Best Horror Novels and Stories On-Going Discussion

[flavo5000]

So looking through this section of the forum, I noticed the distinct lack of challenges akin to the movie challenges in the other section. For those who aren't aware, I'm a huge horror nut, both movies and books. I thought recently it's a shame that there are massive holes in my horror novel education, so I thought I'd create this on-going challenge to fill those in. For the lists I want to attempt to complete, there are a few that stuck out as solid and encompassing which included both classic and contemporary works:
NPR Reader Poll 100 Best Horror Novels and Stories
Reedsy Discovery 100 Best Horror Books of All Time
Jones and Newman's 100 Best Horror Books
Jones and Newman's Another 100 Best Horror Books
*FYI, I'm using LibraryThing links since it's just cleaner than the source links that are more blog-structured and a little tedious to scroll though.



Without further ado, here is a list of all the titles:

On At Least Two Lists

Frankenstein	Mary Shelley
The Shining	Stephen King
Dracula	Bram Stoker
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier
Haunting of Hill House	Shirley Jackson
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Rosemary's Baby	Ira Levin
Coraline	Neil Gaiman
Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice
I Am Legend	Richard Matheson
"At the Mountains of Madness"	H.P. Lovecraft
The Bloody Chamber	Angela Carter
The Woman In Black	Susan Hill
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty
Collected Ghost Stories*	M.R. James
Those Across the River	Christpher Buehlman
The Hunger	Alma Katsu
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories	Carmen Maria Machado
Come Closer	Sara Gran
Let the Right One In	John Ajvide Lindqvist
A Head Full of Ghosts	Paul Tremblay
Bird Box	Josh Malerman
Books of Blood 1 - 3	Clive Barker
House of Leaves	Mark Z. Danielewski
Carmilla	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories	Mariana Enriquez
Uzumaki	Junji Ito
White is for Witching	Helen Oyeyemi
Feed	Mira Grant
NOS4A2: A Novel	Joe Hill
Ghost Story	Peter Straub
Tales of Mystery and Imagination**	Edgar Allan Poe
Psycho	Robert Bloch
The Wasp Factory	Iain Banks
Swan Song	Robert McCammon
The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
The House of Souls***	Arthur Machen
We Have Always Lived in the Castle	Shirley Jackson
From Hell	Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
The Case Against Satan	Ray Russell
The Collector	John Fowles
Silence of the Lambs	Thomas Harris
Carrion Comfort	Dan Simmons

*NPR included just the story "Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad" while Reedsy included the whole collection
**NPR included "The Tell-Tale Heart", Reedsy and Jones 100 both included complete story collections
***NPR included only "The Great God Pan" and Jones 100 included the full collection The House of Souls

NPR List Only

Title	Author
The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood
"The Lottery"	Shirley Jackson
"The Yellow Wallpaper"	Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Lord of the Flies	William Golding
"The Body"	Stephen King
The Other	Thomas Tryon
"The Monkey's Paw"	W.W. Jacobs
The Collector	John Fowles
The Vampire Lestat	Anne Rice
Queen of the Damned	Anne Rice
Sandman	Neil Gaiman
The Turn of the Screw	Henry James
"The Tell-Tale Heart"	Edgar Allan Poe
World War Z	Max Brooks
The Ruins	Scott Smith
Swan Song	Robert McCammon
The House with a Clock in its Walls	John Bellairs
"Young Goodman Brown"	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Shadowland	Peter Straub
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation	Octavia E. Butler, John Jennings and Damian Duffy
The House Next Door	Anne Rivers Siddons
Down a Dark Hall	Lois Duncan
The Girl with All the Gifts	M.R. Carey
Through the Woods	Emily Carroll
Intensity	Dean Koontz
"Shadow Over Innsmouth"	H.P. Lovecraft
The Terror	Dan Simmons
Burnt Offerings	Robert Marasco
The Elementals	Michael McDowell
The Atrocity Archives	Charles Stross
Experimental Film	Gemma Files
The Ballad of Black Tom	Victor LaValle
The Fisherman	John Langan
The Cipher	Kathe Koja
Bloodchild	Octavia E. Butler
"The Great God Pan"	Arthur Machen
The Screwfly Solution	James Tiptree Jr.
Goblin Market	Christina Rossetti
Elizabeth	Ken Greenhall
The Red Tree	Caitlin R. Kiernan
The October Country	Ray Bradbury
"The Willows"	Algernon Blackwood
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"	Joyce Carol Oates
"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"	Harlan Ellison
"It's a Good Life"	Jerome Bixby
Goosebumps (The Complete Series #1-#62)	R.L. Stine
Lunar Park	Bret Easton Ellis
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark	Alvin Schwartz
Exquisite Corpse	Poppy Z. Brite
Minion	L.A. Banks
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories	Edited by Ann VanderMeer
Penpal	Dathan Auerbach
The Bone Key	Sarah Monette
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories	Laird Barron
The Jumbles	Tracey Baptiste
Rotters	Daniel Kraus
Alone with the Horrors	Ramsey Campbell
Wylding Hall	Elizabeth Hand
The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
Spirit Hunters	Ellen Oh
Infidel	Pornsak Pichetshote
The Devil in America	Kai Ashante Wilson
Furnace	Livia Llewellyn
The Night They Missed the Horror Show	Joe R. Lansdale
"The Repairer of Reputations"	Robert W. Chambers
"Please Momma"	Cheysa Burke
"Left Foot, Right Foot"	Nalo Hopkinson
"All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts"	Sonya Taaffe
The Troop	Nick Cutter
John Dies at the End	David Wong
The Girl Next Door	Jack Ketchum
Communion	Whitley Strieber

Reedsy List Only

Title	Author
It	Stephen King
Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ray Bradbury
The Passage	Justin Cronin
We Have Always Lived in the Castle	Shirley Jackson
The Historian	Elizabeth Kostova
Carrie	Stephen King
Silence of the Lambs	Thomas Harris
The Wasp Factory	Iain Banks
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
Hell House	Richard Matheson
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales	Edgar Allan Poe
The Silent Companions	Laura Purcell
From Hell	Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Her Fearful Symmetry	Audrey Niffenegger
Ghost Story	Peter Straub
Fledgling	Octavia E. Butler
Whispers	Dean Koontz
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket	Edgar Allan Poe
Carrion Comfort	Dan Simmons
Zone One	Colson Whitehead
Psycho	Robert Bloch
Ring	Koji Suzuki
Broken Monsters	Lauren Beukes
The Changeling	Victor LaValle
Fever Dream	Samanta Schweblin
Dark Matter	Michelle Paver
HEX	Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Drowning Girl	Caitlin R. Kiernan
Pandemonium	Daryl Gregory
Frankenstein in Baghdad	Ahmed Saadawi
The Devil in Silver	Victor LaValle
Winter Tide	Ruthanna Emrys
The Grip of It	Jac Jemc
Mongrels: A Novel	Stephen Graham Jones
Last Days	Brian Evenson
Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill
The Snowman	Jo Nesbø
City of Glass	Paul Auster
Horrorstör	Grady Hendrix
Dread Nation	Justina Ireland
The Case Against Satan	Ray Russell
Night Film	Marissa Pessl
Anna Dressed in Blood	Kendare Blake
Drawing Blood	Poppy Z. Brite
The Last Werewolf	Glen Duncan
The Mask	Dean Koontz
Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
Meddling Kids	Edgar Cantero
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories	China Miéville
The Bad Seed	William March
The Walls Around Us	Nova Ren Suma
Gothic Tales	Elizabeth Gaskell
Maplecroft	Cherie Priest
The Good House	Tananarive Due
Skin Folk	Nalo Hopkinson
The Six-Gun Tarot	R.S. Belcher
Mr. Shivers	Robert Jackson Bennett
The Croning	Laird Barron
Hammers on Bone	Cassandra Khaw
Shutter	Courtney Alameda
Fiend: A Novel	Peter Stenson
Parasite Eve	Hideaki Sena
The Lesser Dead	Christopher Buehlman
The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction	Violet Kupersmith
Obscura	Joe Hart
The Beauty	Aliya Whiteley
30 Days of Night	Steve Niles, Ben Templesmith
The Fifth Child	Doris Lessing

Jones & Newman's Lists Only

Title	Author
MacBeth	William Shakespeare
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad
Salem's Lot	Stephen King
The Man Who Was Thursday	G.K. Chesterton
The Lurking Fear and Other Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
Deathbird Stories	Harlan Ellison
Johnny Got His Gun	Dalton Trumbo
The Damnation Game	Clive Barker
A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens
The War of the Worlds	H.G. Wells
1984	George Orwell
American Psycho	Bret Easton Ellis
Pet Sematary	Stephen King
Misery	Stephen King
The Phantom of the Opera	Gaston Leroux
Doctor Faustus	Christopher Marlowe
Grendel	John Gardner
Northanger Abbey	Jane Austen
The Outsider, and Others	H.P. Lovecraft
Uncle Silas	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Out of Space and Time	Clark Ashton Smith
Conjure Wife	Fritz Lieber
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce	Ambrose Bierce
The Best Tales of Hoffmann	E. T. A. Hoffmann
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch	Phillip K. Dick
Worse Things Waiting	Manly Wade Wellman
The Trial	Franz Kafka
Murgunstrumm and Others	Hugh B. Cave
The Land of Laughs	Jonathan Carroll
She	H. Rider Haggard
Twice-Told Tales	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Red Dragon	Thomas Harris
The Island of Dr. Moreau	H.G. Wells
The Anubis Gates	Tim Powers
The Painted Bird	Jerzy Kosiński
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	James Hogg
Mythago Wood	Robert Holdstock
Hawksmoor	Peter Ackroyd
Song of Kali	Dan Simmons
The Sheep Look Up	John Brunner
Melmoth the Wanderer	Charles Maturin
The King in Yellow	Robert W. Chambers
The House on the Borderland	William Hope Hodgson
The Keep	F. Paul Wilson
Caleb Williams	William Godwin
A Voyage to Arcturus	Dave Lindsay
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade	Herman Melville
The Crystal World	J.G. Ballard
The Dark Tower and Other Stories	C.S. Lewis
The Green Man	Kingsley Amis
The Lurker at the Threshold	H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth
Falling Angel	William Hjortsberg
The Black Spider	Jeremias Gotthelf
The Jewel of Seven Stars	Bram Stoker
The Cellar	Richard Laymon
The Wolfen	Whitley Striber
The Ceremonies	T. E. D. Klein
The Arabian Nightmare	Robert Irwin
The White Devil	John Webster
Something about Eve : a comedy of fig-leaves	James Branch Cabell
The Totem	David Morrell
The Wandering Jew	Eugène Sue
All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By	John Farris
Night has a Thousand Eyes	Carnell Woolrich
The Compleat Werewolf and Other Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction	Anthony Boucher
The Sound of his Horn	Sarban
The Pet	Charles L. Grant
Widdershins	Oliver Onions
Sweetheart, Sweetheart	Bernard Taylor
The Dark Country	Dennis Etchison
Quatermass and the Pit	Nigel Kneale
Who Made Stevie Crye?	Michael Bishop
In a Lonely Place	Karl Edward Wagner
A Nest of Nightmares	Lisa Tuttle
The Track of the Cat	Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck	Alexander Lang
Nine Horrors and a Dream	Joseph Payne Brennan
John Silence, Physician Extraordinary	Algernon Blackwood
Sub Rosa: Strange Tales	Robert Aikman
Dark Feasts	Ramsey Campbell
Medusa : a Story of Mystery, and Ecstasy & Strange Horror	E. H. Visiak
Horror Horn	E. F. Benson
And the Darkness Falls	Edited by Boris Karloff
The Second Century of Creepy Stories	Sir Hugh Walpole
Deliver Me from Eva	Paul Bailey
The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales	Marjorie Bowen
The Sleeping and the Dead	August Derleth
The Monk	Matthew Lewis
The Hound of the Baskervilles	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde
The Stranger	Albert Camus
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë
Lost Worlds	Clark Ashton Smith
The Talented Mr. Ripley	Patricia Highsmith
Gormenghast	Mervyn Peake
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Stephen Sondheim
Edge of Running Water	William Sloane
Harvest Home	Thomas Tryon
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen	Alan Garner
Who Fears the Devil?	Manly Wade Wellman
The Book of Skulls	Robert Silverberg
The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"	William Hope Hodgson
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Patrick Süskind
The Midwich Cuckoos	John Wyndham
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen	Elizabeth Bowen
Tales from the Nightside	Charles L. Grant
The Hunger and Other Stories	Charles Beaumont
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward	H.P. Lovecraft
The Cement Garden	Ian McEwan
Lost Souls	Poppy Z. Brite
The Killer Inside Me	Jim Thompson
Outer Dark	Cormac McCarthy
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa	Jan Potocki
New Grub Street	George Gissing
Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Jack Finney
A Sight for Sore Eyes	Ruth Rendell
A Stir of Echoes	Richard Matheson
Peace	Gene Wolfe
They Thirst	Robert McCammon
The Dark Descent	David G. Hartwell
Fantômas	Marcel Allain
Darker Than You Think	Jack Williamson
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural	Edited by Phyllis Fraser, Herbert Wise
Prime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of Modern Horror	Edited by Douglas E. Winter
Flicker	Theodore Roszak
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder	William Hope Hodgson
Dark Forces	Edited by Kirby McCauley
Our Lady of Darkness	Fritz Lieber
Some of Your Blood	Theodore Sturgeon
The Grotesque	Patrick McGrath
The Queen of Spades	Alexander Pushkin
The Devil Rides Out	Dennis Wheatley
The Revenger's Tragedy	Thomas Middleton
The Course of the Heart	M. John Harrison
Darkness Weaves	Karl Edward Wagner
The Nightmare Factory	Thomas Ligotti
The Face That Must Die	Ramsey Campbell
A Wrinkle in the Skin	John Christopher
Skin	Kathe Koja
The Trail of Fu Manchu	Sax Rohmer
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural	Arthur Machen
Strange Toys	Patricia Geary
By Bizarre Hands	Joe R. Lansdale
A Scent of New-Mown Hay	John Blackburn
Finishing Touches	Thomas Tessler
The Haunted Omnibus	Edited by Alexander Laing
The Opener of the Way	Robert Bloch
The Playboy Book of Horror and the Supernatural	Editors of Playboy
The Night Stalker	Jeff Rice
X,Y	Michael Blumlein
More Tomorrow & Other Stories	Michael Marshall Smith
The Third Ghost Book	Edited by Lady Cynthia Asquith
The Off Season	Jack Cady
Blood Sport	Robert F. Jones
Creep, Shadow!	Abraham Merritt
Sleep No More	August Derleth
Pages from Cold Point	Paul Bowles
Reprisal	Mitchell Smith
Feesters in the Lake	Bob Leman
They Return at Evening	H. Russell Wakefield
Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales	Henry S. Whitehead
House of Flesh	Bruno Fischer
Nightshade	Derek Marlowe
A Haunting Beauty	Charles Birkin
Year of the Sex Olympics: Three Television Plays	Nigel Kneale
Tales of Terror	Charles Higham
Fancies and Goodnights	John Collier
The Blind Owl	Sadegh Heydayat
Throat Sprockets	Tim Lucas

Anyone into this? I dunno if anyone on here reads as much horror fiction as I do. Anyway, as I finish them, I'll be posting little mini-reviews. Also I probably won't re-read the ones I've already read just so I can prioritize the ones I haven't.

[OldAle1]

Good luck getting a challenge going! I won't be participating; I have mixed feelings about the film challenges to begin with, and I've never read with any eye to finishing books in any particular timeframe so I wouldn't even think of doing this, just doesn't work for me at all. But I will try to follow along.

Having only been into horror films very much within the last few years it's not surprising that I haven't really been a horror reader; however horror does overlap plenty with fantasy and SF, which I have read much more, and most of what I've read from these lists falls into one of those categories also. What I've already read:

Both lists: Beloved, At the Mountains of Madness

NPR list: "The Lottery", The Turn of the Screw, "The Tell-Tale Heart", "Young Goodman Brown", "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream", "It's a Good Life"

Reedsy list: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Tales*, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales*

*not sure I've read every story from these collections, but probably almost all of them.

