Robert Aickman (1914–1981)

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1. Robert Aickman

   Author of Cold Hand in Mine, The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, The Attempted Rescue

2. Clive Barker

   Author of The Damnation Game, Cabal, Books of Blood, Vol. 1

3. Robert McCammon

   Author of The Wolf's Hour, Usher's Passing, Bethany's Sin

4. Thomas Ligotti

   Author of Grimscribe: His Lives and Works, Noctuary, The Shadow at The Bottom of The World

5. Arthur Machen

   Author of The Three Imposters and Other Stories, The White People and Other Stories, Tales of Horror and the Supernatural

6. Mark Valentine

   Author of Wormwood, Issue 3, Wormwood, Issue 2, Wormwood, Issue 4

7. Ramsey Campbell

   Author of Ancient Images, Alone With The Horrors, Ghosts and Grisly Things

8. Peter Straub

   Author of Ghost Story, Floating Dragon, Houses Without Doors

9. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

   Author of In a Glass Darkly, Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Hough, Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Stories

10. E. F. Benson

    Author of The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson, The Terror by Night (Spook Stories), The Passenger (Spook Stories)

11. William Hope Hodgson

    Author of The House on the Borderland, Carnacki the Ghost Finder, The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"

12. Sarban

    Author of The Doll Maker, Ringstones, The Sacrifice and Other Stories

13. Algernon Blackwood

    Author of Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories, Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural, Tales of the Mysterious and Macabre

14. Herbert Van Thal

    Author of The First Pan Book of Horror Stories, Pan Book of Horror Stories: Volume 2, The Seventh Pan Book of Horror Stories

15. Fritz Leiber

    Author of The Best of Fritz Leiber, Conjure Wife, Our Lady of Darkness

16. M. R. James

    Author of Collected Ghost Stories, Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories [Oxford World Classics], A Pleasing Terror: The Complete Supernatural Writings

17. T. E. D. Klein

    Author of The Ceremonies, Dark Gods

18. Harlan Ellison

    Author of Deathbird Stories, Approaching Oblivion, Partners in Wonder

19. Mark Samuels

    Author of The White Hands and Other Weird Tales, Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes, The Face of Twilight

20. Reggie Oliver

    Author of Dramas from the Depths, Masques of Satan: Twelve Tales and a Novella, The Wounds of Exile