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Old 01-09-2012, 09:18 AM
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Old 01-09-2012, 12:08 PM
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I notice a few people listed Ray Bradbury. I've always considered his work to be more science fiction than horror.
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Old 01-09-2012, 12:22 PM
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In my opinion, a good deal of Bradbury's work could be classified as horror, or even "light" horror. He isn't outright scary or gruesome, but a lot of his stories have an underlying, unsettling creepiness to them that I think would place them in the horror genre. Even if it's just barely. :)
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I notice a few people listed Ray Bradbury. I've always considered his work to be more science fiction than horror.
As Ellie said, a lot of his work has horror elements and a good deal of his early work is straight up horror. His work appeared in Weird Tales and other horror pulps of the era. Something Wicked This Way Comes is definitely a horror story, and the collection October Country has many terrifying tales in it.

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10. William Burroughs

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Clive Barker
MR James
Richard Matheson
Shirley Jackson
Robert Bloch
Jack Ketchum
Clark Ashton Smith
HH Munro
Peter Straub
Whitley Streiber (whether you consider him a lunatic or a clever publicist of his work post Communion, it's good to remember he wrote some really great horror before that, such as The Hunger and Wolfen)
Franz Kafka
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I was told by Neverending I should come by and offer up my ten, focusing on ones you guys might miss.

1. Dante Alighieri
2.Franz Kafka
3. Arthur Machen
4. Brett Easton Ellis
5. William Burroughs
6. Joyce Carol Oates
7.Joe Lansdale
8. Thomas Ligotti
9.Robert W. Chambers
10. William Hope Hodgson

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John Skipp
M.R James
Goethe
The Marquis De Sade
William Peter Blatty
Ira Levin
Harlan Ellison
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