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Among the various genres of literature that exist, horror is one of the most attractive to thousands of readers. In their stories, horror books authors tend to create a terrifying and mysterious environment, which can be of a natural or supernatural nature.

Countless literary works belong to the horror genre, by renowned authors who have set the standard in universal history.

Through their words, the writers of this type of book manage to enter the minds of the readers, creating a series of thoughts and sensations, which finally turn into terror and fear.

The presence of figures cataloged as monsters in horror stories is common, however, in some works terror can be caused by something unknown to which you often cannot give a shape or a name.

It is in these cases that the author’s creativity is revealed in its maximum expression. Here you will get to know the best 15 authors of horror books and their most outstanding works.

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Classic Horror Authors

Horror novels are some of the most striking in the world of literature. It is impressive but that dark and supernatural aspect has the capacity of captivating readers despite how gloomy and terrifying the story may be.

However, behind each plot there is a writer who takes all the credit, many of them are no longer with us but their works continue to accompany us, and have become classics of literature since they have endured over time from their creation to the present day.

Some of these writers are Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Anton Chejov, and Ernest Hemingway, among others, which you can meet below.

1) Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker

Abraham “Bram” Stoker was an Irish novelist and writer, best known for his 1897 novel Dracula.

Dracula was his most recognized literary creation, in which he enhanced the nuances of vampirism and which became a literary work passed down through the years. Today it is considered a classic of literature.

Oscar Wilde called it the best-written horror work of all time, and also “the most beautiful novel ever written.” Additionally, the book received praise from, among others, Arthur Conan Doyle.

Here we present an outstanding work by Bram Stoker:

Dracula

Dracula is an 1897 gothic horror novel by the Irish author. It introduced the character of Count Dracula and established many conventions of later vampire fantasy.

The novel tells the story of Dracula’s attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he could find new blood and spread the curse of the undead, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of people led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres, including vampire literature, horror fiction, gothic fiction, and invasion literature. The novel has spawned numerous theatrical, film, and television interpretations.

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2) Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American romantic writer, poet, critic, and journalist. He is generally recognized as one of the universal masters of the short story, of which he was one of the first practitioners in his country.

He was a renovator of the gothic novel, remembered especially for his horror stories. Considered the inventor of the detective story, he also created several works in the emerging genre of science fiction.

His figure as a writer, as much as his work deeply marked the literature of his country and the whole world.

Here we present 3 outstanding work by Edgar Allan Poe, if you want to read and download other works by Edgar Allan Poe in PDF format we invite you to visit our collection of Edgar Allan Poe books.

The Fall of The House of Usher

A young gentleman is invited to the old mansion of a childhood friend, Roderick Usher, a sickly and eccentric artist who lives completely secluded in the company of his sister, Lady Madeline, also in poor health.

Usher lives prey to an indefinable disease, which makes everyone fear for his life. The one who ends up dying is his sister. Her mortal remains are deposited in a crypt, but it does not take long for terrible events to take place that will lead to a tragic end.

The Fall of the House of Usher is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s best-known stories and has been adapted for film several times.

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The Raven

The Raven is a narrative poem written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1845. It is Poe’s most famous poetic composition, as it gave him international recognition. Its musicality, the stylized language, and the supernatural atmosphere that it manages to recreate are remarkable.

The text recounts the mysterious visit of a talking raven to the home of a grieving lover, and the latter’s slow descent into madness. The lover, who has often been identified as a student, mourns the loss of his beloved, Leonora.

The black raven, perched on a bust of Pallas Athena, seems to incite his suffering with the constant repetition of the words “Nevermore”. In the poem, Poe alludes to folklore and several classic works.

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The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe framed in the Gothic narrative, first published in The Pioneer literary journal in January 1843.

The story features an anonymous narrator obsessed with the ill eye of an old man with whom he lives. He finally decides to kill him. The crime is carefully studied and, after being perpetrated, the body is torn to pieces and hidden under the floorboards of the house. The police go to the scene and the murderer ends up giving himself away, hallucinating and imagining that the old man’s heart has begun to beat under the platform.

The relationship between victim and killer is unknown. The ambiguity and lack of detail about the two main characters are in sharp contrast to the detail with which the crime is recreated.

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3) H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft, better known as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American writer, and author of horror and science fiction stories and novels.