Pretty thin. Obviously I favor older stuff and the weirdness of Lovecraft and Lovecraftian writers has appeal, but I've never devoted much time or energy. And I fail to understand how someone who watches 3-5x as many movies as I do can also read ANYTHING, but clearly I manage my time poorly compared to, well, everybody. Of the books on those lists the one that certainly stands out is Frankenstein which I intended to read in it's bicentenary year in 2018 but just never did. And Dracula is obviously in the same category of cultural importance. Beyond that - lots of books that look interesting, several that I own, but the chance of me reading any of them, ever, is...not high. I have read a couple of S. King books, and a whole bunch by Dean Koontz - very much a guilty pleasure - but none that are on those lists. I have a 1st edition of The Shining, given to me by an aunt whose favorite book it was, shortly before she was murdered by her son - I used to be creeped out by the thought of reading it but I think 30+ years later I may be over that, and that's kind of a priority too. Otherwise I'll be interested to note the weirder and perhaps surreal choices if they're pointed out.

[Onderhond]

James Herbert - Rats

Used to be a big horror novel fan, this book always stood out to me. The other work of James Herbert is pretty cool too.

There's one other book I remember from my younger days, about a little town where evil/tentacles/bugs are devouring the inhabitants. Couldn't for the life of me remember what it was called or who wrote it though it was pretty graphic and gruesome though.

[flavo5000]

There's one other book I remember from my younger days, about a little town where evil/tentacles/bugs are devouring the inhabitants. Couldn't for the life of me remember what it was called or who wrote it though it was pretty graphic and gruesome though.

Hm... That sounds like the kind of thing that Robert McCammon would write but it specifically doesn't sound familiar.

[flavo5000]

Good luck getting a challenge going! I won't be participating; I have mixed feelings about the film challenges to begin with, and I've never read with any eye to finishing books in any particular timeframe so I wouldn't even think of doing this, just doesn't work for me at all. But I will try to follow along.

After I posted it, I was thinking calling it a "Challenge" maybe might not be the best thing. But I wasn't thinking about any timeframe. More along the lines of some of the unofficial challenges like Top 250 Directors or They Shoot Zombies Don't They where you are just challenging yourself to complete the list, not really competing against anyone else for a duration.

[flavo5000]

James Herbert - Rats

Used to be a big horror novel fan, this book always stood out to me. The other work of James Herbert is pretty cool too.

I've actually had this one recommended to me before. I think it may have been mentioned in the Paperbacks from Hell book?

[Onderhond]

I apologize for the incoherent memories, it's really been ages (more than 20 years) and not something I've ever revisited, but I also remember a very sexual angle. I think people actually died from continuous orgasms.

I've actually had this one recommended to me before. I think it may have been mentioned in the Paperbacks from Hell book?

There's apparently a film based on the book (Deadly Eyes, which looks terrible). Not sure how famous it is, it was just a book I found at our local library. I do remember some very graphic passages, of rats gnawing themselves through conscious victims. I was always pissed they had more books by that other Herbert (the Dune guy)

[Onderhond]

So again, sorry for rambling on, but I think I'm talking about Tim Curran's Worm

Edit: guess I'm on brand, bringing up two books that aren't on the lists you posted.

[flavo5000]

Alright. I thought I'd kick this off with a couple I finished over the weekend just to get things started. And before you start, no. I don't normally read two books in a weekend. We had a garage sale so I had nothing to do but just sit and read for two days straight for like 8 hours each day (if you notice my movie watching in the challenge threads plummeted this weekend too ).


1. The Ruins (Scott Smith, 2006)
So I had seen the movie based on this book of a bunch of youthful, hard-partying tourists who get trapped on a large mound covered in colorful flowered but deadly vines so I generally knew what to expect. Overall it was a pretty decent book but I do feel conflicted about it. On one hand, it is paced really well with an interesting focus on the survival aspects of their situation the movie glossed over. On the other hand, the main characters were generally pretty damned unlikable so I didn't care about them at all.


2. A Head Full of Ghosts (Paul Tremblay, 2015)
This one I really liked. It was pretty hard to put it down actually. On its surface, it's a basic possession story about a 14-year-old girl exhibiting strange behavior whose family is suffering financially and stoops to having a reality show built around her predicament. It's told from at least three different narrators at different points in time that creates an uneasy sense of what is or isn't real. Very impressive book that keeps delivering even after you think its over.

To Read (145)

Title	Author
The Passage	Justin Cronin
We Have Always Lived in the Castle	Shirley Jackson
The Historian	Elizabeth Kostova
Silence of the Lambs	Thomas Harris
The Wasp Factory	Iain Banks
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
Hell House	Richard Matheson
The Silent Companions	Laura Purcell
From Hell	Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Her Fearful Symmetry	Audrey Niffenegger
Fledgling	Octavia E. Butler
Whispers	Dean Koontz
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket	Edgar Allan Poe
Carrion Comfort	Dan Simmons
Zone One	Colson Whitehead
Psycho	Robert Bloch
Ring	Koji Suzuki
Broken Monsters	Lauren Beukes
The Changeling	Victor LaValle
Fever Dream	Samanta Schweblin
Dark Matter	Michelle Paver
HEX	Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Drowning Girl	Caitlin R. Kiernan
Pandemonium	Daryl Gregory
Frankenstein in Baghdad	Ahmed Saadawi
The Devil in Silver	Victor LaValle
Winter Tide	Ruthanna Emrys
The Grip of It	Jac Jemc
Mongrels: A Novel	Stephen Graham Jones
Last Days	Brian Evenson
Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill
The Snowman	Jo Nesbø
City of Glass	Paul Auster
Horrorstör	Grady Hendrix
Dread Nation	Justina Ireland
The Case Against Satan	Ray Russell
Night Film	Marissa Pessl
Anna Dressed in Blood	Kendare Blake
Drawing Blood	Poppy Z. Brite
The Last Werewolf	Glen Duncan
The Mask	Dean Koontz
Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
Meddling Kids	Edgar Cantero
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories	China Miéville
The Bad Seed	William March
The Walls Around Us	Nova Ren Suma
Gothic Tales	Elizabeth Gaskell
Maplecroft	Cherie Priest
The Good House	Tananarive Due
Skin Folk	Nalo Hopkinson
The Six-Gun Tarot	R.S. Belcher
Mr. Shivers	Robert Jackson Bennett
The Croning	Laird Barron
Hammers on Bone	Cassandra Khaw
Shutter	Courtney Alameda
Fiend: A Novel	Peter Stenson
Parasite Eve	Hideaki Sena
The Lesser Dead	Christopher Buehlman
The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction	Violet Kupersmith
Obscura	Joe Hart
The Beauty	Aliya Whiteley
The Fifth Child	Doris Lessing
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Rosemary's Baby	Ira Levin
Coraline	Neil Gaiman
Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice
I Am Legend	Richard Matheson
The Bloody Chamber	Angela Carter
The Woman In Black	Susan Hill
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty
Collected Ghost Stories*	M.R. James
Those Across the River	Christpher Buehlman
The Hunger	Alma Katsu
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories	Carmen Maria Machado
Come Closer	Sara Gran
Let the Right One In	John Ajvide Lindqvist
Bird Box	Josh Malerman
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories	Mariana Enriquez
White is for Witching	Helen Oyeyemi
Feed	Mira Grant
NOS4A2: A Novel	Joe Hill
The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood
"The Yellow Wallpaper"	Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Other	Thomas Tryon
The Collector	John Fowles
The Vampire Lestat	Anne Rice
Queen of the Damned	Anne Rice
World War Z	Max Brooks
Swan Song	Robert McCammon
The House with a Clock in its Walls	John Bellairs
"Young Goodman Brown"	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Shadowland	Peter Straub
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation	Octavia E. Butler, John Jennings and Damian Duffy
Down a Dark Hall	Lois Duncan
The Girl with All the Gifts	M.R. Carey
Through the Woods	Emily Carroll
Intensity	Dean Koontz
The Terror	Dan Simmons
Burnt Offerings	Robert Marasco
The Elementals	Michael McDowell
The Atrocity Archives	Charles Stross
Experimental Film	Gemma Files
The Ballad of Black Tom	Victor LaValle
The Fisherman	John Langan
The Cipher	Kathe Koja
Bloodchild	Octavia E. Butler
"The Great God Pan"	Arthur Machen
The Screwfly Solution	James Tiptree Jr.
Goblin Market	Christina Rossetti
Elizabeth	Ken Greenhall
The Red Tree	Caitlin R. Kiernan
"The Willows"	Algernon Blackwood
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"	Joyce Carol Oates
"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"	Harlan Ellison
"It's a Good Life"	Jerome Bixby
Goosebumps (The Complete Series #1-#62)	R.L. Stine
Lunar Park	Bret Easton Ellis
Exquisite Corpse	Poppy Z. Brite
Minion	L.A. Banks
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories	Edited by Ann VanderMeer
Penpal	Dathan Auerbach
The Bone Key	Sarah Monette
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories	Laird Barron
The Jumbles	Tracey Baptiste
Rotters	Daniel Kraus
Alone with the Horrors	Ramsey Campbell
Wylding Hall	Elizabeth Hand
The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
Spirit Hunters	Ellen Oh
Infidel	Pornsak Pichetshote
The Devil in America	Kai Ashante Wilson
Furnace	Livia Llewellyn
The Night They Missed the Horror Show	Joe R. Lansdale
"The Repairer of Reputations"	Robert W. Chambers
"Please Momma"	Cheysa Burke
"Left Foot, Right Foot"	Nalo Hopkinson
"All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts"	Sonya Taaffe
The Troop	Nick Cutter
John Dies at the End	David Wong
The Girl Next Door	Jack Ketchum
Communion	Whitley Strieber

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Title	Author
"The Lottery"	Shirley Jackson
Lord of the Flies	William Golding
"The Body"	Stephen King
"The Monkey's Paw"	W.W. Jacobs
Sandman	Neil Gaiman
The Turn of the Screw	Henry James
"The Tell-Tale Heart"	Edgar Allan Poe
The House Next Door	Anne Rivers Siddons
"Shadow Over Innsmouth"	H.P. Lovecraft
The October Country	Ray Bradbury
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark	Alvin Schwartz
30 Days of Night	Steve Niles, Ben Templesmith
Ghost Story	Peter Straub
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales	Edgar Allan Poe
Carrie	Stephen King
It	Stephen King
Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ray Bradbury
Books of Blood 1 - 3	Clive Barker
House of Leaves	Mark Z. Danielewski
Carmilla	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Uzumaki	Junji Ito
"At the Mountains of Madness"	H.P. Lovecraft
Haunting of Hill House	Shirley Jackson
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley
The Shining	Stephen King
Dracula	Bram Stoker
A Head Full of Ghosts	Paul Tremblay
The Ruins	Scott Smith

[brokenface]

I apologize for the incoherent memories, it's really been ages (more than 20 years) and not something I've ever revisited, but I also remember a very sexual angle. I think people actually died from continuous orgasms.

I've actually had this one recommended to me before. I think it may have been mentioned in the Paperbacks from Hell book?

There's apparently a film based on the book (Deadly Eyes, which looks terrible). Not sure how famous it is, it was just a book I found at our local library. I do remember some very graphic passages, of rats gnawing themselves through conscious victims. I was always pissed they had more books by that other Herbert (the Dune guy)

I've got a feeling I read this as a kid too. might explain my slight rat phobia.

[Leopardi]

Sounds like a fun challenge! I do enjoy horror and haven't really read much, all things considered (I think I've read 27 books across the lists you've posted? I might have miscounted) but it'll be tricky to do this alongside the Read the Books thread, so I'm not sure I can join in. I'll give it some thought, though!

No William Hope Hodgson on any of the lists? Shocking!!

[mightysparks]

I actually don’t read a lot of horror but I may jump into this every now and then. I’m only just halfway through the NPR Sci-fi and fantasy list and I’ve been working on that since the mid 2000s lol.

[OldAle1]

No William Hope Hodgson on any of the lists? Shocking!!

Seconded! Though the two novels that I've read, The House on the Borderland and The Night Land, probably don't qualify primarily as horror. Can't remember which short stories I've read, just 2 or 3 of those I think.

[mightysparks]

Finally had a chance to look at the lists.. I've read 17 on the NPR list and 10 on the Reedsy list. Surprised at how many I'd never heard of. I generally prefer to read sci-fi and have never cared much for horror literature (even if I pretty much only consumed Goosebumps as a kid and my favourite book is horror). But maybe it's just that I haven't read enough.

I have read on NPR: Frankenstein (rubbish), The Shining, Dracula, The Handmaid's Tale, The Haunting of Hill House, The Lottery, The Yellow Wallpaper, Lord of the Flies, Sandman (the first volume), World War Z, The Exorcist, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Great God Pan, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Goosebumps (1-62 and many more lol), House of Leaves (rubbish), John Dies at the End.

And Something Wicked This Way Comes and The Road from the Reedsy list.

[ChrisReynolds]

I have read 38 from the first list and 32 on the second. To be honest I don't think much of either list: they seem to start with a smattering of classics and then become a list of recent popular horror. It feels like a book equivalent of the All-time Worldwide Box Office lists.

Two horror book lists which did really impress me were:
Horror: The 100 Best Books
Horror: Another 100 Best Books
At some point in my life I hope to have read all of these 200. (I've read 27 from the first list and 21 from the second)

As I am already a member of a horror book club and a Stephen King book club, I have my plate full with horror books at the moment, but I'd love to know other's opinions on these.

[flavo5000]

I have read 38 from the first list and 32 on the second. To be honest I don't think much of either list: they seem to start with a smattering of classics and then become a list of recent popular horror. It feels like a book equivalent of the All-time Worldwide Box Office lists.

Two horror book lists which did really impress me were:
Horror: The 100 Best Books
Horror: Another 100 Best Books
At some point in my life I hope to have read all of these 200. (I've read 27 from the first list and 21 from the second)

As I am already a member of a horror book club and a Stephen King book club, I have my plate full with horror books at the moment, but I'd love to know other's opinions on these.

Yea, I actually considered including those too (and I might still add them if I have the time). I just figured that my weakest spots were on more contemporary horror so I wanted to find a couple of lists that did have a large chunk of those.

[flavo5000]

I have read 38 from the first list and 32 on the second. To be honest I don't think much of either list: they seem to start with a smattering of classics and then become a list of recent popular horror. It feels like a book equivalent of the All-time Worldwide Box Office lists.

Two horror book lists which did really impress me were:
Horror: The 100 Best Books
Horror: Another 100 Best Books
At some point in my life I hope to have read all of these 200. (I've read 27 from the first list and 21 from the second)

As I am already a member of a horror book club and a Stephen King book club, I have my plate full with horror books at the moment, but I'd love to know other's opinions on these.

I went ahead and added the two Jones & Newman lists to the OP just because they are good lists and I thought it'd be good to round out with more classic horror novels.

[peeptoad]

The Tomb- Lovecraft

[flavo5000]

The Tomb- Lovecraft

If anyone is into audiobooks, many of the older public domain titles can be found on podcast streams as well like Loyal Books and The Great Stories with Trev Downey. I personally don't listen to audiobooks a whole lot but I do work them in occasionally, especially if they're free like these.

[flavo5000]

3. Coraline (Neil Gaiman, 2002) 4/5
Lists: NPR & Reedsy
This was a quick read given it was target to the YA crowd, but Neil Gaiman is a damned good writer and creates a delightful and genuinely creepy world seen through the eyes of a curious girl who gets more than she bargained for when she goes through a mysterious door in the back of her flat. I had seen the movie already and the film is actually slavishly faithful to the book. Coraline would make for a great introduction to horror for kids (much better than any Goosebumps book I've read).

