft has become a cult figure in the horror genre and is noted as creator of the Cthulhu Mythos, … - Clive Barker
Clive Barker is futue of Horror,He is a phenomenal artist, writer, and director.. I am a big fan of him FROM INDIA …I love his GAME ,,,UNDYING… - Bram Stoker
Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel "Dracula". In his honor, the Horror Writers Association recognizes "superior achievement" in horror writing with the Bram Stoker Award. - Brian Keene
Brian Keene is a two-time Bram Stoker Award winning horror author, first in 2001 for his non-fiction work "Jobs In Hell" and then again in 2003 for his debut novel, the post-apocalyptic zombie tale "The Rising". In 2004, he won the Shocker Award for his non-fiction work "Sympathy For the Devil". His other novels include Ghoul, City Of The Dead, Terminal, The Conqueror Worms, Fear Of Gravity, and many more. - Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard Gaiman was born on November 10, 1960 in Portchester, England. He is the author of numerous science fiction and fantasy works, including many comic books. As of 2002, he lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. ... After being rejected many times by publishers, Gaiman pursued journalism as a means to learn about the world and make connections that he hoped would later assist him in getting published. - Dean Koontz
Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945 in Everett, Pennsylvania), also known under a number of pseudonyms, including Leigh Nichols, is an American writer. - Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to the emergent science fiction genre. Poe died at the age of 40. - Peter Straub
Peter Francis Straub, born March 2, 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a writer of fiction and poetry, best known as a prolific horror author. - Anne Rice
Anne Rice (born on October 4, 1941) is a best-selling American author of gothic and later religious themed books. Best known for her Vampire Chronicles, her prevailing thematical focus is on love, death, immortality, existentialism, and the human condition. She was married to poet Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history. - Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22 1920) is an American literary, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer best known for "The Martian Chronicles", a 1950 book which has been described both as a short story collection and a novel, and his 1953 dystopian novel "Fahrenheit 451". - Richard Matheson
Richard Burton Matheson (born February 20, 1926) is an American author and screenwriter, typically of fantasy, horror or science fiction. Born in Allendale, New Jersey to Norwegian immigrant parents, Matheson was raised in Brooklyn and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1943. He then entered the military and spent World War II as an infantry soldier. - Ramsey Campbell
John Ramsey Campbell (born January 4, 1946 in Liverpool) is a British writer considered by a number of critics to be one of the great masters of horror fiction. - 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 horror fiction who has at this writing four published books and has edited one anthology.class="wikitable" |- bgcolor="#efefef" | "I became addicted to that adrenaline rush that you get when you're watching a horror movie, or reading a chilling novel. - Joe Hill
Joe Hill (born 1972 as Joseph Hillstrom King) is an American writer of Speculative fiction. Hill is the second child of the authors Stephen and Tabitha King. His younger brother Owen King is also a writer. Hill chose to use an abbreviated form of his given name (a reference to executed labor leader Joe Hill, for whom he was named) in 1997, out of a desire to succeed based solely on his own merits instead of as the son of Stephen King. - Cordwainer Bird
Harlan Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, essays, and criticism. His literary and television work has received many awards. He wrote for the original series of The Outer Limits and Star Trek, edited the multiple award-winning short story anthology series Dangerous Visions and served as creative consultant to the science fiction TV series The New Twilight Zone and Babylon 5. - Robert Bloch
Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer. He was the son of Raphael "Ray" Bloch (1884, Chicago-1952, Chicago), a bank cashier, and his wife Stella Loeb (1880, Attica, Indiana-1944, Milwaukee, WI), a social worker, both of German-Jewish descent. Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, usually crime fiction, science fiction, and, perhaps most influentially, horror fiction ("Psycho"). - Jack Ketchum
Jack Ketchum is the pseudonym for horror fiction author Dallas Mayr. He was born in 1946. Praised by such literary icons as Stephen King, Ketchum has also been condemned by a Village Voice critic who once dismissed his work as violent pornography. A onetime actor, teacher, literary agent, and lumber salesman, Ketchum credits his childhood love of Elvis Presley, dinosaurs, … - Richard Laymon
Richard Carl Laymon (January 14, 1947 - February 14, 2001) was an American horror writer. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and lived as a child in California. He received a BA in English Literature from Willamette University in Oregon and an MA in English Literature from Loyola University in Los Angeles. He died from a massive heart attack. His works include more than sixty short stories and more than thirty novels, many of which were published posthumously. - James Herbert
James Herbert (born 8 April, 1943, London) 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. His heroes are usually young, rather cynical men, whose fight against the horror is abetted by the growth of a strong sexual relationship. Born in London, James Herbert has worked as a singer and the art director of an advertising agency. - Poppy Z. Brite
Poppy Z. Brite (born Melissa Ann Brite on May 25, 1967) is an American author born in New Orleans, Louisiana. - Laurell K. Hamilton
