Classic Authors
The writers behind the public-domain stories in the archive.
Alongside its originals, Daily Creepypasta republishes public-domain horror from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, each with a Reader’s Companion. These pages give a short account of each writer’s life and work and list everything of theirs on the site.
- Algernon Blackwood1869–1951 · 8 stories
- Ambrose Bierce1842–c. 1914 · 8 stories
- Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930 · 3 stories
- Arthur Machen1863–1947 · 6 stories
- Bram Stoker1847–1912 · 2 stories
- Charles Dickens1812–1870 · 2 stories
- E. F. Benson1867–1940 · 7 stories
- E. Nesbit1858–1924 · 2 stories
- Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849 · 15 stories
- Edith Wharton1862–1937 · 3 stories
- F. Marion Crawford1854–1909 · 3 stories
- Fitz-James O'Brienc. 1828–1862 · 2 stories
- Guy de Maupassant1850–1893 · 3 stories
- H. G. Wells1866–1946 · 2 stories
- H. P. Lovecraft1890–1937 · 13 stories
- J. Sheridan Le Fanu1814–1873 · 7 stories
- Lafcadio Hearn1850–1904 · 5 stories
- M. R. James1862–1936 · 17 stories
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman1852–1930 · 3 stories
- Mary Shelley1797–1851 · 2 stories
- May Sinclair1863–1946 · 2 stories
- Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864 · 4 stories
- Ralph Adams Cram1863–1942 · 2 stories
- Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894 · 4 stories
- Robert W. Chambers1865–1933 · 4 stories
- Saki1870–1916 · 6 stories
- W. W. Jacobs1863–1943 · 5 stories
- William Hope Hodgson1877–1918 · 2 stories