Problem is not all of them were, and they mostly picked the less obvious ones.

Anyway, separating art from artist is always a tough call, but personally I don’t believe in it for people that are still currently alive and doing shit with the attention (and/or money) they get.

I can get into the Cthulhu mythos (especially as a foundation for other stuff), but I won’t touch anything from J.K. Rowling.