Best Horror Novels and Stories On-Going Discussion

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I read Jerome Bixby's "It's a Good Life" (appears on NPR list) the other day and thought it was pretty great. I love the segment in the Twilight Zone film and the episode is good too. I found the short story much darker and less goofy and gave just that extra little bit of context and 'complexity' to Anthony's character and powers and the extent of the crazy things he can do with it.

Where did you find that one? In a collection or randomly online somewhere? It's one I haven't tracked down yet.

[mightysparks]

I read Jerome Bixby's "It's a Good Life" (appears on NPR list) the other day and thought it was pretty great. I love the segment in the Twilight Zone film and the episode is good too. I found the short story much darker and less goofy and gave just that extra little bit of context and 'complexity' to Anthony's character and powers and the extent of the crazy things he can do with it.

Where did you find that one? In a collection or randomly online somewhere? It's one I haven't tracked down yet.

I think I got it from TPB.

[mightysparks]

In the mood for short stories right now so I read Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where are You Going, Where Have You Been' which appears on the NPR list. I think it's a bit of a stretch to call this one horror even if it is uncomfortable and creepy. Found it a little overly talky (and it eventually made me find Arthur Friend more annoying than creepy) which kept breaking the moments of tension. When those moments work it's quite good but as a whole the thing is uneven. I thought it was fairly effective at making it obvious to the reader that something bad was going on before Connie does and you feel your heart drop as she slowly realises and can't do anything about it.

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22. From Hell (Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell, 1989)
Alan Moore's large, serialized fictionalized depiction of the Whitechapel Murders of Jack the Ripper posits a far-reaching conspiracy involving the illegitimate heir of Prince Albert who commissions the royal doctor to undergo the murders with the complicity of the Freemasons. It's a dense, detail-oriented read with some very heady ideas of the Ripper's role in forging the new world of the 20th century, and the actual murders depicted are quite chilling, due in large part to Eddie Campbell's stark illustrations. Like much of what Moore writes, this is at times both frustratingly obtuse and masterful in equal measure.

To Read (276)

[

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
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
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
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.
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
The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
Spirit Hunters	Ellen Oh
Infidel	Pornsak Pichetshote
Furnace	Livia Llewellyn
The Night They Missed the Horror Show	Joe R. Lansdale
"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 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
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
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
Widdershins	Oliver Onions
The Island of Dr. Moreau	H.G. Wells
Goblin Market	Christina Rossetti
Burnt Offerings	Robert Marasco
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Jack Finney
The Devil in America	Kai Ashante Wilson
"Please Momma"	Cheysa Burke
Meddling Kids	Edgar Cantero
Wylding Hall	Elizabeth Hand
From Hell	Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell

[flavo5000]

In the mood for short stories right now so I read Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where are You Going, Where Have You Been' which appears on the NPR list. I think it's a bit of a stretch to call this one horror even if it is uncomfortable and creepy. Found it a little overly talky (and it eventually made me find Arthur Friend more annoying than creepy) which kept breaking the moments of tension. When those moments work it's quite good but as a whole the thing is uneven. I thought it was fairly effective at making it obvious to the reader that something bad was going on before Connie does and you feel your heart drop as she slowly realises and can't do anything about it.

Some of the books on these lists definitely stretch the definition of horror. Some are on the lists more for their influence on horror like Rebecca and Jane Eyre that I doubt anyone would actually call horror but did influence the writing style of Victorian gothic horror.

[flavo5000]

23. The Stranger (Albert Camus, 1942)
So I knew very little of this going into other than it has been heralded as an absurdist/existentialist masterpiece. After reading it, it struck me as much less absurdist and more deeply tragic and horrific. The main character is obviously on the autism spectrum with his inability to understand social interactions or express emotion appropriate to a given situation. As such, it makes it even more horrifying witnessing this poor guy being pulled into this whirlpool of injustice, unable to extricate himself or even understand why he finds himself in this place to begin with. Apparently this was published two years before Asperger's Syndrome was defined as a diagnosable condition, so that could explain why I think this book has been misinterpreted for so long. Doing a little digging after I finished it, it does look like in just the last five to ten years, people have been reassessing it from an autism angle which I find pretty interesting. It is a great book but perhaps not necessarily for the reasons that many seem to think.

