I agree about Anne Rice. I gave up reading her stuff years ago as her more recent writing just could no longer hold my interest, though I enjoyed many of her early Vampire and Witches novels.
Dean Koontz is another who I really loved through the 80's to early 00's, but his recent novels have...
I've always had a soft spot for Needful Things. That was my first couldn't-put-it-down experience with King.
I've read some of his other mid-career titles, but still have not read a number of his early works or more recent novels. Dolores Claiborne and Gerald's Game were not among my King...