SNOB APPEAL
'Tired of hearing your literary friends tell you your brain is rotting from reading too much horror fiction? Try throwing this list at 'em. All of these 19th and 20th century literary luminaries have written critically acclaimed dark fiction. The ones with stars are even Nobel Prize winners.
- Peter Ackroyd
- Kingsley Amis
- Martin Amis
- Leonid Andreyev
- Honoré de Balzac
- Samuel Beckett *
- Robert Coover
- Truman Capote
- Joseph Conrad
- Julio Cortazar
- Stephen Crane
- Charles Dickens
- Isak Dinesen
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
- William Faulkner *
- Gustave Flaubert
- Carlos Fuentes
- John Gardner
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez *
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Nikolai Gogol
- William Golding *
- Gunter Grass
- Robert Graves
- Graham Greene
- Thomas Hardy
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Ernest Hemingway*
- Shirley Jackson
- Henry James
- Franz Kafka
- Rudyard Kipling *
- Jerzy Kosinski
- Primo Levi
- Malcolm Lowry
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Cormac McCarthy
- Herman Melville
- Silvina Ocampo
- Flannery O'Connor
- Cynthia Ozick
- Luigi Pirandello *
- Saki (H. H. Munro)
- Bruno Schulz
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Junichiro Tanazaki
- Paul Theroux
- Ivan Turgenev
- John Updike
- Edith Wharton
- Tennessee Williams
- Oscar Wilde
- William Butler Yeats *
- Marguerite Yourcenar
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