To Read (275)

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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
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
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
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.
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
The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
Spirit Hunters	Ellen Oh
Infidel	Pornsak Pichetshote
Furnace	Livia Llewellyn
The Night They Missed the Horror Show	Joe R. Lansdale
"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 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
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
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
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
Widdershins	Oliver Onions
The Island of Dr. Moreau	H.G. Wells
Goblin Market	Christina Rossetti
Burnt Offerings	Robert Marasco
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Jack Finney
The Devil in America	Kai Ashante Wilson
"Please Momma"	Cheysa Burke
Meddling Kids	Edgar Cantero
Wylding Hall	Elizabeth Hand
From Hell	Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
The Stranger	Albert Camus

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The main character is obviously on the autism spectrum with his inability to understand social interactions or express emotion appropriate to a given situation.

That was definitely not my interpretation, though I can see the logic in it. But even though it's been some years since I read it, I still feel like Meursault's socio-emotional state is more a reflection of a human unreconciled to the absurd. It is only his embrace of the absurd at the end that allows him to achieve some sort of emotional breakthrough. Of course, it's possible to analyze the character as displaying both traits, autism spectrum and the anomie that comes from living in a world without inherent meaning. Interesting stuff, flavo!

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The main character is obviously on the autism spectrum with his inability to understand social interactions or express emotion appropriate to a given situation.

That was definitely not my interpretation, though I can see the logic in it. But even though it's been some years since I read it, I still feel like Meursault's socio-emotional state is more a reflection of a human unreconciled to the absurd. It is only his embrace of the absurd at the end that allows him to achieve some sort of emotional breakthrough. Of course, it's possible to analyze the character as displaying both traits, autism spectrum and the anomie that comes from living in a world without inherent meaning. Interesting stuff, flavo!

Here's one article that goes into a lot more detail about it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5903843/

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24. Melmoth the Wanderer (Robert Maturin, 1820)
Wow this was long...and felt even longer... The business leadership mogul Franklin Covey said that you should face your big rocks head on and the little ones will trickle in around them. Melmoth the Wanderer is definitely one of my "big rocks" on this horror journey at close to 600 pages and written in a somewhat archaic early Victorian prose style with endless digressions and multiple layers of nested stories. My overall impression of this book, considered by some to be the first horror novel (or at the least least an early influential gothic horror novel), is very mixed. It certainly has moments of genuine terror and thrills but they are at times buried beneath dreary asides (like the lovers tale) or spaced between tirades against the Catholic Church, which is perhaps Maturin's primary intent in writing this book. Melmoth is an ageless, twisted fiend but the Catholic Church is even worse in some ways with much of this story taking place during the Spanish Inquisition and delving into those atrocities. I'm glad I read this since it is indeed a major touchstone in horror fiction, but it isn't one I would wholly recommend for more casual readers.

To Read (274)

[

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
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
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
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.
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
The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
Spirit Hunters	Ellen Oh
Infidel	Pornsak Pichetshote
Furnace	Livia Llewellyn
The Night They Missed the Horror Show	Joe R. Lansdale
"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 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
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
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
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
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 (67)

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
Widdershins	Oliver Onions
The Island of Dr. Moreau	H.G. Wells
Goblin Market	Christina Rossetti
Burnt Offerings	Robert Marasco
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Jack Finney
The Devil in America	Kai Ashante Wilson
"Please Momma"	Cheysa Burke
Meddling Kids	Edgar Cantero
Wylding Hall	Elizabeth Hand
From Hell	Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
The Stranger	Albert Camus
Melmoth the Wanderer	Charles Maturin

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25. Infidel (Pornsak Pichetshote, Aaron Campbell, 2018)
This one was a quick read but a good one. This five-issue limited comic series is about a group of multi-racial Muslim women living in an apartment complex that had previously been the site of a terror bombing and that's haunted by the twisted rage of racism. Yea, I know. It sounds heavy-handed, but for the most it really isn't. The terror and grotesqueries on display feel very visceral and real, in no small part due to the bizarre horrors of the manifestations of the bigotry drawn by Campbell that act as a countpoint to the otherwise more naturalistic, grounded illustrations for the character interactions. Certainly recommended if you like horror comics.

To Read (273)

[

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
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
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
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.
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
The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
Spirit Hunters	Ellen Oh
Furnace	Livia Llewellyn
The Night They Missed the Horror Show	Joe R. Lansdale
"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 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
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
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
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
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
Widdershins	Oliver Onions
The Island of Dr. Moreau	H.G. Wells
Goblin Market	Christina Rossetti
Burnt Offerings	Robert Marasco
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Jack Finney
The Devil in America	Kai Ashante Wilson
"Please Momma"	Cheysa Burke
Meddling Kids	Edgar Cantero
Wylding Hall	Elizabeth Hand
From Hell	Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
The Stranger	Albert Camus
Melmoth the Wanderer	Charles Maturin
Infidel	Pornsak Pichetshote

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I read Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (on NPR). Possibly the worst book I’ve ever read. I don’t know what age group this is aimed at but I can’t imagine finding this anything but utterly boring and simplistic at any age. Most stories didn’t even have endings and it just felt like a collection of words. Really dull and I hope the movie is better.

