H. G. Wells
English writer
ghost story writers
Edith Wharton
American novelist, short story writer, and designer
Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer
Bram Stoker
Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula
Peter Straub
American novelist and poet
Muriel Spark
Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.
Russell Kirk
American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, and literary critic, known for his influence on 20th-century American conservatism
Stephen King
American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels
M. R. James
English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King’s College, Cambridge , and of Eton College . He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge .
James’s work as a medievalist and scholar is still highly regarded, but he is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some consider among the best in the genre
Shirley Jackson
American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery