In that chapter I break up today's need to know authors into a few categories. One of those categories is "Pulps Kings." These are horror authors publishing original paperback fiction whose books I feel every library with a known horror readership should own. In other words, these should be your go-to pulp horror authors.
The book lists: Brian Keene, Nate Kenyon, John Everson, Gary Braunbeck, Robert Dunbar, and Jeff Strand. To this list I am updating with the following authors and descriptions.
J. G. Faherty writes character driven horror which often has an ancient evil setting and incorporates teenaged protagonists. He often uses a mix of supernatural occurrences and beings to ratchet up the fear and his use of gore is moderate. Of the better known authors, I would compare him to Peter Straub. Try Cemetery Club which begins with 4 friends awakening an ancient evil that they contain but don’t defeat and then flashes forward 20 years when the friends need to reunite for a final showdown.
Gregory Lamberson walks the line between horror and not quite horror, but there is no denying his popularity with horror fan because his Jake Helman Files series is scary as heck. Jake resigns from the NYC police force and becomes a private detective specializing, by accident, in supernatural crimes. These are gory and terrifying novels, but reviewers are constantly commenting on how imaginative and original the stories feel. More horror than Huston’s Joe Pitt series, but still with a strong investigative element, Lamberson is an author to keep an eye on. Try the first book in the series, Personal Demons
Law enforcement officer Joe McKinney knows a thing or two about catching bad guys, but in his terrifying Dead World series, he imagines an evil much worse than a mere human criminal. After five hurricanes in a row slam into the Texas Gulf coast, “from the rubble, a virus has been born that is reanimating the dead--thousands of them at a time! Quickly, the virus spreads across the entire state of Texas, as hordes of hungry zombies begin taking over. This is a terrifying and action packed series with a realistic premise.” The first book is Dead City.
Finally, I would like to add a list of newer authors, all who have been mentioned on RA for All: Horror previously, who are making enough of an impact that you should be on the look out for new titles by them. All links go to areas on this blog where the author was discussed and/or his book reviewed.
Now that my book is a year old, look for more frequent official updates to the print here on the blog.
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