- The Abbeville Horror
The Abbeville Standoff was a 14-hour standoff that took place on December 8, 2003 in Abbeville, South Carolina, between alleged extremists and self-proclaimed "sovereign citizens" Arthur, wife Rita, and son Steven Bixby; and members of the Abbeville city police department, the Abbeville County sheriff's office, the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the South Carolina Department of Transportation, and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. - 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. - John Carpenter
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, film score composer and occasional actor. Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres, and is considered one of the most accomplished and influential horror and science fiction directors in Hollywood. - 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, … - Dario Argento
Dario Argento was born in Rome in 1940, the son of influential film producer Salvatore Argento , and established Brazilian photographer Elda Luxardo . While these parental influences assured Argento's filmic fascination from an early age, he assimilated influences from a wide range of the fantastic arts. - Alan Moore
Alan Moore (born November 18, 1953 in Northampton) is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels "Watchmen", "V for Vendetta" and "From Hell". He has also written a novel, "Voice of the Fire", and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with the Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD. As a comics writer, … - 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. - 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… - 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. - 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". - Bruce Campbell
Bruce Lorne Campbell (born June 22 1958) is an American actor, producer, writer and director. He is best known for his starring role as Ash in the "Evil Dead" trilogy of horror/slapstick movies, and has since become a B-movie icon. - Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22 1906 - June 11 1936) was a classic American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. - George R. R. Martin
George Raymond Richard Martin, sometimes called GRRM, born September 20, 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey, is an American author and screenwriter of science fiction, horror, and fantasy. - James Wan
James Wan (born 1977) is a film director from Perth, Australia of Chinese Ethnicity. He was born in Kuching, Malaysia, but grew up in Perth. Wan is best known for the 2004 horror/thriller "Saw" which he made with Leigh Whannell, whom he met while in film school. Before that he made his first feature film "Stygian" with Shannon Young that won Best Guerilla Film at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival in 2000. - 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. - Stuart Gordon
Stuart Gordon (born August 11, 1947) in Chicago, Illinois) is a director, writer and producer of films and plays. Most of Gordon's film work is in the horror genre, though he has also ventured into science fiction. Like his friend and fellow filmmaker Brian Yuzna, Gordon is a big fan of H.P. Lovecraft and has adapted several Lovecraft stories for the screen. They include Re-Animator, From Beyond, Castle Freak (from The Outsider), and Dagon, … - 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. - 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. - Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois) is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel "Hyperion" and its sequel "The Fall of Hyperion". The other novels in this series, which is known as the Hyperion Cantos, are "Endymion" and "The Rise of Endymion". He spans genres such as science fiction, horror and fantasy, … - Robert Wise
Robert Wise (September 10, 1914 - September 14, 2005) was an American sound effects editor, film editor, and Academy Award-winning American film producer and director. Among his many famous films are "The Sand Pebbles", "The Sound of Music", "West Side Story", "The Hindenburg", "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "Run Silent, Run Deep", "The Andromeda Strain", "The Set-Up", … - Billy Graham
Billy Graham (deceased) was an African-American comic-book artist best known for his work on the Marvel Comics series "Luke Cage, Hero for Hire" and on the feature "The Black Panther" in "Jungle Action". He is not related to the televangelist Billy Graham. - John Carradine
John Carradine (February 5, 1906 - November 27, 1988) was a Daytime Emmy Award winning American actor, best known for his roles in horror films and Westerns. Carradine appeared in ten John Ford productions, including "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940) and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962). He also portrayed the Biblical hero Aaron in "The Ten Commandments" (1956). - Scott Sigler
Scott Carl Sigler is a contemporary science fiction and horror writer and podcaster from Michigan. He resides in San Francisco, California with his wife and two dogs. Scott Sigler was featured in a New York Times article on March 1, 2007 by Andrew Adam Newman. praising him, Evo Terra, Mark Jeffrey and J.C. Hutchins for their innovation in the fields of podcasting, and more specifically, podcast novels. - Sid Haig
