Horror Authors

[evilnell]

Who is your favourite horror author then? Mine is James Herbert, although Clive Barker is pretty good too. I've just started my first Anne Rice book so I'll let you know how that goes.
Bye

 

[Fractured]

Currently it's Richard Laymon. Ordered 3 more books by him today.

Clive Barker is good, and Stephen King / Dean R Koontz always deliver good stuff.

 

[union9]

Clive Barker is my all time fav, although he has been dabbling in other avenues of interest of late, but he is god regardless.

Other favs:
Poppy Z. Brite (her 'exquisite corpse' is one of the most disturbing books I've had the pleasure of reading)
Dean Koontz
Lucy Taylor
Brett Eastin Ellis (purly for his 'American Psycho' work)

 

[Fuþorc]

Stephen King
Lovecraft
Howard

 

[Astral Poetry]

i'm partial to older stephen king stuff (salem's lot was great). clive barker is very good as is anything by h.p. lovecraft.

 

[stormy]

my favorites are stephen king ann rice and dean koontz.

 

[forevernin]

stephen king, ann rice, V.C. Andrews

 

[Pancakes]

Lovecraft.

 

[Sisterofnight]

All of the above plus Edgar Alan Poe.

 

[SculptedCold]

me

 

[Spungfoo]

Chalk one more up for Lovecraft here. Where would Morbid Angel be without him?...

 

[Nocturnalux]

Without a doubt, Lovecraft rules...Clive Barker is pretty good as well.
So is John Saul, although not quite as amazing..

as for Stephen King...I used to love him but now I am not sure...I still think the Dark Tower series rule, though.

 

[delize]

King!

 

[Voice of God]

Stephen King and Lovecraft. Although I've read really little Lovecraft, but what I've read has been good. All Barker and Poe stuff that I've read has been rather boring.

 

[Cyanide]

Stephen King for sure!

 

[Crusader]

The only real horror I've read is by Stephen King, Green Mile (superb) and a half The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (pretty boring), if you don't count in Tom Clancy as a horror author, I guess he's just a thriller kind of author.