Horror is one of those genres which is incredibly hard to compose. There is a reason why so many horror stories are as sluggish, hackneyed, or just too surreal — and why the worst horror films are always laughable. The writing of great terror books requires real talent and that is why the best horror authors of all time are so respected for their works. Many of them, including those on this list, is iconic for themselves because of the extent of their tales. The following authors have passed the test of time if you’re looking for great lectures that never stop frightening.
Here are some of the best masters of horror genre writing.
1. Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman’s fiction has won numerous awards globally, including the Carnegie and Newbery Medals, as the most underserved writer of our generation. He has also won 4 Hugos, 2 Nebula, 1 World Fantasy Award, 2 Locus Awards, 2 British SF Awards, 3 Geffen’s, 1 International Horror Guild Award, and 2 mythopoeic Awards for the world’s most popular books and stories. Stop reading the list and get yourself a copy if you have never read American Gods, Coraline, or Don’t panic. He’s f**kin’ fine just that. Pledge. Pledge. No. No. No. No. He is fantastic. He is fantastic. Yeah, and before you think at least read three Neil Gaiman novels. He also read Audible’s own audiobooks. Specifically, a pleasure to hear the accents of his murderer.
2. Stephen King
Right, that’s a no-brainer. Stephen King, the “Lord of Horror” is the author of over 50 novels, all bestsellers worldwide. He might also be his finest work ever in his last book, the Outsider. He is the Top Ten Book of the New York Times Book Review. He won the Medal for a Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. With his wife, novelist Tabitha King, he lives in Bangor, Maine. Yeah, ew authors of all kinds, during their lifetime, saw as much popularity, fame, and riches as Stephen King. His work was translated into many languages, his blockbuster films were sufficiently successful to justify reworks, and he even had an episode about Family Man. Stephen King has also gained acclaim as one of the world’s most well-paid writers as one of the world’s top horror authors. Maybe this is his exceptionally detailed style of writing or only the fact that the stories give them a curiously realistic tone.
3. Anne Rice
Anne Rice has one of the most loyal readers, and you can quickly see why. She gives a more modern style to a lot of classical monsters and behind some of the largest hit films from the nineties were her works. You can understand why Anne Rice is one of these best horror authors in the last few years if you liked Queen of the Damned or an interview with the Vampire. In a way, the norm for modern vampire lore was developed by Anne Rice. The characters of Lestat and of her other vampires were human, seductive, and at the same time oddly dark, ethereal. Her books are beautiful, eloquent, and scary. The Chronicles of the Vampires are whatever the books of Twilight desired. Before Stephen King, Robert Bloch was one of the biggest producers of Hollywood’s films to make a major film based on a novel. Known for being the author of Psycho, who later became a hit film.
4. Peter Straub
Peter Straub has still been removed from the list like anyone else and is the author like seventeen novels translated into over 20 languages. They include Ghost Story, Koko, Mr. X, In the Night Room, two partners, The Talisman, and Black House with Stephen King. He has written two poetry books and two short fiction collections and published H’s Library of America. P. Lovecraft’s Tales and the next American Fantastic Tales Library, the two-volume anthology. He received the British Fantasy Prize, 8 Bram Stoker Awards, 2 International Horror Guild Awards and 3 World Fantasy Awards. Prize recipient. He was awarded the Poets and Authors Barnes & Noble Authors Prize in 2008. He won the Life Achievement Award of the WFC at the 2010 World Fantasy Convention.
5. Mylo Carbia
Mylo Carbia, a screenwriter who grew up in a severely haunted New Jersey Home, is considered “the queen of horror” by an old-time screenwriter. After years of fantasy films, she beat King and Koontz for # 1 and won the Silver Falchion Award in 2016 for outstanding fiction. Her first novel is “The Rape of the Ava DeSantis.” Her second book, “PopHorror.com’s Best Story of 2019,” tied Stephen King’s “The Outsider” with the subject of her killer ‘evil wife vs young man’ as her best bookends. We believe her thriller style and surprise results are so good, that Mylo Carbia is still living with our list of today’s best horror authors, with just two published books. In the end, we can not wait to read her “Z.O.O,” which is coming out in late 2020, as a Sci-Fi suspense thriller. Yeah, although it has been announced in public that it will only write novels, look for the film versions.
6. Ania Ahlborn
Her writings are slow-burning horror fiction. Horrorist Ania Ahlborn, who was born in Ciechanow, Poland, has been drawn to the darker, obscure, and often boring facets of life with this consequence. Their youngest memory is in the cemetery near her home spending hours smashing bowls of silk flowers so everyone has the same share. Her books The Bird Eater, The Beautiful Ones, and the Brother honestly deserve to be read. Certainly part of the women’s horror movement that gives the big boys a run for money today. I look forward to seeing Ania and her friends. What’s next. Very impressive. In reality. In reality.
7. Ramsey Campbell
Ramsey Campbell, another brit to add, is an English writer who is considered one of the greatest masters of horror fiction by a number of critics. Born to Alexander Ramsey, and to Nora (Walker) Campbell. Campbell was born in Liverpool, England. He was taught at St Edward’s College, Liverpool by Christian Brothers. The split between his parents, which shortly after he was born, defined the childhood and adolescence of Campbell. Father Campbell was more frequently heard than seen as an obscure presence. Campbell said, “I have not seen my father face to face for nearly 20 years, but that is when he died.” Years later, mother Campbell was degenerated into delusions and schizophrenia, rendering his life a living hell. We didn’t know why he wasn’t as well known as Stephen King, but it’s true he might be just better. Tell us what you think.
