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I supose this is the right forum. Hard to tell. It is affiliated with Halloween in many ways; so I guess this is as good a place as any. I nail down some of mine, as always, INPO:
1. Stephen King- This should be no surprise to anyone. He's parobably on everyone's list. His writing in the latter years has been missing the greatness it had from the beginning of his career, into the VERY early 90's. Still the list of greats that he has written IS impressive: IT!, Salem's Lot, Needful Things, Pet Semetary, The Shining, The Dead Zone, The Tommyknockers and of course, The Stand. His last real good book was Bag of Bones and before and after that, his feminist phase really left me out in the cold.
2. Brian Lumley- Author of the Necroscope series. I am not just going off on a tangent saying these are the best Vampire books ever written; they simply are. Just pick up the first one, read it and the harbinger of literary Vampire doom in this day and age, Anne Rice will no longer be in your vocabulary.
3. Bentley Little- Little's writing is different that most folks. The man refuses to follow trends.He makes no apologies for it, and you HAVE to admire that in someone. After I read his book, The Store, I was hooked! I now own all his works, including the one he wrote under the pseudonym, Phillip Emmons. entitled, Death Instinct. I highly recommend his books.
4. Richard Laymon- Wish I could get my hands on some of his earlier works; but since his death, they are going to be VERY hard to come by without paying dearly for them.
5. Charles Grant- A cutting edge writer that has a unique outlook on things horrific in general.
6. Michael Cecilione- I have read exactly two books of his: Thirst, and The Soul Snatchers. That is more than enough to make me include him in a list that should by all rights contain authors with several books to their name. If you read any of his books, you'll see why I did.
7. Robert McCammon- Haven't read his latest two, but they are on my list. Read his early works ( wondered why he took a decade off from writing, though) and they are some that every serious Horror Afficianado should have in their collection.
8. John Passarella- Up-and-Coming Horror writer that wrote a couple of great books about Witches entitled, Wither, and Wither's Rain. Look for big things to come from this guy. I sent an email to him once. He is very gracious, and answered EVERY question I asked. Very Cool.
9. **** Farren- Another great Vampire fiction writer. Farren also writes Sci-Fi, but I'm a big fan of his Victor Renquist series.
10. H. P. Lovecraft- Sometimes hard to follow, but the dude wrote some real creepy ****. His writings have influenced practically everyone on my list. I would be remiss leaving him off. Without his influence, I sincerely doubt, we would have a lot of the great Horror works we have today.
1. Stephen King- This should be no surprise to anyone. He's parobably on everyone's list. His writing in the latter years has been missing the greatness it had from the beginning of his career, into the VERY early 90's. Still the list of greats that he has written IS impressive: IT!, Salem's Lot, Needful Things, Pet Semetary, The Shining, The Dead Zone, The Tommyknockers and of course, The Stand. His last real good book was Bag of Bones and before and after that, his feminist phase really left me out in the cold.
2. Brian Lumley- Author of the Necroscope series. I am not just going off on a tangent saying these are the best Vampire books ever written; they simply are. Just pick up the first one, read it and the harbinger of literary Vampire doom in this day and age, Anne Rice will no longer be in your vocabulary.
3. Bentley Little- Little's writing is different that most folks. The man refuses to follow trends.He makes no apologies for it, and you HAVE to admire that in someone. After I read his book, The Store, I was hooked! I now own all his works, including the one he wrote under the pseudonym, Phillip Emmons. entitled, Death Instinct. I highly recommend his books.
4. Richard Laymon- Wish I could get my hands on some of his earlier works; but since his death, they are going to be VERY hard to come by without paying dearly for them.
5. Charles Grant- A cutting edge writer that has a unique outlook on things horrific in general.
6. Michael Cecilione- I have read exactly two books of his: Thirst, and The Soul Snatchers. That is more than enough to make me include him in a list that should by all rights contain authors with several books to their name. If you read any of his books, you'll see why I did.
7. Robert McCammon- Haven't read his latest two, but they are on my list. Read his early works ( wondered why he took a decade off from writing, though) and they are some that every serious Horror Afficianado should have in their collection.
8. John Passarella- Up-and-Coming Horror writer that wrote a couple of great books about Witches entitled, Wither, and Wither's Rain. Look for big things to come from this guy. I sent an email to him once. He is very gracious, and answered EVERY question I asked. Very Cool.
9. **** Farren- Another great Vampire fiction writer. Farren also writes Sci-Fi, but I'm a big fan of his Victor Renquist series.
10. H. P. Lovecraft- Sometimes hard to follow, but the dude wrote some real creepy ****. His writings have influenced practically everyone on my list. I would be remiss leaving him off. Without his influence, I sincerely doubt, we would have a lot of the great Horror works we have today.
I don't have a lot of time right now so I'm just going to list off my favs, and I'll add other stuff later on.