To Read (296)

The Passage	Justin Cronin
We Have Always Lived in the Castle	Shirley Jackson
The Historian	Elizabeth Kostova
Silence of the Lambs	Thomas Harris
The Wasp Factory	Iain Banks
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
Hell House	Richard Matheson
The Silent Companions	Laura Purcell
From Hell	Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Her Fearful Symmetry	Audrey Niffenegger
Fledgling	Octavia E. Butler
Whispers	Dean Koontz
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket	Edgar Allan Poe
Carrion Comfort	Dan Simmons
Zone One	Colson Whitehead
Psycho	Robert Bloch
Ring	Koji Suzuki
Broken Monsters	Lauren Beukes
The Changeling	Victor LaValle
Fever Dream	Samanta Schweblin
Dark Matter	Michelle Paver
HEX	Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Drowning Girl	Caitlin R. Kiernan
Pandemonium	Daryl Gregory
Frankenstein in Baghdad	Ahmed Saadawi
The Devil in Silver	Victor LaValle
Winter Tide	Ruthanna Emrys
The Grip of It	Jac Jemc
Mongrels: A Novel	Stephen Graham Jones
Last Days	Brian Evenson
Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill
The Snowman	Jo Nesbø
City of Glass	Paul Auster
Horrorstör	Grady Hendrix
Dread Nation	Justina Ireland
The Case Against Satan	Ray Russell
Night Film	Marissa Pessl
Anna Dressed in Blood	Kendare Blake
Drawing Blood	Poppy Z. Brite
The Last Werewolf	Glen Duncan
The Mask	Dean Koontz
Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
Meddling Kids	Edgar Cantero
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories	China Miéville
The Bad Seed	William March
The Walls Around Us	Nova Ren Suma
Gothic Tales	Elizabeth Gaskell
Maplecroft	Cherie Priest
The Good House	Tananarive Due
Skin Folk	Nalo Hopkinson
The Six-Gun Tarot	R.S. Belcher
Mr. Shivers	Robert Jackson Bennett
The Croning	Laird Barron
Hammers on Bone	Cassandra Khaw
Shutter	Courtney Alameda
Fiend: A Novel	Peter Stenson
Parasite Eve	Hideaki Sena
The Lesser Dead	Christopher Buehlman
The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction	Violet Kupersmith
Obscura	Joe Hart
The Beauty	Aliya Whiteley
The Fifth Child	Doris Lessing
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Rosemary's Baby	Ira Levin
Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice
I Am Legend	Richard Matheson
The Bloody Chamber	Angela Carter
The Woman In Black	Susan Hill
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty
Collected Ghost Stories*	M.R. James
Those Across the River	Christpher Buehlman
The Hunger	Alma Katsu
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories	Carmen Maria Machado
Come Closer	Sara Gran
Let the Right One In	John Ajvide Lindqvist
Bird Box	Josh Malerman
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories	Mariana Enriquez
White is for Witching	Helen Oyeyemi
Feed	Mira Grant
NOS4A2: A Novel	Joe Hill
The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood
"The Yellow Wallpaper"	Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Other	Thomas Tryon
The Collector	John Fowles
The Vampire Lestat	Anne Rice
Queen of the Damned	Anne Rice
World War Z	Max Brooks
Swan Song	Robert McCammon
The House with a Clock in its Walls	John Bellairs
"Young Goodman Brown"	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Shadowland	Peter Straub
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation	Octavia E. Butler, John Jennings and Damian Duffy
Down a Dark Hall	Lois Duncan
The Girl with All the Gifts	M.R. Carey
Through the Woods	Emily Carroll
Intensity	Dean Koontz
The Terror	Dan Simmons
Burnt Offerings	Robert Marasco
The Elementals	Michael McDowell
The Atrocity Archives	Charles Stross
Experimental Film	Gemma Files
The Ballad of Black Tom	Victor LaValle
The Fisherman	John Langan
The Cipher	Kathe Koja
Bloodchild	Octavia E. Butler
The Screwfly Solution	James Tiptree Jr.
Goblin Market	Christina Rossetti
Elizabeth	Ken Greenhall
The Red Tree	Caitlin R. Kiernan
"The Willows"	Algernon Blackwood
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"	Joyce Carol Oates
"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"	Harlan Ellison
"It's a Good Life"	Jerome Bixby
Goosebumps (The Complete Series #1-#62)	R.L. Stine
Lunar Park	Bret Easton Ellis
Exquisite Corpse	Poppy Z. Brite
Minion	L.A. Banks
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories	Edited by Ann VanderMeer
Penpal	Dathan Auerbach
The Bone Key	Sarah Monette
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories	Laird Barron
The Jumbles	Tracey Baptiste
Rotters	Daniel Kraus
Alone with the Horrors	Ramsey Campbell
Wylding Hall	Elizabeth Hand
The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
Spirit Hunters	Ellen Oh
Infidel	Pornsak Pichetshote
The Devil in America	Kai Ashante Wilson
Furnace	Livia Llewellyn
The Night They Missed the Horror Show	Joe R. Lansdale
"The Repairer of Reputations"	Robert W. Chambers
"Please Momma"	Cheysa Burke
"Left Foot, Right Foot"	Nalo Hopkinson
"All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts"	Sonya Taaffe
The Troop	Nick Cutter
John Dies at the End	David Wong
The Girl Next Door	Jack Ketchum
Communion	Whitley Strieber
The House of Souls***	Arthur Machen
Doctor Faustus	Christopher Marlowe
Grendel	John Gardner
Northanger Abbey	Jane Austen
The Outsider, and Others	H.P. Lovecraft
Uncle Silas	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Out of Space and Time	Clark Ashton Smith
Conjure Wife	Fritz Lieber
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce	Ambrose Bierce
The Best Tales of Hoffmann	E. T. A. Hoffmann
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch	Phillip K. Dick
Worse Things Waiting	Manly Wade Wellman
The Trial	Franz Kafka
Murgunstrumm and Others	Hugh B. Cave
The Land of Laughs	Jonathan Carroll
She	H. Rider Haggard
Twice-Told Tales	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Red Dragon	Thomas Harris
The Island of Dr. Moreau	H.G. Wells
The Anubis Gates	Tim Powers
The Painted Bird	Jerzy Kosiński
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	James Hogg
Mythago Wood	Robert Holdstock
Hawksmoor	Peter Ackroyd
Song of Kali	Dan Simmons
The Sheep Look Up	John Brunner
Melmoth the Wanderer	Charles Maturin
The King in Yellow	Robert W. Chambers
The House on the Borderland	William Hope Hodgson
The Keep	F. Paul Wilson
Caleb Williams	William Godwin
A Voyage to Arcturus	Dave Lindsay
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade	Herman Melville
The Crystal World	J.G. Ballard
The Dark Tower and Other Stories	C.S. Lewis
The Green Man	Kingsley Amis
The Lurker at the Threshold	H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth
Falling Angel	William Hjortsberg
The Black Spider	Jeremias Gotthelf
The Jewel of Seven Stars	Bram Stoker
The Cellar	Richard Laymon
The Wolfen	Whitley Striber
The Ceremonies	T. E. D. Klein
The Arabian Nightmare	Robert Irwin
The White Devil	John Webster
Something about Eve : a comedy of fig-leaves	James Branch Cabell
The Totem	David Morrell
The Wandering Jew	Eugène Sue
All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By	John Farris
Night has a Thousand Eyes	Carnell Woolrich
The Compleat Werewolf and Other Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction	Anthony Boucher
The Sound of his Horn	Sarban
The Pet	Charles L. Grant
Widdershins	Oliver Onions
Sweetheart, Sweetheart	Bernard Taylor
The Dark Country	Dennis Etchison
Quatermass and the Pit	Nigel Kneale
Who Made Stevie Crye?	Michael Bishop
In a Lonely Place	Karl Edward Wagner
A Nest of Nightmares	Lisa Tuttle
The Track of the Cat	Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck	Alexander Lang
Nine Horrors and a Dream	Joseph Payne Brennan
John Silence, Physician Extraordinary	Algernon Blackwood
Sub Rosa: Strange Tales	Robert Aikman
Dark Feasts	Ramsey Campbell
Medusa : a Story of Mystery, and Ecstasy & Strange Horror	E. H. Visiak
Horror Horn	E. F. Benson
And the Darkness Falls	Edited by Boris Karloff
The Second Century of Creepy Stories	Sir Hugh Walpole
Deliver Me from Eva	Paul Bailey
The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales	Marjorie Bowen
The Sleeping and the Dead	August Derleth
The Monk	Matthew Lewis
The Hound of the Baskervilles	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde
The Stranger	Albert Camus
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë
Lost Worlds	Clark Ashton Smith
The Talented Mr. Ripley	Patricia Highsmith
Gormenghast	Mervyn Peake
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Stephen Sondheim
Edge of Running Water	William Sloane
Harvest Home	Thomas Tryon
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen	Alan Garner
Who Fears the Devil?	Manly Wade Wellman
The Book of Skulls	Robert Silverberg
The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"	William Hope Hodgson
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Patrick Süskind
The Midwich Cuckoos	John Wyndham
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen	Elizabeth Bowen
Tales from the Nightside	Charles L. Grant
The Hunger and Other Stories	Charles Beaumont
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward	H.P. Lovecraft
The Cement Garden	Ian McEwan
Lost Souls	Poppy Z. Brite
The Killer Inside Me	Jim Thompson
Outer Dark	Cormac McCarthy
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa	Jan Potocki
New Grub Street	George Gissing
Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Jack Finney
A Sight for Sore Eyes	Ruth Rendell
A Stir of Echoes	Richard Matheson
Peace	Gene Wolfe
They Thirst	Robert McCammon
The Dark Descent	David G. Hartwell
Fantômas	Marcel Allain
Darker Than You Think	Jack Williamson
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural	Edited by Phyllis Fraser, Herbert Wise
Prime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of Modern Horror	Edited by Douglas E. Winter
Flicker	Theodore Roszak
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder	William Hope Hodgson
Dark Forces	Edited by Kirby McCauley
Our Lady of Darkness	Fritz Lieber
Some of Your Blood	Theodore Sturgeon
The Grotesque	Patrick McGrath
The Queen of Spades	Alexander Pushkin
The Devil Rides Out	Dennis Wheatley
The Revenger's Tragedy	Thomas Middleton
The Course of the Heart	M. John Harrison
Darkness Weaves	Karl Edward Wagner
The Nightmare Factory	Thomas Ligotti
The Face That Must Die	Ramsey Campbell
A Wrinkle in the Skin	John Christopher
Skin	Kathe Koja
The Trail of Fu Manchu	Sax Rohmer
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural	Arthur Machen
Strange Toys	Patricia Geary
By Bizarre Hands	Joe R. Lansdale
A Scent of New-Mown Hay	John Blackburn
Finishing Touches	Thomas Tessler
The Haunted Omnibus	Edited by Alexander Laing
The Opener of the Way	Robert Bloch
The Playboy Book of Horror and the Supernatural	Editors of Playboy
The Night Stalker	Jeff Rice
X,Y	Michael Blumlein
More Tomorrow & Other Stories	Michael Marshall Smith
The Third Ghost Book	Edited by Lady Cynthia Asquith
The Off Season	Jack Cady
Blood Sport	Robert F. Jones
Creep, Shadow!	Abraham Merritt
Sleep No More	August Derleth
Pages from Cold Point	Paul Bowles
Reprisal	Mitchell Smith
Feesters in the Lake	Bob Leman
They Return at Evening	H. Russell Wakefield
Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales	Henry S. Whitehead
House of Flesh	Bruno Fischer
Nightshade	Derek Marlowe
A Haunting Beauty	Charles Birkin
Year of the Sex Olympics: Three Television Plays	Nigel Kneale
Tales of Terror	Charles Higham
Fancies and Goodnights	John Collier
The Blind Owl	Sadegh Heydayat
Throat Sprockets	Tim Lucas

Read (46)

"The Lottery"	Shirley Jackson
Lord of the Flies	William Golding
"The Body"	Stephen King
"The Monkey's Paw"	W.W. Jacobs
Sandman	Neil Gaiman
The Turn of the Screw	Henry James
"The Tell-Tale Heart"	Edgar Allan Poe
The House Next Door	Anne Rivers Siddons
"Shadow Over Innsmouth"	H.P. Lovecraft
The October Country	Ray Bradbury
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark	Alvin Schwartz
30 Days of Night	Steve Niles, Ben Templesmith
Ghost Story	Peter Straub
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales	Edgar Allan Poe
Carrie	Stephen King
It	Stephen King
Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ray Bradbury
Books of Blood 1 - 3	Clive Barker
House of Leaves	Mark Z. Danielewski
Carmilla	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Uzumaki	Junji Ito
"At the Mountains of Madness"	H.P. Lovecraft
Haunting of Hill House	Shirley Jackson
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley
The Shining	Stephen King
Dracula	Bram Stoker
A Head Full of Ghosts	Paul Tremblay
The Ruins	Scott Smith
Ghost Story	Peter Straub
MacBeth	William Shakespeare
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad
Salem's Lot	Stephen King
The Man Who Was Thursday	G.K. Chesterton
The Lurking Fear and Other Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
Deathbird Stories	Harlan Ellison
Johnny Got His Gun	Dalton Trumbo
The Damnation Game	Clive Barker
A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens
The War of the Worlds	H.G. Wells
1984	George Orwell
American Psycho	Bret Easton Ellis
Pet Sematary	Stephen King
Misery	Stephen King
The Phantom of the Opera	Gaston Leroux
Coraline	Neil Gaiman

[flavo5000]

4. Horrorstör (Grady Hendrix, 2014) 4/5
The premise here is basically a cynical comedic take on haunted retail. It follows a group of employees of Orsk, an Ikea knock-off, as they stay overnight in the store to figure out what's been causing some weird stuff to show up in the Showroom floor lately. The book does a solid job of starting as a retail comedy not unlike the TV series Superstore while slowly morphing into a genuinely creepy at times haunted house-type story. It's very briskly paced, especially in the second half and is generally a lot of fun to read. Also an additional shout out to the graphic design of the book, tailored to look like a furniture catalog that slow starts to reflect the situation the characters find themselves in.

