Harry Stephen Keeler Thorne Smith Lafferty Sydney Harris Walter Tevis Edna Ferber J. D. Carr R A Lafferty Jack Finney Ernest Bramah John Dickson Carr Lord Dunsany Cesar Aira Ambrose Bierce Patrick Quentin Sarah Caudwell Edmund Crispin Margery Allingham Ellery Queen Dorothy Parker Jack Vance Rex Stout Dashiell Hammett Ayn Rand Howard Phillips Lovecraft Neil Gaiman Joanne K. Rowling