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I read Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (on NPR). Possibly the worst book I’ve ever read. I don’t know what age group this is aimed at but I can’t imagine finding this anything but utterly boring and simplistic at any age. Most stories didn’t even have endings and it just felt like a collection of words. Really dull and I hope the movie is better.

Well, it's a compilation of old folk tales and urban legends. Really the main appeal of the book that everyone remembers is the incredibly creepy illustrations, not the stories themselves as much.

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26. The Terror (Dan Simmons, 2007)
Man, this was long. This is another one that I've reading on and off for a while (if you haven't noticed I tend to have about 4 or 5 books going on simultaneously due to my ADD brain). In some ways this has a similar structure to The Ruins for its first two thirds (although it veers heavily into more arcane eskimo mysticism by the end) in that it focuses not only on the monstrous force seeking to destroy the characters but also on their grim attempts at survival. The Terror does a great job of building an icy, isolating and hopeless atmosphere and the aforementioned mysticism elements I found very fascinating. The biggest issue I had with it is that I think Simmons was TOO interested in making a historical fiction in the first half of the book and not enough in making a gripping horror novel. It definitely has sections that drag, getting bogged down in nautical terminology and day-to-day operations of ship navigation. Also just the sheer number of characters made it difficult to nail down and care about all but a handful, although Simmons does a serviceable enough job of narrowing down the focus to about a dozen or so to really follow and focus on. Overall I think it's a very good book that has some flaws that could've been resolved with some editing.

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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
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
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 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.
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
The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
Spirit Hunters	Ellen Oh
Furnace	Livia Llewellyn
The Night They Missed the Horror Show	Joe R. Lansdale
"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 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
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
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
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
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 (69)

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
Widdershins	Oliver Onions
The Island of Dr. Moreau	H.G. Wells
Goblin Market	Christina Rossetti
Burnt Offerings	Robert Marasco
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Jack Finney
The Devil in America	Kai Ashante Wilson
"Please Momma"	Cheysa Burke
Meddling Kids	Edgar Cantero
Wylding Hall	Elizabeth Hand
From Hell	Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
The Stranger	Albert Camus
Melmoth the Wanderer	Charles Maturin
Infidel	Pornsak Pichetshote
The Terror	Dan Simmons

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27. Silver Scream (Edited by David J. Schow, 1988) *Includes the story "Night They Missed the Horror Show" by Joe R. Lansdale
This seminal anthology of the '80s featuring predominantly original stories from a veritable horror hall of fame focuses on cinema-themed horror, and, as Splatterpunk originator David J. Schow's editing presence would allude, often features stories that include excessive gore, sex and other fucked up kinds of content. The stories themselves range from decent to pretty great with few outright duds. Some of the real standouts include "Son of Celluloid" by Clive Barker, one of the few reprints in the collection from his Books of Blood, "Sinema" by Ray Garton about a messed up kid that blackmails a pedophile, Joe R. Lansdale's "Night They Missed the Horror Show", a southern fried snuff sledgehammer to the face (and the story from this tome included on NPR's Best Horror List), all capped off by Mark Arnold's "Pilgrims to the Cathedral", a gloriously over-the-top celebration of drive-in sleaze. I've yet to read a perfect horror anthology and this one is no different, but it's still a hell of a lot of fun at times and worth checking out.

To Read (271)

[

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
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
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 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.
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
The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
Spirit Hunters	Ellen Oh
Furnace	Livia Llewellyn
"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 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
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
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
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
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
Widdershins	Oliver Onions
The Island of Dr. Moreau	H.G. Wells
Goblin Market	Christina Rossetti
Burnt Offerings	Robert Marasco
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Jack Finney
The Devil in America	Kai Ashante Wilson
"Please Momma"	Cheysa Burke
Meddling Kids	Edgar Cantero
Wylding Hall	Elizabeth Hand
From Hell	Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
The Stranger	Albert Camus
Melmoth the Wanderer	Charles Maturin
Infidel	Pornsak Pichetshote
The Terror	Dan Simmons
The Night They Missed the Horror Show	Joe R. Lansdale

[Leopardi]

