| 100% | TANITHLEE | 9 | British fantasy author of "Death's Master" |
| 49% | PDJAMES | 7 | Author of Death Comes to Pemberley |
| 49% | BUCHNER | 7 | Georg —, author of plays Danton’s Death and Woyzeck |
| 48% | AGATHA | 6 | Author of Death on the Nile, __ Christie |
| 47% | GLEN | 4 | Fantasy author Cook, author of 2018's "Port of Shadows" |
| 47% | MILLER | 6 | American author of Death of a Salesman |
| 46% | PRATCHETT | 9 | Author of Discworld fantasy novels: Terry __ |
| 46% | HOBBES | 6 | Author of Leviathan: British philosopher Thomas |
| 45% | WALTERBESANT | 12 | Author of 1896 novel The Master Craftsman |
| 45% | AGEE | 4 | Author of "A Death in the Family" |
| 44% | POE | 3 | Author of "The Masque of the Red Death" |
| 44% | GARTHNIX | 8 | Author of fantasy novels Lirael, Sabriel and Abhorsen |
| 44% | GHOSTWRITER | 11 | Author of a 1990 Swayze/Moore fantasy romance? |
| 43% | TRUDI | 5 | Fantasy author Canavan, author of the "Black Magician" trilogy |
| 43% | REBECCAYARROS | 13 | Bestselling romance and fantasy author of 15-Across, 30-Across, and 2021's "The Things We Leave Unfinished" (2 wds.) |
| 43% | BULGAKOV | 8 | Mikhail, author of The Master and Margarita |
| 43% | KALI | 4 | Master of death, in Hinduism |
| 43% | NARNIA | 6 | Fantasy realm of C. S. Lewis |
| 43% | CSLEWIS | 7 | British author who wrote the children's series "The Chronicles of Narnia" (3 wds.) |
| 43% | JANEJACOBS | 10 | Author of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” |
| 42% | PATBARKER | 9 | British author of the Regeneration trilogy |
| 42% | EMPSON | 6 | William —, British poet and critic who authored 1930’s Seven Types of Ambiguity |
| 42% | MARR | 4 | Andrew —, author of 2015 novel Children of the Master |
| 42% | NIEN | 4 | ___ Cheng, Chinese author of "Life and Death in Shanghai" |
| 42% | JAMESAGEE | 9 | Pulitzer-winning author of A Death in the Family |
| 41% | SCOTT | 5 | British author of historical novels and ballads |
| 41% | BURGESS | 7 | British author of Nothing Like the Sun |
| 41% | PETERMAXWELL | 12 | & 12A British composer who was Master of the Queen's Music from 2004-14 |
| 41% | NOBBS | 5 | David —, author of 1975 novel The Death of Reginald Perrin |
| 41% | LOVESEY | 7 | Peter —, author of novels Rough Cider and Wobble to Death |