Sid Haig (born Sidney Eddie Mosesian on July 14, 1939) is an American film actor. He is best known for his work in Jack Hill's blaxploitation films of the 1970's as well as his role as Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie's horror films "House of 1000 Corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects". - 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, … - James Whale
James Whale was a ground-breaking Hollywood film director, best known for his work in the horror movie genre, making such pictures as "Frankenstein", "Bride of Frankenstein", and "The Invisible Man." - John Stockwell
John Stockwell (b. John Samuels March 25, 1961 in Galveston, Texas, USA) is an American actor, director, producer, and writer. He has starred in film and on television. His first feature film as an actor came in 1981 in the movie "So Fine". His well known roles came in the 1983 comedy film "Losin' It" as Spider, later that year, he starred in the John Carpenter horror movie "Christine" as Dennis Guilder, … - Kelly Link
Kelly Link is an American author of short stories born in 1969 (judging by this 2001 article). Her stories might be described as slipstream: a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism. Link is a graduate of Columbia University in New York and the MFA program of UNC Greensboro. In 1995 she attended the Clarion East Writing Workshop. Link and husband Gavin Grant manage their own small press Small Beer Press, based in Northampton, Massachusetts. - Glenn Danzig
Glenn Danzig is an American singer, songwriter and musician who is largely considered to be the founding father of the Horrorpunk genre of music. He is the founder of The Misfits (original incarnation, 1977-1983), Samhain, and Danzig. He is often associated with the Devilock, a distinctive hairstyle for which he and fellow band members of The Misfits and Samhain were known. He also owns the Evilive record label and Verotik, an adult-oriented comic book publishing company. - Dina Meyer
Dina Meyer (born December 22, 1968) is an American film and television actress, perhaps best known for her roles in "Starship Troopers" and the "Saw" films. - 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". - Patrick Wilson
Patrick Wilson (born February 15, 1969) is a fiction writer based in Houston, Texas. Patrick Wilson was born in Phoenix, Arizona and began his writing career at the age of 15, with a column in the Ft. Stockton, Texas, newspaper. He branched out into fiction in his late teens, publishing stories in horror and science fiction genre magazines. He is currently anticipating negotiations to publish his latest novel. - Terence Fisher
Terence Fisher (February 23, 1904 - June 18, 1980), was a film director who worked for Hammer Films. He was born in Maida Vale, a district of London, England. Fisher was arguably one of the most influential horror directors of the second half of the 20th century. He was the first to bring gothic horror alive in full Technicolor, and the gore, sexual overtones and explicit horror in his films, while mild by modern standards, were unprecedented in his day. - Tanith Lee
Tanith Lee (born September 19, 1947) is a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy. She is the author of at least 54 novels and 188 short stories, a children's picture book ("Animal Castle") 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. - Joe D'Amato
Joe D'Amato, byname of Aristide Massaccesi (December 15, 1936 in Rome - January 23, 1999 in Rome) was an Italian director of numerous horror and hardcore pornography titles. He is regarded as a master of Italian exploitation film. D'Amato's films are considerably dark, revolving around nihilistic and misanthropic tones and generally possessing what one reviewer referred to as "a contempt for all mankind." - 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. - Herschell Gordon Lewis
Herschell Gordon Lewis (born 15 June 1929, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) is a filmmaker best known for creating the "splatter film" subgenre of horror. He is often called the "Godfather of Gore", though his film career included works in a range of genres including juvenile delinquent films, rural-themed comedies, nudie-cuties, and even two children's films. - Douglas Preston
Douglas Preston (born 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an author of several techno-thriller and horror novels with Lincoln Child. A graduate of Pomona College in Claremont, California, Preston began his writing career at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In addition to his collaborations with Child, he has written a novel and several non-fiction books of his own, mainly dealing with the history of the American Southwest. - Bob Clark
Benjamin "Bob" Clark (August 5 1939 - April 4 2007) was an American actor, director, screenwriter and producer best known for directing and writing the script with Jean Shepherd to the 1983 holiday film "A Christmas Story". His earliest success was the 1982 hit film "Porky's" and he also wrote and directed its sequel "Porky's II: The Next Day".
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