Interesting horror authors?

Robert McCammon

Bentley Little

Richard Matheson. He wrote I Am Legend (the book is way better and slightly different than the movie.) If you get the right edition of the book, it should come with like a dozen short horror stories at the end. I loved them. I don't know if he's written anything else, but it might be worth checking out. Also HP Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe. Stephen King is alright, but his new novels are just recycled plots with new characters - read his old stuff. You could try the classics. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Dracula by Bram Stoker.

I like John Connolly - who's novels revolve around detective Charlie Parker. The best are, I think, "Every Dead Thing" (the first) and "The Killing Kind" (The third), but the others were all good. Also, Nocturnes (short stories, not in series) is very good and one of them ("the new daughter") is set to be made into the basis for a film shortly. Mind you, the Charlie Parker ones got a bit wierd/religious mostly from the Dark Angel onewards, but it's not so noticable in the first three/four.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nocturnes-John-Connolly/dp...

I was going to say King and Koontz, but I agree with Kate D.

Edgar Allen Poe is a genius, read it!

Check out The Tell-Tale Heart by him as well.

I think you can just find it on the internet. It isn't that long, mind.

I love james patterson, he is more mystery though. I also recently read a series of books by dean koontz brother odd, and two others about odd thomas very interesting books.

William Hope Hodgson - The House on the Borderland .

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Ted Dekker.

Favorite books: Adam, Skin, and House.

He writes more thrillers than horrors, but I don't think I can handle much horrors. I'm a chicken. (:

Give me Edgar Allan Poe any day!