List of fantastic authors
Wikipedia has a list of science fiction authors , a list of fantasy authors , a list of steampunk works, and a list of fairy tales .
This list here includes authors of works that can be assigned to the fantastic category , but not to the sub-categories science fiction , fantasy , steampunk or fairy tales .
A.
- Abel-Musgrave, Curt (1860-1938)
- Adams, Douglas (1952-2001)
- Adlersfeld-Ballestrem, Eufemia von (1854–1941)
- Adrian, Lara (* 1966)
- Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de (1833-1891)
- Alexander-Burgh, Eberhard (1929-2004)
- Amis, Kingsley (1922-1995)
- Andrade, Mario de (1893–1945)
- Andrews, Ilona
- Apel, August (1771-1816)
- Appel, Walter (* 1948)
- Arentzen, G. (* 1972)
- Armstrong, Kelley (* 1968)
- Arnim, Achim von (1781–1831)
- Asimov, Isaac (1920-1992)
- Asprin, Robert (1946-2008)
- Asturias, Miguel Ángel (1899–1974)
B.
- Bachmann, Tobias (* 1977)
- Backhaus, Helmuth M. (1920–1989)
- Bader, Timo (* 1983)
- Ballhausen, Thomas (* 1975)
- Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules Amédée (1808-1889)
- Barlow, Robert H. (1918-1951)
- Beckford, William (1760-1844)
- Bécquer, Gustavo Adolfo (1836–1870)
- Beheim-Schwarzbach, Martin (1900–1985)
- Bellairs, John (1938–1991)
- Belli, Gioconda (* 1948)
- Benson, Edward Frederic (1867–1940)
- Benson, Robert Hugh (1871-1914)
- Benson, Stella (1892-1933)
- Bergengruen, Werner (1892–1964)
- Bergsøe, Vilhelm (1835–1911)
- Bernède, Arthur (1871–1937)
- Bierce, Ambrose (1842–1914)
- Bioy Casares, Adolfo (1914-1999)
- Birkin, Charles (1907–1986)
- Blackwood, Algernon (1869-1951)
- Blatty, William Peter (1928-2017)
- Blixen, Karen (1885–1962)
- Bloch, Robert (1917–1994)
- Block, Francesca Lia (* 1962)
- Borchardt, Alice (1939-2007)
- Bordewijk, Ferdinand (1884–1965)
- Borges, Jorge Luis (1899–1986)
- Borlik, Michael (* 1975)
- Bourne, JL
- Bowen, Elizabeth (1899-1973)
- Bradbury, Ray (1920–2012)
- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (1837-1915)
- Brand, Christianna (1907–1988)
- Brandorff, Walter (1943–1996)
- Bremer, Uwe (* 1940)
- Brennan, Joseph Payne (1918–1990)
- Brezina, Thomas (* 1963)
- Briggs, Patricia (* 1965)
- Brion, Marcel (1895–1984)
- Brite, Poppy Z. (* 1967)
- Bryusov, Valery Jakowlewitsch (1873–1924)
- Brooks, Max (b.1972)
- Brown, George Mackay (1921–1996)
- Buckingham, Royce (born 1966)
- Bürger, Gottfried August (1747–1794)
- Bulgakow, Michail Afanassjewitsch (1891–1940)
- Bulthuis, Rico (1911-2009)
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward (1803-1873)
- Burke, Thomas (1886–1945)
- Busson, Paul (1873-1924)
- Butcher, Jim (b.1971)
- Buzzati, Dino (1906–1972)
- Byatt, AS (born 1936)
C.
- Cabell, James Branch (1879-1958)
- Cady, Jack (1932-2004)
- Caine, Rachel (born 1962)
- Calvino, Italo (1923–1985)
- Campbell, John Ramsey (* 1946)
- Carpentier, Alejo (1904–1980)
- Carroll, Jonathan (* 1949)
- Carter, Angela (1940-1992)
- Cast, Kristin (* 1986)
- Cast, PC (* 1960)
- Castelli, Ignaz Franz (1781–1862)
- Cazotte, Jacques (1719–1792)
- Chambers, Robert W. (1865-1933)
- Chamisso, Aldalbert von (1781–1838)
- Chance, karen
- Chetwynd-Hayes, Ronald (1919-2001)
- Christie, Agatha (1890-1976)
- Clare, Cassandra (* 1973)
- Clark, Simon (* 1958)
- Claus, Hugo (1929-2008)
- Cole, Kresley
- Colin, Vladimir (1921–1991)
- Collins, Nancy A. (* 1959)
- Connolly, John (* 1968)
- Conrad, Julia (* 1950)
- Conscience, Hendrik (1812-1883)
- Cook, Benjamin (* 1969)
- Cooper, Susan (born 1935)
- Coppard, AE (1878-1957)
- Copper, Basil (1924-2013)
- Cortázar, Julio (1914–1984)
- Craw, Bernard (born 1972)
- Crawford, Francis Marion (1854-1909)
- Cronin, Justin (* 1962)
D.
