Top 10 Authors Who Write Horror Books

Top 10 Authors Who Write Horror Books

Here is a list of top 10 authors who write horror books. The people listed here are the best horror novel writers of all time.

Stephen King

Stephen King

Stephen King is practically synonymous with the horror genre at this point. He has written over 60 novels and 500 short stories, practically all of them in the horror genre.

Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson

With feathers like the horror classic ‘House of Haunting Hill’ in her cap, Jackson is a thoroughbred horror writer.

Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker

Everyone has heard of the cult classic Dracula, which has since inspired a series of books, horror or otherwise, about vampires.

H P Lovecraft

H P Lovecraft

He was influenced by the literary movement of cosmicism. His works also feature a lot of science, creating a very specific genre of cosmic science horror.

Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allen Poe

Poe is considered the emblem of the modern dark academia, and was a true dark academic in the modern sense of the word.

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley

Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ is again a horror classic, and has inspired several book, novel and even music adaptations.

Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz

Koontz is the American author of horror thrillers, which usually have very dark, satirical and gothic elements. He has often been on the New York Times bestseller list.

Anne Rice

Anne Rice

Rice has written extraordinary vampire novels such as ‘Interview With A Vampire’, ‘The Vampire Chronicles’ and ‘Princess LeStat’ along with several other horror novels.

Clive Barker

Clive Barker

He is the worldwide bestselling author of the Books of Blood, and numerous novels including Imajica, The Great, Secret Show, Sacrament, and Galilee.

Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman is primarily an author of mythological and fantasy fiction. However his horror novels such as ‘Coraline’, ‘The Graveyard Book’ and More