Authors like Edgar Allen Poe, Anne Rice, Walter de la Mare, etc. Anyone? Can be poems and prose authors.
2006-10-16 15:06:03 · 10 answers · asked by x_hammurabi_x 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
-H.P. Lovecraft is brilliant, anything he did is a great read.
-Contemporary writers like Richard Matheson, Brian Lumley, Clive Barker are good. Anne Rice and Stephen King are a little mainstream, but they have some great books too.
-I'd stay away from Poppy Z. Brite. I wasn't impressed but lots of people swear by her.
CLASSIC GOTHIC/MACABRE
-Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert L. Stevenson
-Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
-Dracula by Bram Stoker
-Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
-The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis.
-Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown
Good Luck!
2006-10-16 15:30:35 · answer #1 · answered by Jogong 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Macabre Authors
2017-01-20 12:23:35 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prose:
Nathaniel Hawthorne, except Scarlet Letter
The Bronte Sisters
Mary Shelley
Legend of Sleepy Hallow
Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White
early Shirley Jackson
Ambrose Bierce
Saki (H.H. Munro)
a little of Talbot Mundy and Rudyard Kipling
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
H. Rider Haggard
Robert Louis Stevenson
Bram Stoker
Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray
and of course H.P. Lovecraft
poetry
Coleridge and Keats
Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard
The Highwayman
The Face on the Barroom Floor
Emily Dickinson
Sweet William's Ghost
This should get you started...
B.
2006-10-16 15:31:10 · answer #3 · answered by Brian M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your further elaboration of your question negated my answer. Ann Rice's "Interview with a Vampire" would have been my suggestion, obviously you have read her. That book is imaginative litature, art, and at the same time spinning a tale. As you have allready acknowledged her, please allow me to relate the background: her daughter had just died when she started the manuscript, i guess the child vampire in the completed novel, she , with that book has continued and advanced the vampire chronicles. Check out "Wild Sargossa Sea" . by a contemporary author that picked up on Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre", Hatia/vodoo, cool.Also, H.P. Lovecraft for science fiction, but still chilling macabre. Oh to go way back, early Collette or another Caribean setting , can not remember, she is French, 18th century, the novel's title is one word. Awesome, she is a child 15-16)married to a plantation owner much, much older and the supernatural and local customs permeate, I believe the author is George Sand. I hope i "partially " helped. Ann Rice is spectacular.
2006-10-18 20:38:19 · answer #4 · answered by lolita 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Super scary/Very artistic book: House of Leaves Mark Danielewski.
Also Stephen King: Needful things is about materialism but he makes this really ugly!
2006-10-16 15:17:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you read "The Turn of the Screw"? It's a very good short story, and a pioneer in the gothic/macabre genre.
I echo pink's House of Leaves recommendation. It is very interesting!
2006-10-16 15:10:03 · answer #6 · answered by need help! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my favorite writer is Edgar Allan Poe, some of his stories still scare me.
2006-10-16 15:27:10 · answer #7 · answered by couchP56 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really sure if that's right
2016-08-08 17:21:11 · answer #8 · answered by Shelly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, Dr.Phil's got some pretty terrifying sh*it published.
2006-10-16 15:30:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
thats unclear there are actually several possible answers to this question...
2016-08-23 08:54:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