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Thanks for chipping in, Doc. And thanks NE for getting him here! :)

Hoping to have a few more before we start the sorting process.

1. Lovecraft
2. Stephen King
3. Clive Barker
4. Bram Stoker
5. Robert Bloch
6. William Peter Blatty
7. William S Burroughs
8. Poe
9. Ira Levin
10. Franz Kafka

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Originally Posted by _____V_____ (Post 916033)

Thanks for chipping in, Doc. And thanks NE for getting him here! :)

Hoping to have a few more before we start the sorting process.

You're welcome, V! Long as I don't get into anything big, I might stick around awhile.

My Top 100 in no order

H.P. Lovecraft
Stephen King
Dan Simmons
Peter Straub
Brian Keene
John Skipp
Robert Bloch
Clive Barker
Arthur Machen
F. Paul Wilson
Ramsey Campbell
Craig Spector
Ambrose Bierce
M.R. James
Joe R. Lansdale
David J. Schow
Robert Bloch
Ray Bradbury
T.E.D. Klein
Gary A. Braunbeck
Poppy Z. Brite
Robert W. Chambers
Mort Castle
Ray Garton
August Derleth
Don D'Ammassa
Dennis Etchison
John Everson
Mark Morris
John Farris
Charles L. Grant
Ed Gorman
Christopher Golden
James Herbert
J.F. Gonzalas
Rick Hautala
Joe Hill
Dean Koontz
Jack Ketchum
Nate Kenyon
Scott Nicholson
Brian Lumley
Ed Lee
Richard Laymon
Tim Lebbon
Bentley Little
Frank Belknap Long
Algernon Blackwood
Michael McDowell
Jonathan Maberry
Graham Masterton
Elizabeth Massie
Robert McCammon
Oliver Onions
Edgar Allen Poe
Tom Piccirilli
Anne Rice
Mary SanGiovani
Gord Rollo
John Saul
Bryan Smith
Thomas Tryon
Steve Rasnic Tem
Melanie Tem
T.M. Wright
Chet Williamson
William Hope Hodgson
Richard Matheson
Richard Christian Matheson
Shirley Jackson
Mary Shelley
Bram Stoker
Robert Louis Stevenson
Joseph Sheridan La Fanu
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Frietz Lieber
Peter Benchley
Charles Beaumont
William Peter Blatty
Ira Levin
Douglas Clegg
Peter Crowther
Phil Rickman
Simon Clark
W.D. Gagliani
Wrath James Wright
Cody Goodfellow
Jeff Strand
John Shirley
Michael Laimo
Deborah LeBlanc
Sarah Pinborough
Ronald Malfi
L.H. Maynard
M.P.N. Sims
Kim Newman
S.P. Somtow
Al Sarrantonio
Whitley Strieber
Michael Slade

Good to see someone showing some love for both Skipp and Keene. I hung out with both of them at last Bizarrocon. They're great guys who've changed the genre and have a lot of vision for the future.

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Originally Posted by Doc Faustus (Post 916227)

Good to see someone showing some love for both Skipp and Keene. I hung out with both of them at last Bizarrocon. They're great guys who've changed the genre and have a lot of vision for the future.

Reading Keene introduced me to a lot of authors i had never heard of it and his style of writing greatly inspired my own.

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Originally Posted by Doc Faustus (Post 916227)

Good to see someone showing some love for both Skipp and Keene. I hung out with both of them at last Bizarrocon. They're great guys who've changed the genre and have a lot of vision for the future.

Keene is a fantastic author. He would be my #11 for sure.

Will update the entire nomination list in a day or two. Keep posting your top 10s, folks!

Thread Stickied till the project is complete.

1. King
2. Poe
3. Lovecraft
4. Keene
5. Barker
6. Shelley
7. Straub
8. Koontz
9. Simmons
10. Danielewski

Received 16 entries so far.

Question for Roshiq, Hammerfan, Ellie, horror4ever & Bob Gray -

Are the lists you submitted your ranked lists (from #1 to #10)?
Please go through your submitted entries and if you need to rank them, do so in a subsequent post.
If they are already ranked, post your confirmation.

Waiting for more entries.