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Mario Acevedo
• The Nymphos of Rocky Flats

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

Kelley Armstrong
• Angelic
• 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
• Women of the Otherworld #5: Haunted
• Women of the Otherworld #6: Broken
• Women of the Otherworld #7: No Humans Involved
• Women of the Otherworld #8: Personal Demon
• Women of the Otherworld #9: Living with the Dead
• Women of the Otherworld #12: Spell Bound

Michael A. Arnzen
• 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories

Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith
• Pride & Prejudice & Zombies

B

Richard Bachman
• The Long Walk
• Rage
• Roadwork
• The Running Man

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

Adrienne Barbeau
• Love Bites

Adrienne Barbeau & Michael Scott
• Vampyres of Hollywood

Clive Barker
• Mister B. Gone

C.G. Bauer
• Scars on the Face of God

Marion Dane Bauer
• The Red Ghost

Elizabeth Bear
• New Amsterdam
• Seven for a Secret

Peter Benchley
• White Shark

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

Amber Benson & Christopher Golden
• Ghosts of Albion: Accursed
• Ghosts of Albion: Initiation
• Ghosts of Albion: Witchery
• 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

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
• Red Riding Hood

William Peter Blatty
• Elsewhere

James P. Blaylock
• The Rainy Season

Alex Bledsoe
• Blood Groove

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

Francesca Lia Block
• Blood Roses
• Pretty Dead

Alice Borchardt
• The Silver Wolf

Patricia Briggs
• Mercy Thompson #1: Moon Called
• Mercy Thompson #2: Blood Bound
• Mercy Thompson #3: Iron Kissed

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

Brom
• Slewfoot

Max Brooks
• The Zombie Survival Guide
• The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks, with Ibraim Roberson

Ryan Brown
• Play Dead

Cara Bruce, editor
• Viscera

Steven Brust
• Agyar

J. Edwin Buja
• Enough Time

Kealan Patrick Burke
• The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others

Jim Butcher
• The Dresden Files #1: Storm Front
• The Dresden Files #2: Fool Moon
• The Dresden Files #3: Grave Peril
• The Dresden Files #4: Summer Knight
• The Dresden Files #5: Death Masks
• The Dresden Files #6: Blood Rites
• The Dresden Files #7: Dead Beat
• The Dresden Files #8: Proven Guilty
• The Dresden Files #9: White Night
• The Dresden Files #10: Small Favor
• The Dresden Files #11: Turn Coat
• The Dresden Files #12: Changes

Rachel Caine
• The Morganville Vampires #1: Glass Houses
• The Morganville Vampires #2: Dead Girl's Dance
• The Morganville Vampires #3: Midnight Alley
• The Morganville Vampires #9: Ghost Town
• The Undead

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
• The Vampire Tapestry

Frank Chigas
• The Damp Chamber & Other Bad Places

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

Richard & Billy Chizmar
• Widow's Point

Richard Chizmar & Stephen King
• Gwendy's Button Box

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

Joseph A. Citro
• The Gore

Douglas Clegg
• Isis

Christopher Conlon, editor
• Poe's Lighthouse

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

Victoria Dalpe
• Resurrectionist #1: Selene Shade: Resurrectionist for Hire

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
• Derik's Bane
• Undead & Unwed
• Undead & Unemployed
• Undead & Unappreciated

Julie Ann Dawson, editor
• Legendary Horrors: A Collection of Modern & Classic Horror

Melissa de la Cruz
• Blue Bloods #4: The Van Allen Legacy

Joseph Delaney
• The Last Apprentice #1: Revenge of the Witch

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

Tony DiTerlizzi
• The Wump

Nolene-Patricia Dougan
• Vrolok

Jocelynn Drake
• Dark Days #3: Dawnbreaker

Glen Duncan
• The Last Werewolf

David Dunwoody
• Empire

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
• Ghosts of Albion: Accursed, with Amber Benson
• Ghosts of Albion: Initiation, with Amber Benson
• Ghosts of Albion #2: Witchery, with Amber Benson
• The Night Birds
• The Seven Whistlers, with Amber Benson
• Spike & Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row

Jewelle Gomez
• The Gilda Stories

Sherry Gottlieb
• Worse Than Death

Seth Grahame-Smith
• Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
• Pride & Prejudice & Zombies

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
• Nightside #6: Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth
• Nightside #7: Hell to Pay
• Nightside #8: The Unnatural Inquirer

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

Daryl Gregory
• Pandemonium

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

Joe Haldeman
• Camouflage

Tate Hallaway
• Garnet Lacey #1: Tall, Dark & Dead
• Garnet Lacey #2: Dead Sexy
• Garnet Lacey #3: Romancing the Dead
• Garnet Lacey #4: Dead If I Do

Laurell K. Hamilton
• Guilty Pleasures
• Incubus Dreams
• Obsidian Butterfly

Charlaine Harris
• Harper Connelly #1: Grave Sight
• Harper Connelly #2: Grave Surprise
• Southern Vampire #1: Dead Until Dark
• Southern Vampire #2: Living Dead in Dallas
• Southern Vampire #3: Club Dead
• Southern Vampire #4: Dead to the World
• Southern Vampire #5: Dead as a Doornail
• Southern Vampire #6: Definitely Dead
• Southern Vampire #7: All Together Dead
• Southern Vampire #8: From Dead to Worse

Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Kelner, editors
• Many Bloody Returns

Thomas Harris
• Hannibal
• The Silence of the Lambs

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

Rachel Hawthorne
• Dark Guardians #1: Moonlight

Mark Henry
• Happy Hour of the Damned

Charlie Higson
• The Enemy

T.L. Hines
• Waking Lazarus

S.E. Hinton
• Hawkes Harbor

Glen Hirshberg
• The Two Sams

David Holland
• Murcheston: The Wolf's Tale

Nancy Holzner
• Deadtown

Deborah Howe
• Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery

Del Howison
• When Werewolves Attack: A Field Guide to Dispatching Ravenous Flesh-Ripping Beasts

H.R. Howland
• Ashes

Tanya Huff
• Blood Ties #1: Blood Price
• Blood Ties #2: Blood Trail
• Blood Ties #3: Blood Lines
• Blood Ties #4: Blood Pact
• Blood Ties #5: Blood Debt
• The Keeper's Chronicles #1: Summon the Keeper
• The Keeper's Chronicles #2: The Second Summoning
• The Keeper's Chronicles #3: Long Hot Summoning
• Smoke #1: Smoke & Shadows
• Smoke #2: Smoke & Mirrors
• Smoke #3: Smoke & Ashes

Charlie Huston
• Already Dead

Shirley Jackson
• The Haunting of Hill House

Marvin Kaye, editor
• The Vampire Sextette
• Witches & Warlocks: Tales of Black Magic Old & New

John A. Keel
• The Mothman Prophecies

Brian Keene
• City of the Dead
• The Conqueror Worms
• Dark Hollow
• Darkness on the Edge of Town
• Dead Sea
• Ghost Walk
• Kill Whitey
• The Rising

Richard W. Kelly
• Testament

Ronald Kelly
• Midnight Grinding & Other Twilight Tales

Asamatsu Ken
• Queen of K'n-Yan

Julie Kenner
• Carpe Demon

Jackie Kessler
• Hell on Earth #1: Hell's Belles
• Hell on Earth #2: The Road to Hell
• Hell on Earth #3: Hotter Than 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
• Blockade Billy
• Carrie
• Cell
• The Dead Zone
• Different Seasons
• From the Borderlands: Stories of Terror & Madness
• Insomnia
• Joyland
• Lisey's Story
• The Long Walk (writing as Richard Bachman)
• Misery
• Never Flinch
• Pet Sematary
• Rage (writing as Richard Bachman)
• Roadwork (writing as Richard Bachman)
• The Running Man (writing as Richard Bachman)
• 'Salem's Lot
• The Stand
• see also The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book

Stephen King & Richard Chizmar
• Gwendy's Button Box

Stephen King & Peter Straub
• Black House
• The Talisman

Zinna Kingsley
• The Lord of Dream & Metal

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

Daniel Kraus
• The Monster Variations

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

Mercedes Lackey
• Burning Water

Charles Lambert
• The Bone Flower

James Richard Larson
• The Right Thing

Ann Lawrence
• Do You Believe?

Richard Laymon
• Bite
• Resurrection Dreams

Tim Lebbon
• After the War
• Berserk
• Fears Unnamed

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

Norma Lehr
• Dark Maiden

David Leviatan
• The Mummy

Marc Joel Levitt
• Tales of an October Moon

Jacqueline Lichtenberg
• Those of My Blood

Roxanne Longstreet
• The Undead

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

Karen Macinerney
• Tales of an Urban Werewolf #1: Howling at the Moon

Jack Mackay
• The Haunting of Old Splinter

Robert McCammon
• I Travel By Night

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

Seanan McGuire
• Sparrow Hill Road

Robin McKinley
• Sunshine

Richelle Mead
• Georgina Kincaid #1: Succubus Blues
• Georgina Kincaid #2: Succubus On Top
• Georgina Kincaid #3: Succubus Dreams
• Georgina Kincaid #4: Succubus Heat
• Vampire Academy

Peter Meredith
• The Punished

Stephenie Meyer
• Twilight
• Twilight #2: New Moon
• Twilight #4: Breaking Dawn

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

Jacy Morris
• One-Shot

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

Joseph Nassise
• The Great Undead War, Book I: By the Blood of Heroes

Scott Nicholson
• The Farm
• The Red Church

Kerry Nietz
• Amish Vampires in Space

Mel Odom
• Hellgate: London: Exodus

Kenneth Oppel
• This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein

Tom Orrell
• Not Alone Out Here

Helen Oyeyemi
• The Icarus Girl

Jason Parent
• Wrathbone & Other Stories

Nicholas Pekearo
• The Wolfman

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 #1: Lurker
• Wicked Dead #2: Torn
• Wicked Dead #3: Snared

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
• The Agony House
• The Borden Dispatches #1: Maplecroft
• Dreadful Skin
• The Toll

Jack Priest
• Gecko

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