To Read (295)

The Passage	Justin Cronin
We Have Always Lived in the Castle	Shirley Jackson
The Historian	Elizabeth Kostova
Silence of the Lambs	Thomas Harris
The Wasp Factory	Iain Banks
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
Hell House	Richard Matheson
The Silent Companions	Laura Purcell
From Hell	Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Her Fearful Symmetry	Audrey Niffenegger
Fledgling	Octavia E. Butler
Whispers	Dean Koontz
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket	Edgar Allan Poe
Carrion Comfort	Dan Simmons
Zone One	Colson Whitehead
Psycho	Robert Bloch
Ring	Koji Suzuki
Broken Monsters	Lauren Beukes
The Changeling	Victor LaValle
Fever Dream	Samanta Schweblin
Dark Matter	Michelle Paver
HEX	Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Drowning Girl	Caitlin R. Kiernan
Pandemonium	Daryl Gregory
Frankenstein in Baghdad	Ahmed Saadawi
The Devil in Silver	Victor LaValle
Winter Tide	Ruthanna Emrys
The Grip of It	Jac Jemc
Mongrels: A Novel	Stephen Graham Jones
Last Days	Brian Evenson
Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill
The Snowman	Jo Nesbø
City of Glass	Paul Auster
Dread Nation	Justina Ireland
The Case Against Satan	Ray Russell
Night Film	Marissa Pessl
Anna Dressed in Blood	Kendare Blake
Drawing Blood	Poppy Z. Brite
The Last Werewolf	Glen Duncan
The Mask	Dean Koontz
Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
Meddling Kids	Edgar Cantero
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories	China Miéville
The Bad Seed	William March
The Walls Around Us	Nova Ren Suma
Gothic Tales	Elizabeth Gaskell
Maplecroft	Cherie Priest
The Good House	Tananarive Due
Skin Folk	Nalo Hopkinson
The Six-Gun Tarot	R.S. Belcher
Mr. Shivers	Robert Jackson Bennett
The Croning	Laird Barron
Hammers on Bone	Cassandra Khaw
Shutter	Courtney Alameda
Fiend: A Novel	Peter Stenson
Parasite Eve	Hideaki Sena
The Lesser Dead	Christopher Buehlman
The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction	Violet Kupersmith
Obscura	Joe Hart
The Beauty	Aliya Whiteley
The Fifth Child	Doris Lessing
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Rosemary's Baby	Ira Levin
Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice
I Am Legend	Richard Matheson
The Bloody Chamber	Angela Carter
The Woman In Black	Susan Hill
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty
Collected Ghost Stories*	M.R. James
Those Across the River	Christpher Buehlman
The Hunger	Alma Katsu
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories	Carmen Maria Machado
Come Closer	Sara Gran
Let the Right One In	John Ajvide Lindqvist
Bird Box	Josh Malerman
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories	Mariana Enriquez
White is for Witching	Helen Oyeyemi
Feed	Mira Grant
NOS4A2: A Novel	Joe Hill
The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood
"The Yellow Wallpaper"	Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Other	Thomas Tryon
The Collector	John Fowles
The Vampire Lestat	Anne Rice
Queen of the Damned	Anne Rice
World War Z	Max Brooks
Swan Song	Robert McCammon
The House with a Clock in its Walls	John Bellairs
"Young Goodman Brown"	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Shadowland	Peter Straub
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation	Octavia E. Butler, John Jennings and Damian Duffy
Down a Dark Hall	Lois Duncan
The Girl with All the Gifts	M.R. Carey
Through the Woods	Emily Carroll
Intensity	Dean Koontz
The Terror	Dan Simmons
Burnt Offerings	Robert Marasco
The Elementals	Michael McDowell
The Atrocity Archives	Charles Stross
Experimental Film	Gemma Files
The Ballad of Black Tom	Victor LaValle
The Fisherman	John Langan
The Cipher	Kathe Koja
Bloodchild	Octavia E. Butler
The Screwfly Solution	James Tiptree Jr.
Goblin Market	Christina Rossetti
Elizabeth	Ken Greenhall
The Red Tree	Caitlin R. Kiernan
"The Willows"	Algernon Blackwood
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"	Joyce Carol Oates
"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"	Harlan Ellison
"It's a Good Life"	Jerome Bixby
Goosebumps (The Complete Series #1-#62)	R.L. Stine
Lunar Park	Bret Easton Ellis
Exquisite Corpse	Poppy Z. Brite
Minion	L.A. Banks
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories	Edited by Ann VanderMeer
Penpal	Dathan Auerbach
The Bone Key	Sarah Monette
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories	Laird Barron
The Jumbles	Tracey Baptiste
Rotters	Daniel Kraus
Alone with the Horrors	Ramsey Campbell
Wylding Hall	Elizabeth Hand
The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
Spirit Hunters	Ellen Oh
Infidel	Pornsak Pichetshote
The Devil in America	Kai Ashante Wilson
Furnace	Livia Llewellyn
The Night They Missed the Horror Show	Joe R. Lansdale
"The Repairer of Reputations"	Robert W. Chambers
"Please Momma"	Cheysa Burke
"Left Foot, Right Foot"	Nalo Hopkinson
"All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts"	Sonya Taaffe
The Troop	Nick Cutter
John Dies at the End	David Wong
The Girl Next Door	Jack Ketchum
Communion	Whitley Strieber
The House of Souls***	Arthur Machen
Doctor Faustus	Christopher Marlowe
Grendel	John Gardner
Northanger Abbey	Jane Austen
The Outsider, and Others	H.P. Lovecraft
Uncle Silas	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Out of Space and Time	Clark Ashton Smith
Conjure Wife	Fritz Lieber
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce	Ambrose Bierce
The Best Tales of Hoffmann	E. T. A. Hoffmann
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch	Phillip K. Dick
Worse Things Waiting	Manly Wade Wellman
The Trial	Franz Kafka
Murgunstrumm and Others	Hugh B. Cave
The Land of Laughs	Jonathan Carroll
She	H. Rider Haggard
Twice-Told Tales	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Red Dragon	Thomas Harris
The Island of Dr. Moreau	H.G. Wells
The Anubis Gates	Tim Powers
The Painted Bird	Jerzy Kosiński
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	James Hogg
Mythago Wood	Robert Holdstock
Hawksmoor	Peter Ackroyd
Song of Kali	Dan Simmons
The Sheep Look Up	John Brunner
Melmoth the Wanderer	Charles Maturin
The King in Yellow	Robert W. Chambers
The House on the Borderland	William Hope Hodgson
The Keep	F. Paul Wilson
Caleb Williams	William Godwin
A Voyage to Arcturus	Dave Lindsay
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade	Herman Melville
The Crystal World	J.G. Ballard
The Dark Tower and Other Stories	C.S. Lewis
The Green Man	Kingsley Amis
The Lurker at the Threshold	H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth
Falling Angel	William Hjortsberg
The Black Spider	Jeremias Gotthelf
The Jewel of Seven Stars	Bram Stoker
The Cellar	Richard Laymon
The Wolfen	Whitley Striber
The Ceremonies	T. E. D. Klein
The Arabian Nightmare	Robert Irwin
The White Devil	John Webster
Something about Eve : a comedy of fig-leaves	James Branch Cabell
The Totem	David Morrell
The Wandering Jew	Eugène Sue
All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By	John Farris
Night has a Thousand Eyes	Carnell Woolrich
The Compleat Werewolf and Other Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction	Anthony Boucher
The Sound of his Horn	Sarban
The Pet	Charles L. Grant
Widdershins	Oliver Onions
Sweetheart, Sweetheart	Bernard Taylor
The Dark Country	Dennis Etchison
Quatermass and the Pit	Nigel Kneale
Who Made Stevie Crye?	Michael Bishop
In a Lonely Place	Karl Edward Wagner
A Nest of Nightmares	Lisa Tuttle
The Track of the Cat	Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck	Alexander Lang
Nine Horrors and a Dream	Joseph Payne Brennan
John Silence, Physician Extraordinary	Algernon Blackwood
Sub Rosa: Strange Tales	Robert Aikman
Dark Feasts	Ramsey Campbell
Medusa : a Story of Mystery, and Ecstasy & Strange Horror	E. H. Visiak
Horror Horn	E. F. Benson
And the Darkness Falls	Edited by Boris Karloff
The Second Century of Creepy Stories	Sir Hugh Walpole
Deliver Me from Eva	Paul Bailey
The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales	Marjorie Bowen
The Sleeping and the Dead	August Derleth
The Monk	Matthew Lewis
The Hound of the Baskervilles	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde
The Stranger	Albert Camus
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë
Lost Worlds	Clark Ashton Smith
The Talented Mr. Ripley	Patricia Highsmith
Gormenghast	Mervyn Peake
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Stephen Sondheim
Edge of Running Water	William Sloane
Harvest Home	Thomas Tryon
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen	Alan Garner
Who Fears the Devil?	Manly Wade Wellman
The Book of Skulls	Robert Silverberg
The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"	William Hope Hodgson
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Patrick Süskind
The Midwich Cuckoos	John Wyndham
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen	Elizabeth Bowen
Tales from the Nightside	Charles L. Grant
The Hunger and Other Stories	Charles Beaumont
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward	H.P. Lovecraft
The Cement Garden	Ian McEwan
Lost Souls	Poppy Z. Brite
The Killer Inside Me	Jim Thompson
Outer Dark	Cormac McCarthy
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa	Jan Potocki
New Grub Street	George Gissing
Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Jack Finney
A Sight for Sore Eyes	Ruth Rendell
A Stir of Echoes	Richard Matheson
Peace	Gene Wolfe
They Thirst	Robert McCammon
The Dark Descent	David G. Hartwell
Fantômas	Marcel Allain
Darker Than You Think	Jack Williamson
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural	Edited by Phyllis Fraser, Herbert Wise
Prime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of Modern Horror	Edited by Douglas E. Winter
Flicker	Theodore Roszak
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder	William Hope Hodgson
Dark Forces	Edited by Kirby McCauley
Our Lady of Darkness	Fritz Lieber
Some of Your Blood	Theodore Sturgeon
The Grotesque	Patrick McGrath
The Queen of Spades	Alexander Pushkin
The Devil Rides Out	Dennis Wheatley
The Revenger's Tragedy	Thomas Middleton
The Course of the Heart	M. John Harrison
Darkness Weaves	Karl Edward Wagner
The Nightmare Factory	Thomas Ligotti
The Face That Must Die	Ramsey Campbell
A Wrinkle in the Skin	John Christopher
Skin	Kathe Koja
The Trail of Fu Manchu	Sax Rohmer
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural	Arthur Machen
Strange Toys	Patricia Geary
By Bizarre Hands	Joe R. Lansdale
A Scent of New-Mown Hay	John Blackburn
Finishing Touches	Thomas Tessler
The Haunted Omnibus	Edited by Alexander Laing
The Opener of the Way	Robert Bloch
The Playboy Book of Horror and the Supernatural	Editors of Playboy
The Night Stalker	Jeff Rice
X,Y	Michael Blumlein
More Tomorrow & Other Stories	Michael Marshall Smith
The Third Ghost Book	Edited by Lady Cynthia Asquith
The Off Season	Jack Cady
Blood Sport	Robert F. Jones
Creep, Shadow!	Abraham Merritt
Sleep No More	August Derleth
Pages from Cold Point	Paul Bowles
Reprisal	Mitchell Smith
Feesters in the Lake	Bob Leman
They Return at Evening	H. Russell Wakefield
Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales	Henry S. Whitehead
House of Flesh	Bruno Fischer
Nightshade	Derek Marlowe
A Haunting Beauty	Charles Birkin
Year of the Sex Olympics: Three Television Plays	Nigel Kneale
Tales of Terror	Charles Higham
Fancies and Goodnights	John Collier
The Blind Owl	Sadegh Heydayat
Throat Sprockets	Tim Lucas

Read (47)

"The Lottery"	Shirley Jackson
Lord of the Flies	William Golding
"The Body"	Stephen King
"The Monkey's Paw"	W.W. Jacobs
Sandman	Neil Gaiman
The Turn of the Screw	Henry James
"The Tell-Tale Heart"	Edgar Allan Poe
The House Next Door	Anne Rivers Siddons
"Shadow Over Innsmouth"	H.P. Lovecraft
The October Country	Ray Bradbury
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark	Alvin Schwartz
30 Days of Night	Steve Niles, Ben Templesmith
Ghost Story	Peter Straub
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales	Edgar Allan Poe
Carrie	Stephen King
It	Stephen King
Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ray Bradbury
Books of Blood 1 - 3	Clive Barker
House of Leaves	Mark Z. Danielewski
Carmilla	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Uzumaki	Junji Ito
"At the Mountains of Madness"	H.P. Lovecraft
Haunting of Hill House	Shirley Jackson
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley
The Shining	Stephen King
Dracula	Bram Stoker
A Head Full of Ghosts	Paul Tremblay
The Ruins	Scott Smith
Ghost Story	Peter Straub
MacBeth	William Shakespeare
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad
Salem's Lot	Stephen King
The Man Who Was Thursday	G.K. Chesterton
The Lurking Fear and Other Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
Deathbird Stories	Harlan Ellison
Johnny Got His Gun	Dalton Trumbo
The Damnation Game	Clive Barker
A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens
The War of the Worlds	H.G. Wells
1984	George Orwell
American Psycho	Bret Easton Ellis
Pet Sematary	Stephen King
Misery	Stephen King
The Phantom of the Opera	Gaston Leroux
Coraline	Neil Gaiman
Horrorstör	Grady Hendrix

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5. The Jewel of the Seven Stars (Bram Stoker, 1903)
List: Jones & Newman's 100 Horror Books
Despite the popularity of the Universal monster The Mummy, I haven't really come across many horror novels based on Egyptology, so I was cautiously optimistic about this one despite me being unimpressed with Stoker's Dracula. Unfortunately, Stoker, like Lovecraft, is better with ideas than with execution. While the book retains some interest in the first half with the mystery of what's ailing Trelawney and why he left such oddly specific instructions, pretty much all suspense and mystery is dashed to the rocks as the second half gets increasingly more and more bogged down with stifling and endless dry exposition. The climax in the finale chapter isn't bad but feels like too little too late.

To Read (294)

