List of horror fiction authors

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

• Clive Barker
• Ambrose Bierce
• Algernon Blackwood
• Robert Bloch
• Poppy Z. Brite

• Ramsey Campbell
• Jonathon Carroll[?]
• Nancy A. Collins
• Caroline B. Cooney

• August Derleth
• Lord Dunsany (better known as a writer of fantasy fiction)

• Sheridan le Fanu

• Neil Gaiman
• Laurell K. Hamilton[?]
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• James Herbert[?]
• Brian Hodge[?]
• William Hope Hodgson

• M.R. James

• Stephen King
• Dean R. Koontz

• H.P. Lovecraft
• Brian Lumley

• Arthur Machen
• Walter de la Mare
• Robert R. McCammon
• Guy de Maupassant
• Gustav Meyrink

• Kim Newman

• Joyce Carol Oates[?]

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Anne Rice

• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• Clark Ashton Smith
• Bram Stoker
• Peter Straub[?]

• Cate Tiernan

See also:

• Science fiction authors
• Fantasy authors

External resources:

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