- Däubler, Theodor (1876–1934)
- Dark, Jason (* 1945)
- Davidson, MaryJanice (* 1969)
- De Felitta, Frank (1921-2016)
- de Ghelderode, Michel (1898–1962)
- de la Mare, Walter (1873–1956)
- Defoe, Daniel (1660-1731)
- Delany, Matthew BJ
- Derleth, August (1909–1971)
- Devaulx, Noël (1905-1995)
- Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
- Disch, Thomas M. (1940-2008)
E.
- Edwards, Amelia (1831-1892)
- Eichendorff, Joseph von (1788-1857)
- Eliade, Mircea (1907–1986)
- Elrod, PN (* 1954)
- Ende, Michael (1929–1995)
- Erckmann-Chatrian (stage name of Emile Erckmann, 1822–1899 and Alexandre Chatrian, 1826–1890)
- Estep, Jennifer
- Dennis Etchison (1943-2019)
- Ewers, Hanns Heinz (1871–1943)
F.
- Falkner, J. Meade (1858–1932)
- Farris, John (born 1936)
- Feehan, Christine
- Féval, Paul (1816-1887)
- Fouqué, Friedrich de la Motte (1777–1843)
- Fowler, Christopher (* 1953)
- Frey, Alexander Moritz (1881–1957)
- Frost, Jeaniene (* 1974)
G
- Gabelentz, Georg von der (1868–1940)
- Gaiman, Neil (* 1960)
- Gaudy, Franz von (1800–1840)
- Gautier, Théophile (1811–1872)
- Gavin, Richard
- Gerstäcker, Friedrich (1816–1872)
- Giesa, Werner K. (1954-2008)
- Gifune, Greg F. (* 1963)
- Gilman, Laura Anne (* 1967)
- Immediately, Josef Alois (1772–1841)
- Glonn, AP (* 1974)
- Gluchowski, Dmitri Alexejewitsch (* 1979)
- Glut, Donald F. (* 1944)
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749–1832)
- Gogol, Nikolai Wassiljewitsch (1809-1852)
- Golden, Christie (born 1963)
- Gore, Marc (* 1974)
- Grabiński, Stefan (1887–1936)
- Grahame-Smith, Seth (* 1976)
- Grant, Michael (* 1954)
- Grashoff, David (* 1973)
- Green, Simon R. (* 1955)
- Greene, Graham (1904-1991)
- Gregory, Stephen (* 1952)
- Grimminger, Bernhard (* 1942)
- Grin, Alexander (1880–1932)
- Gruber, Andreas (* 1968)
- Guthrie, Thomas Anstey (1856–1934)
H
- Hahn, Ronald M. (* 1948)
- Hambly, Barbara (* 1951)
- Hamilton, Laurell K. (* 1963)
- Hamsun, Knut (1859–1952)
- Handeland, Lori (* 1961)
- Hardebusch, Christoph (* 1974)
- Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)
- Harris, Charlaine (* 1951)
- Harrison, Kim (born 1966)
- Harvey, William Fryer (1885-1937)
- Hary, Wilfried A. (* 1947)
- Hathaway, Andrew (1947-2009)
- Haubold, Frank W. (* 1955)
- Hauff, Wilhelm (1802-1827)
- Haushofer, Marlen (1920–1970)
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804–1864)
- Hearne, Kevin (* 1970)
- Hebbel, Friedrich (1813–1863)
- Lever, Johann Peter (1760–1826)
- Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856)
- Heitz, Markus (* 1971)
- Hellens, Franz (1881–1972)
- Henke, Sandra (* 1973)
- Hennen, Bernhard (* 1966)
- Henry, O. (1862-1910)
- Herbert, James (1943-2013)
- Herbst, Alban Nikolai (* 1955)
- Herzmanovsky-Orlando, Fritz von (1877–1954)
- Hill, Joe (born 1972)
- Hill, Susan (born 1942)
- Hodge, Brian (b.1960)
- Hodgson, William Hope (1877-1918)
- Hoffman, Alice (* 1952)
- Hoffmann, ETA (1776–1822)
- Hohlbein, Wolfgang (* 1953)
- Hohler, Franz (* 1943)
- Holland, Tom (* 1968)
- Honisch, Ju (* 1956)
- Hottinger, Mary (1893-1978)
I.
- Innreiter, Rainer (* 1972)
- Ippensen, Antje (* 1965)
- Irving, Washington (1783-1859)
- Isau, Ralf (* 1956)
J
- Jacka, Benedict (* 1980)
- Jackson, Shirley (1916-1965)
- Jacobs, William Wymark (1863-1943)
- Jahnke, Alex (* 1969)
- James, Henry (1843-1916)
- James, MR (1862-1936)
K
- Kadrey, Richard (* 1957)
- Kafka, Franz (1883–1924)
- Kasack, Hermann (1896–1966)
- Kaschnitz, Marie Luise (1901–1974)
- Kastenholz, Markus (* 1966)
- Kate, Lauren (born 1981)
- Keene, Brian (* 1967)
- Keller, Gottfried (1819–1890)
- Kikuchi, Hideyuki (* 1949)
- Kilpatrick, Nancy (* 1946)
- King, Owen (born 1977)
- King, Stephen (* 1947)
- Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
- Kirk, Russell (1918-1994)
- Klein, TED (* 1947)
- Kleist, Heinrich von (1777–1811)
- Kleudgen, Jörg (* 1968)
- Knoke, Michael (1968-2010)
- Koch, Boris (* 1973)
- Koja, Kathe (* 1960)
- Koontz, Dean (* 1945)
- Korff, Friedrich Wilhelm (* 1939)
- Kostova, Elizabeth (* 1964)
- Krichbaum, Jörg (1945–2002)
- Croquet, Jeanine
- Krúdy, Gyula (1878–1933)
- Krüss, James (1926–1997)
- Kubin, Alfred (1877-1959)
- Kusenberg, Kurt (1904-1983)
- Kuttner, Henry (1915-1958)
- Kyber, Manfred (1880–1933)
L.
- Lampo, Hubert (1920-2006)
- Landolfi, Tommaso (1908–1979)
- Landy, Derek (* 1974)
- Lang, Andrew (1844-1912)
- Langelaan, George (1908–1972)
- Lansdale, Joe R. (* 1951)
- Larrabeiti, Michael de (1934-2008)
- Laßwitz, Kurd (1848–1910)
- Laymon, Richard (1947-2001)
- Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan (1814–1873)
- Lee, Edward (born 1957)
- Lee, Vernon (1856-1935)
- Leiber, Fritz (1910–1992)
- Lernet-Holenia, Alexander (1897–1976)
- Leroux, Gaston (1868-1927)
- Leskov, Nikolai Semjonowitsch (1831–1895)
- Lettau, Reinhard (1929–1996)
- Levin, Ira (1929-2007)
- Lie, Jonas (1833–1908)
- Ligotti, Thomas (* 1953)
- Lindqvist, John Ajvide (* 1968)
- Lindsay, Joan (1896-1984)
- Linklater, Eric (1899–1974)
- Lint, Charles de (* 1951)
- Long, Frank Belknap (1901-1994)
- Lossau, Jens (* 1974)
- Lovecraft, HP (1890-1937)
- Lugones, Leopoldo (1874–1938)
- Luif, Kurt (1942–2012)
- Lukianenko, Sergej (* 1968)
- Lumley, Brian (born 1937)
- Luserke, Martin (1880–1968)
M.
