Bram Stoker
Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula
fantasy
Thorne Smith
American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus , which is considered an early example of science fiction
J. K. Rowling
British author, philanthropist, film producer, and screenwriter
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator
John Cowper Powys
English philosopher, lecturer, novelist, critic and poet born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of the parish church in 18711879. Powys appeared with a volume of verse in 1896 and a first novel in 1915, but gained success only with his novel Wolf Solent in 1929. He has been seen as a successor to Thomas Hardy, and Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance , Weymouth Sands , and Maiden Castle have been called his Wessex novels
Philip Pullman
English author of high-selling books, including the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and a fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
Ayn Rand
Russian-American writer and philosopher
Anne Rice
American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Christian literature
Mervyn Peake
English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator