Note that some writers listed below have also written in other genres, especially Fantasy and Science Fiction .
- Robert Aickman , (1914-1981)
- Michael Arnzen
- Cynthia Asquith
- Clive Barker , (born 1952)
- Jessica Barone , (born 1977)
- Laird Barron , (born 1970)
- Edo Van Belkom
- E.F. Benson
- Ambrose Bierce , (1842-1914)
- John Blackburn , (born 1923)
- Algernon Blackwood , (1869-1951)
- Robert Bloch , (1917-1994)
- Maggie Bonilla-Thompson
- Gary A. Braunbeck , (born 1960)
- Poppy Z. Brite , (born 1967)
- Kealan Patrick Burke
- A.M. Burrage
- Ramsey Campbell , (born 1946)
- Jonathan Carroll , (born 1949)
- Hugh B. Cave , (1910-2004)
- Lincoln Child
- Richard Chizmar , (born 1965)
- Nancy A. Collins , (born 1959)
- Caroline B. Cooney , (born 1947)
- F. Marion Crawford
- Walter De La Mare , (1873-1956)
- August Derleth , (1909-1971)
- Tananarive Due , (born 1966)
- Lord Dunsany (1878-1957)
- Dennis Etchison , (born 1943)
- J. Sheridan Le Fanu , (1814-1873)
- Brian Freeman , (born 1979)
- Neil Gaiman , (born 1960)
- Stephen Gallagher , (born 1954)
- Larry Mike Garmon , (born 1955)
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Stefan Grabiński
- Charles L. Grant , (born 1942)
- Laurell K. Hamilton , (born 1963)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne , (1804-1864)
- Lafacadio Hearn
- James Herbert , (born 1943)
- Brian Hodge
- William Hope Hodgson , (1877–1918)
- Gerard Daniel Houarner
- Washington Irving
- Henry James
- M.R. James , (1862-1936)
- Brian Keene
- Caitlin R. Kiernan , (born 1964)
- Stephen King , (born 1947)
- T. E. D. Klein , (born 1947)
- Kathe Koja
- Dean R. Koontz , (born 1945)
- M. F. Korn
- Henry Kuttner
- Michael Laimo
- Stephen Laws
- Richard Laymon , (1947-2001)
- Tim Lebbon
- Thomas Ligotti , (born 1953)
- Bentley Little , (born 1960)
- H. P. Lovecraft , (1890-1937)
- Tim Lucas , (born 1956)
- Brian Lumley , (born 1937)
- Arthur Machen , (1863-1947)
- George R. R. Martin (born 1948)
- Graham Masterton , (born 1946)
- Richard Matheson
- Robert R. McCammon
- Nicholas S. Mounts (1987)
- Guy De Maupassant , (1850-1893)
- Prosper Merimee
- Gustav Meyrink , (1868-1932)
- Richard Middleton
- Stuart Neild , (born 1970)
- Kim Newman , (born 1959)
- Edith Nesbit
- Joyce Carol Oates , (born 1938)
- Fitz-James O'Brien , (1828-1862)
- Łukasz Orbitowski
- Norman Partridge
- Frank E. Peretti , (born 1951)
- Tom Piccirilli
- Christopher Pike , (born 1954) (pseudonym of Kevin McFadden )
- Edgar Allan Poe , (1809-1849)
- Douglas Preston
- Robert M. Price
- Rebecca K. Rhodes , (born 1966)
- Anne Rice , (born 1941)
- Ray Russell , (1924-1999)
- John Russo
- Saki
- Al Sarrantonio
- John Saul
- David J. Schow
- Sir Walter Scott
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , (1797-1851)
- Lucius Shepard
- John Shirley
- Dan Simmons
- Clark Ashton Smith , (1893-1961)
- Guy N. Smith
- L.J. Smith
- Craig Spector
- John Steakley
- Robert Louis Stevenson , (1850-1894)
- R.L. Stine , (born 1943) (Robert Lawrence Stine)
- Bram Stoker , (1847-1912)
- Peter Straub , (born 1943)
- Steve Rasnic Tem
- Melanie Tem
- Cate Tiernan , (born 1961)
- John Tynes
- H. Russell Wakefield , (1888-1964)
- Manly Wade Wellman , (1903-1986)
- Herbert George Wells
- Edith Wharton
- Cherry Wilder , (1930-2002)
- Colin Wilson
- F. Paul Wilson , (born 1946)
- T.M. Wright , (born 1947)
- Macey Baggett Wuesthoff (1975)
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