[

Title	Author
The Passage	Justin Cronin
We Have Always Lived in the Castle	Shirley Jackson
The Historian	Elizabeth Kostova
Silence of the Lambs	Thomas Harris
The Wasp Factory	Iain Banks
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
Hell House	Richard Matheson
The Silent Companions	Laura Purcell
From Hell	Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Her Fearful Symmetry	Audrey Niffenegger
Fledgling	Octavia E. Butler
Whispers	Dean Koontz
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket	Edgar Allan Poe
Carrion Comfort	Dan Simmons
Zone One	Colson Whitehead
Psycho	Robert Bloch
Ring	Koji Suzuki
Broken Monsters	Lauren Beukes
The Changeling	Victor LaValle
Fever Dream	Samanta Schweblin
Dark Matter	Michelle Paver
HEX	Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Drowning Girl	Caitlin R. Kiernan
Pandemonium	Daryl Gregory
Frankenstein in Baghdad	Ahmed Saadawi
The Devil in Silver	Victor LaValle
Winter Tide	Ruthanna Emrys
The Grip of It	Jac Jemc
Mongrels: A Novel	Stephen Graham Jones
Last Days	Brian Evenson
Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill
The Snowman	Jo Nesbø
City of Glass	Paul Auster
Dread Nation	Justina Ireland
The Case Against Satan	Ray Russell
Night Film	Marissa Pessl
Anna Dressed in Blood	Kendare Blake
Drawing Blood	Poppy Z. Brite
The Last Werewolf	Glen Duncan
The Mask	Dean Koontz
Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
Meddling Kids	Edgar Cantero
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories	China Miéville
The Bad Seed	William March
The Walls Around Us	Nova Ren Suma
Gothic Tales	Elizabeth Gaskell
Maplecroft	Cherie Priest
The Good House	Tananarive Due
Skin Folk	Nalo Hopkinson
The Six-Gun Tarot	R.S. Belcher
Mr. Shivers	Robert Jackson Bennett
The Croning	Laird Barron
Hammers on Bone	Cassandra Khaw
Shutter	Courtney Alameda
Fiend: A Novel	Peter Stenson
Parasite Eve	Hideaki Sena
The Lesser Dead	Christopher Buehlman
The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction	Violet Kupersmith
Obscura	Joe Hart
The Beauty	Aliya Whiteley
The Fifth Child	Doris Lessing
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Rosemary's Baby	Ira Levin
Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice
I Am Legend	Richard Matheson
The Bloody Chamber	Angela Carter
The Woman In Black	Susan Hill
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty
Collected Ghost Stories*	M.R. James
Those Across the River	Christpher Buehlman
The Hunger	Alma Katsu
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories	Carmen Maria Machado
Come Closer	Sara Gran
Let the Right One In	John Ajvide Lindqvist
Bird Box	Josh Malerman
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories	Mariana Enriquez
White is for Witching	Helen Oyeyemi
Feed	Mira Grant
NOS4A2: A Novel	Joe Hill
The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood
"The Yellow Wallpaper"	Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Other	Thomas Tryon
The Collector	John Fowles
The Vampire Lestat	Anne Rice
Queen of the Damned	Anne Rice
World War Z	Max Brooks
Swan Song	Robert McCammon
The House with a Clock in its Walls	John Bellairs
"Young Goodman Brown"	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Shadowland	Peter Straub
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation	Octavia E. Butler, John Jennings and Damian Duffy
Down a Dark Hall	Lois Duncan
The Girl with All the Gifts	M.R. Carey
Through the Woods	Emily Carroll
Intensity	Dean Koontz
The Terror	Dan Simmons
Burnt Offerings	Robert Marasco
The Elementals	Michael McDowell
The Atrocity Archives	Charles Stross
Experimental Film	Gemma Files
The Ballad of Black Tom	Victor LaValle
The Fisherman	John Langan
The Cipher	Kathe Koja
Bloodchild	Octavia E. Butler
The Screwfly Solution	James Tiptree Jr.
Goblin Market	Christina Rossetti
Elizabeth	Ken Greenhall
The Red Tree	Caitlin R. Kiernan
"The Willows"	Algernon Blackwood
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"	Joyce Carol Oates
"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"	Harlan Ellison
"It's a Good Life"	Jerome Bixby
Goosebumps (The Complete Series #1-#62)	R.L. Stine
Lunar Park	Bret Easton Ellis
Exquisite Corpse	Poppy Z. Brite
Minion	L.A. Banks
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories	Edited by Ann VanderMeer
Penpal	Dathan Auerbach
The Bone Key	Sarah Monette
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories	Laird Barron
The Jumbles	Tracey Baptiste
Rotters	Daniel Kraus
Alone with the Horrors	Ramsey Campbell
Wylding Hall	Elizabeth Hand
The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
Spirit Hunters	Ellen Oh
Infidel	Pornsak Pichetshote
The Devil in America	Kai Ashante Wilson
Furnace	Livia Llewellyn
The Night They Missed the Horror Show	Joe R. Lansdale
"The Repairer of Reputations"	Robert W. Chambers
"Please Momma"	Cheysa Burke
"Left Foot, Right Foot"	Nalo Hopkinson
"All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts"	Sonya Taaffe
The Troop	Nick Cutter
John Dies at the End	David Wong
The Girl Next Door	Jack Ketchum
Communion	Whitley Strieber
The House of Souls***	Arthur Machen
Doctor Faustus	Christopher Marlowe
Grendel	John Gardner
Northanger Abbey	Jane Austen
The Outsider, and Others	H.P. Lovecraft
Uncle Silas	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Out of Space and Time	Clark Ashton Smith
Conjure Wife	Fritz Lieber
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce	Ambrose Bierce
The Best Tales of Hoffmann	E. T. A. Hoffmann
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch	Phillip K. Dick
Worse Things Waiting	Manly Wade Wellman
The Trial	Franz Kafka
Murgunstrumm and Others	Hugh B. Cave
The Land of Laughs	Jonathan Carroll
She	H. Rider Haggard
Twice-Told Tales	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Red Dragon	Thomas Harris
The Island of Dr. Moreau	H.G. Wells
The Anubis Gates	Tim Powers
The Painted Bird	Jerzy Kosiński
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	James Hogg
Mythago Wood	Robert Holdstock
Hawksmoor	Peter Ackroyd
Song of Kali	Dan Simmons
The Sheep Look Up	John Brunner
Melmoth the Wanderer	Charles Maturin
The King in Yellow	Robert W. Chambers
The House on the Borderland	William Hope Hodgson
The Keep	F. Paul Wilson
Caleb Williams	William Godwin
A Voyage to Arcturus	Dave Lindsay
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade	Herman Melville
The Crystal World	J.G. Ballard
The Dark Tower and Other Stories	C.S. Lewis
The Green Man	Kingsley Amis
The Lurker at the Threshold	H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth
Falling Angel	William Hjortsberg
The Black Spider	Jeremias Gotthelf
The Cellar	Richard Laymon
The Wolfen	Whitley Strieber
The Ceremonies	T. E. D. Klein
The Arabian Nightmare	Robert Irwin
The White Devil	John Webster
Something about Eve : a comedy of fig-leaves	James Branch Cabell
The Totem	David Morrell
The Wandering Jew	Eugène Sue
All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By	John Farris
Night has a Thousand Eyes	Carnell Woolrich
The Compleat Werewolf and Other Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction	Anthony Boucher
The Sound of his Horn	Sarban
The Pet	Charles L. Grant
Widdershins	Oliver Onions
Sweetheart, Sweetheart	Bernard Taylor
The Dark Country	Dennis Etchison
Quatermass and the Pit	Nigel Kneale
Who Made Stevie Crye?	Michael Bishop
In a Lonely Place	Karl Edward Wagner
A Nest of Nightmares	Lisa Tuttle
The Track of the Cat	Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck	Alexander Lang
Nine Horrors and a Dream	Joseph Payne Brennan
John Silence, Physician Extraordinary	Algernon Blackwood
Sub Rosa: Strange Tales	Robert Aikman
Dark Feasts	Ramsey Campbell
Medusa : a Story of Mystery, and Ecstasy & Strange Horror	E. H. Visiak
Horror Horn	E. F. Benson
And the Darkness Falls	Edited by Boris Karloff
The Second Century of Creepy Stories	Sir Hugh Walpole
Deliver Me from Eva	Paul Bailey
The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales	Marjorie Bowen
The Sleeping and the Dead	August Derleth
The Monk	Matthew Lewis
The Hound of the Baskervilles	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde
The Stranger	Albert Camus
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë
Lost Worlds	Clark Ashton Smith
The Talented Mr. Ripley	Patricia Highsmith
Gormenghast	Mervyn Peake
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Stephen Sondheim
Edge of Running Water	William Sloane
Harvest Home	Thomas Tryon
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen	Alan Garner
Who Fears the Devil?	Manly Wade Wellman
The Book of Skulls	Robert Silverberg
The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"	William Hope Hodgson
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Patrick Süskind
The Midwich Cuckoos	John Wyndham
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen	Elizabeth Bowen
Tales from the Nightside	Charles L. Grant
The Hunger and Other Stories	Charles Beaumont
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward	H.P. Lovecraft
The Cement Garden	Ian McEwan
Lost Souls	Poppy Z. Brite
The Killer Inside Me	Jim Thompson
Outer Dark	Cormac McCarthy
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa	Jan Potocki
New Grub Street	George Gissing
Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Jack Finney
A Sight for Sore Eyes	Ruth Rendell
A Stir of Echoes	Richard Matheson
Peace	Gene Wolfe
They Thirst	Robert McCammon
The Dark Descent	David G. Hartwell
Fantômas	Marcel Allain
Darker Than You Think	Jack Williamson
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural	Edited by Phyllis Fraser, Herbert Wise
Prime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of Modern Horror	Edited by Douglas E. Winter
Flicker	Theodore Roszak
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder	William Hope Hodgson
Dark Forces	Edited by Kirby McCauley
Our Lady of Darkness	Fritz Lieber
Some of Your Blood	Theodore Sturgeon
The Grotesque	Patrick McGrath
The Queen of Spades	Alexander Pushkin
The Devil Rides Out	Dennis Wheatley
The Revenger's Tragedy	Thomas Middleton
The Course of the Heart	M. John Harrison
Darkness Weaves	Karl Edward Wagner
The Nightmare Factory	Thomas Ligotti
The Face That Must Die	Ramsey Campbell
A Wrinkle in the Skin	John Christopher
Skin	Kathe Koja
The Trail of Fu Manchu	Sax Rohmer
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural	Arthur Machen
Strange Toys	Patricia Geary
By Bizarre Hands	Joe R. Lansdale
A Scent of New-Mown Hay	John Blackburn
Finishing Touches	Thomas Tessler
The Haunted Omnibus	Edited by Alexander Laing
The Opener of the Way	Robert Bloch
The Playboy Book of Horror and the Supernatural	Editors of Playboy
The Night Stalker	Jeff Rice
X,Y	Michael Blumlein
More Tomorrow & Other Stories	Michael Marshall Smith
The Third Ghost Book	Edited by Lady Cynthia Asquith
The Off Season	Jack Cady
Blood Sport	Robert F. Jones
Creep, Shadow!	Abraham Merritt
Sleep No More	August Derleth
Pages from Cold Point	Paul Bowles
Reprisal	Mitchell Smith
Feesters in the Lake	Bob Leman
They Return at Evening	H. Russell Wakefield
Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales	Henry S. Whitehead
House of Flesh	Bruno Fischer
Nightshade	Derek Marlowe
A Haunting Beauty	Charles Birkin
Year of the Sex Olympics: Three Television Plays	Nigel Kneale
Tales of Terror	Charles Higham
Fancies and Goodnights	John Collier
The Blind Owl	Sadegh Heydayat
Throat Sprockets	Tim Lucas

Read (47)

Title	Author
"The Lottery"	Shirley Jackson
Lord of the Flies	William Golding
"The Body"	Stephen King
"The Monkey's Paw"	W.W. Jacobs
Sandman	Neil Gaiman
The Turn of the Screw	Henry James
"The Tell-Tale Heart"	Edgar Allan Poe
The House Next Door	Anne Rivers Siddons
"Shadow Over Innsmouth"	H.P. Lovecraft
The October Country	Ray Bradbury
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark	Alvin Schwartz
30 Days of Night	Steve Niles, Ben Templesmith
Ghost Story	Peter Straub
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales	Edgar Allan Poe
Carrie	Stephen King
It	Stephen King
Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ray Bradbury
Books of Blood 1 - 3	Clive Barker
House of Leaves	Mark Z. Danielewski
Carmilla	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Uzumaki	Junji Ito
"At the Mountains of Madness"	H.P. Lovecraft
Haunting of Hill House	Shirley Jackson
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley
The Shining	Stephen King
Dracula	Bram Stoker
A Head Full of Ghosts	Paul Tremblay
The Ruins	Scott Smith
MacBeth	William Shakespeare
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad
Salem's Lot	Stephen King
The Man Who Was Thursday	G.K. Chesterton
The Lurking Fear and Other Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
Deathbird Stories	Harlan Ellison
Johnny Got His Gun	Dalton Trumbo
The Damnation Game	Clive Barker
A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens
The War of the Worlds	H.G. Wells
1984	George Orwell
American Psycho	Bret Easton Ellis
Pet Sematary	Stephen King
Misery	Stephen King
The Phantom of the Opera	Gaston Leroux
Coraline	Neil Gaiman
Horrorstör	Grady Hendrix
The Jewel of Seven Stars	Bram Stoker

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A couple of shorter ones before tackling a longer one...


6. "The Yellow Wallpaper" (Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1892)
List: NPR
I was actually quite impressed with this interesting psychological horror story given the time period it was released. It felt much more recent than 1892 and is clearly a precursor to works like Polanski's Repulsion.


7. Doctor Faustus (Christopher Marlowe, 1604)
List: Jones & Newman
I was somewhat dreading this due to my general dislike of Shakespeare (Marlowe is often rumored to have penned some of Shakespeare's works) but despite the more archaic dialogue, I actually quite liked it. Certainly containing more horror elements than I expected with dismemberments and the rather graphic ending, the thing that caught me most surprise was by its humor. I legitimately laughed out loud more than once at some of the wry, sarcastic dialogue, particularly from Faustus himself.

To Read (294)

