Horror Authors
Max Brooks
Brooks applies a thorough, analytical approach to his gripping accounts of catastrophic zombie uprisings. 
 
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Scott Carson
Carson's novels are creepy and richly detailed. His well-developed characters encounter supernatural demons and paranormal phenomena.
 
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Clay McLeod Chapman
Chapman's haunting stories primarily deal with haunted houses, ghosts, and witchcraft.
 
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Darcy Coates
Coates combines the thrill of the paranormal with the rich worlds to create unique horrors that you can’t put down.
 
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Guillermo Del Toro
Film director and horror writer Guillermo Del Toro specializes in vampires. He puts his signature visual style to work in words: his vampires are ugly and disgusting rather than sexy, feline, and seductive.
 
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Mira Grant
Grant's books unfold at breakneck speed, leaping from one action-packed scene to the next, and, as one might expect, there's a lot of explicit violence and technicolor gore.
 
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Stephen Graham Jones
Jones' books tend to be a little bit unconventional, experimental, and creepy/borderline disturbing. He takes inspiration from all the great horror tropes -- werewolves, slashers, and vampires.
 
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Stephen King
Fast-paced plots with appealing heroes and terrifying villains, some instances of strong language.
 
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Dean Koontz
With elements of suspense, fantasy, and horror, Koontz's stories invoke a menacing atmosphere and nightmarish tone. The unsettling plots are often filled with explicit violence and strong language.
 
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Ronald Damien Malfi
Stories contain breakneck pacing with chilling atmospheric
detail and gruesome violence.
 
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Graham Masterton
Masterton skillfully develops mood, and atmospheric detail, his well-plotted and fast-paced stories keep readers turning pages with their short chapters, frequent narrative twists, and clear, direct prose.
 
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Zoje Stage
Stage's novels are all character-focused, provocative stories with a deliberate pace that allows the tension to build so intensely that it makes readers squirm.
 
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Paul Tremblay
Bram Stoker Award winner Paul Tremblay likes to thrill his audiences by crafting dark tales just off of the edge of what is, or what can be. 
 
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Catriona Ward
Stories contain a nightmarish atmosphere, along with a supernatural evil.  Novels are character driven; action packed, fast-paced, and suspenseful.
 
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