List of horror fiction authors

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

Clive Barker, (born 1952)
Ambrose Bierce, (1842-1914)
Algernon Blackwood, (1869-1951)
Robert Bloch, (1917-1994)
Poppy Z. Brite, (born 1967)
Ramsey Campbell, (born 1946)
Jonathon Carroll
Nancy A. Collins, (born 1959)
Caroline B. Cooney, (born 1947)
August Derleth, (1909-1971)
Lord Dunsany (better known as a writer of fantasy fiction)(Edward Dunsay), (1878-1957)
Sheridan le Fanu, (1814-1873)
Neil Gaiman, (born 1960)
Charles L. Grant, (born 1942)
Laurell K. Hamilton, (born 1963)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, (1804-1864)
James Herbert
Brian Hodge
William Hope Hodgson
M.R. James, (1862-1936)
Stephen King, (born 1947)
Dean R. Koontz, (born 1945)
Bentley Little, (born 1960)
H.P. Lovecraft, (1890-1937)
Brian Lumley, (born 1937)
Arthur Machen, (1863-1947)
Walter de la Mare, (1873-1956)
Robert R. McCammon
Guy de Maupassant, (1850-1893)
Gustav Meyrink, (1868-1932)
Kim Newman, (born 1959)
Joyce Carol Oates, (born 1938)
Christopher Pike, (born 1954)(pseudonym of Kevin McFadden)
Edgar Allan Poe, (1809-1849)
Anne Rice, (born 1941)
Al Sarrantonio
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, (1797-1851)
Clark Ashton Smith, (1893-1961)
Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894)
R.L. Stine, (born 1943)(Robert Lawrence Stine)
Bram Stoker, (1847-1912)
Peter Straub, (born 1943)
Cate Tiernan, (born 1961)