[

Title	Author
The Passage	Justin Cronin
We Have Always Lived in the Castle	Shirley Jackson
The Historian	Elizabeth Kostova
Silence of the Lambs	Thomas Harris
The Wasp Factory	Iain Banks
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
Hell House	Richard Matheson
The Silent Companions	Laura Purcell
From Hell	Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Her Fearful Symmetry	Audrey Niffenegger
Fledgling	Octavia E. Butler
Whispers	Dean Koontz
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket	Edgar Allan Poe
Carrion Comfort	Dan Simmons
Zone One	Colson Whitehead
Psycho	Robert Bloch
Ring	Koji Suzuki
Broken Monsters	Lauren Beukes
The Changeling	Victor LaValle
Fever Dream	Samanta Schweblin
Dark Matter	Michelle Paver
HEX	Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Drowning Girl	Caitlin R. Kiernan
Pandemonium	Daryl Gregory
Frankenstein in Baghdad	Ahmed Saadawi
The Devil in Silver	Victor LaValle
Winter Tide	Ruthanna Emrys
The Grip of It	Jac Jemc
Mongrels: A Novel	Stephen Graham Jones
Last Days	Brian Evenson
Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill
The Snowman	Jo Nesbø
City of Glass	Paul Auster
Dread Nation	Justina Ireland
The Case Against Satan	Ray Russell
Night Film	Marissa Pessl
Anna Dressed in Blood	Kendare Blake
Drawing Blood	Poppy Z. Brite
The Last Werewolf	Glen Duncan
The Mask	Dean Koontz
Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
Meddling Kids	Edgar Cantero
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories	China Miéville
The Bad Seed	William March
The Walls Around Us	Nova Ren Suma
Gothic Tales	Elizabeth Gaskell
Maplecroft	Cherie Priest
The Good House	Tananarive Due
Skin Folk	Nalo Hopkinson
The Six-Gun Tarot	R.S. Belcher
Mr. Shivers	Robert Jackson Bennett
The Croning	Laird Barron
Hammers on Bone	Cassandra Khaw
Shutter	Courtney Alameda
Fiend: A Novel	Peter Stenson
Parasite Eve	Hideaki Sena
The Lesser Dead	Christopher Buehlman
The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction	Violet Kupersmith
Obscura	Joe Hart
The Beauty	Aliya Whiteley
The Fifth Child	Doris Lessing
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Rosemary's Baby	Ira Levin
Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice
I Am Legend	Richard Matheson
The Bloody Chamber	Angela Carter
The Woman In Black	Susan Hill
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty
Collected Ghost Stories*	M.R. James
Those Across the River	Christpher Buehlman
The Hunger	Alma Katsu
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories	Carmen Maria Machado
Come Closer	Sara Gran
Let the Right One In	John Ajvide Lindqvist
Bird Box	Josh Malerman
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories	Mariana Enriquez
White is for Witching	Helen Oyeyemi
Feed	Mira Grant
NOS4A2: A Novel	Joe Hill
The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood
The Other	Thomas Tryon
The Collector	John Fowles
The Vampire Lestat	Anne Rice
Queen of the Damned	Anne Rice
World War Z	Max Brooks
Swan Song	Robert McCammon
The House with a Clock in its Walls	John Bellairs
"Young Goodman Brown"	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Shadowland	Peter Straub
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation	Octavia E. Butler, John Jennings and Damian Duffy
Down a Dark Hall	Lois Duncan
The Girl with All the Gifts	M.R. Carey
Through the Woods	Emily Carroll
Intensity	Dean Koontz
The Terror	Dan Simmons
Burnt Offerings	Robert Marasco
The Elementals	Michael McDowell
The Atrocity Archives	Charles Stross
Experimental Film	Gemma Files
The Ballad of Black Tom	Victor LaValle
The Fisherman	John Langan
The Cipher	Kathe Koja
Bloodchild	Octavia E. Butler
The Screwfly Solution	James Tiptree Jr.
Goblin Market	Christina Rossetti
Elizabeth	Ken Greenhall
The Red Tree	Caitlin R. Kiernan
"The Willows"	Algernon Blackwood
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"	Joyce Carol Oates
"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"	Harlan Ellison
"It's a Good Life"	Jerome Bixby
Goosebumps (The Complete Series #1-#62)	R.L. Stine
Lunar Park	Bret Easton Ellis
Exquisite Corpse	Poppy Z. Brite
Minion	L.A. Banks
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories	Edited by Ann VanderMeer
Penpal	Dathan Auerbach
The Bone Key	Sarah Monette
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories	Laird Barron
The Jumbles	Tracey Baptiste
Rotters	Daniel Kraus
Alone with the Horrors	Ramsey Campbell
Wylding Hall	Elizabeth Hand
The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
Spirit Hunters	Ellen Oh
Infidel	Pornsak Pichetshote
The Devil in America	Kai Ashante Wilson
Furnace	Livia Llewellyn
The Night They Missed the Horror Show	Joe R. Lansdale
"The Repairer of Reputations"	Robert W. Chambers
"Please Momma"	Cheysa Burke
"Left Foot, Right Foot"	Nalo Hopkinson
"All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts"	Sonya Taaffe
The Troop	Nick Cutter
John Dies at the End	David Wong
The Girl Next Door	Jack Ketchum
Communion	Whitley Strieber
The House of Souls***	Arthur Machen
Grendel	John Gardner
Northanger Abbey	Jane Austen
The Outsider, and Others	H.P. Lovecraft
Uncle Silas	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Out of Space and Time	Clark Ashton Smith
Conjure Wife	Fritz Lieber
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce	Ambrose Bierce
The Best Tales of Hoffmann	E. T. A. Hoffmann
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch	Phillip K. Dick
Worse Things Waiting	Manly Wade Wellman
The Trial	Franz Kafka
Murgunstrumm and Others	Hugh B. Cave
The Land of Laughs	Jonathan Carroll
She	H. Rider Haggard
Twice-Told Tales	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Red Dragon	Thomas Harris
The Island of Dr. Moreau	H.G. Wells
The Anubis Gates	Tim Powers
The Painted Bird	Jerzy Kosiński
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	James Hogg
Mythago Wood	Robert Holdstock
Hawksmoor	Peter Ackroyd
Song of Kali	Dan Simmons
The Sheep Look Up	John Brunner
Melmoth the Wanderer	Charles Maturin
The King in Yellow	Robert W. Chambers
The House on the Borderland	William Hope Hodgson
The Keep	F. Paul Wilson
Caleb Williams	William Godwin
A Voyage to Arcturus	Dave Lindsay
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade	Herman Melville
The Crystal World	J.G. Ballard
The Dark Tower and Other Stories	C.S. Lewis
The Green Man	Kingsley Amis
The Lurker at the Threshold	H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth
Falling Angel	William Hjortsberg
The Black Spider	Jeremias Gotthelf
The Cellar	Richard Laymon
The Wolfen	Whitley Strieber
The Ceremonies	T. E. D. Klein
The Arabian Nightmare	Robert Irwin
The White Devil	John Webster
Something about Eve : a comedy of fig-leaves	James Branch Cabell
The Totem	David Morrell
The Wandering Jew	Eugène Sue
All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By	John Farris
Night has a Thousand Eyes	Carnell Woolrich
The Compleat Werewolf and Other Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction	Anthony Boucher
The Sound of his Horn	Sarban
The Pet	Charles L. Grant
Widdershins	Oliver Onions
Sweetheart, Sweetheart	Bernard Taylor
The Dark Country	Dennis Etchison
Quatermass and the Pit	Nigel Kneale
Who Made Stevie Crye?	Michael Bishop
In a Lonely Place	Karl Edward Wagner
A Nest of Nightmares	Lisa Tuttle
The Track of the Cat	Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck	Alexander Lang
Nine Horrors and a Dream	Joseph Payne Brennan
John Silence, Physician Extraordinary	Algernon Blackwood
Sub Rosa: Strange Tales	Robert Aikman
Dark Feasts	Ramsey Campbell
Medusa : a Story of Mystery, and Ecstasy & Strange Horror	E. H. Visiak
Horror Horn	E. F. Benson
And the Darkness Falls	Edited by Boris Karloff
The Second Century of Creepy Stories	Sir Hugh Walpole
Deliver Me from Eva	Paul Bailey
The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales	Marjorie Bowen
The Sleeping and the Dead	August Derleth
The Monk	Matthew Lewis
The Hound of the Baskervilles	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde
The Stranger	Albert Camus
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë
Lost Worlds	Clark Ashton Smith
The Talented Mr. Ripley	Patricia Highsmith
Gormenghast	Mervyn Peake
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Stephen Sondheim
Edge of Running Water	William Sloane
Harvest Home	Thomas Tryon
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen	Alan Garner
Who Fears the Devil?	Manly Wade Wellman
The Book of Skulls	Robert Silverberg
The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"	William Hope Hodgson
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Patrick Süskind
The Midwich Cuckoos	John Wyndham
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen	Elizabeth Bowen
Tales from the Nightside	Charles L. Grant
The Hunger and Other Stories	Charles Beaumont
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward	H.P. Lovecraft
The Cement Garden	Ian McEwan
Lost Souls	Poppy Z. Brite
The Killer Inside Me	Jim Thompson
Outer Dark	Cormac McCarthy
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa	Jan Potocki
New Grub Street	George Gissing
Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Jack Finney
A Sight for Sore Eyes	Ruth Rendell
A Stir of Echoes	Richard Matheson
Peace	Gene Wolfe
They Thirst	Robert McCammon
The Dark Descent	David G. Hartwell
Fantômas	Marcel Allain
Darker Than You Think	Jack Williamson
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural	Edited by Phyllis Fraser, Herbert Wise
Prime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of Modern Horror	Edited by Douglas E. Winter
Flicker	Theodore Roszak
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder	William Hope Hodgson
Dark Forces	Edited by Kirby McCauley
Our Lady of Darkness	Fritz Lieber
Some of Your Blood	Theodore Sturgeon
The Grotesque	Patrick McGrath
The Queen of Spades	Alexander Pushkin
The Devil Rides Out	Dennis Wheatley
The Revenger's Tragedy	Thomas Middleton
The Course of the Heart	M. John Harrison
Darkness Weaves	Karl Edward Wagner
The Nightmare Factory	Thomas Ligotti
The Face That Must Die	Ramsey Campbell
A Wrinkle in the Skin	John Christopher
Skin	Kathe Koja
The Trail of Fu Manchu	Sax Rohmer
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural	Arthur Machen
Strange Toys	Patricia Geary
By Bizarre Hands	Joe R. Lansdale
A Scent of New-Mown Hay	John Blackburn
Finishing Touches	Thomas Tessler
The Haunted Omnibus	Edited by Alexander Laing
The Opener of the Way	Robert Bloch
The Playboy Book of Horror and the Supernatural	Editors of Playboy
The Night Stalker	Jeff Rice
X,Y	Michael Blumlein
More Tomorrow & Other Stories	Michael Marshall Smith
The Third Ghost Book	Edited by Lady Cynthia Asquith
The Off Season	Jack Cady
Blood Sport	Robert F. Jones
Creep, Shadow!	Abraham Merritt
Sleep No More	August Derleth
Pages from Cold Point	Paul Bowles
Reprisal	Mitchell Smith
Feesters in the Lake	Bob Leman
They Return at Evening	H. Russell Wakefield
Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales	Henry S. Whitehead
House of Flesh	Bruno Fischer
Nightshade	Derek Marlowe
A Haunting Beauty	Charles Birkin
Year of the Sex Olympics: Three Television Plays	Nigel Kneale
Tales of Terror	Charles Higham
Fancies and Goodnights	John Collier
The Blind Owl	Sadegh Heydayat
Throat Sprockets	Tim Lucas

Read (47)

Title	Author
"The Lottery"	Shirley Jackson
Lord of the Flies	William Golding
"The Body"	Stephen King
"The Monkey's Paw"	W.W. Jacobs
Sandman	Neil Gaiman
The Turn of the Screw	Henry James
"The Tell-Tale Heart"	Edgar Allan Poe
The House Next Door	Anne Rivers Siddons
"Shadow Over Innsmouth"	H.P. Lovecraft
The October Country	Ray Bradbury
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark	Alvin Schwartz
30 Days of Night	Steve Niles, Ben Templesmith
Ghost Story	Peter Straub
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales	Edgar Allan Poe
Carrie	Stephen King
It	Stephen King
Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ray Bradbury
Books of Blood 1 - 3	Clive Barker
House of Leaves	Mark Z. Danielewski
Carmilla	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Uzumaki	Junji Ito
"At the Mountains of Madness"	H.P. Lovecraft
Haunting of Hill House	Shirley Jackson
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley
The Shining	Stephen King
Dracula	Bram Stoker
A Head Full of Ghosts	Paul Tremblay
The Ruins	Scott Smith
MacBeth	William Shakespeare
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad
Salem's Lot	Stephen King
The Man Who Was Thursday	G.K. Chesterton
The Lurking Fear and Other Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
Deathbird Stories	Harlan Ellison
Johnny Got His Gun	Dalton Trumbo
The Damnation Game	Clive Barker
A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens
The War of the Worlds	H.G. Wells
1984	George Orwell
American Psycho	Bret Easton Ellis
Pet Sematary	Stephen King
Misery	Stephen King
The Phantom of the Opera	Gaston Leroux
Coraline	Neil Gaiman
Horrorstör	Grady Hendrix
The Jewel of Seven Stars	Bram Stoker
"The Yellow Wallpaper"	Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Doctor Faustus	Christopher Marlowe

[flavo5000]

8. Red Dragon (Thomas Harris, 1981)
List: Jones/Newman
This is one that has been on my backlog for a long time just out of sheer notoriety. Hannibal Lecter is easily one of the most recognizable fictional serial killers in literary and film history, so I felt obligated to read this one. So what's the verdict? Eh... After having seen three different adaptations in film/TV, the impact of the story itself has been somewhat lessened. Additionally, and I think the Hannibal TV series really brought this out more than either film adaptation, Will Graham is the most interesting character here, and the book abandons Will for large chunks in the second half. I think Harris wants Dolarhyde to be interesting but honestly he just isn't, and the book suffers. While I'm glad to have finally gotten around to finishing this one, it certainly isn't a book I'll return to any time soon whereas the Hannibal TV series remains a masterclass in serial killer fiction.


9. Twice-Told Tales (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1837)
List: Jones/Newman
Twice-Told Tales is a very diverse collection of stories, only some of which would slot into horror or even genre fiction at all. At its best, the book channels a puritanical fervor and religious zealotry in service of delivering a kind of creeping funereal gloom as in "The Minister's Black Veil" (probably the best story in the collection), "Lady Eleanor's Mantle", "The White Old Maid" and "The Wedding-Knell". It also features tales of light fantasy such as "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" (the only story from this book actually adapted for the Hawthorne anthology film Twice Told Tales) and in a way "Visions of a Fountain" that while interesting feels too slight and anti-climactic to be of lasting interest. Many of his stories are allegorical in nature with a strong moralizing tone such as in "The Great Carbuncle" and The Ambitious Guest" (with its bleakly ironic ending). The biggest downfall of the book in my opinion is the frequent slice-of-life stories that seem to do little but describe the day-to-day from a particular vantage point with no real narrative thrust to them ("A Rill from the Town-Pump", "Sights from a Steeple", "The Toll-Gatherer's Day", "Foot-prints on the Sea-shore", etc. While ethnographers may find these of interest, they do little for me but induce tedium. Overall, I certainly would not recommend the book as a whole for fans of horror fiction as there is far too little here, but there are probably a handful of stories I may recommend as mentioned above.

To Read (292)

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Title	Author
The Passage	Justin Cronin
We Have Always Lived in the Castle	Shirley Jackson
The Historian	Elizabeth Kostova
Silence of the Lambs	Thomas Harris
The Wasp Factory	Iain Banks
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
Hell House	Richard Matheson
The Silent Companions	Laura Purcell
From Hell	Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Her Fearful Symmetry	Audrey Niffenegger
Fledgling	Octavia E. Butler
Whispers	Dean Koontz
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket	Edgar Allan Poe
Carrion Comfort	Dan Simmons
Zone One	Colson Whitehead
Psycho	Robert Bloch
Ring	Koji Suzuki
Broken Monsters	Lauren Beukes
The Changeling	Victor LaValle
Fever Dream	Samanta Schweblin
Dark Matter	Michelle Paver
HEX	Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Drowning Girl	Caitlin R. Kiernan
Pandemonium	Daryl Gregory
Frankenstein in Baghdad	Ahmed Saadawi
The Devil in Silver	Victor LaValle
Winter Tide	Ruthanna Emrys
The Grip of It	Jac Jemc
Mongrels: A Novel	Stephen Graham Jones
Last Days	Brian Evenson
Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill
The Snowman	Jo Nesbø
City of Glass	Paul Auster
Dread Nation	Justina Ireland
The Case Against Satan	Ray Russell
Night Film	Marissa Pessl
Anna Dressed in Blood	Kendare Blake
Drawing Blood	Poppy Z. Brite
The Last Werewolf	Glen Duncan
The Mask	Dean Koontz
Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
Meddling Kids	Edgar Cantero
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories	China Miéville
The Bad Seed	William March
The Walls Around Us	Nova Ren Suma
Gothic Tales	Elizabeth Gaskell
Maplecroft	Cherie Priest
The Good House	Tananarive Due
Skin Folk	Nalo Hopkinson
The Six-Gun Tarot	R.S. Belcher
Mr. Shivers	Robert Jackson Bennett
The Croning	Laird Barron
Hammers on Bone	Cassandra Khaw
Shutter	Courtney Alameda
Fiend: A Novel	Peter Stenson
Parasite Eve	Hideaki Sena
The Lesser Dead	Christopher Buehlman
The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction	Violet Kupersmith
Obscura	Joe Hart
The Beauty	Aliya Whiteley
The Fifth Child	Doris Lessing
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Rosemary's Baby	Ira Levin
Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice
I Am Legend	Richard Matheson
The Bloody Chamber	Angela Carter
The Woman In Black	Susan Hill
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty
Collected Ghost Stories*	M.R. James
Those Across the River	Christpher Buehlman
The Hunger	Alma Katsu
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories	Carmen Maria Machado
Come Closer	Sara Gran
Let the Right One In	John Ajvide Lindqvist
Bird Box	Josh Malerman
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories	Mariana Enriquez
White is for Witching	Helen Oyeyemi
Feed	Mira Grant
NOS4A2: A Novel	Joe Hill
The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood
The Other	Thomas Tryon
The Collector	John Fowles
The Vampire Lestat	Anne Rice
Queen of the Damned	Anne Rice
World War Z	Max Brooks
Swan Song	Robert McCammon
The House with a Clock in its Walls	John Bellairs
"Young Goodman Brown"	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Shadowland	Peter Straub
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation	Octavia E. Butler, John Jennings and Damian Duffy
Down a Dark Hall	Lois Duncan
The Girl with All the Gifts	M.R. Carey
Through the Woods	Emily Carroll
Intensity	Dean Koontz
The Terror	Dan Simmons
Burnt Offerings	Robert Marasco
The Elementals	Michael McDowell
The Atrocity Archives	Charles Stross
Experimental Film	Gemma Files
The Ballad of Black Tom	Victor LaValle
The Fisherman	John Langan
The Cipher	Kathe Koja
Bloodchild	Octavia E. Butler
The Screwfly Solution	James Tiptree Jr.
Goblin Market	Christina Rossetti
Elizabeth	Ken Greenhall
The Red Tree	Caitlin R. Kiernan
"The Willows"	Algernon Blackwood
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"	Joyce Carol Oates
"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"	Harlan Ellison
"It's a Good Life"	Jerome Bixby
Goosebumps (The Complete Series #1-#62)	R.L. Stine
Lunar Park	Bret Easton Ellis
Exquisite Corpse	Poppy Z. Brite
Minion	L.A. Banks
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories	Edited by Ann VanderMeer
Penpal	Dathan Auerbach
The Bone Key	Sarah Monette
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories	Laird Barron
The Jumbles	Tracey Baptiste
Rotters	Daniel Kraus
Alone with the Horrors	Ramsey Campbell
Wylding Hall	Elizabeth Hand
The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
Spirit Hunters	Ellen Oh
Infidel	Pornsak Pichetshote
The Devil in America	Kai Ashante Wilson
Furnace	Livia Llewellyn
The Night They Missed the Horror Show	Joe R. Lansdale
"The Repairer of Reputations"	Robert W. Chambers
"Please Momma"	Cheysa Burke
"Left Foot, Right Foot"	Nalo Hopkinson
"All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts"	Sonya Taaffe
The Troop	Nick Cutter
John Dies at the End	David Wong
The Girl Next Door	Jack Ketchum
Communion	Whitley Strieber
The House of Souls***	Arthur Machen
Grendel	John Gardner
Northanger Abbey	Jane Austen
The Outsider, and Others	H.P. Lovecraft
Uncle Silas	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Out of Space and Time	Clark Ashton Smith
Conjure Wife	Fritz Lieber
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce	Ambrose Bierce
The Best Tales of Hoffmann	E. T. A. Hoffmann
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch	Phillip K. Dick
Worse Things Waiting	Manly Wade Wellman
The Trial	Franz Kafka
Murgunstrumm and Others	Hugh B. Cave
The Land of Laughs	Jonathan Carroll
She	H. Rider Haggard
The Island of Dr. Moreau	H.G. Wells
The Anubis Gates	Tim Powers
The Painted Bird	Jerzy Kosiński
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	James Hogg
Mythago Wood	Robert Holdstock
Hawksmoor	Peter Ackroyd
Song of Kali	Dan Simmons
The Sheep Look Up	John Brunner
Melmoth the Wanderer	Charles Maturin
The King in Yellow	Robert W. Chambers
The House on the Borderland	William Hope Hodgson
The Keep	F. Paul Wilson
Caleb Williams	William Godwin
A Voyage to Arcturus	Dave Lindsay
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade	Herman Melville
The Crystal World	J.G. Ballard
The Dark Tower and Other Stories	C.S. Lewis
The Green Man	Kingsley Amis
The Lurker at the Threshold	H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth
Falling Angel	William Hjortsberg
The Black Spider	Jeremias Gotthelf
The Cellar	Richard Laymon
The Wolfen	Whitley Strieber
The Ceremonies	T. E. D. Klein
The Arabian Nightmare	Robert Irwin
The White Devil	John Webster
Something about Eve : a comedy of fig-leaves	James Branch Cabell
The Totem	David Morrell
The Wandering Jew	Eugène Sue
All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By	John Farris
Night has a Thousand Eyes	Carnell Woolrich
The Compleat Werewolf and Other Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction	Anthony Boucher
The Sound of his Horn	Sarban
The Pet	Charles L. Grant
Widdershins	Oliver Onions
Sweetheart, Sweetheart	Bernard Taylor
The Dark Country	Dennis Etchison
Quatermass and the Pit	Nigel Kneale
Who Made Stevie Crye?	Michael Bishop
In a Lonely Place	Karl Edward Wagner
A Nest of Nightmares	Lisa Tuttle
The Track of the Cat	Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck	Alexander Lang
Nine Horrors and a Dream	Joseph Payne Brennan
John Silence, Physician Extraordinary	Algernon Blackwood
Sub Rosa: Strange Tales	Robert Aikman
Dark Feasts	Ramsey Campbell
Medusa : a Story of Mystery, and Ecstasy & Strange Horror	E. H. Visiak
Horror Horn	E. F. Benson
And the Darkness Falls	Edited by Boris Karloff
The Second Century of Creepy Stories	Sir Hugh Walpole
Deliver Me from Eva	Paul Bailey
The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales	Marjorie Bowen
The Sleeping and the Dead	August Derleth
The Monk	Matthew Lewis
The Hound of the Baskervilles	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde
The Stranger	Albert Camus
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë
Lost Worlds	Clark Ashton Smith
The Talented Mr. Ripley	Patricia Highsmith
Gormenghast	Mervyn Peake
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Stephen Sondheim
Edge of Running Water	William Sloane
Harvest Home	Thomas Tryon
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen	Alan Garner
Who Fears the Devil?	Manly Wade Wellman
The Book of Skulls	Robert Silverberg
The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"	William Hope Hodgson
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Patrick Süskind
The Midwich Cuckoos	John Wyndham
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen	Elizabeth Bowen
Tales from the Nightside	Charles L. Grant
The Hunger and Other Stories	Charles Beaumont
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward	H.P. Lovecraft
The Cement Garden	Ian McEwan
Lost Souls	Poppy Z. Brite
The Killer Inside Me	Jim Thompson
Outer Dark	Cormac McCarthy
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa	Jan Potocki
New Grub Street	George Gissing
Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Jack Finney
A Sight for Sore Eyes	Ruth Rendell
A Stir of Echoes	Richard Matheson
Peace	Gene Wolfe
They Thirst	Robert McCammon
The Dark Descent	David G. Hartwell
Fantômas	Marcel Allain
Darker Than You Think	Jack Williamson
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural	Edited by Phyllis Fraser, Herbert Wise
Prime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of Modern Horror	Edited by Douglas E. Winter
Flicker	Theodore Roszak
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder	William Hope Hodgson
Dark Forces	Edited by Kirby McCauley
Our Lady of Darkness	Fritz Lieber
Some of Your Blood	Theodore Sturgeon
The Grotesque	Patrick McGrath
The Queen of Spades	Alexander Pushkin
The Devil Rides Out	Dennis Wheatley
The Revenger's Tragedy	Thomas Middleton
The Course of the Heart	M. John Harrison
Darkness Weaves	Karl Edward Wagner
The Nightmare Factory	Thomas Ligotti
The Face That Must Die	Ramsey Campbell
A Wrinkle in the Skin	John Christopher
Skin	Kathe Koja
The Trail of Fu Manchu	Sax Rohmer
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural	Arthur Machen
Strange Toys	Patricia Geary
By Bizarre Hands	Joe R. Lansdale
A Scent of New-Mown Hay	John Blackburn
Finishing Touches	Thomas Tessler
The Haunted Omnibus	Edited by Alexander Laing
The Opener of the Way	Robert Bloch
The Playboy Book of Horror and the Supernatural	Editors of Playboy
The Night Stalker	Jeff Rice
X,Y	Michael Blumlein
More Tomorrow & Other Stories	Michael Marshall Smith
The Third Ghost Book	Edited by Lady Cynthia Asquith
The Off Season	Jack Cady
Blood Sport	Robert F. Jones
Creep, Shadow!	Abraham Merritt
Sleep No More	August Derleth
Pages from Cold Point	Paul Bowles
Reprisal	Mitchell Smith
Feesters in the Lake	Bob Leman
They Return at Evening	H. Russell Wakefield
Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales	Henry S. Whitehead
House of Flesh	Bruno Fischer
Nightshade	Derek Marlowe
A Haunting Beauty	Charles Birkin
Year of the Sex Olympics: Three Television Plays	Nigel Kneale
Tales of Terror	Charles Higham
Fancies and Goodnights	John Collier
The Blind Owl	Sadegh Heydayat
Throat Sprockets	Tim Lucas

