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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