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1. Alfred Hitchcock

   Author of Psycho [1960 film], The Birds [1963 film], Vertigo [1958 film]
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2. John Carpenter

   Author of The Thing [1982 film], Halloween [1978 film], They Live [1988 film]
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3. James Whale

   Author of Frankenstein [1931 film], The Bride of Frankenstein [1935 film], Frankenstein: Complete Legacy Collection
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4. Stanley Kubrick

   Author of The Shining [1980 film], Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb [1964 film], Spartacus [1960 film]
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5. F. W. Murnau

   Author of Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror [1922 film]
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6. Tim Burton

   Author of Ed Wood [1994 film], Beetlejuice [1988 film], Edward Scissorhands [1990 film]
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7. George A. Romero

   Author of Night of the Living Dead [1968 film], Creepshow [1982 film], Dawn of the Dead [1978 film]
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8. Elizabeth Kostova

   Author of The Historian
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9. Sam Raimi

   Author of The Evil Dead [1981 film], Evil Dead II [1987 film], Ash vs. Evil Dead: Season 1
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10. Anne Rice

    Author of Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned
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11. Francis Ford Coppola

    Author of Bram Stoker's Dracula [1992 film], The Godfather 3-Movie Collection, Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Film and the Legend
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12. Merian C. Cooper

    Author of King Kong [1933 film]
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13. Roman Polanski

    Author of Rosemary's Baby [1968 film], Chinatown [1974 film], Repulsion [1965 film]
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14. Mel Brooks

    Author of Young Frankenstein [1974 film], Dracula: Dead and Loving It [1995 film], The Producers [1968 film]
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15. David Cronenberg

    Author of Videodrome [1983 film], Scanners [1981 film], The Fly [1986 film]
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16. Ridley Scott

    Author of Prometheus [2012 film], Alien Quadrilogy (First Four Movies), Alien [1979 film]
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17. Steven Spielberg

    Author of Jaws [1975 film], Close Encounters of the Third Kind [1977 film], Jurassic Park [1993 film]
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18. Fritz Lang

    Author of Metropolis [1927 film], M [1931 film]
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19. John Landis

    Author of An American Werewolf in London [1981 film], The Blues Brothers [1980 film]
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20. Guillermo del Toro

    Author of Pan's Labyrinth [2006 film], The Devil's Backbone [2001 film], Crimson Peak [2015 film]
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21. Orson Welles

    Author of Citizen Kane [1941 film], Touch of Evil [1958 film]
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22. Robert Wiene

    Author of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari [1920 film]
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23. Robert Wise

    Author of The Haunting [1963 film], Star Trek: The Motion Picture [1979 film]
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24. E. Elias Merhige

    Author of Shadow of the Vampire [2000 film]
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25. David Lynch

    Author of Dune [1984 film], Mulholland Dr. [2001 film], Blue Velvet [1986 film]
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26. Michael Curtiz

    Author of Casablanca [1942 film], The Adventures of Robin Hood [1938 film]
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27. Billy Wilder

    Author of Sunset Boulevard [1950 film]
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28. Tobe Hooper

    Author of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre [1974 film], Poltergeist [1982 film]
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29. David J. Skal

    Author of The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror; Revised Edition with a New Afterword, Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
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30. William Friedkin

    Author of The Exorcist [1973 film]
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31. Herk Harvey

    Author of Carnival of Souls [1962 film]
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32. Katherine Dunn

    Author of Geek Love
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33. Martin Scorsese

    Author of Casino [1995 film], GoodFellas [1990 film], Raging Bull [1980 film]
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34. Leslie H. Martinson

    Author of Batman: The Movie [1966 film]
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35. Jim Sharman

    Author of The Rocky Horror Picture Show [1975 film], Shock Treatment [1981 film]
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36. Terry Gilliam

    Author of Monty Python and the Holy Grail [1975 film], Time Bandits [1981 film]
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37. Rob Reiner

    Author of This Is Spinal Tap [1984 film], Misery [1990 film], The Princess Bride [1987 film]
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38. Raymond T. McNally

    Author of In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires
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39. Charlie Chaplin

    Author of The Great Dictator [1940 film], My Autobiography, The Kid [1921 film]
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40. John Huston

    Author of The Maltese Falcon [1941 film], Casino Royale [1967 film]
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41. Joel Coen

    Author of Fargo [1996 film], Miller's Crossing [1990 film], O Brother, Where Art Thou? [2000 film]
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42. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

    Author of All About Eve [1950 film], Cleopatra [1963 film]
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43. Jonathan Lynn

    Author of Clue [1985 film]
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44. Henry Selick

    Author of The Nightmare Before Christmas [1993 film]
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45. Joe Dante

    Author of Gremlins [1984 film], The Howling [1981 film], Gremlins 2: The New Batch [1990 film]
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46. Edgar Wright

    Author of Shaun of the Dead [2004 film]
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47. Darren Aronofsky

    Author of Pi [1998 film], Requiem for a Dream [2000 film]
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48. Terry Zwigoff

    Author of Ghost World [2001 film]
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49. Stephen King

    Author of Salem's Lot, Creepshow
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50. Kim Newman

    Author of Anno Dracula
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