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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Mario Acevedo
• The Nymphos of Rocky Flats

C.T. Adams & Cathy Clamp
• Touch of Evil

Kelley Armstrong
• Women of the Otherworld #1: Bitten
• Women of the Otherworld #2: Stolen
• Women of the Otherworld #3: Dime Store Magic
• Women of the Otherworld #4: Industrial Magic

Michael A. Arnzen
• 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories

B

Camille Bacon-Smith
• The Face of Time

Dale Bailey & Jack Slay Jr.
• Sleeping Policemen

Nancy Baker
• Blood & Chrysanthemums
• The Night Inside (also published as Kiss of the Vampire)
• A Terrible Beauty

L.A. Banks
• Vampire Huntress #1: Minion
• Vampire Huntress #2: The Awakening
• Vampire Huntress #3: The Hunted

Clive Barker
• Mister B. Gone

Peter Benchley
• White Shark

Nigel Bennett & P.N. Elrod
• Keeper of the King

Amber Benson & Christopher Golden
• The Seven Whistlers

Elaine Bergstrom
• Nocturne

Steve Berman
• Vintage: A Ghost Story

Jenna Black
• Guardians of the Night #1: Watchers in the Night
• Guardians of the Night #2: Secrets in the Shadows
• Guardians of the Night #3: Shadows on the Soul
• Morgan Kingsley, Exorcist #1: The Devil Inside

James P. Blaylock
• The Rainy Season

Robert Bloch
• The Lost Bloch: Vol. 3, edited by David J. Schow
• The Night of the Ripper

Alice Borchardt
• The Silver Wolf

Patricia Briggs
• Mercy Thompson #1: Moon Called
• Mercy Thompson #2: Blood Bound

Poppy Z. Brite
• Antediluvian Tales
• The Devil You Know
• Lost Souls
• Plastic Jesus
• Triads, with Christa Faust

Max Brooks
• The Zombie Survival Guide

Cara Bruce, editor
• Viscera

Steven Brust
• Agyar

Jim Butcher
• Blood Rites
• Dead Beat
• Death Masks
• Fool Moon
• Storm Front
• Summer Knight

Rachel Caine
• The Morganville Vampires #1: Glass Houses
• The Morganville Vampires #2: Dead Girl's Dance

Mayra Calvani
• Embraced by the Shadows

Peter Carver, editor
• The Horrors: Terrifying Tales, Book I

Karen Chance
• Claimed by Shadow
• Touch the Dark

Suzy McKee Charnas
• Stagestruck Vampires & Other Phantasms

Frank Chigas
• The Damp Chamber & Other Bad Places

Richard Chizmar, editor
• Trick or Treat: A Collection of Halloween Novellas

Richard Chizmar & Robert Morrish, editors
• October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween

Joseph A. Citro
• The Gore

Christopher Conlon, editor
• Poe's Lighthouse

Peter Crowther
• Songs of Leaving
• The Spaces Between the Lines
• Taps & Sighs (editor)

Les Daniels
• Yellow Fog

Frank Darabont
• Walpuski's Typewriter

Ellen Datlow, editor
• A Whisper of Blood

Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, editors
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 11th edition
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 12th edition
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 13th edition
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 14th edition

Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, editors
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 18th annual edition

Peter David
• Howling Mad

MaryJanice Davidson
• Undead & Unwed
• Undead & Unemployed
• Undead & Unappreciated

Charles de Lint
• Angel of Darkness, writing as Samuel M. Key
• Mulengro
• Wolf Moon
• Yarrow

Nolene-Patricia Dougan
• Vrolok

Frederic Durbin
• Dragonfly

Karen Duvall
• Project Resurrection

Bret Easton Ellis
• American Psycho

P.N. Elrod
• Cold Streets
• Keeper of the King, with Nigel Bennett

Mick Farren
• Darklost
• The Time of Feasting
• Underland

Jeffrey Ford
• The Empire of Ice Cream

Anne Frasier
• Play Dead

Bob Freeman
• Cairnwood Manor, Book I: Shadows Over Somerset

Brian Freeman
• Blue November Storms

Gregory Frost
• Attack of the Jazz Giants & Other Stories

James Futch & James Newman
• Night of the Loving Dead

Christopher Golden
• Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier & the Vampire, with Mike Mignola
• The Gathering Dark
• The Seven Whistlers, with Amber Benson
• Spike & Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row

Jewelle Gomez
• The Gilda Stories

Sherry Gottlieb
• Worse Than Death

Simon R. Green
• Nightside #1: Something from the Nightside
• Nightside #2: Agents of Light & Darkness
• Nightside #3: Nightingale's Lament
• Nightside #4: Hex & the City
• Nightside #5: Paths Not Taken

Martin H. Greenberg, editor
• Haunted Holidays, with Russell Davis
• Horrible Beginnings, with Steven Silver
• The Repentant, with Brian M. Thomsen