I finished A Nest of Nightmares this morning (#8 in Valancourt Books' Paperbacks from Hell series), and I'll start by saying that, despite being a big fan of horror films and vintage horror (anything from its beginnings to about the 30s or 40s) I haven't read a lot of modern horror besides Stephen King (I've read a lot of his stuff), so it's hard not to read this through that lens. And the stories in this volume do have a 70s or 80s vibe to them, it's true, but there's a restraint to the stories that I wasn't really expecting in something from this era. The stories, for the most part, felt to me unfinished, which isn't a criticism, but it did take some getting used to for me. Tuttle takes the story as far as she feels is necessary, then lets the reader fill in the pieces themselves, which is a long-standing, effective technique, but I found it a little jarring in the modern horror context (this is entirely my hang-up, of course).

Tuttle's stories have a slower pace, and there's usually a backstory involving relationship difficulties that you can't help but think is tied to the horrors that await. I found that sometimes she'd dwell too long for my liking on this development, and sometimes the payoff at the end didn't seem worth all the build-up (coming off as more discomfiting than horrific), but that's my personal taste, she's a talented and uncompromising writer who's not afraid to take the time she feels is needed to tell her story. I think I would like to try one of her novels, so that she has more room to build up her world.

I'll add a little more here than what I wrote in the Read the Books thread. Tuttle focuses a fair bit on sensory stimuli. Many of the stories have passages devoted to the smells of things, for example, and (keeping in mind how closely the sense of smell is tied to memory) I think it works well considering how many of the stories involve conjuring up the past (Treading the Maze and The Horse Lord being the standouts). If I were to re-read this volume I think I would take closer note of how she plays with this and the other senses in her descriptions.

I think every one of her protagonists in this collection were women, which is refreshing. I've read that she's considered a feminist writer by some, and her characters are strong-willed and intelligent, often saddled with difficult relationships as I've mentioned. The situations they find themselves in might be considered symbolic of the struggles facing women today (particularly the first story, Bug House). I think many of the stories do this effectively (and where they didn't for me, perhaps a second reading is in order), and it's worth underscoring that these multilayered stories should be read with this subtext in mind as well.

EDIT: I did a quick run-through of the lists, will have to do a double-check later but I think this is where my count stands:

To Read (275)

[

Title	Author
The Passage	Justin Cronin
The Historian	Elizabeth Kostova
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
Her Fearful Symmetry	Audrey Niffenegger
Fledgling	Octavia E. Butler
Whispers	Dean Koontz
Carrion Comfort	Dan Simmons
Zone One	Colson Whitehead
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
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories	China Miéville
The Walls Around Us	Nova Ren Suma
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
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
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
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 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.
Elizabeth	Ken Greenhall
The Red Tree	Caitlin R. Kiernan
"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
The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
Spirit Hunters	Ellen Oh
Furnace	Livia Llewellyn
"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
Out of Space and Time	Clark Ashton Smith
Conjure Wife	Fritz Lieber
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce	Ambrose Bierce
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
The Anubis Gates	Tim Powers
The Painted Bird	Jerzy Kosiński
Mythago Wood	Robert Holdstock
Hawksmoor	Peter Ackroyd
Song of Kali	Dan Simmons
The Sheep Look Up	John Brunner
The King in Yellow	Robert W. Chambers
The Keep	F. Paul Wilson
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
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
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
The Track of the Cat	Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck	Alexander Lang
Nine Horrors and a Dream	Joseph Payne Brennan
Sub Rosa: Strange Tales	Robert Aikman
Dark Feasts	Ramsey Campbell
Medusa : a Story of Mystery, and Ecstasy & Strange Horror	E. H. Visiak
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
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
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Patrick Süskind
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen	Elizabeth Bowen
Tales from the Nightside	Charles L. Grant
The Hunger and Other Stories	Charles Beaumont
The Cement Garden	Ian McEwan
Lost Souls	Poppy Z. Brite
The Killer Inside Me	Jim Thompson
Outer Dark	Cormac McCarthy
New Grub Street	George Gissing
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
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
Sandman	Neil Gaiman
The House Next Door	Anne Rivers Siddons
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
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
A Head Full of Ghosts	Paul Tremblay
The Ruins	Scott Smith
The Man Who Was Thursday	G.K. Chesterton
Deathbird Stories	Harlan Ellison
The Damnation Game	Clive Barker
American Psycho	Bret Easton Ellis
Coraline	Neil Gaiman
Horrorstör	Grady Hendrix
Twice-Told Tales	Nathaniel Hawthorne
"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"	Harlan Ellison
Penpal	Dathan Auerbach
Goblin Market	Christina Rossetti
Burnt Offerings	Robert Marasco
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Jack Finney
The Devil in America	Kai Ashante Wilson
"Please Momma"	Cheysa Burke
Meddling Kids	Edgar Cantero
Wylding Hall	Elizabeth Hand
From Hell	Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
Melmoth the Wanderer	Charles Maturin
Infidel	Pornsak Pichetshote
The Terror	Dan Simmons
The Night They Missed the Horror Show	Joe R. Lansdale

