John Connolly is an Irish writer from Dublin, Ireland

C J Cooke is a gothic novelist and poet from Belfast, Co. Antrim

Stephen Daly is a writer from a working-class community in Northern Ireland

Louise Davidson is a gothic novelist, born in Belfast and living in London

Kristina Dowling is a Swedish YA fantasy author living on the east coast of Ireland

J. S. Le Fanu was an Irish writer known for Gothic and Paranormal fiction.

Mary Fortune (1833 - 1911) was a Belfast-born writer who emigrated to Australia and became one of the earliest women writers of detective fiction.

Beatrice Grimshaw (1870 - 1953) was a novelist and travel writer from County Antrim whose Pacific adventure fiction reached into lost-world and supernatural territory.

Derek Landy is an author of YA who lives near Dublin

Rosa Mulholland (1841 - 1921) was a Belfast-born novelist and poet whose domestic ghost stories are a mainstay of Victorian Irish supernatural fiction.

Herbert Moore Pim (1883 - 1950) was a Belfast writer of occult fiction, poetry and political pamphlets, who published some of his fiction as A. Newman.

Forrest Reid (1875 - 1947) was a Belfast novelist and critic whose dreamlike fiction and ghost stories sit at the edge of the supernatural.

Bram Stoker was an Irish novelist best known for Dracula.