If You Like Stephen King
Try These Authors
Stephen King is the master of the contemporary horror story. His novels bring a horrific sense of "otherliness" to everyday, ordinary situations and things. His descriptive prose is simple, often entering his characters' trains of thought. King's popularity over the past 30 years has opened the door to greater success for numerous other horror writers. This list below includes many of King's stylistic contemporaries, as well as a few classic horror writers who may have provided the inspiration for King's own career.
V.C. Andrews
Jay Anson
Clive Barker
Algernon Blackwood
William Peter Blatty
Robert Bloch
Ramsey Campbell
Mary Higgins Clark [psychological suspense, not supernatural]
John Coyne
Frank DeFelitta
Max Ehrlich
Ken Eulo
John Farris
Charles L. Grant
Muriel Gray
Dean R. Koontz
Richard Laymon
Fritz Leiber [also writers fantasy and science fiction]
Ira Levin
H.P. Lovecraft
Robert R. McCammon
Richard Matheson
Edgar Allan Poe
Anne Rice
John Saul
Steve Shagan
David Shobin
Dan Simmons
Peter Straub
Whitley Strieber
Thomas Tryon
Bari Wood
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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Updated and expanded for the Web October 2003 sdc
Last updated July 2008 sdc
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