He is considered a great innovator of the horror story, to which he contributed his own mythology —the Cthulhu Mythos—, developed in collaboration with other current authors.

His work constitutes a classic of cosmic horror, a narrative line that departs from the traditional supernatural horror stories —Satanism, ghosts—, including elements of science fiction such as alien beings, time travel, or the existence of other dimensions.

Here we present 2 outstanding work by H.P. Lovecraft, if you want to read and download other works by H.P. Lovecraft in PDF format we invite you to visit our collection of H.P. Lovecraft books.

Call of Cthulhu

Call of Cthulhu is a short story by the American writer written in the summer of 1926, first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928.

The first part of the first chapter of the story, “The Horror in Clay,” comes from one of Lovecraft’s dreams he had in 1919, which he briefly described in two different letters sent to his friend Rheinhart Kleiner on May 21 and December 14, 1920.

In the dream, Lovecraft is visiting an antiquities museum in Providence, trying to convince the elderly curator that he bought a strange bas-relief that Lovecraft himself had carved, who initially taunts him for trying to sell something recently made to a museum of ancient objects.

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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a short novel written by H. P. Lovecraft between 1927 and 1928. It can be considered one of the author’s major works.

Based on the well-known Salem Witches affair in 1692, the author recounts the strange events surrounding the protagonist and his mysterious ancestor who disappeared on the eve of the American War of Independence.

The main character, Charles Dexter Ward, is a young man from a wealthy English family who is said to have disappeared after a period of madness that had been brewing for some time. The story is told from the perspective of Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willet’s investigation into what caused Ward to lose his sanity, and which has also caused strange physical changes.

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4) Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley was a British playwright, essayist, and biographer best known for authoring the gothic novel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus in 1818.

This novel was considered the first modern science fiction novel and managed to inaugurate the genre.

Until the 1970s, Mary Shelley was primarily recognized for her efforts to publish the works of her husband Percy Shelley and for her novel Frankenstein, which remains widely read and has inspired several film and theater adaptations.

Here we present 2 outstanding work by Mary Shelley:

Frankstein or the Modern Prometheus

Relive the wonderful story of Frankenstein through the pen of the author Mary Shelley, who transfers the incredible teachings of this old novel to our times, but this time she does it in the form of a fable without leaving aside the main point of this story.

Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus can be considered a literary adaptation, that is why its title, the author’s idea is that we can see a story that many of us already know from a different point of view.

Frankenstein is the main character, an aberration of human invention, the product of the evil ambition of a scientist, who after having created him immediately rejects him.

But beyond the story, the book touches on important issues such as life, love, and freedom.

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The Last Man

The Last Man is a very interesting novel, although not very well known, because when it was published in the 1800s it was somewhat censored, however, it has been circulating for years because it presents a very good story.

It is about a futuristic world, where all or most of humanity has been affected by a deadly virus, leaving only one man alive, who in the midst of wonder and loneliness begins to go through moments of extreme misery.

Can you imagine being the only person on earth? It must be a pretty depressing situation, but it is the scenario where the author takes us through the pages of her book, and best of all, the way she writes will keep you captivated from the moment you start reading until you finish the whole novel.

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Current Horror Authors

Horror books are still booming today, many writers choose to create novels of this genre since the majority of both occasional and recurring readers enjoy stories that cause fear.

Today Stephen King is the benchmark in this area, but other authors have created interesting novels, such as Anne Rice, a writer who has decanted the world of literature with her works about vampires, supernatural love, death, and much more.

We present below the horror authors who are currently being recognized within the horror genre and who manage to compete even with the classics of horror literature.

5) Stephen King

Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King, better known as Stephen King and occasionally by his pseudonym Richard Bachman, is an American writer of horror, supernatural fiction, mystery, science fiction, and fantasy novels.

His books have sold more than 350 million copies and most have been adapted for film and television.

His sense of storytelling, his lively and colorful characters, and his ability to play on readers’ fears have been praised.

Although in most of his stories he uses the resource of terror, he also regularly addresses issues such as childhood, racism, and war, providing a very realistic social portrait of the United States.

Here we present 2 outstanding work by Stephen King:

It

Stephen King’s It book, like all his published books, is one more bestseller by this incredible author, so much so that it has been taken to theaters twice, part 1 and part 2.

