| STEPHANIEMEYER | American novelist best known for her vampire romance series Twilight (9,5) |
| ELLISON | Ralph ---, 20th Century American novelist best known for his novel Invisible Man (7) |
| THOMASPYNCHON | American novelist best known for Gravity's Rainbow (6,7) |
| ZONE | Classic sci-fi series (Twilight ----) |
| HEIRPRESUMPTIVE | I upset her vampire bats - ignoring adult one who's expected to turn into a count, say |
| TWILIGHT | Vampire-romance series (8) |
| WALTERDELAMARE | English poet, short story writer and novelist best known for his poem The Listeners |
| HEYER | Novelist best known for her historical romances, Georgette ... |
| GRAHAM | English novelist best known for the Poldark series, published from 1945 to 2002 (7,6) |
| WINSTON | English novelist best known for the Poldark series, published from 1945 to 2002 (7,6) |
| NESBIT | Novelist best-known for The Railway Children, her book that was adapted into a popular family film starring Jenny Agutter, Bernard Cribbins and others (6) |
| RHYS | Jean ---, 20th Century novelist best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea, a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (4) |
| FORESTER | C S Forester (1899-1966), Egypt-born novelist, best known for his 10-book Hornblower series (8) |
| BRAM | Irish novelist best known for his 1897 novel Dracula (4,6) |
| STOKER | Irish novelist best known for his 1897 novel Dracula (4,6) |
| HERBERT | Australian novelist best known for Poor Fellow My Country published in 1975, Xavier ... |
| WILLIAMSON | Henry - - -, British novelist best known for Tarka The Otter (10) |
| ANTHONYHOPE | English novelist best known for The Prisoner of Zenda (7,4) |
| ROBERTMUSIL | Austrian novelist best known for his unfinished work The Man Without Qualities (6,5) |
| NIGEL | English novelist best known for The Small Back Room (5,7) (see 27D) |