- MacAlister, Katie (* 1969)
- Macardle, Dorothy (1889-1958)
- McCammon, Robert R. (* 1952)
- Malden, Richard (1879–1951)
- Marginter, Peter (1934-2008)
- Marr, Melissa (* 1972)
- Marryat, Frederick (1792-1848)
- Marsh, Richard (1857-1915)
- Masterton, Graham (born 1946)
- Matheson, Richard (1926-2013)
- Maturin, Charles Robert (1780–1824)
- Maupassant, Guy de (1850-1893)
- Maurier, Daphne du (1907–1989)
- Maurois, André (1885–1967)
- McCloud, Russell (born 1965)
- Melneczuk, Stefan (* 1970)
- Melzer, Brigitte (* 1971)
- Menschig, Diana (* 1973)
- Mérimée, Prosper (1803-1870)
- Merritt, Abraham (1884–1943)
- Meyer, Kai (* 1969)
- Meyer, Stephenie (* 1973)
- Meyrink, Gustav (1868–1932)
- Middleton, Richard Barham (1882-1911)
- Millhauser, Steven (* 1943)
- Molesworth, Mary Louisa (1839-1921)
- Moore, Brian (1921-1999)
- Morland, AF (born 1939)
- Morweiser, Fanny (1940-2014)
- Murakami, Haruki (* 1949)
N
- Nagula, Michael (* 1959)
- Nassise, Joseph (* 1968)
- Neill, Chloe (* 1975)
- Nesbit, Edith (1858-1924)
- Newman, Kim (born 1959)
- Nicholson, Scott (* 1962)
- Niebelschütz, Wolf von (1913–1960)
- Nodier, Charles (1780-1844)
- Noël, Alyson (* 1967)
- Norton, Mary (1903-1992)
- Nossack, Hans Erich (1901–1977)
O
- O'Brien, Fitz-James (1828-1862)
- Oates, Joyce Carol (born 1938)
- Ocampo, Silvina (1903-1993)
- Ohlsson, Kristina (* 1979)
- Oliphant, Margaret (1828-1897)
- Onions, Oliver (1873-1961)
- Owen, Thomas (1910-2002)
P
- Pain, Barry (1864-1928)
- Papini, Giovanni (1881-1956)
- Paver, Michelle (* 1960)
- Pearce, Philippa (1920-2006)
- Peinkofer, Michael (* 1969)
- Perucho, Joan (1920–2003)
- Perutz, Leo (1882–1957)
- Pflieger, Kerstin (* 1980)
- Plahn, Hermann (1865–?)
- Plischke, Thomas (* 1975)
- Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
- Polidori, John (1795-1821)
- Powys, John Cowper (1872-1963)
- Powys, Theodore Francis (1875-1953)
- Prescher, Sören (* 1978)
- Preussler, Otfried (1923–2013)
- Prévot, Gérard (1921–1975)
- Priestley, Chris (* 1958)
- Pu Songling (1640-1715)
- Pushkin, Alexander Sergejewitsch (1799–1837)
Q
- Queiroz, José Maria Eça de (1845–1900)
- Quiller-Couch, Arthur (1863–1944)
- Quinn, Henry (1956-2004)
- Quinn, Seabury (1889-1969)
R.
- Rabou, Charles (1803-1871)
- Rardin, Jennifer (1965-2010)
- Rauschnick, Gottfried Peter (1778–1835)
- Raven, Lynn (b.1971)
- Ray, Jean (1887-1964)
- Law, Zachary Allan (1983-2009)
- Remisow, Alexei Michailowitsch (1877–1957)
- Rensmann, Nicole (* 1970)
- Rice, Anne (born 1941)
- Richardson, Kat (born 1964)
- Richaud, André de (1907–1968)
- Richter, Anne (* 1939)
- Riddell, Charlotte (1832-1906)
- Rosendorfer, Herbert (1934–2012)
- Rosny aîné, J.-H. (1856-1940)
- Ross, Adrian (1859-1933)
- Roussel, Raymond (1877-1933)
- Rubião, Murilo (1916–1991)
- Ruiz Zafón, Carlos (1964-2020)
- Rulfo, Juan (1917–1986)
- Russell, Karen (* 1981)
- Rymer, James Malcolm (1814-1884)
S.
