If you enjoy horror stories you will also enjoy reading Contemporary Horror Story Books . The horror genre is very popular among the reading public. Ghosts, haunted houses, vampires, graveyards, and all other ingredients of horror stories can be found in Contemporary Horror Story Books .
There are several modern writers who have tried their hands at horror stories. Jessica Barone is one such author who is best known for her works in vampire fiction. Some of her famous works are:
- Eternal Night (2001)
- The Requiem (2002)
- The Legendary (2004)
Laird Barron's
The Imago Sequence & Other Stories (2007) is a well-known Contemporary Horror Story Books.
Jonathan Samuel Carroll is an American author of horror. His collection of short-stories,
The Panic Hand (1995) is an interesting volume in this genre.
Stuart Neild is an English supernatural and horror author. His debut novel released in 2004,
A Haunted Man , was a quite popular Contemporary Horror Story Books.
Cherie Priest, an American novelist is best known for her debut horror novel Four and Twenty Blackbirds , which was published in 2003.
The Hauntings of Hood Canal (2001) by Jack Cady is another Contemporary Horror Story Books.
Simon Clark is a horror novel writer from Doncaster , England . One of his most notable works is The Night of the Triffids.
Dean Koontz , Clive Barker , and Stephen King are other popular contemporary writers who bring the horror effect without portraying too much horror elements which you will find in mainstream horror story books.
Clive Barker mainly presents the horror and bizarre elements that are found in modern urban life. Weaveworld (1987), The Great and Secret Show (1989), Imajica (1991) and Sacrament (1996) , are some of his popular books.
Stephen Edwin King, an American author, is perhaps the best known horror writer of horror and macabre stories in contemporary times. He is enormously popular for his horror novels such as Black House (2001), the Dark Tower Series , Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993).
If you are an avid reader of horror stories then you must try out reading the spine-chilling Contemporary Horror Story Books.