Make Mine…Horror Fiction

Horror fiction, no matter the subject, has one goal in mind: to engender in the reader an intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust.  Whether this comes at the hands of supernatural monsters like zombies and vampires, or a good old-fashioned haunted house story is up to the reader.

If these kinds of stories are your creepy cup of tea, the authors below tend to write in the horror genre:

V.C. Andrews
Clive Barker
Algernon Blackwood
Robert Bloch
Ramsey Campbell
Tananarive Due
Laurell K. Hamilton
Shirley Jackson
M.R. James
Stephen King
Dean Koontz
Richard Laymon
Ira Levin
Bentley Little
H.P. Lovecraft

Brian Lumley
Robert McCammon
Graham Masterton
Barbara Michaels
William F. Nolan
Frank Peretti
Edgar Allan Poe
Anne Rice
John Saul
Darren Shan
Mary Shelley
Dan Simmons
Bram Stoker
Peter Straub
F. Paul Wilson

Read-Alikes: Stephen King

If you like Stephen King’s supernatural stories and tales of the macabre, try these authors:

Richard Bachman
Clive Barker
Justin Cronin
James Herbert
Joe Hill
Dean Koontz
Brian Lumley
Robert McCammon
John Saul
Dan Simmons