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Title	Author
"The Lottery"	Shirley Jackson
Lord of the Flies	William Golding
"The Body"	Stephen King
"The Monkey's Paw"	W.W. Jacobs
Sandman	Neil Gaiman
The Turn of the Screw	Henry James
"The Tell-Tale Heart"	Edgar Allan Poe
The House Next Door	Anne Rivers Siddons
"Shadow Over Innsmouth"	H.P. Lovecraft
The October Country	Ray Bradbury
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark	Alvin Schwartz
30 Days of Night	Steve Niles, Ben Templesmith
Ghost Story	Peter Straub
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales	Edgar Allan Poe
Carrie	Stephen King
It	Stephen King
Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ray Bradbury
Books of Blood 1 - 3	Clive Barker
House of Leaves	Mark Z. Danielewski
Carmilla	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Uzumaki	Junji Ito
"At the Mountains of Madness"	H.P. Lovecraft
Haunting of Hill House	Shirley Jackson
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley
The Shining	Stephen King
Dracula	Bram Stoker
A Head Full of Ghosts	Paul Tremblay
The Ruins	Scott Smith
MacBeth	William Shakespeare
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad
Salem's Lot	Stephen King
The Man Who Was Thursday	G.K. Chesterton
The Lurking Fear and Other Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
Deathbird Stories	Harlan Ellison
Johnny Got His Gun	Dalton Trumbo
The Damnation Game	Clive Barker
A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens
The War of the Worlds	H.G. Wells
1984	George Orwell
American Psycho	Bret Easton Ellis
Pet Sematary	Stephen King
Misery	Stephen King
The Phantom of the Opera	Gaston Leroux
Coraline	Neil Gaiman
Horrorstör	Grady Hendrix
The Jewel of Seven Stars	Bram Stoker
"The Yellow Wallpaper"	Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Doctor Faustus	Christopher Marlowe
Twice-Told Tales	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Red Dragon	Thomas Harris

[beavis]

If I am going to challenge myself with any kind of reading it would be on the Nouveau Roman (have got quite a collection of Duras, Robbe-Grillet, Blanchot, Sarraute, Butor etc still to go through!), but I can give two tips in the horror genre (not something I am extensively read in, although I used to devour cheap pulp horror novel/series of German origin that used to be available over here in Dutch translations... professor Zamorra, John Sinclair... very "cool" stuff that I feel nobody beyond my generation even knows about...)

S.P. Somtow's - Moon Dance
Whitley Strieber's - the Wild

The only two horror novels, maybe next to Clive Barker's (shorter) The Hellbound Heart that have really stayed with me

[flavo5000]

If I am going to challenge myself with any kind of reading it would be on the Nouveau Roman (have got quite a collection of Duras, Robbe-Grillet, Blanchot, Sarraute, Butor etc still to go through!), but I can give two tips in the horror genre (not something I am extensively read in, although I used to devour cheap pulp horror novel/series of German origin that used to be available over here in Dutch translations... professor Zamorra, John Sinclair... very "cool" stuff that I feel nobody beyond my generation even knows about...)

S.P. Somtow's - Moon Dance
Whitley Strieber's - the Wild

The only two horror novels, maybe next to Clive Barker's (shorter) The Hellbound Heart that have really stayed with me

I have Strieber's Communion and Wolfen to read on my list. I'll add The Wild as well. Moon Dance looks interesting too.

[blocho]

Has anyone ever tried Thomas Ligotti? I started reading one of his collections once, and I found the first story so disturbing that I couldn't continue.

[flavo5000]

Has anyone ever tried Thomas Ligotti? I started reading one of his collections once, and I found the first story so disturbing that I couldn't continue.

I've read a graphic novel adaptation of his book The Nightmare Factory that was interesting but haven't actually read any of his novels yet.

[flavo5000]

10. "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" (Harlan Ellison, 1967)
List: NPR
I might have read this a VERY long time ago but I didn't remember it, so I thought it was time to tackle it again. In short, this potently bleak story is a masterclass in short fiction. I generally like Ellison's writing which usually has a very off-kilter style regardless of the genre he's writing in, and "I Have No Mouth..." is one of his absolute best. Strongly recommended, and after checking this out I also suggest his Deathbird Stories collection as well as the video game of I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream which lives up to the story quite admirably for the most part.


11. Penpal (Dathan Auerbach, 2012)
List: NPR
So I'm not the biggest fan of creepypasta. It seems like you have to wade through a ton of really awful ones to find a couple of even decently creepy ones. Why bother when there are so many actual horror classics out there I haven't read? Anyway, Penpal had its origins as a creepypasta-esque series of Reddit posts, and it shows. The book is a sequence of recollections, dolled out non-chronologically about the narrator's childhood with a strong focus on his friendship with a boy named Josh and a mysterious set of circumstances that happened throughout his youth which culminates in an extremely bleak and depressing finale. The book overall isn't bad and was generally paced pretty well making for an easy read. It also generated a couple of genuinely creepy sections. My main issue with it though is the writing style which feels annoyingly over-written at times, very much what I'd expect from a story that had its origins on the internet. It's use of past-perfect tense also irked me for some reason I can't quite put my finger on. Plus it makes the common mistake of giving children dialogue and thoughts far too mature compared to how children actually talk (especially in the sections when the narrator is six). I will say, if you do actively enjoy creepypasta, this is certainly an above average example of it with some genuinely disturbing moments.

To Read (292)