Laurell Kaye Hamilton (born February 19, 1963) is an American horror, magic, fantasy, erotica and romance writer. She was born in Heber Springs, Arkansas but grew up in Sims, Indiana with her grandmother Laura Gentry (her mother died in 1969). Her education includes degrees in English and biology from Marion (now Indiana Wesleyan University), a Christian college in Indiana. Today Hamilton resides in St. Louis County, Missouri. - 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. In May 1999, Clegg’s novel "Naomi" became the Internet’s first publisher-sponsored e-serial, garnering write-ups in "Publishers Weekly" and "Business Week". - 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 movie, bearing the same name. His 2006 novel Dark Harvest, published by Cemetery Dance, was voted one of Publishers Weekly's 100 Best Books of 2006. - Thomas Ligotti
Thomas Ligotti (b. July 9 1953, Detroit, Michigan) 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 critic declared "It's a skilled writer indeed who can suggest a horror so shocking that one is grateful it was kept offstage" - Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson (December 14, 1916 - August 8, 1965) was an influential American author. Although a popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as Stephen King, Nigel Kneale and Richard Matheson. She is perhaps best known for her short story "The Lottery" (1948), which suggests there is a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic, smalltown America. - 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. - Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was an English romantic/gothic novelist and the author of "Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus". She was married to the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. - Bentley Little
Bentley Little (born 1960) is an American author of numerous horror novels. He was discovered by Dean Koontz. - Brian Lumley
Brian Lumley (born December 2, 1937) is a writer of horror fiction. Born in County Durham in northeast England, he joined the British Army and wrote stories in his spare time before retiring from the military in 1980 and becoming a professional writer. He added to H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos cycle of stories, including several tales featuring the character Titus Crow. - F. Paul Wilson
Francis Paul Wilson (b. May 17, 1946) is an author, born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He writes novels and short stories primarily in the science fiction and horror genres. His debut novel was "Healer" (1976). Wilson is also a part-time practicing family physician. He made his first sales in 1970 to Analog and continued to write science fiction throughout the seventies. In 1981 he ventured into the horror genre with the international bestseller, "The Keep", … - Joe R. Lansdale
Joe R. Lansdale (born October 28, 1951, Gladewater, Texas) 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. He has also written for comics as well as "Batman: The Animated Series". Frequent features of Lansdale's writing are usually deeply ironic, strange or absurd situations or characters, … - Jeff Vandermeer
So I found this old notebook that I used from around my junior year of high school through first year of college. It's full of crappy poetry and drafts of things never completed, along with fragments of early published stories like "Mahout" (Asimov's) and "So The Dead Walk Slowly" (Fear Magazine). - Michael Arnzen
Michael Arnzen is a horror author and writer of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel, Grave Markings (Dell Books). He won his second Bram Stoker Award for his newsletter (The Goreletter) and his third for his poetry collection, Freakcidents. After a brief stint in the US Army overseas, where he began writing horror stories to entertain his fellow soldiers, he moved to Colorado where he launched his career in publishing to much success. - August Derleth
August William Derleth (February 24 1909 - July 4 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as H. P. Lovecraft's literary executor and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror, Derleth was a prolific writer in several genres, including historical fiction and detective fiction. - Clark Ashton Smith
Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893-August 14, 1961) 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 mainly remembered today. Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard are today the three most famous contributors to the pulp magazine "Weird Tales". - Nick Mamatas
Nick Mamatas , former Clarkesworld Magazine editor and author of "Move Under Ground," rubs some people the wrong way with his candid opinions, mainly because he never suffers fools gladly. But he often dispenses really worthwhile advice on his livejournal page, and today's entry, "This Is How You Freelance," is a keeper. His system boils down [a] - Mort Castle
Mort Castle <br /> Horror author and writing teacher, Mort Castle, has more than 350 short stories and a dozen books to his credit, including "Cursed Be the Child" (Leisure Books, 1994) 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 lit mags to more off the wall or risqué markets. <br /> A dedicated and talented writing teacher, … - 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. This honor has been previously held by the likes of Stephen King, Kelly Link and Joe Hill among others. Friel writes a weekly column for "The Horror Library Blog-O-Rama", as well as "Yada, Too", and is a fiction editor for "Dark Recesses Press". - M. R. James
Montague Rhodes James, OM (August 1, 1862-June 12, 1936), who published under the byline M. R. James, was a noted British mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905-1918) and of Eton College (1918-1936). He is best remembered today for his ghost stories in the classic Victorian Yuletide vein, which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature.
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