--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Ron Clinton" <clinton65@...> wrote:
>
> Laymon and Lansdale are both great examples, are in my mind are probably the
> two standards for the mystery/horror hybrid, those who excel in both genres.
>
> Others that you interest you:
>
> * William F. Nolan
> * David Morrell (though more of a thriller / horror hybrid)
> * Dan Simmons
> * F. Paul Wilson
> * Ed Gorman, though his straight horror output is small (most under penname
> Daniel Ransom...though many of his short stories straddle both genres)
> * Robert Bloch
>
> Those are the ones who leap instantly to mind...I'm sure there are a bunch
> more I'll think of as soon as I hit Send.
The list is indeed huge, even granting that neither horror nor mystery are properly "genres" so much as collections of genres.
And Morrell has written straightforward horror. Among the others one could easily cite:
Cornell Woolrich
Richard Matheson
A. Conan Doyle
Ron Goulart
Patricia Highsmith
Bill Pronzini
Barry Malzberg
Marcia Muller
Some guy named Poe
Robert Arthur
Sharyn McCrumb
Kate Wilhelm
Fritz Leiber
Manly Wade Wellman
Avram Davidson
Theodore Sturgeon
Bill Crider
Jorge Luis Borges
William Hope Hodgson
Patti/Patricia Abbott
Joyce Carol Oates
Neal Barrett, Jr.
--and I'm sure a few more members of this list aside from Ed Gorman and Bill Crider would qualify...
Todd Mason (who arguably qualifies, himself)
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