This is a list of some notable authors in the horror fiction genre.
- Clive Barker, (born 1952)
- Ambrose Bierce, (1842-1914)
- Algernon Blackwood, (1869-1951)
- Robert Bloch, (1917-1994)
- Poppy Z. Brite, (born 1967)
- Ramsey Campbell, (born 1946)
- Jonathon Carroll
- Nancy A. Collins, (born 1959)
- Caroline B. Cooney, (born 1947)
- August Derleth, (1909-1971)
- Lord Dunsany (better known as a writer of fantasy fiction)(Edward Dunsay), (1878-1957)
- Sheridan le Fanu, (1814-1873)
- Neil Gaiman, (born 1960)
- Charles L. Grant, (born 1942)
- Laurell K. Hamilton, (born 1963)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, (1804-1864)
- James Herbert
- Brian Hodge
- William Hope Hodgson
- M.R. James, (1862-1936)
- Stephen King, (born 1947)
- Dean R. Koontz, (born 1945)
- Bentley Little, (born 1960)
- H.P. Lovecraft, (1890-1937)
- Brian Lumley, (born 1937)
- Arthur Machen, (1863-1947)
- Walter de la Mare, (1873-1956)
- Robert R. McCammon
- Guy de Maupassant, (1850-1893)
- Gustav Meyrink, (1868-1932)
- Kim Newman, (born 1959)
- Joyce Carol Oates, (born 1938)
- Fitz-James O'Brien, (1828-1862)
- Christopher Pike, (born 1954)(pseudonym of Kevin McFadden)
- Edgar Allan Poe, (1809-1849)
- Anne Rice, (born 1941)
- Al Sarrantonio
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, (1797-1851)
- Clark Ashton Smith, (1893-1961)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894)
- R.L. Stine, (born 1943)(Robert Lawrence Stine)
- Bram Stoker, (1847-1912)
- Peter Straub, (born 1943)
- Cate Tiernan, (born 1961)
