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Shirley Jackson is the only author whose stories actually get under my skin in a real way. The novels are good but the short stories especially.

Would rank her as easily one of the best, followed by Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen (earl stories only, post-war stuff is universally shite)

Don't know how controversial an opinion it would be to say that Lovecrafts writing is very good and interesting ideas but I have never been scared even slightly by his work and would not rank him as a genuinely frightening author
gpt
lovecraft isnt really a horror writer. he is a writer of weird tales