It is about a murderous clown who sows terror in a small region of a North American town, where he even murders children, and among the protagonists of this wonderful issue, there are children who are murdered in a cruel and ruthless way.

The point is that the surviving protagonists after 27 years of tranquility and distance, have to return to that horrible place due to a promise they made as children, in order to try to solve the enigma of the clown, the awareness that they can die accompanies the protagonists in this terrible but moving story.

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The Shining

When children, our children, or the little ones in the home are concerned about something, it is better to pay attention to them in detail, because they may be showing something important; this is the message of Stephen King, the famous horror novelist, in this work.

The Shining is about a 5-year-old boy, who without an adult or clear notion of reality notices some words written on the mirror “REDRUM” is the word, which is inverted because of the reflection of the mirror, but it really says murder.

The child, even without knowing what it means, is sure of something, that his fantasies with the glare of the mirror and this word had something in common and would end up being fulfilled. When he finds out that his father is leaving for 6 months to work in a hotel far from the city, that’s when the real terror begins.

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6) Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson was an American short story writer and novelist specializing in the horror genre. She was popular during her lifetime and in recent years her work has received increasing critical attention.

She greatly influenced authors such as Joanne Harris, Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, Neil Gaiman, and Richard Matheson. She was a recipient of the Edgar Award.

She was convinced that a good writer does not need to explain her books because they explain themselves perfectly.

Here we present 3 outstanding work by Shirley Jackson:

The Haunting of Hill House

When a movie is released, there is always a sketch, book, or novel behind it, which becomes the origin of said movie. Such is the case of The Haunting of Hill House, a horror novel that has been brought to theaters twice.

It’s about a doctor who loves the occult and paranormal events who together with three “test subjects” enters the labyrinths of an old mansion called Hill House.

The idea of coming to this mansion is to look for paranormal presences, which according to the residents of the area, are events that occur frequently.

Once there, they will all have to face situations that are beyond their comprehension, and soon they will discover that the cursed house wants to keep one of them forever.

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Terror expands to unexpected places, have you ever seen terrifying fairies? Perhaps not because they are always beautiful and sweet, but in this novel, you will find the opposite, the author’s pen and her imagination have created a setting worth admiring and enjoying.

We Have Always Lived in The Castle is a story full of a lot of drama, where terror and poetry become one, where dreams come true in a way contrary to what the main characters expected.

It is about a great family, which has many assets, and among one of them, there is a castle that reflects the human fears of those who inhabit it, because a curse is on it, and it brings its inhabitants doubts, insecurities, questions, and much more.

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The Letters of Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and one of the greatest chroniclers of the female experience. The Letters of Shirley Jackson is an extraordinary compilation of personal correspondence that bears all the hallmarks of Jackson’s beloved fiction: glimpses of the strange in the domestic, sparks of horror in the everyday, and the veins of humor that run through the good and the bad times.

Written from Jackson’s college years to six days before her early death at the age of forty-eight, these letters became the autobiography Shirley Jackson never wrote.

At the same time, many of these letters provide new insight into the genesis and progress of Jackson’s writing over nearly three decades.

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7) Clive Barker

Clive Barker

Clive Barker is a British writer, film director, and visual artist. He began his career with various horror stories collected in the series Books of Blood and the Faustian novel The Damnation Game.

Later he moved into the modern fantasy genre with hints of horror.

Barker’s most characteristic style is the idea that there is an underlying and hidden world that coexists with ours, the role of sexuality in the supernatural, and the construction of coherent, complex, and detailed mythologies.

Here we present 2 outstanding work by Clive Barker:

Hellraiser

Hellraiser is a novel that you will not be able to stop reading, its incredible story has allowed it to become an unparalleled bestseller, the author’s pen is the hallmark of the work and it is one of his greatest works worldwide.

Hellraiser has its origins in the heart of man, and its plot speaks precisely about it, but the author describes it in such an amazing way that it will leave you stunned while reading, the main themes are love, greed, despair, lack of love, desire, slavery, blood, and death.

Elements that are characteristic of every horror story, and that are combined in the masterful way presented to us in this novel, offer us a literary ecstasy worthy of having a place in our personal library.

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Books of Blood: Volumes I, II and III

Books of Blood: volumes I, II, and III is a series of short stories, stories that can be read every night before going to sleep, and thus have a few nightmares from its fantastic author Clive Barker.

