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1. H.P. Lovecraft 2. Stephen King 3. Dan Simmons (this is where it starts getting hard) 4. Peter Straub 5. Brian Keene 6. Richard Laymon 7. John Skipp 8. Joe R. Lansdale 9. Clive Barker 10. Ramsey Campbell |
Thanks, Bob. :)
Keep the entries coming, folks. I am headed out in 30 minutes, to a conference for a week. Will be back on the 27th. |
17 entries so far, the latest ranked list by Bob Gray joining the ranks.
Still waiting for confirmation on rankings from Roshiq, horror4ever & Ellie. And I need more entries! Come on, all you avid readers of HDC! Let's show some love for our genre! |
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Let's move, people! I need to reach 30 before we start the countdown! :mad: :D |
The deadline for submitting your entries is February 19th, 2012.
So, all those of you who have started a list, or thinking of writing one but haven't done so, complete your lists by the next 2 weeks. Compilation work will start by this weekend. |
1. Poe
2. Kafka 3. Roald Dahl 4. Stephen King 5. Lovecraft 6. Richard Matheson 7. Joyce Carol Oates 8. Ambrose Bierce 9. Lafacadio Hearn 10. William Burroughs |
1. Edgar Allen Poe
2. HP Lovecraft 3 Bram Stoker 4. Mary Shelley 5. Stephen King 6. Clive Barker 7. Brian Keene 8. William Peter Blatty 9. Richard Matheson 10 Jonathan Mayberry |
Anyone else wish to share their ranked Top 10 for this project?
I have some free time (finally!) from tomorrow so I will be starting initial work on the compilation. Hoping to have the Top 100 up by February-end, so the next 2 weeks are the only time you have, to send in your ranked top 10 entry. Let's see some more by then! |
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First round of compilation work is complete, and the first horrifying news I have for all of you is - we don't have 100 Horror Writers yet! :eek:
Surprised? Yes, that's the truth. Here are some numbers for you folks - Number of entries = 18. Number of nominated writers = 60. (See? We are 40 short!) Most nominated writer = No, it's not Stephen King. Not Edgar Allan Poe either. It's a certain gentleman who brought you the dreaded Cthulhu! Yep, him. Maximum points scored by a single author (and so, the leader) = 135˝. Minimum points scored by a single author = ˝ (but of course). Leading the maximum number of lists = 2 writers, both #1 in 4 lists. I am skeptical about receiving any more entries (maybe 2-3 more by the 29th), so I will call to arms all members who have already submitted their entries, and ask them to ponder some more and send me TEN more selections of their choice after their Top 10s, who they would want to rank from #11 to #20 in their top lists. Members are - myself - need at least 10 more. TheWickerFan - need at least 10 more. Angra - need at least 6 more. The Villain - need at least 8 more. sfear - need at least 10 more. Karl Kopfrkingl - need at least 10 more. Fearonsarms - need at least 10 more. Elvis Christ - need at least 10 more. Neverending - already submitted 21 nominations, feel free for some more. Doc Faustus - need at least 3 more. Weapon X - need at least 10 more. Hammerfan - need at least 10 more. Ellie - need at least 13 more. Zero - need at least 10 more. Bob Gray - need at least 10 more. Fortunato - need at least 10 more. Roshiq - need at least 10 more. horror4ever - need at least 10 more. In addition, if anybody is still mulling over a Top 10 list, I ask you to extend it to include your Top 20 writers instead before sending it to me. Thank you. I wait in anticipation for your extended entries. |
Here's 10:
1. Richard Bachman (Whoever has a problem with this since it's Stephen King, i feel like i can include him since King wrote differently when he wrote as Bachman. If this doesn't count though i'll find someone else.) 2. Dean Koontz 3. Mary San Giovanni 4. Kelli Owen 5. Robert Ford 6. Dan Simmons 7. James Herbert 8. Scott Smith 9. Tim Lebbon 10. Ray Garton |
Thanks for the prompt response, my friend.
Sending PMs to everyone else. |
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I'll add Fritz Leiber, Thomas Ligotti, Ira Levin and William Peter Blatty if they're not there. Theodore Sturgeon and Henry James who wrote some very relevant ghost stories.
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Embarrassingly enough... my list is about all I've got. I honestly don't read a lot of horror.
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if you need ten more then last time I gave 10 that I felt were important - this time I'll give you 10 I just enjoy reading:
11 - Tom Tryon 12 - John Saul 13 - Graham Masterson 14 - Robert McCammon 15 - Tananarive Due 16 - Bentley Little 17 - James Herbert 18 - Mira Grant 19 - John Wyndham 20 - Joe Hill |
Karl has listed some I intended to put on my third list, but I'll mention them anyway:
Kealan Patrick Burke Alan M. Clark August Derleth Neil Gaiman Nikolai Gogol Nathaniel Hawthorne William Hope Hodgson T. E. D. Klein Henry Kuttner Tanith Lee Graham Masterton Ann Radcliffe Tom Tryon Rod Serling (though he wrote exclusively for the screen - both small and big - I think the quality of his work and his influence on horror writers merits his inclusion) Horace Walpole |
I got nothing. Sorry.
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Still 4 more days to go.
I need more. |
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10 more:
11 - Graham Masterson 12 - John Shirley 13 - TED Klein 14 - Dennis Wheatley 15 - Shirley Jackson 16 - James Herbert 17 - John Saul 18 - Joe R. Lansdale 19 - F. Paul Wilson 20 - Joe Hill |
Thanks, buddy.
I wrap up in 3 days. Let's see some more, folks! |
I can give you 10 more if you want me to.
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Please do. I need all the help I can get.
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Okay, I checked some of my old anthologies I've read over the years and came up with a few more I remember enjoying a lot:
J. Sheridan LeFanu Henry James Algernon Blackwood Lord Dunsany Henry Kuttner Ambrose Bierce Theodore Sturgeon Philip M. Fisher John Beynon Harris Max Brand W.C. Morrow Dorothy Baker Richard Middleton André Maurois Rod Serling (In one of my earlier lists I was going to include Rod Serling but wasn't sure he'd count but since someone else had the courage to do it I'm going to follow in his wake and include him too.) |
Thanks, my friend.
Let's see some more in the next 24 hours, folks. The Sticky will be up in the first week of March. |
Some more:
Sax Rohmer Brian Lumley M.R. James Walter de la Mare R.L. Stevenson Arthur Machen Darren Shan John R. Little H. Russell Wakefield Harlan Ellison |
Nice idea thanks dude ... : p
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Hey all, this project will be delayed a couple weeks while it gets some finishing touches. Is anyone interested in writing blurbs for particular authors?
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H.P. Lovecraft: the standard by which all other writers of the horror and terror tale are eventually measured.
Not very original, I know, but the best I can do --- and most probably true. |
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Yeah man I'll be up for doing some (well the authors I know anyway :D )
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Hey, just a little update.
This list is done and ready to be posted. As soon as all the new mod stuff is squared away, it will be posted. Still need people to write blurbs for the authors! PM me if you'd like to request certain author(s). |
Sticky will be up in a few.
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