Favorite authors other than King?
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I have never read him, any recommendations?
....well, let's get the extended family out of the way first-Joe Hill and Owen King.....then Dean Koontz, Guillermo del Toro, Joe Lansdale, H.P. Lovecraft, John Skipp, Craig Spector, Richard Matheson and a cast of thousands......
I love reading all the authors in King's family, including Kelly Braffet. I also enjoy Dean Koontz, B.A. Paris, Peter Straub, Emma Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, JK Rowling, Paula Hawkins, Joyce Carol Oates, John Irving, Nicola Yoon, Julie Buntin, Charles Dickens, Sylvia Plath, Ania Ahlborn, Mariana Enriquez, Anne Rice, Jodi Picoult, Ramsey Campbell, Dan Simmons... and many, many more. 
I keep hearing good things about Joe Landsdale. I am going to give him a try.
Robert Mccammon, Joe Hill, Don Winslow, Elmore Leonard and Cormac McCarthy.
I like some of Cormac McCarthey stuff, but some of it is tedious! Ever read Sutter? I hated it
Yes, I've read Suttre and enjoyed it but it's not top McCarthy for me. My favorites are Blood Meridian, The Road, Border Trilogy and No Country for Old Men.
Yeah, his early stuff is downright microscopic! Fascinating but tedious. I didn't make it to the second chapter of Suttree; maybe one day.
Suttre my spell correct on my phone keeps screwing up my posts. I struggled to get through this book, but I eventually gave up because I was not enjoying it at all
Anyone read "A Good and Happy Child"? That is a great book
My favorite authors
Stephen King
Dean Koontz whenever he's not writing novels involving golden labradors or whatever.
Anne Rice
H.P. Lovecraft
Tom Clancy
Any author who writes a Star Wars novel
Danielle Steele. Don't judge me, man lol
Stephen King
Dean Koontz whenever he's not writing novels involving golden labradors or whatever.
Anne Rice
H.P. Lovecraft
Tom Clancy
Any author who writes a Star Wars novel
Danielle Steele. Don't judge me, man lol
Anyone read Jonathan Mayberry? Pine deep trilogy?
Anne Rice
H.P. Lovecraft
Algernon Blackwood
Tom Knox
Iris Johansen
H.P. Lovecraft
Algernon Blackwood
Tom Knox
Iris Johansen
I really really like Michael McDowell's Southern gothic novels. The Elementals and Blackwater: The Complete Caskey Family Saga were amazing
Robert McCammon is the most King-like if King is your favorite author. I think McCammon is finally starting to get his due. The primary differnce between McCammon and King is that King did his best work in the 70s and 80s and almost all his books have been made into movies. McCammon has become an increasingly better writer over the years and seems to be peaking in recent years but with none of his books made into movies. In terms of the best authors, however, I would go with the likes of Haruki Murakami or Michel Faber. "Kafka on the Shore," "The Wind Up Bird Chronicles" or "Under the Skin". In the US, we have a lot of great storytellers (probably due to the influence of TV) but not that many great writers.
I enjoy Haruki, its just hard to relate to the characters and how they react to situations.
Maberry is very enjoyable. His Rot and Ruin series is quite good. Also the books taking place before the zombies take over as they have done in Rot and Ruin. Also his two Zombieacopalypse novels (he might have written more in that series) Dead of Night and Fall of Night. I actually prefer his zombie things to the Pine Deep trilogy even if i like it too.
My faves??? In what genre? Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Tana French, Ursula K. LeGuin, Robert McCammon, John Wyndham, Peter Robinson.... I could go on. When i feel like SF i love me some, Heinlein, Anderson, Silverberg, Vance or Kate Wilhelm. Tolkien ofcourse for Fantasy, also Martin. For factbooks i like Tom Holland, Adrian Goldsworthy, Karen Armstrong, Antony Beevor and Geza Vermes. When i feel childish and like to go back in time i pick out my Narnia books by C.S. Lewis or my Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Montgomery. Or even The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren. Crime novels i always return to the classics of Christie, Carr and Sayers. Also Chandler and early works by Rendell and P.D. James. Then there are always Verne, Dumas and Wodehouse to sink into. You are never bored in the company of these authors.