What are some of your favourite horror writers, and which of their books do you like the most?
My favourite horror author has always been James Herbert. I've always liked the fact that his books never follow exactly the same formula, which happens with a lot of writers. Admittedly he does often tend to use the same structure of a main character and a love interest in most, but that is as far as the similarities go.
I recently finished reading The Ghosts of Sleath and thought it was a great book, and with a slightly unexpected end. The sequel to Haunted, it is worth reading that first as it is about the same central character (David Ash) and reference is made to the events of first book in Ghosts of Sleath.
Other authors I like include Dean R. Koontz, Stephen King, Anne Rice and Shaun Hutson (as mentioned an another thread), and of course all of the famous ones such as H. P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe.
