#i know mike flanagan isnt an author but i love love love his work

[ghostbustermelanieking]

favorite horror writers (in honor of spooky season)

Rachel Harrison (novels featuring strong female friendships/characters, werewolves, witches, demons, and humor)

Zoje Stage (creepy kids, haunted houses, psychological thrillers, mothers and daughters)

Katrina Monroe (ghosts, changelings, family curses, mothers and daughters, lesbian main characters)

Mike Flanagan (go watch his netflix stuff -- nuff said)

T. Kingfisher (cryptids, ghosts, spooky alternate dimensions, folklore-based, north carolina-set)

Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives, plus two novels featuring ghosts, monsters, death, friendship, general spooky vibes!!)

Stephen King (a cliche, i know, but i would die for the shining, pet sematary, and misery)

Grady Hendrix (very fun premises -- has written about demonic possession, ghosts, vampires, final girls, and selling souls to the devil)

T. Marie Vandelly (she has one haunted house novel and it is soooo good)

Jennifer McMahon (not all of her novels are horror, but all are fun... featuring ghosts, a haunted swimming pool, fairies, playing on frankenstein, the dead returning, family, and generally spooky vermont vibes!)

horror authors whose bibliography i haven't completed, but i've enjoyed their stuff and readily recommend

Stephen Graham Jones

Simone St. James

Paul Tremblay

Clay McLeod Chapman

Nat Cassidy

Joe Hill

Alma Katsu