british horror writers

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus , which is considered an early example of science fiction

Roald Dahl

British novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot

Elizabeth Bowen

Irish – British novelist and short story writer notable for her books about the “big house” of Irish landed Protestants as well her fiction about life in wartime London.