In this installment, a fairly extensive compilation of his stories is made, which are written in a very particular and simple way to read, but at the same time, their plots are so deep that they will make your imagination fly while you immerse yourself in each one of them. the scenes.

You will find titles like: The Pig’s Blood Blues, The Midnight Meat Train, Terror, Death Knocks at the Door, A Princess Dead by Day and Alive by Night, The Cross of the Bloody Carnival, The Scarecrow’s Bride and many stories more.

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8) Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz

Dean R. Koontz is an American horror writer. After a difficult childhood, he found his calling in literature. At twenty years old, he won the Atlantic Monthly novel prize and since 1969 he has dedicated himself exclusively to writing.

He is an author of suspense, science fiction, horror, and mystery novels. Koontz first published in 1968, and his novels have frequently topped the New York Times bestseller list ever since.

His novels have been translated into 17 languages, have sold more than fifty million copies worldwide, and some of them have been made into films and television.

Here we present an outstanding work by Dean Koontz:

The Eyes of Darkness

The Eyes of Darkness is a thriller novel by American writer Dean Koontz, published in 1981. The book centers on a mother who embarks on a quest to find out if her son really died a year earlier or if he is still alive

At the end of 2019, a deadly virus called “Wuhan 400”, which is a biological weapon, is created and released in the city of Wuhan, China. In 2020, the protagonist sends her son on a camping trip with a monitor that she has previously taken to the mountains without mishaps, but this time it is not like that. Each of the campers, the monitor, and the driver die without explanation.

As the grieving mother begins to come to terms with the fact that her son is dead, she begins to be viciously harassed by messages out of nowhere, such as phrases written on blackboards, words off printers, and other “signs” that say her son is not dead. Along with her new friend, she sets out to find out what could have happened on the day her son “died”.

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9) Anne Rice

Anne Rice

Anne Rice was an American author of best-selling gothic and religious themes.

Her best-known work is the Vampire Chronicles literary series, whose main theme is love, death, immortality, existentialism, and the human condition. Her books have sold nearly one hundred million copies, making her one of the most widely read writers in the world.

Two of her Vampire Chronicles books were the subject of two film adaptations: Interview with the Vampire and Queen of the Damned.

Here we present an outstanding work by Anne Rice:

The Vampire Chronicles

The Vampire Chronicles is a series of fantasy novels written by Anne Rice that tell the story of the fictional character Lestat de Lioncourt, accompanied by a series of enigmatic vampire characters.

They are recognized as one of the best novels dedicated to the current vampire myth, responsible for resurrecting the myth in the US. It is really difficult not to mention this literary saga when referring to the world of vampires, gothic, and horror.

The titles from this series are “Interview with the Vampire”, “Lestat the Vampire”, “The Queen of the Damned”, “The Body Snatcher”, “Memnoch the Devil”, “The Vampire Armand”, “Merrick”, “Blood and Gold”, “The Sanctuary”, “Prince Lestat and the Kingdoms of Atlantis”, and “The Community of Blood”.

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10) Ramsey Campbell

Ramsey Campbell

John Ramsey Campbell is a British short-story writer, novelist, and editor, considered by critics to be one of the great masters of the contemporary horror story.

Due to his concern for formal issues, Ramsey Campbell is considered one of the best stylists in the genre. He has also excelled as an editor of horror anthologies and collaborates with the BBC on film review programs.

His novels have been adapted to the big screen twice: Los sin nombre by Jaume Balagueró and El Segundo Nombre by Francisco Plaza.

Here we present 2 outstanding work by Ramsey Campbell:

The Searching Dead

The Searching Dead is the first part of Ramsey Campbell’s Daoloth trilogy, followed by Born to the Dark and The Way of the Worm. Set in Liverpool in 1952, it follows the story of schoolboy Dominic Sheldrake and his friends Jim and Bobby.

This author’s new trilogy, The Three Births of Daoloth, further develops the cosmic horrors he invented in his first published book, The Lake Dweller. The Seeking Dead is the first volume, followed by Born in Darkness.

Dominic, the narrator, lives with his parents and attends a local Catholic school for boys. When his class goes on a school trip to France to visit some war sites, Christian Noble, one of the teachers, begins to display sinister behavior, leading the three friends into a terrifying encounter with paranormal forces.

