Who is the next big thing in horror

I am missing the days when the shelves at the book stores were brimming with new horror novels from new writers. I did a gig at a Barnes and Nobel as a part time gig for a vacation we were taking. What they told me was that non-fiction was the stuff that was the biggest sellers; especially history. What is up with that? History non-fiction is the top selling genre.
Okay, people where are your imaginations? You realize that when you are reading a book on history you are consuming other people’s ideas. You have no way to know how accurate their ideas are. You just read the book and kind of accept them.
A work of fiction, now there is an experience you can take part in. A good writer will draw you into a world that you know isn’t real and yet you are willing to travel there all the same. You get to picture the places and the people and the situations in your mind as you read. A good writer can take you into a gossamer world of dreams. Or in the case of horror, nightmares. It is magic.
I am afraid that people may feel guilty these days if they are sitting around reading fiction. They can hear the words of some tight ass teacher from high school berating them for not reading something worthwhile. Why aren’t you reading your history they might have said? You are a lazy good for nothing, they might have said? Okay, you probably didn’t go to school around the turn of the century, but you get the idea. You have been made to feel guilty about imagining, and imagining is how we humans do great things. To think beyond what we are told. To imagine what things could be built or painted or sculpted. That is where greatness lies.
And so I move back to my original question. Where are the great horror authors? Stephen King is still going strong. I suppose Stephanie Myers is up and coming and I am glad for it. Anne Rice is still working. But what is new? Who is new? I want someone great to put out a long line of horror novels. The next H. P. Lovecraft. The next Stephen King? The next Anne Rice? It is time for us to have our nightmares stirred up again. To have new landscapes dreamed into existence that we can travel.
Oh, Cormac McCarthy has done just that by the way. If you haven’t read “The Road” do it now. It is horror of the finest caliber.