Grant (the Oxrun Station series) Jack Ketchum ( Off Season, The Girl Next Door), Dan Simmons ( Summer of Night, A Winter Haunting, The Terror), Michael McDowell (the Blackwater series), Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (the Sisters of the Night series), Tabitha King ( Small World, Caretakers), Chet Williamson ( Ash Wednesday, Soulstorm), Whitley Streiber ( The Wolfen, The Hunger), Thomas Monteleone ( Night Train, Night Things), F. By themselves, those Big Six would produce enough great horror novels to give the US a solid claim on being the world’s best source of 20th-century scary stories.Īnd just beneath that cohort came a host of talented but slightly less famous writers, people such as Robert McCammon ( They Thirst, Swan Song), Charles L. The next few years would bring the births of Dean Koontz (1945) and Stephen King (1947). He was born in 1943, just one year after the birth of Michael Crichton, who gave us techno-horrors such as Jurassic Park and Westworld and The Andromeda Strain, just two years after the birth of Anne Rice, who gave us The Vampire Lestat, and three years after the birth of Thomas Harris, who gave us Hannibal Lecter. Peter Straub, who died this week at the age of 79, was a member of perhaps the greatest generation of American horror writers.
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