Who are your favorite authors...Top Five...

[bloodrayne]

I personally am in love with...

Stephen King

Peter Straub (especially when the two of them get together!)

Dean Koonts

John Saul

Ramsey Campbell

...in that order...

[dmihatmttl]

Joe R. Lansdale
Stephen King
Bentley Little
Ed Gorman
F. Paul Wilson



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[bloodrayne]

I believe Bentley Little thinks he IS Stephen King!!!

[dmihatmttl]

I don't think that's a very fair assessment, but that's just my opinion. What Bentley Little books have you read? I can see some King influence in Little's work, definitely, but there are few similarities between their work technically.


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[FangoFan]

My favorate writers in this order

1. H.P. Lovecraft
2. Clive Barker
3. Ramsey Campbell
4. Stephen King
5. F. Paul Wilson

[Arioch]

1.Fredrick Nitzche
2.Edgar Allen Poe
3.Thomas Harris
4.Stephen King
5.Sigmund Freud

[Krzychu]

First of all:

H.P.Lovecraft
Clive Barker

and:

E.A.Poe
R.A.Wilson
P. Straub

[AUSTIN316426808]

PERSONALLY I DON'T LIKE STEPHEN KING THAT MUCH HE DOES'NT DETAIL ENOUGH. AND MOST OF HIS MOVIES ARE TO SLOW TO GET INTO.

[dmihatmttl]

Not enough detail? I don't really understand this argument, but maybe I'm just missing something. Hell, that's the thing that's turned me off about most of his later works -- the fact that he goes on and on *too* much, and needs to be edited. Then again, who am I to judge the master? :)

As for "his" movies, you shouldn't blame King for most of them being terrible. I mean, he wrote the original novel, but had *very* little to do with 99% of the movies that have been adapted from his work. MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE he directed, THE SHINING miniseries he may have written the script for, but how many others was he really directly involved with?


I never understood folks who dissed King because of "his" shitty movies. He would probably agree with you about those movies being shitty.



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[bloodrayne]

Originally posted by dmihatmttl

I never understood folks who dissed King because of "his" shitty movies. He would probably agree with you about those movies being shitty.



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Actually, he HAS many, MANY times...

[AUSTIN316426808]

KING IS A GREAT WRITER I'LL GIVE YOU THAT BUT ''THE MASTER'' I DON'T THINK SO.

[avenger00soul]

Originally posted by AUSTIN316426808
PERSONALLY I DON'T LIKE STEPHEN KING THAT MUCH HE DOES'NT DETAIL ENOUGH. AND MOST OF HIS MOVIES ARE TO SLOW TO GET INTO.

I agree with dmihatmttl, King goes into TOO much detail sometimes.

Anyway, top five, in order:

Robert R. McCammon
Clive Barker
Stephen King

well, I really don't stray too far from those three.

[livin_dead_88]

many favorate authors but heres FIVE:
1.Laurell k Hamilton
2.Amelia Atwater Rhodes
3.Edger Alan Poe
4.John Saul
5.Dean Koonts (i think I spelled this one wrong)

[SadisticAngel]

1. Joe R. Lansdale
2. Wayne Allen Sallee
3. Clive Barker
4. Richard Laymon
5. Markus Mayer (a german one)

[vulpesnoctus]

H.P. Lovecraft (his poetry especially)
Neal Stephenson
Clive Barker
Dan Simmons
Stephen King

Admittedly, Neal Stephenson and Dan Simmons aren't horror authors, but there you go.

[rikki]

CLIVE BARKER

A lot of the "horror" books I like are true crime stories about serial killers and crazy moms who go ape shit on their kids. Also, some of the stories I read, I don't know who wrote them because I read them in anthologies and pay more attention to the story than the title or author. They could have all been written by the same person for all I know most of the time.

I don't really much like Stephen King, too much. I like the concept of a lot of his stories, though. If there were a middle ground between the crappy movies and the long winded books, I'd be a Stephen King fan. But until then...

[livin_dead_88]

I have to agree with rikkita about Stephen King he is really long winded and the movies are horrible, besides that I dont really like him all that much anyway, but everyone has there own oppion about what they like and dislike.

[MuzikQueen79]

1. Edgar Allan Poe
2. Poppy Z. Brite
3. Anne Rice
4. Annette Curtis Klause
5. Stephen King

[evil_deadman]

My top 10 ( i know it said top 5..but i thought..what the hell..lol)

10.Ramsey Campbell
9.Dan Simmons
8.Rick Hautala
7.John Saul
6.Bently Little
5.Stephen King
4.Robert R. McCammon
3.H.P.Lovecraft
2.Clive Barker
1.Dean Koontz

[FilthyCannibal]

1. H.P. Lovecraft
2. Edgar Allan Poe
3. Clive Barker
4. Anne Rice
5. Stephen King
6. Robert Bloch
7. Dean Koontz
8. Simon Clark
9. Poppy Z. Brite
10. R.L. Stein (when I was about eight years old, he was my favorite)

[horrifying]

1. dean koontz
2. michael crichton
3. keith ablow
4. anne rice
5. stephen king

not all the authors are defined as horror oh well

[urgeok]

i have a tough time with horror authors .. most of them are pretty bad.

Stephen King blew his wad years ago and just keeps pumping out the same smug formula. And Re. the detail .. too true.
He takes 3 or 4 pages to describe something Charles Dickens could paint more vividly in one sentance.
Dickens was brilliant in the way that he could throw out the perfect pieces of a framework that would allow you to build the rest on your own. HE was a master. King seems to believe that people are completely devoid of imagination so he has to spell every single little thing out for you.

I used to like Clive Barker ... but he's gone off a bit too ..
And even from the Damnation Game up he has a way of writing an entertaining book but has no idea how to end it ..

Herbert is a decent writer ...
McCammon was entertaining .. Kingish without the smugness ..

Wilson was kind of fun to read .. good characterizations ..
Then he started to do the King Universe thing too and tie all of his stories together.

I guess you have to expect when a horror author becomes one of the widest read authors in the world .. that he is going to influence a lot of other people.

Koontz wrote decent science fiction .. but his horror work - his characters lack developement...- too cliche ...

I'm actually looking for inspiration in this thread to give me cause to start reading horror again because i gave up on it.

if anyone here knows where i'm coming from and still has some suggestions, I'd love to hear them !

[horrifying]

ablows work isn't horror (more mystery i guess) but most of his books deal with serial killers and psychopaths

[Horrorfiend]

In no particular order:

Stephen King
Clive Barker
Anne Rice
Edward Lee
Edgar Allen Poe
H.P. Lovecraft
Bram Stoker
Mary Shelley

[ButterflyKate09]

in this order:
1. most definately STEPHEN KING
2. John Grisham ( not really horror but whatever)
3. Peter Straub
4. Dean Koontz
5. Elizabeth Lowell ( kinda horror but not really)

[taylorsmommy]

In no particular order:

James Patterson
Anne Rice
Patricia Cornwell
Stephen King
Edgar Allen Poe

[tom-tom]

1. Stephen King
2. Dean Koontz
3. Shaun hutson
4. Clive Barker
5. James Herbert

[urgeok]

Ray Bradbury
Graham Greene
Summerset Maughan
Arthur Conan Doyle
Charles Dickens

[sandy_x]

my 5 are

steven king

anne rice

peter james

sean huston

james herbert