[

Title	Author
The Passage	Justin Cronin
We Have Always Lived in the Castle	Shirley Jackson
The Historian	Elizabeth Kostova
Silence of the Lambs	Thomas Harris
The Wasp Factory	Iain Banks
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
Hell House	Richard Matheson
The Silent Companions	Laura Purcell
From Hell	Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Her Fearful Symmetry	Audrey Niffenegger
Fledgling	Octavia E. Butler
Whispers	Dean Koontz
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket	Edgar Allan Poe
Carrion Comfort	Dan Simmons
Zone One	Colson Whitehead
Psycho	Robert Bloch
Ring	Koji Suzuki
Broken Monsters	Lauren Beukes
The Changeling	Victor LaValle
Fever Dream	Samanta Schweblin
Dark Matter	Michelle Paver
HEX	Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Drowning Girl	Caitlin R. Kiernan
Pandemonium	Daryl Gregory
Frankenstein in Baghdad	Ahmed Saadawi
The Devil in Silver	Victor LaValle
Winter Tide	Ruthanna Emrys
The Grip of It	Jac Jemc
Mongrels: A Novel	Stephen Graham Jones
Last Days	Brian Evenson
Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill
The Snowman	Jo Nesbø
City of Glass	Paul Auster
Dread Nation	Justina Ireland
The Case Against Satan	Ray Russell
Night Film	Marissa Pessl
Anna Dressed in Blood	Kendare Blake
Drawing Blood	Poppy Z. Brite
The Last Werewolf	Glen Duncan
The Mask	Dean Koontz
Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
Meddling Kids	Edgar Cantero
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories	China Miéville
The Bad Seed	William March
The Walls Around Us	Nova Ren Suma
Gothic Tales	Elizabeth Gaskell
Maplecroft	Cherie Priest
The Good House	Tananarive Due
Skin Folk	Nalo Hopkinson
The Six-Gun Tarot	R.S. Belcher
Mr. Shivers	Robert Jackson Bennett
The Croning	Laird Barron
Hammers on Bone	Cassandra Khaw
Shutter	Courtney Alameda
Fiend: A Novel	Peter Stenson
Parasite Eve	Hideaki Sena
The Lesser Dead	Christopher Buehlman
The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction	Violet Kupersmith
Obscura	Joe Hart
The Beauty	Aliya Whiteley
The Fifth Child	Doris Lessing
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Rosemary's Baby	Ira Levin
Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice
I Am Legend	Richard Matheson
The Bloody Chamber	Angela Carter
The Woman In Black	Susan Hill
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty
Collected Ghost Stories*	M.R. James
Those Across the River	Christpher Buehlman
The Hunger	Alma Katsu
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories	Carmen Maria Machado
Come Closer	Sara Gran
Let the Right One In	John Ajvide Lindqvist
Bird Box	Josh Malerman
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories	Mariana Enriquez
White is for Witching	Helen Oyeyemi
Feed	Mira Grant
NOS4A2: A Novel	Joe Hill
The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood
The Other	Thomas Tryon
The Collector	John Fowles
The Vampire Lestat	Anne Rice
Queen of the Damned	Anne Rice
World War Z	Max Brooks
Swan Song	Robert McCammon
The House with a Clock in its Walls	John Bellairs
"Young Goodman Brown"	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Shadowland	Peter Straub
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation	Octavia E. Butler, John Jennings and Damian Duffy
Down a Dark Hall	Lois Duncan
The Girl with All the Gifts	M.R. Carey
Through the Woods	Emily Carroll
Intensity	Dean Koontz
The Terror	Dan Simmons
Burnt Offerings	Robert Marasco
The Elementals	Michael McDowell
The Atrocity Archives	Charles Stross
Experimental Film	Gemma Files
The Ballad of Black Tom	Victor LaValle
The Fisherman	John Langan
The Cipher	Kathe Koja
Bloodchild	Octavia E. Butler
The Screwfly Solution	James Tiptree Jr.
Goblin Market	Christina Rossetti
Elizabeth	Ken Greenhall
The Red Tree	Caitlin R. Kiernan
"The Willows"	Algernon Blackwood
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"	Joyce Carol Oates
"It's a Good Life"	Jerome Bixby
Goosebumps (The Complete Series #1-#62)	R.L. Stine
Lunar Park	Bret Easton Ellis
Exquisite Corpse	Poppy Z. Brite
Minion	L.A. Banks
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories	Edited by Ann VanderMeer
The Bone Key	Sarah Monette
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories	Laird Barron
The Jumbles	Tracey Baptiste
Rotters	Daniel Kraus
Alone with the Horrors	Ramsey Campbell
Wylding Hall	Elizabeth Hand
The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
Spirit Hunters	Ellen Oh
Infidel	Pornsak Pichetshote
The Devil in America	Kai Ashante Wilson
Furnace	Livia Llewellyn
The Night They Missed the Horror Show	Joe R. Lansdale
"The Repairer of Reputations"	Robert W. Chambers
"Please Momma"	Cheysa Burke
"Left Foot, Right Foot"	Nalo Hopkinson
"All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts"	Sonya Taaffe
The Troop	Nick Cutter
John Dies at the End	David Wong
The Girl Next Door	Jack Ketchum
Communion	Whitley Strieber
The House of Souls***	Arthur Machen
Grendel	John Gardner
Northanger Abbey	Jane Austen
The Outsider, and Others	H.P. Lovecraft
Uncle Silas	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Out of Space and Time	Clark Ashton Smith
Conjure Wife	Fritz Lieber
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce	Ambrose Bierce
The Best Tales of Hoffmann	E. T. A. Hoffmann
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch	Phillip K. Dick
Worse Things Waiting	Manly Wade Wellman
The Trial	Franz Kafka
Murgunstrumm and Others	Hugh B. Cave
The Land of Laughs	Jonathan Carroll
She	H. Rider Haggard
The Island of Dr. Moreau	H.G. Wells
The Anubis Gates	Tim Powers
The Painted Bird	Jerzy Kosiński
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	James Hogg
Mythago Wood	Robert Holdstock
Hawksmoor	Peter Ackroyd
Song of Kali	Dan Simmons
The Sheep Look Up	John Brunner
Melmoth the Wanderer	Charles Maturin
The King in Yellow	Robert W. Chambers
The House on the Borderland	William Hope Hodgson
The Keep	F. Paul Wilson
Caleb Williams	William Godwin
A Voyage to Arcturus	Dave Lindsay
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade	Herman Melville
The Crystal World	J.G. Ballard
The Dark Tower and Other Stories	C.S. Lewis
The Green Man	Kingsley Amis
The Lurker at the Threshold	H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth
Falling Angel	William Hjortsberg
The Black Spider	Jeremias Gotthelf
The Cellar	Richard Laymon
The Wolfen	Whitley Strieber
The Ceremonies	T. E. D. Klein
The Arabian Nightmare	Robert Irwin
The White Devil	John Webster
Something about Eve : a comedy of fig-leaves	James Branch Cabell
The Totem	David Morrell
The Wandering Jew	Eugène Sue
All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By	John Farris
Night has a Thousand Eyes	Carnell Woolrich
The Compleat Werewolf and Other Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction	Anthony Boucher
The Sound of his Horn	Sarban
The Pet	Charles L. Grant
Widdershins	Oliver Onions
Sweetheart, Sweetheart	Bernard Taylor
The Dark Country	Dennis Etchison
Quatermass and the Pit	Nigel Kneale
Who Made Stevie Crye?	Michael Bishop
In a Lonely Place	Karl Edward Wagner
A Nest of Nightmares	Lisa Tuttle
The Track of the Cat	Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck	Alexander Lang
Nine Horrors and a Dream	Joseph Payne Brennan
John Silence, Physician Extraordinary	Algernon Blackwood
Sub Rosa: Strange Tales	Robert Aikman
Dark Feasts	Ramsey Campbell
Medusa : a Story of Mystery, and Ecstasy & Strange Horror	E. H. Visiak
Horror Horn	E. F. Benson
And the Darkness Falls	Edited by Boris Karloff
The Second Century of Creepy Stories	Sir Hugh Walpole
Deliver Me from Eva	Paul Bailey
The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales	Marjorie Bowen
The Sleeping and the Dead	August Derleth
The Monk	Matthew Lewis
The Hound of the Baskervilles	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde
The Stranger	Albert Camus
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë
Lost Worlds	Clark Ashton Smith
The Talented Mr. Ripley	Patricia Highsmith
Gormenghast	Mervyn Peake
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Stephen Sondheim
Edge of Running Water	William Sloane
Harvest Home	Thomas Tryon
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen	Alan Garner
Who Fears the Devil?	Manly Wade Wellman
The Book of Skulls	Robert Silverberg
The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"	William Hope Hodgson
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Patrick Süskind
The Midwich Cuckoos	John Wyndham
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen	Elizabeth Bowen
Tales from the Nightside	Charles L. Grant
The Hunger and Other Stories	Charles Beaumont
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward	H.P. Lovecraft
The Cement Garden	Ian McEwan
Lost Souls	Poppy Z. Brite
The Killer Inside Me	Jim Thompson
Outer Dark	Cormac McCarthy
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa	Jan Potocki
New Grub Street	George Gissing
Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Jack Finney
A Sight for Sore Eyes	Ruth Rendell
A Stir of Echoes	Richard Matheson
Peace	Gene Wolfe
They Thirst	Robert McCammon
The Dark Descent	David G. Hartwell
Fantômas	Marcel Allain
Darker Than You Think	Jack Williamson
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural	Edited by Phyllis Fraser, Herbert Wise
Prime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of Modern Horror	Edited by Douglas E. Winter
Flicker	Theodore Roszak
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder	William Hope Hodgson
Dark Forces	Edited by Kirby McCauley
Our Lady of Darkness	Fritz Lieber
Some of Your Blood	Theodore Sturgeon
The Grotesque	Patrick McGrath
The Queen of Spades	Alexander Pushkin
The Devil Rides Out	Dennis Wheatley
The Revenger's Tragedy	Thomas Middleton
The Course of the Heart	M. John Harrison
Darkness Weaves	Karl Edward Wagner
The Nightmare Factory	Thomas Ligotti
The Face That Must Die	Ramsey Campbell
A Wrinkle in the Skin	John Christopher
Skin	Kathe Koja
The Trail of Fu Manchu	Sax Rohmer
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural	Arthur Machen
Strange Toys	Patricia Geary
By Bizarre Hands	Joe R. Lansdale
A Scent of New-Mown Hay	John Blackburn
Finishing Touches	Thomas Tessler
The Haunted Omnibus	Edited by Alexander Laing
The Opener of the Way	Robert Bloch
The Playboy Book of Horror and the Supernatural	Editors of Playboy
The Night Stalker	Jeff Rice
X,Y	Michael Blumlein
More Tomorrow & Other Stories	Michael Marshall Smith
The Third Ghost Book	Edited by Lady Cynthia Asquith
The Off Season	Jack Cady
Blood Sport	Robert F. Jones
Creep, Shadow!	Abraham Merritt
Sleep No More	August Derleth
Pages from Cold Point	Paul Bowles
Reprisal	Mitchell Smith
Feesters in the Lake	Bob Leman
They Return at Evening	H. Russell Wakefield
Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales	Henry S. Whitehead
House of Flesh	Bruno Fischer
Nightshade	Derek Marlowe
A Haunting Beauty	Charles Birkin
Year of the Sex Olympics: Three Television Plays	Nigel Kneale
Tales of Terror	Charles Higham
Fancies and Goodnights	John Collier
The Blind Owl	Sadegh Heydayat
Throat Sprockets	Tim Lucas

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Title	Author
"The Lottery"	Shirley Jackson
Lord of the Flies	William Golding
"The Body"	Stephen King
"The Monkey's Paw"	W.W. Jacobs
Sandman	Neil Gaiman
The Turn of the Screw	Henry James
"The Tell-Tale Heart"	Edgar Allan Poe
The House Next Door	Anne Rivers Siddons
"Shadow Over Innsmouth"	H.P. Lovecraft
The October Country	Ray Bradbury
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark	Alvin Schwartz
30 Days of Night	Steve Niles, Ben Templesmith
Ghost Story	Peter Straub
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales	Edgar Allan Poe
Carrie	Stephen King
It	Stephen King
Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ray Bradbury
Books of Blood 1 - 3	Clive Barker
House of Leaves	Mark Z. Danielewski
Carmilla	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Uzumaki	Junji Ito
"At the Mountains of Madness"	H.P. Lovecraft
Haunting of Hill House	Shirley Jackson
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley
The Shining	Stephen King
Dracula	Bram Stoker
A Head Full of Ghosts	Paul Tremblay
The Ruins	Scott Smith
MacBeth	William Shakespeare
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad
Salem's Lot	Stephen King
The Man Who Was Thursday	G.K. Chesterton
The Lurking Fear and Other Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
Deathbird Stories	Harlan Ellison
Johnny Got His Gun	Dalton Trumbo
The Damnation Game	Clive Barker
A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens
The War of the Worlds	H.G. Wells
1984	George Orwell
American Psycho	Bret Easton Ellis
Pet Sematary	Stephen King
Misery	Stephen King
The Phantom of the Opera	Gaston Leroux
Coraline	Neil Gaiman
Horrorstör	Grady Hendrix
The Jewel of Seven Stars	Bram Stoker
"The Yellow Wallpaper"	Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Doctor Faustus	Christopher Marlowe
Twice-Told Tales	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Red Dragon	Thomas Harris
"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"	Harlan Ellison
Penpal	Dathan Auerbach

[mightysparks]

I reread I Have No Mouth recently and it really is an amazing piece of writing. I haven’t read anything else by Ellison so I might give that story collection a shot.

[flavo5000]

12. Widdershins (Oliver Onions, 1911)
Widdershins seems most often brought up for the inclusion of the novella "The Beckoning Fair One", Oliver Onions' ghostly tale of obsession, and it is a deserved reputation. This particular story in this collection is one of the better ghost stories of Victorian period English literature I've read. While the rest of the stories in the collection I would say aren't quite up to the same standard, there are some solid works here. Onions' characters are haunted in seemingly ambiguous ways. In many stories, including "The Beckoning Fair One", it can be hard to delineate between the supernatural and the mad. From the unseen spirit tormenting the titular character in Rooum, an 18th century ship in "Phantas" or an all-consuming masterwork in "Benlian", his characters see their lives drained away by the mysterious and ethereal. It even includes a couple of non-supernatural stories "The Accident" and "Hic Jacet" where the characters are still haunted but more by the past and their own inadequacies. "Hic Jacet" in particular was quite good, about a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-esque writer of popular detective fiction who wrestles with his own self-respect as he attempts to pen a fitting biography of his recently deceased friend, an artist with the utmost of integrity. The content of the stories were frequently interesting, but having said that, I will say like other works of Victorian literature, the writing style can be difficult to stay engaged with without proper focus. Oliver Onions is a very meticulous and dense writer of florid prose that may be out of reach of modern audiences at times. Still, I think "The Beckoning Fair One" in particular is worth reading for fans of horror fiction.

To Read (286)

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Title	Author
The Passage	Justin Cronin
We Have Always Lived in the Castle	Shirley Jackson
The Historian	Elizabeth Kostova
Silence of the Lambs	Thomas Harris
The Wasp Factory	Iain Banks
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
Hell House	Richard Matheson
The Silent Companions	Laura Purcell
From Hell	Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Her Fearful Symmetry	Audrey Niffenegger
Fledgling	Octavia E. Butler
Whispers	Dean Koontz
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket	Edgar Allan Poe
Carrion Comfort	Dan Simmons
Zone One	Colson Whitehead
Psycho	Robert Bloch
Ring	Koji Suzuki
Broken Monsters	Lauren Beukes
The Changeling	Victor LaValle
Fever Dream	Samanta Schweblin
Dark Matter	Michelle Paver
HEX	Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Drowning Girl	Caitlin R. Kiernan
Pandemonium	Daryl Gregory
Frankenstein in Baghdad	Ahmed Saadawi
The Devil in Silver	Victor LaValle
Winter Tide	Ruthanna Emrys
The Grip of It	Jac Jemc
Mongrels: A Novel	Stephen Graham Jones
Last Days	Brian Evenson
Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill
The Snowman	Jo Nesbø
City of Glass	Paul Auster
Dread Nation	Justina Ireland
The Case Against Satan	Ray Russell
Night Film	Marissa Pessl
Anna Dressed in Blood	Kendare Blake
Drawing Blood	Poppy Z. Brite
The Last Werewolf	Glen Duncan
The Mask	Dean Koontz
Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
Meddling Kids	Edgar Cantero
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories	China Miéville
The Bad Seed	William March
The Walls Around Us	Nova Ren Suma
Gothic Tales	Elizabeth Gaskell
Maplecroft	Cherie Priest
The Good House	Tananarive Due
Skin Folk	Nalo Hopkinson
The Six-Gun Tarot	R.S. Belcher
Mr. Shivers	Robert Jackson Bennett
The Croning	Laird Barron
Hammers on Bone	Cassandra Khaw
Shutter	Courtney Alameda
Fiend: A Novel	Peter Stenson
Parasite Eve	Hideaki Sena
The Lesser Dead	Christopher Buehlman
The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction	Violet Kupersmith
Obscura	Joe Hart
The Beauty	Aliya Whiteley
The Fifth Child	Doris Lessing
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Rosemary's Baby	Ira Levin
Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice
I Am Legend	Richard Matheson
The Bloody Chamber	Angela Carter
The Woman In Black	Susan Hill
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty
Collected Ghost Stories*	M.R. James
Those Across the River	Christpher Buehlman
The Hunger	Alma Katsu
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories	Carmen Maria Machado
Come Closer	Sara Gran
Let the Right One In	John Ajvide Lindqvist
Bird Box	Josh Malerman
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories	Mariana Enriquez
White is for Witching	Helen Oyeyemi
Feed	Mira Grant
NOS4A2: A Novel	Joe Hill
The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood
The Other	Thomas Tryon
The Collector	John Fowles
The Vampire Lestat	Anne Rice
Queen of the Damned	Anne Rice
World War Z	Max Brooks
Swan Song	Robert McCammon
The House with a Clock in its Walls	John Bellairs
"Young Goodman Brown"	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Shadowland	Peter Straub
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation	Octavia E. Butler, John Jennings and Damian Duffy
Down a Dark Hall	Lois Duncan
The Girl with All the Gifts	M.R. Carey
Through the Woods	Emily Carroll
Intensity	Dean Koontz
The Terror	Dan Simmons
Burnt Offerings	Robert Marasco
The Elementals	Michael McDowell
The Atrocity Archives	Charles Stross
Experimental Film	Gemma Files
The Ballad of Black Tom	Victor LaValle
The Fisherman	John Langan
The Cipher	Kathe Koja
Bloodchild	Octavia E. Butler
The Screwfly Solution	James Tiptree Jr.
Goblin Market	Christina Rossetti
Elizabeth	Ken Greenhall
The Red Tree	Caitlin R. Kiernan
"The Willows"	Algernon Blackwood
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"	Joyce Carol Oates
"It's a Good Life"	Jerome Bixby
Goosebumps (The Complete Series #1-#62)	R.L. Stine
Lunar Park	Bret Easton Ellis
Exquisite Corpse	Poppy Z. Brite
Minion	L.A. Banks
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories	Edited by Ann VanderMeer
The Bone Key	Sarah Monette
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories	Laird Barron
The Jumbles	Tracey Baptiste
Rotters	Daniel Kraus
Alone with the Horrors	Ramsey Campbell
Wylding Hall	Elizabeth Hand
The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
Spirit Hunters	Ellen Oh
Infidel	Pornsak Pichetshote
The Devil in America	Kai Ashante Wilson
Furnace	Livia Llewellyn
The Night They Missed the Horror Show	Joe R. Lansdale
"The Repairer of Reputations"	Robert W. Chambers
"Please Momma"	Cheysa Burke
"Left Foot, Right Foot"	Nalo Hopkinson
"All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts"	Sonya Taaffe
The Troop	Nick Cutter
John Dies at the End	David Wong
The Girl Next Door	Jack Ketchum
Communion	Whitley Strieber
The House of Souls***	Arthur Machen
Grendel	John Gardner
Northanger Abbey	Jane Austen
The Outsider, and Others	H.P. Lovecraft
Uncle Silas	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Out of Space and Time	Clark Ashton Smith
Conjure Wife	Fritz Lieber
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce	Ambrose Bierce
The Best Tales of Hoffmann	E. T. A. Hoffmann
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch	Phillip K. Dick
Worse Things Waiting	Manly Wade Wellman
The Trial	Franz Kafka
Murgunstrumm and Others	Hugh B. Cave
The Land of Laughs	Jonathan Carroll
She	H. Rider Haggard
The Island of Dr. Moreau	H.G. Wells
The Anubis Gates	Tim Powers
The Painted Bird	Jerzy Kosiński
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	James Hogg
Mythago Wood	Robert Holdstock
Hawksmoor	Peter Ackroyd