Surely you jest? Poe, Twain, Fitzgerald, Salinger, even Stephen King would be better known. The first and last are more famous horror writers.
I never saw the 1970's "Dunwich Horror" (featuring a tattooed Wilbur) but apparently it stank.There were a handful of (1980s?) films including "Reanimator" (as in Herbert West) and one or two others which I did see and they stank big time. I think some guy got his hands on the film rights and churned out a little line of films with some of the same actors, I think they went straight to video.
The "overdose!" intestinal strangulation and decapitated cunnilingus scenes in Reanimator were memorably bad.
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