A Writer's Tale

50 Favorite Horror Authors

THIS IS A LIST OF WRITERS WHO HAVE WRITTEN EITHER ONE GREAT PIECE or a body of work that I have found to be exceptionally wonderful and frightening.

Remember, this is not supposed to be a list of “the best” horror writers: it is a list of my favorites.

1. Peter Benchley

2. Ambrose Bierce

3. Algernon Blackwood

4. William Peter Blatty

5. Robert Bloch

6. Ray Bradbury

7. Gary Brandner

8. Michael Cadnum

9. Wilkie Collins

10. John Coyne

11. Michael Crichton

12. Roald Dahl

13. Charles Dickens

14. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

15. Larry Dunbar

16. Ed Gorman

17. Davis Grubb

18. H. Rider Haggard

19. Nathaniel Hawthorne

20. James Herbert

21. William Hope Hodgson

22. Shirley Jackson

23. W.W. Jacobs

24. M.R. James

25. Jack Ketchum

26. Stephen King

7. Rudyard Kipling

28. Dean Koontz

29. Ira Levin

30. Bentley Little

31. H.P. Lovecraft

32. Brian Lumley

33. Graham Masterton

34. Richard Matheson

35. Robert R. McCammon

36. David Morrell

37. Edgar Allan Poe

38. Seabury Quinn

39. Ray Russell

40. John Russo

41. Saki

42. William Shakespeare

43. Mary Shelley

44. Dan Simmons

45. Michael Slade

46. Robert Lewis Stevenson

47. Bram Stoker

48. H.G. Wells

49. F. Paul Wilson

50. Cornell Woolrich