Who's your favorite horror author?

[Phoenix_Gray]

There isn't many threads in here so here's one that goes with this forum. Anyway, my two favorite authors are: HP Lovecraft & Clive Barker. I'd have to say my favorite horror novel would be the Books of Blood by Clive Barker. And anything by Lovecraft. Praise Cthulhu!  

[The Reason For Your Death]

mine is stephen king.  

[Wyldfyr]

Stephen King, Dean R. Koontz and Anne Rice are my top favorites.  

[Xx_GirlOfFire_xX]

STEPHEN KING rulez biggrin the films to his books r awesome too!  

[Blazefox1]

I love stephen king. mrgreen  

[Spooky Wasabi Princess]

I haven't actually read much horror aside from a handful of books so I couldn't name a favourite. I do like Richard Laymon. And Clive Barker is cool.  

[TGI-LickMyPussay]

STEPHEN KING and R.L.Stine  

[Stella the Bag Lady]

Stephen King, Anne Rice (although her books really aren't technically horror), Dean Koontz, John Saul and a few others.  

[pirategirl916]

Stephen King is my favorite. I just finished reading Carrie.  

[--Vampireluvsslipknot]

r.l.stine  

[--Vampireluvsslipknot]

and stephen king  

[vita grotesk]

i don't understand the big deal about stephen king. i've read a couple of his novels and the best of them were trite, garbled, poorly-written trash. i tried to read 'cell', which was a great concept, very fast-paced and fascinating, but i had to stop because his writing was so bloody awful and i had to slog through all these badly executed action sequences with a bunch of characters i didn't give a s**t about. i had to work so hard to figure out what was going on and then when i did i realized it wasn't worth it. so SCREW that guy.

i think palahniuk should write more horror. 'haunted' made me giggle and vomit at the same time.  

[zeroyield]

vita grotesk

i think palahniuk should write more horror. 'haunted' made me giggle and vomit at the same time.

I agree, sickly funny.
One of my other favorite horror authors is Brian Lumley. He does the Necroscope series. Good stuff.  

[Luscara]

Christopher Pike has always stuck with me. His grasp of tension has always fascinated me.
Mark Danielewski doesn't really qualify as a horror author, since he's only published one book in the genre, but House of Leaves is by far the most frightening book I've read in years.  

[Amy Rock Ness]

I'm a huge fan of the Anne Rice books, i am currently re-reading Interview with a Vampire. It is brilliantly written. I'm at the part where Armand appears on the scene. ^_^