Peter Haining, editor
• Great Irish Tales of Horror: A Treasury of Fear

Joe Haldeman
• Camouflage

Tate Hallaway
• Tall, Dark & Dead
• Dead Sexy

Laurell K. Hamilton
• Guilty Pleasures

Charlaine Harris
• Grave Sight
• Sookie Stackhouse #1: Dead Until Dark
• Sookie Stackhouse #2: Living Dead in Dallas
• Sookie Stackhouse #3: Club Dead
• Sookie Stackhouse #4: Dead to the World
• Sookie Stackhouse #5: Dead as a Doornail
• Sookie Stackhouse #6: Definitely Dead
• Sookie Stackhouse #7: All Together Dead

Kim Harrison
• Rachel Morgan #1: Dead Witch Walking
• Rachel Morgan #2: The Good, the Bad & the Undead
• Rachel Morgan #3: Every Which Way But Dead

Mark Henry
• Happy Hour of the Damned

S.E. Hinton
• Hawkes Harbor

Glen Hirshberg
• The Two Sams

David Holland
• Murcheston: The Wolf's Tale

Deborah Howe
• Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery

H.R. Howland
• Ashes

Tanya Huff
• Blood Debt
• Blood Lines
• Blood Pact
• Blood Price
• Blood Trail
• The Keeper's Chronicles #1: Summon the Keeper
• The Keeper's Chronicles #2: The Second Summoning
• The Keeper's Chronicles #3: Long Hot Summoning

Charlie Huston
• Already Dead

Shirley Jackson
• The Haunting of Hill House

Marvin Kaye, editor
• The Vampire Sextette

Brian Keene
• City of the Dead
• The Conqueror Worms
• Dead Sea
• The Rising
• Kill Whitey

Julie Kenner
• Carpe Demon

Jackie Kessler
• Hell's Belles
• The Road to Hell

Samuel M. Key
• Angel of Darkness

James Kidman
• Black Fire

Caitlin R. Kiernan
• Low Red Moon
• Threshold

Lee Killough
• Blood Games

Stephen King
• Bag of Bones
• Carrie
• Cell
• Different Seasons
• From the Borderlands: Stories of Terror & Madness
• Lisey's Story
• Pet Sematary
• 'Salem's Lot
• see also The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book

E.E. Knight
• Vampire Earth #1: The Way of the Wolf
• Vampire Earth #2: Choice of the Cat

Lorna Joy Knox
• Two Tales of Mystery

Karen Koehler
• Slayer

Elizabeth Kostova
• The Historian

Steven Krane
• Stranger Inside

Susan Krinard, Tanith Lee, Evelyn Vaughn
• When Darkness Falls

Mercedes Lackey
• Burning Water

James Richard Larson
• The Right Thing

Ann Lawrence
• Do You Believe?

Richard Laymon
• Bite

Tim Lebbon
• After the War
• Berserk
• Fears Unnamed

Tanith Lee, Susan Krinard, Evelyn Vaughn
• When Darkness Falls

David Leviatan
• The Mummy

Marc Joel Levitt
• Tales of an October Moon

Jacqueline Lichtenberg
• Those of My Blood

Brian Lumley
• The Taint & Other Novellas: Best Mythos Tales, Vol. I

Erin McCarthy
• Vegas Vampires #1: High Stakes
• Vegas Vampires #2: Bit the Jackpot
• Vegas Vampires #3: Bled Dry
• Vegas Vampires #4: Sucker Bet

Kevin McCarthy, with David Silva
• Into the Darkness

Michael McCrann
• Midnight Tableau

Patrick McGrath
• Blood & Water & Other Tales

Robin McKinley
• Sunshine

Richelle Mead
• Succubus Blues

Elizabeth E. & Thomas F. Monteleone, editors
• From the Borderlands: Stories of Terror & Madness

Christopher Moore
• Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
• A Dirty Job
• You Suck

James A. Moore
• Under the Over Tree

David Morrell
• Creepers
• NightScape

Billie Sue Mosiman
• Craven Moon
• Malachi's Moon
• Red Moon Rising

A.S. Mott
• Gothic Ghost Stories: Tales of Intrigue & Fantasy from Beyond the Grave
• Haunting Fireside Stories

Justine Musk
• Bloodangel

Scott Nicholson
• The Farm
• The Red Church

Tom Orrell
• Not Alone Out Here

Helen Oyeyemi
• The Icarus Girl

John Pelan, editor
• Dark Arts
• The Darker Side: Generations of Horror
• A Walk on the Darkside: Visions of Horror

Frank Peretti & Ted Dekker
• House

Stefan Petrucha & Thomas Pendleton
• Wicked Dead: Lurker

Edgar Allan Poe
• Poe's Lighthouse, edited by Christopher Conlon

Tim Powers
• Declare

Terry Pratchett
• Mort (Discworld #4)
• Reaper Man (Discworld #11)
• Soul Music (Discworld #16)
• Maskerade (Discworld #18)
• Hogfather (Discworld #20)
• Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23)

[Editor's note: OK, Terry Pratchett doesn't write horror, as such, but these novels do deal with the likes of Death, the Phantom of the Opera, vampires and witches. That's scary, right? Um, well, it could be, if the light was just right....]

Cherie Priest
• Dreadful Skin

Jack Priest
• Gecko

Anne Rice
• Blackwood Farm
• Interview with the Vampire
• The Queen of the Damned
• The Vampire Lestat
• Vittorio the Vampire
• The Witching Hour