Favorite Horror Authors

Apart from his ending style Steven King, from him though, generally I read one book by a horror author then turn off...David Moody, Richard Matheson (alright, two of hsi stories), I've just forgotten the name I was about to write down as well.

But I love the old stuff, Bram Stoker's factual style, HP Lovecraft's stuff, especially the Cthulhu era.

Ha thank you MacReady.. I was about to lay the smack down when I noticed Clive was missing from the discussion.. I don't really read much horror excepth the mainstream stuff so I have to go with Stephen King and Clive Barker..

Oh, and Dean Koontz (even though his writing does become quite a poor version of film noir sometimes), I liked some of Clive Barker's stuff, The Damnation Game and Cabal was good, but for some reason I never got into any of his 1999-now stuff.

May have to delve in again.

Stephen King, Peter Straub (surprised not to see him here Ghost Story was an excellent book) Koji Suzuki, Ambrose Bierce

Stephen King
Richard Matheson
F. Paul Wilson

and I am distressed that these two names aren't here till now:

Edgar Allan Poe
H.P Lovecraft

my favorite horror Author is Shaun Hutson (must read all his books)
but also like  James Herbert then Stephen King

Richard Lyman (Come out tonight)
Edward Lee( Infernal Angel)
Brian Keene (The Rising)
F.Paul Wilson (midnight mass)
Jack Ketchum ( The off Season and Red)
Clive Barker (Books of Blood)
Bently Little (Collection of Shorts, and The Policy)

Are a few of my favs, of course I like King and Koontz but they are in everyone's list.

I'm really fond of David J. Schow's work. His short stories are terrific and I really enjoyed his column in Fangoria. Also, he wrote the screenplay for Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III which personally loved.

Other authors I enjoy are Skipp & Spector and Clive Barker's early works.

Shirley Jackson.  Poppy Z. Brite.  Barker (of course—ever read any of his plays?). Donald E Westlake (his NACKLES is one of my favorite holiday stories.  You can read it online at http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/index.php?p=46 ), Skipp and Spector, among the many many. 

I'm with Dean though.  Stephen King can't end a story for the life of him.  Nor can Grant Morrison, but that's a subject for a different thread.

My experience with her has been short stories, like "Calcutta, Lord of Nerves".  Strong, graphic, and somewhat erotic.  Steamy even. If you pick up Exquisite, let me know.

http://www.poppyzbrite.com/

stephen king, dean kooontz, and f. paul wilson