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Horror: Recommended Authors & Notable Titles

J.G. Ballard,
Crash
(1973)

Clive Barker,
The Damnation Game
(1985)

Christopher Barzak,
One for Sorrow
(2007)

Peter Benchley,
Jaws
(1974)

Aigernon Blackwood,
All titles

William Peter Blatty,
The Exorcist
(1971)

Lawrence Block,
Ariel
(1980)

Ray Bradbury,
Something Wicked This Way Comes
(1962)

Poppy Z. Brite,
Exquisite Corpse
(1996)

Jack Cady,
The Well
(1980)

Ramsey Campbell,
Overnight
(2005)

Mike Carey,
The Devil You Know
(2007)

Douglas Clegg,
Goat Dance
(1989)

Robin Cook,
Coma
(1977)

Basil Cooper,
When Footsteps Echo
(1975)

Harlan Ellison,
All titles

Justin Evans,
A Good and Happy Child
(2007)
John Farris,
You Don't Scare Me
(2007)

Charles L. Grant,
The Hour of the Oxrun Dead
(1977)

Laurell K. Hamilton,
Bloody Bones
(2005)

James Herbert,
Shrine
(1983)

Joe Hill,
Heart-shaped Box
(2007)

Brian Keene,
The Rising
(2003)

T.E.D. Klein,
Dark Gods
(1985)

Stephen King,
The Shining
(1977)

Dean R. Koontz,
Watchers
(1987)

Micahel Laimu,
Deep in the Darkness
(2004)

Richard Laymon,
The Traveling Vampire Show
(2000)

Fritz Leiber,
Our Lady of Darkness
(1977)

Ira Levin,
Rosemary's Baby
(1967)

Kelly Link,
Magic for Beginners
(2007)

H.P. Lovecraft,
All titles

Brian Lumley,
Necroscope
(1996)

Richard Matheson,
Hell House
(1971)
Robert R. McCammon,
Usher's Passing
(1984)

Patrick McGrath,
The Grotesque
(1989)

David Morrell,
Creepers
(2005)

Joyce Carol Oates,
Bellefleur
(1980)

Chuck Palahniuk,
Lullaby: a novel
(2002)

Tom Piccirilli,
Choir of Ill Children
(2003)

Anne Rice,
The Interview with the Vampire
(1976)

John Saul,
The Homing
(1994)

Dan Simmons,
Children of the Night
(1992)

Peter Straub,
Ghost Story
(1979)

Whitley Strieber,
The Wolfen
(1978)

Thomas Tessier,
Phantom
(1982)

Thomas Tryon,
The Other
(1971)

Jack Williamson,
All titles

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,
Hotel Transylvania
(1978)


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