- Sabato, Ernesto (1911–2011)
- Saberhagen, Fred (1930-2007)
- Sá-Carneiro, Mário de (1890–1916)
- Saki (1870-1916)
- Sandoz, Maurice (1892-1958)
- Sands, Lynsay
- Sansom, William (1912-1976)
- Saul, John (born 1942)
- Savinio, Alberto (1891-1952)
- Schaeffer, Albrecht (1885–1950)
- Scheerbart, Paul (1863–1915)
- Schendel, Arthur van (1874–1946)
- Scholz, Wilhelm von (1874–1969)
- Schröder, Patricia (* 1960)
- Schulz, Bruno (1892–1942)
- Schumacher, Jens (* 1974)
- Schweikert, Ulrike (* 1966)
- Scott, Walter (1771-1832)
- Seidel, Willy (1887–1934)
- Seignolle, Claude (* 1917)
- Sembten, Malte S. (1965-2016)
- Shan, Darren (* 1972)
- Sheckley, Robert (1928-2005)
- Sherman, Josepha (1946–2012)
- Shiel, MP (1865-1947)
- Shinn, Sharon (* 1957)
- Shirley, John (born 1953)
- Shocker, Dan (1940-2007)
- Showalter, Gena (* 1975)
- Siefener, Michael (* 1961)
- Simmons, Dan (born 1948)
- Sinjawski, Andrei Donatowitsch (1925–1997)
- Smith, Clark Ashton (1893-1961)
- Smith, Eleanor (1902-1945)
- Smith, Lisa Jane (born 1965)
- Smith, Thorne (1892-1934)
- Soldati, Mario (1906-1999)
- Sommer-Bodenburg, Angela (* 1948)
- Somtow, SP (* 1952)
- Spunda, Franz (1890–1963)
- Steakley, John (1951-2010)
- Stein, Jeanne C.
- Steinhöfel, Andreas (* 1962)
- Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
- Stine, RL (* 1943)
- Stoker, Bram (1847-1912)
- Stolle, Ferdinand (1806–1872)
- Storm, Theodor (1817–1888)
- Strandberg, Mats (* 1976)
- Sträter, Torsten (* 1966)
- Straub, Peter (* 1943)
- Strieber, Whitley (* 1945)
- Strindberg, August (1849–1912)
- Strobl, Karl Hans (1877-1946)
- Stroud, Jonathan (* 1970)
- Strugazki, Arkadi and Boris (1925–1991 and 1931–2012)
- Suzuki, Kōji (* 1957)
- Swain, EG (1861-1938)
- Szepes, Mária (1908-2007)
T
- Taube, Otto von (1879–1973)
- Thomas, Jeffrey (* 1957)
- Timmermans, Felix (1886–1947)
- Timperley, Rosemary (1920–1988)
- Tolstoy, Alexei Konstantinowitsch (1817–1875)
- Toman, Claudia (* 1978)
- Travers, PL (1899–1996)
- Tripp, Ben (* 1966)
- Tryon, Tom (1926-1991)
- Chekhov, Anton Pawlowitsch (1860–1904)
- Tügel, Ludwig (1889–1972)
- Turgenew, Ivan Sergeyevich (1818–1883)
- Tuttle, Lisa (* 1952)
U
- Uslar Pietri, Arturo (1906-2001)
V
- Vaughn, Carrie (b.1973)
- Verne, Jules (1828–1905)
- Vian, Boris (1920–1959)
- Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Auguste de (1838–1889)
- Voehl, Uwe (* 1959)
W.
- Wakefield, Herbert Russell (1888–1964)
- Walker, Hugh (born 1941)
- Wallon, Alfred (* 1957)
- Walpole, Hugh (1884-1941)
- Walton, Evangeline (1907-1996)
- Wandrei, Donald (1908–1987)
- Ward, JR (* 1969)
- Warner, Sylvia Townsend (1893–1978)
- Waugh, Sylvia (born 1935)
- Webb, Catherine (* 1986)
- Weinland, Manfred (* 1960)
- Weise, Kathleen (* 1978)
- Weißenborn, Theodor (* 1933)
- Wellington, David (* 1971)
- Wellman, Manly Wade (1903-1986)
- Wells, HG (1866-1946)
- Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)
- Wheatley, Dennis (1897-1977)
- White, Wrath James (* 1970)
- Whitehead, Henry S. (1882-1932)
- Wiesler, André (1974-2017)
- Wildberg, Bodo (1862–1942)
- Wilde, Oscar (1854–1900)
- Wilkins, Kim (* 1970)
- Wilkins Freeman, Mary Eleanor (1852-1930)
- Williamson, Jack (1908-2006)
- Wilson, Francis Paul (* 1946)
- Wolfkind, Peter Daniel (1937–2013)
- Wooley, John (born 1949)
- Woolf, Marah ( b.1971 )
- Woolrich, Cornell (1903-1968)
- Wylie, Elinor (1885-1928)
Y
- Yancey, Rick
- Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn (born 1942)
- Young, Francis (1884-1954)
Z
- Zahn, Hermann Wolfgang (1879–1965)
- Zschokke, Heinrich (1771–1848)