Best Authors Ever

[velvet kisses]

GRAHAM MASTERTON
ANNE RICE
RL.STINE
CHRISTOPHER PIKE
JAMES PATTERSON
DAN BROWN

[cheebacheeba]

Your fuckin' mother, cunt
and...Robert Ludlum, Graham Masterton

[noctuary]

Originally posted by velvet kisses
ANNE RICE
RL.STINE
CHRISTOPHER PIKE
DAN BROWN
wtf...

Thomas Ligotti
M.R. James
Philip K. Dick
J.G. Ballard
H.P. Lovecraft
Robert Jordan (not a technically brilliant author, but I love his books nonetheless)
Michael Moorcock
Tad Williams
Roger Zelazny
Harlan Ellison
Robert Silverberg

I could go on, but I think that's enough for now.

[Abominus]

H.P. Lovecraft
Chuck Palaniuk
Jack Ketchum is fun...

I still have a place in my heart for Clive Barker though I don't really do his new fantasy. Stephen King was the man who got me reading in the first place. It's just unfortunate that he ended up writing meta bullshit and misc. garbage.

My little sister read R.L. Stine and Pike when she was younger (6-8) ;)

I'm gonna say Chuck Palaniuk one more time so everyone gets the point...absolute super awsomeness.

[sinistar]

a sampling...

Poe
Lovecraft
King (mostly for The Shining)
Hunter S. Thompson
GK Chesterton
Richard Matheson

[alkytrio666]

Edgar Allan Poe

Stephen King

Bram Stoker

Thomas Harris

[Posher778]

Bram Stoker and Michael Crichton are my favs.

[urgeok]

ray bradbury
graham greene
charles dickens
summerset maughan
d h laurence
frank herbert
herman raucher
daphne du maurier
arthur conan doyle


and i have a big soft spot for Laurence Sanders.

[Zero]

Originally posted by cheebacheeba
Your fuckin' mother, cunt
and...Robert Ludlum, Graham Masterton


that's funny - i always thought my mother's cunt's prose was dry and her plotting a bit derivative - but to each his own!

[Indighost]

Originally posted by Zero
that's funny - i always thought my mother's cunt's prose was dry and her plotting a bit derivative - but to each his own!

haha!

Yeah King got me into Horror but I prefer Barker's prose and bigger scale. Can't fault Ms Rice, she's phenomenal, although her husband's poetry at the start of chapters could be avoided, as its shit.

[von chaney]

what about james herbert anyone??

he's written some classics.
the rats trilogy, followed by the graphic novel the city, is superb

its only after reading the fog that got me totally hooked on reading.
QUALITY!!

[AsherAtori]

I'm actually quite fond of Woody Allen's writing, if you ever get a chance to read "The Kugelmass Episode" go for it. Also Anthony Burgess is decent, he wrote "A Clockwork Orange".

[Nyarlathotep]

Originally posted by von chaney
what about james herbert anyone??

he's written some classics.
the rats trilogy, followed by the graphic novel the city, is superb

its only after reading the fog that got me totally hooked on reading.
QUALITY!!

yep

[RagbagGeorge]

wat about dr suess?

[jedicow]

stephen king
dean koontz
bentley little
brian keene
steve vance

[urgeok]

Originally posted by jedicow

brian keene


he was at the festival of fear horror thingy i went to last summer.

i bought the 2 'dead' book off him and he signed them for me..

nice fellow .. participates on his own web forum.
he said there might be the possibility of something being adapted to film..

[jedicow]

Originally posted by urgeok
he was at the festival of fear horror thingy i went to last summer.

i bought the 2 'dead' book off him and he signed them for me..

nice fellow .. participates on his own web forum.
he said there might be the possibility of something being adapted to film..

have you read them yet? quite possibly the best 2 horro books i have evr read. perhaps 2 of the best books i have ever read period.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by jedicow
have you read them yet? quite possibly the best 2 horro books i have evr read. perhaps 2 of the best books i have ever read period.

yep i read them..

they're fine for what they are i guess .. he had some interesting ideas ..tying zombies together with a lovecraftian theme...

to be fair .. i'll never consider any horror author (i've read yet) in my 'best authors ever'
I think it's the worst genre of fiction to suffer from poor writing.

[rogerzeus]

My best horror authors ever and best authors ever would be two different lists. But here are some of my favorite horror writers:

Poe
HPL
Clark Ashton Smith
William Hope Hodgson
M.P. Shiel (haven't read much, but he's off to a good start)
Arthur Machen
Thomas Ligotti
T.E.D. Klein
Algernon Blackwood (seems he wrote too much but I love some of his tales)

Brian McNaughton's THRONE OF BONES is one of my all-time favorite contemporary horror titles.

etc.
etc.

[noctuary]

^You win for mentioning Ligotti. Good list.