The Definitive List: Authors in the Classic Vein

[Paula]

Blackwood, yes. I loved his Ancient Sorceries, short fiction about witches, cats, and demons. Exceptional. I featured it on my wordpress blog in February and it got lots of hits, so I think there are readers out there who still like his work.

[David]

An interesting review of modern authors:

http://horrornovelreviews.com/2013/07...

[Cathy]

I'd like to add Simon Kurt Unsworth, who does very nice haunted-place stories, some with an occult detective type of character.

[Simon]

Is there a particular book/collection you would recommend?

[Canavan]

Simon asked:

Is there a particular book/collection [by Simon Kurt Unsworth] you would recommend?

Unsworth is the author of a number of collections including Lost Places (Ash-Tree, 2010), Quiet Houses (Dark Continents, 2011), and Uneasy Tales (Amazon, 2011). All are worth picking up, but I might lean a bit towards Lost Places as a personal favorite.

[Simon]

I've just added Matt Cardin to the list after reading his excellent collection "Dark Awakenings". Definitely someone with a healthy respect of the classics yet engagingly modern.

[Simon]

Just discovered a new author that I had to add to this list: Ray Russell. Gothic in style yet with a modern twist.

[Justin]

Author David Haynes and his Victorian Era Macabre series qualifies.

[Neutrino]

I think that Richard Gavin deserves to be on this sort of list. His fiction is often like something that Algernon Blackwood could have written.

[[deleted user]]

Would Robert Aickman count? His works began in later part of the classic era but most of his work was done in the 60's and 70's.

[mark]

I think he straddles that area between "classic" and "writing in the classic vein", as most of the authors we've seen as classic wrote prior to the 60s, but most of the authors on this thread/list wrote after the 70s.