The Best Horror Fiction Writer Of All Time, According To Stephen King

"In terms of reading, the early Bradbury played a part (although I did not discover him until my teens), the early Bloch, and a number of '40s paperback editions of Lovecraft that I found in an aunt's attic. Lovecraft struck me with the most force, and I still think, that for all his shortcomings, he is the best writer of horror Fiction that America has yet produced"...