What's your favorite author?

[Aggie]

Who's your favorite Paranormal author and why?

I'll start:  I'm rather fond of Laurel K Hamilton, though I have to admit.. Charline Harris and Kim Harrison crack me up.  Laurel I think is my favorite, but it seems that her first books in a series are great, and then the series goes down hill from there.  Charline-- you gotta love a woman who can write about rural Louisiana well.  Kim just does a great job with mixing species into something fresh.

My other favorite paranormal writers:  Montague Summers.  I know he was writing from a Christian standpoint, but he did document a great deal of folklore and superstitious belief.  If you ever want to seriously study weres and vamps.. you gotta start with him.

Religiously, it's Janet and Stewart Farrar and Doreen Valente.  Doreen's "ABC's of Witchcraft" is a great start to a more traditional view of witchcraft.  Forget the modern Llewellyn style books-- I say hit the good stuff first.  Yes, sometimes it's thick to read.. but well worth it.

-Aggie

[Elfkin]

Since I suppose it's unfair to choose myself as my favorite paranormal author. I am going to go with:

Jim Butcher.

Harry Dresden is some of the best junk-food genre fiction I have ever read. It's not Shakespeare, but it's absolutely entertaining and I've ended up buying almost every one so far. I like having books like that hanging around.

[Tailskitsune]

you can call me crazy but i like H.P. Lovecraft.   

[Aggie]

Nah.. nothing crazy about loving Lovecraft.  He was quite brilliant.

My friend Orange Pop right now has found a book from a Wisconson professor about how Crowley was working for the British Government.  Yet another brilliant mind that lots of people find crazy.

Crazy is in the eye of the beholder

Aggie

[Reinder]

These days I think mine's John Brunner, again.

[Lynx]

Right now I am on a Terry Pratchett kick, re-reading the Discworld books in order.  I am awaiting the new K. Hamilton book to come out in a few months, Though I have to admit Obsidian Butterfly was the last truely great book she wrote, unless you just want to read for the sex, which isn't too bad.  Dean Koontz has me for most of his novels. I am curious where he is going, most of his book seem to tie in together, and I am wondering if they will end up doing that.  Brian Lumley has a interesting view on Vampyres, and his books are allways action filled.  I read alot and never just read something because it is done by a particular author.