8. Dean Koontz
The American writer is Dean Ray Koontz. His novels are characterized by suspense, but also include elements including horror, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and satire. Koontz was born on 9 July 1945 in Everett, Pennsylvania, son of Florence and Raymond Koontz. He said his alcoholic father, who inspired his later writing, frequently beat and abused him, and also his physically dismal mother’s bravery to stand up for her husband. A lot of his books appeared in the Best Seller list of the New York Times, which includes 14 hardcovers and 16 reverse paperbacks. Koontz was a pen named David Axton. He has written more than 105 novels, and numerous novels and short story collections, and sold more than 450 million exemplars of his work.
9. H. P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was a strange and horror fictional American writer who is well-known for developing what became the Cthulhu story. Lovecraft spent much of his time in New England, born in Providence (Rhode Island). He was born into money, but soon after his grandfather’s death, the money of his family vanished. In 1913, a critical letter was written in a pulp magazine, which finally culminated in his inclusion in pulp fiction. He wrote and published stories during the interwar era that concentrated on his understanding of the role of humanity in the universe. In its opinion, mankind was an insignificant part of a carefree universe that could at any moment be swept away. These stories also contained fantastic elements that embodied anthropocentric fragility.
10. Edgar Allan Poe
The writer, poet, editor, and literary critic of the Americas, Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is most famous for his poetry and stories, particularly the mystery and macabre of his stories. He is generally regarded as a key symbol in romanticism in the US, and as one of the world’s first short-term practitioner In general, he is also the inventor of detective fiction, and his contribution to the new genre of science fiction is further acknowledged. Poe was the first well-known American writer to live by writing alone which created a difficult financial life and career. The second son of the actors David and Elizabeth, Poe was born in Boston. In 1810 his father left his family, and the following year his mom died. So orphaned, Poe was captured from Richmond, Virginia, by John and Frances Allan.
11. Mary Shelley
The Moderne Prometheus, which is considered to be the early example of sci-fiction, has also written and funded works of her husband, the Romantic poet, and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley was the writer of the Gothic newspaper Frankenstein. His dad was William Godwin, a political scientist, and Mary Wollstonecraft, a feminist and scientist. Mother Shelley died less than one month after she had been born. Her dad was raised, who gave her a rich and informal education and urged her to pursue her own anarchist political theories. Her father married a neighbor with whom Shelley had a troubled relationship when she was four.
12. Bram Stoker
The Irish author Abraham “Bram” Stoker, best known for his Gothic horror Dracula novel in 1887, was the Irish. In his lifetime he was best regarded as Sir Henry Irving’s personal assistant and Irving’s manager of the Lyceum Theater. Through his friend Dr. Maunsell, Stoker became involved in the theatre. During his work with the Irish Public Service, he was the theatre critic for the Dublin Evening Mail, co-owned by Sheridan Le Fanu, a Gothic journalist. Critics of the theatre were poor in esteem, but the standard of his judgments did not matter to him. Henry Irving’s Hamlet was investigated favorably in the Royal Theater Dublin in December 1876. Irving invited Stoker for dinner and they became friends at the Shelbourne Hotel where he lived. In 1872, the London Society published ‘The Crystal Cup,’ and four of the outlets ‘The Chain of Destiny’ were published in ‘The Shamrock.’ The Chain of Destiny.’ By 1876,
13. William Peter Blatty
Blatty was an American author and director best known for his novel The Exorcist in 1971 and for the screenplay of his film adaptation, which was awarded the Academy award. After The Exorcist’s performance, Blatty reworks Twinkle, Twinkle, and “Killer” Kane! He also writes and directs The Exorcist III. (The Latest Configuration, in 1978) in a new novel named The Ninth Configuration. Two years later, at the 38th Golden Globe Prize, Blatty adapted the novel into a film of the same titles. His novels Elsewhere (2009), Dimiter (2010), and Mad (2010) are some of his others. Born in New York City, Mr. Blatty graduated from Georgetown University in 1950 with a bachelor of English, and from George Washington University with a master’s degree in English literary sciences. He joined the United States Air Force when he completed his master’s degree in 1954. He worked for the U.S. Information Agency after being hired by the air force.
14. Thomas Harris
The American writer William Thomas Harris III is best-known for a series of thrilling novels about Hannibal Lecter, his most significant character. The majority of his films and TV works have been adapted, the most significant being The Silence of Lambs which became just the third film to cover the Oscars in major categories in Academy Awards history. Born in Jackson, Tennessee, Harris moved to Rich, Mississippi, as a child with his family. At graduate school and afterward in high school he was introverted and bookish. In 1964 he was awarded a doctorate in English in Waco, Texas, and Baylor University. During school, he worked for Waco Tribune-Herald, the journalist for the local newspaper, covering the beat. 1968, when he started reporting on Black Sunday, he moved to New York City to work for the Associated Press.
