A Writer's Tale

My 51 Favorite Non-Horror Authors

MY LIST CONTAINS A FEW NAMES PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED AS HORROR writers. I’ve done this in cases in which a writer has also distinguished himself or herself in writing “non-horror” fiction.

1. Sherwood Anderson

2. Lawrence Block

3. John Buchan

4. Tom Clancy

5. Mary Higgins Clark

6. Joseph Conrad

7. Pat Conroy

8. Michael Crichton

9. Charles Dickens

10. Franklin W. Dixon

11. Feodor Dostoevsky

12. William Faulkner

13. Jack Finney

14. F. Scott Fitzgerald

15. Ian Fleming

16. Brian Garfield

17. William Goldman

18. David Goodis

19. Ed Gorman

20. Winston Groom

21. Joseph Hayes

22. Ernest Hemingway

23. Evan Hunter

24. Stephen Hunter

25. Nikos Kazantzakis

26. Jack Kerouac

27. Dean Koontz

28. D.H. Lawrence

29. Jack London

30. John D. MacDonald

31. W. Somerset Maugham

32. Larry McMurtry

33. David Morrell

34. Charles Portis

35. Flannery O’Connor

36. Ayn Rand

37. Bob Randall

38. Harold Robbins

39. J.D. Salinger

40. Mickey Spillane

41. Glendon Swarthout

42. Robert Lewis Taylor

43. Jim Thompson

44. Trevanian

45. Mark Twain

46. Leon Uris

47. Joseph Wambaugh

48. Thomas Wolfe

49. Stuart Woods

50. Cornell Woolrich

51. P.C. Wren