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Born to the Dark

Born To The Dark by Ramsey Campbell is the second book in The Three Births of Daoloth trilogy.

It is now 1985 and more than thirty years have passed since the events of The Seeking Dead. While some background is provided, this is a trilogy with one continuous story told in its three volumes.

Dominic Sheldrake is now a university film professor, is married, and has a five-year-old son. At the opening of the novel, Dominic has traveled to London to meet up with his childhood friends Jim and Roberta (Bobbie), who is now a journalist. Naturally, this meeting stirs up memories of Christian Noble and his sinister cult.

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11) Richard Matheson

Richard Matheson

Richard Matheson was an American fantasy, science fiction, and horror writer and screenwriter.

He began publishing his stories in the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper. Later, he started writing fantasy, horror, and science fiction stories. His first published story Born of Man and Woman made him immediately famous.

In 1954 his already classic novel I Am Legend resurfaced. In 1957 he adapted his novel The Shrinking Man for the cinema, resulting in a cult film by the same title. He also stood out as a screenwriter for several episodes of the television series The Twilight Zone and the Steven Spielberg film, Duel, based on his story.

Here we present 3 outstanding work by Richard Matheson:

Hell House

Hell House is a horror novel by American novelist Richard Matheson, published in 1971.

The story revolves around four people who are hired to investigate the possibility of an afterlife and solve it with a time limit of one week. To do so, they must enter the infamous Belasco House in Maine, considered the most haunted house in the world.

The novel blends supernatural horror with mystery as the characters attempt to investigate the house’s curse while its sinister influence subtly undermines their sanity. The house exploits the deepest desires of its guests and tries to turn people against each other during the course of their visit.

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I am Legend

Richard Matheson, who was one of the most influential authors of the 20th century in life, was considered a great writer by the one and only Stephen King, a compelling reason to consider his books, most of which have been international bestsellers.

I Am Legend is one of his most famous works, it tells the story of a man who for fortuitous reasons became the only survivor of a bacteriological war where people became vampires.

However, these creatures have a high degree of intelligence, and they are not mere zombies, but dangerous beings that come out at night to hunt; therefore Robert Neville (the legend) takes care during the day to eliminate as many as possible to withstand the night siege.

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What Dreams May Come

What Dreams May Come is a 1978 novel by Richard Matheson. The plot centers on Chris, a man who dies and then goes to heaven but descends to hell to rescue his wife.

The book explores a variety of paranormal phenomena and advances a philosophy of mind over matter, arguing that the human soul is immortal and that a person’s fate in the afterlife is self-imposed.

The novel’s powerful story of life and love after death was the basis for the Oscar-winning film starring Robin Williams.

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12) Peter Straub

Peter Straub

Peter Francis Straub is an American novelist, short story writer, and poet specializing in the horror genre.

After several attempts, he attracted the attention of critics and the public with his fifth novel, Ghosts (1979), made into a film two years later. Straub has written some novels in collaboration with Stephen King.

His macabre stories have received several important awards in the Anglo-Saxon sphere: the Bram Stoker Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the International Horror Guild Award, which places him among the most awarded authors of the genre in recent history.

Here we present an outstanding work by Peter Straub:

Koko

Koko is an American mystery horror novel by American writer Peter Straub, first published in the United States in 1988 by EP Dutton and in Britain by Viking. It was the winner of the World Fantasy Award for best novel in 1989.

The plot unfolds at the inauguration of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., where four surviving members of an Army platoon meet. Their current lives differ greatly in social standing and degree of success, yet they still cannot shake the memories of the hell they endured together in S.E. Asia, and there is a memory of the past rearing its ugly head.

This novel is a gripping psychological thriller in which horror and paranoia are indistinguishable from reality.

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13) Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury was an American fantasy, horror, and science fiction writer. He is primarily known for his work The Martian Chronicles, and the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451.

He considered himself “a storyteller for moral purposes.” His works often produce in the reader a metaphysical and, therefore, disconcerting anguish, but always with a touch of daily life, since they reflect Bradbury’s conviction that the destiny of humanity is “to traverse infinite spaces and suffer excruciating sufferings to conclude defeated, contemplating the end of eternity».

Although Bradbury is known as a science fiction writer, he stated that he was not a science fiction writer, but a fantasy writer and that his only science fiction novel is Fahrenheit 451.

Here we present 3 outstanding work by Ray Bradbury:

Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, published in 1953 and considered one of his best works. The novel presents an American society of the future in which books are prohibited and there are “firemen” who burn them.

The protagonist of the story is a firefighter named Montag who eventually gets tired of his role as a censor of knowledge, decides to quit his job, and eventually joins a resistance group dedicated to memorizing and sharing the world’s best literary works.

The novel has been the subject of interpretations that focus on the historical role that the burning of books has had in repressing dissenting ideas. In a 1956 radio interview, Bradbury claimed to have written Fahrenheit 451 because of his concerns during the McCarthy era of the threat of book burning in the United States.

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The Martian Chronicles

The Martian Chronicles is a series of short stories by writer Ray Bradbury. The stories lack a fixed linear plot line, but the contextual and temporal reference is the same in all of them: the arrival on Mars and the colonization of the planet by humans.

Published in 1950, The Martian Chronicles, recognized alongside Fahrenheit 451 as one of Bradbury’s best books, abounds in poetic and melancholic descriptions of Mars and the Martians, and of American society in Bradbury’s day.

Although the book is titled The Martian Chronicles, it deals with perennial themes of all humanity: war and man’s self-destructive impulse, racism, both towards Martians and towards other people, and the smallness of man before nature and the universe.

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The Illustraded Man

The Illustrated Man is a 1951 book of eighteen science fiction short stories written by Ray Bradbury, all of which explore the nature of humanity. A recurring theme throughout the eighteen stories is the conflict between cold technological mechanisms and people’s psychology.

These different stories come together with the figure that frames “The Illustrated Man”, a homeless man with his body entirely tattooed whom the publisher of the book, who remains anonymous, knows. These tattoos were made in theory by a time-traveling woman, they are animated and each one tells a different story.

Thus, the story of “The Illustrated Man” serves as the framework narrative for all the tales. All but one of the stories had been previously published, although for the book’s publication Bradbury revised some of the texts.

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14) Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons is an American writer. His best-known work is Hyperion, winner of the Hugo and Locus science fiction awards. Hyperion is the first novel of the tetralogy The Songs of Hyperion, completed by the works The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, and The Rise of Endymion.

Dan Simmons often cultivates the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, sometimes mixed into the same work.

In 1982 he published his first story with which he won the first Rod Serling Story Conquest for short stories, and since 1987 he has been writing full time.

Here we present an outstanding work by Dan Simmons:

The Terror

The Terror is a novel by Dan Simmons published in 2007 that fictionally recounts events inspired by the lost Franklin Expedition. Simmons adds paranormal elements to a true story.

In September 1847, two British Navy ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, under the command of Sir John Franklin, go in search of the Northwest Passage. In the vicinity of King William Island, they are trapped in the Arctic ice.

The conditions of survival are extreme with temperatures exceeding fifty degrees below zero, scarce food supplies, the deterioration of ships, or the arrival of diseases. The strange presence of a mysterious beastly creature leads the men to believe they are up against supernatural forces. Mutiny and cannibalism loom over the survivors.

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15) John Ajvide Lindqvist

John Ajvide Lindqvist is a Swedish writer of horror novels. His first novel Låt den rätte komma in, a vampire story published in 2004, enjoyed great success in Sweden. And since then he began his professional career as a writer.

Among his favorite authors he has mentioned Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez and Jorge Luis Borges; especially the first.

Throughout his career, he has received awards such as the Selma Lagerlöf, one of the most prestigious in Sweden.

Here we present an outstanding work by Susan John Ajvide Lindqvist:

Let Me In

Let Me In is a book with a chilling horror story, from the main character who has a strange hobby, to the supernatural presence that moves within its pages.

It tells the story of a twelve-year-old boy named Oskar. He has no friends, spends his time alone, and likes to collect news of murders that appear in the newspapers, he usually cuts them out and keeps them in a notebook.

His life is boring and somewhat full of problems at school, where he is teased and harassed by his classmates.

But one day, Eli, a girl his age, shows up, and they quickly become inseparable friends. From this point on, his life becomes happier, however, a series of serial murders begin to happen in his town, so much so that the police have no solution.

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Here ends our selection of Authors of Horror Books. We hope you liked it and already have your next book!

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