Read (67)

Title	Author
"The Lottery"	Shirley Jackson
Lord of the Flies	William Golding
"The Body"	Stephen King
"The Monkey's Paw"	W.W. Jacobs
The Turn of the Screw	Henry James
"The Tell-Tale Heart"	Edgar Allan Poe
"Shadow Over Innsmouth"	H.P. Lovecraft
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales	Edgar Allan Poe
Carrie	Stephen King
It	Stephen King
"At the Mountains of Madness"	H.P. Lovecraft
Haunting of Hill House	Shirley Jackson
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley
The Shining	Stephen King
Dracula	Bram Stoker
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 Lurking Fear and Other Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
Johnny Got His Gun	Dalton Trumbo
A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens
The War of the Worlds	H.G. Wells
1984	George Orwell
Pet Sematary	Stephen King
Misery	Stephen King
The Phantom of the Opera	Gaston Leroux
The Jewel of Seven Stars	Bram Stoker
"The Yellow Wallpaper"	Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Doctor Faustus	Christopher Marlowe
Red Dragon	Thomas Harris
Widdershins	Oliver Onions
The Island of Dr. Moreau	H.G. Wells
The Stranger	Albert Camus
We Have Always Lived in the Castle	Shirley Jackson
Silence of the Lambs	Thomas Harris
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket	Edgar Allan Poe
Psycho	Robert Bloch
The Bad Seed	William March
Gothic Tales	Elizabeth Gaskell
Beloved	Toni Morrison
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty
Collected Ghost Stories*	M.R. James
"Young Goodman Brown"	Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Willows"	Algernon Blackwood
Northanger Abbey	Jane Austen
The Outsider, and Others	H.P. Lovecraft
Uncle Silas	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Best Tales of Hoffmann	E. T. A. Hoffmann
She	H. Rider Haggard
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	James Hogg
The House on the Borderland	William Hope Hodgson
Caleb Williams	William Godwin
The Lurker at the Threshold	H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth
A Nest of Nightmares	Lisa Tuttle
John Silence, Physician Extraordinary	Algernon Blackwood
Horror Horn	E. F. Benson
The Monk	Matthew Lewis
The Hound of the Baskervilles	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë
The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"	William Hope Hodgson
The Midwich Cuckoos	John Wyndham
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward	H.P. Lovecraft
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa	Jan Potocki
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder	William Hope Hodgson

[Leopardi]

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.

I'd definitely put The House on the Borderland on the horror side of weird fiction, and I haven't read The Night Land yet but it's very high on my list of books I want to read. I see that with the updated lists that The House on the Borderland, Carnacki and The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" are there - I approve!

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28. Anna Dressed In Blood (Kendare Blake, 2011)
This novel of a teen hunting down violent ghosts, while marketed to the YA lit crowd, is surprisingly gruesome in places with graphic depictions of people being ripped in half, dismembered, etc. The storyline is also pretty interesting albeit a little predictable. I had two significant issues with it though. One was the obnoxiousness of the narrator. His constant "I'm a misanthropic loner" routine got old very quickly and it comes across as fairly emo and angsty at times (which the narrator even acknowledges...doesn't make it any less annoying though). Overall it was a decent quick read and probably a good one to get the younger audiences into horror fiction.

To Read (270)

[

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
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
Drawing Blood	Poppy Z. Brite
The Last Werewolf	Glen Duncan
The Mask	Dean Koontz
Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
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 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.
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
The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
Spirit Hunters	Ellen Oh
Furnace	Livia Llewellyn
"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 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
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
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
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
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
Widdershins	Oliver Onions
The Island of Dr. Moreau	H.G. Wells
Goblin Market	Christina Rossetti
Burnt Offerings	Robert Marasco
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Jack Finney
The Devil in America	Kai Ashante Wilson
"Please Momma"	Cheysa Burke
Meddling Kids	Edgar Cantero
Wylding Hall	Elizabeth Hand
From Hell	Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
The Stranger	Albert Camus
Melmoth the Wanderer	Charles Maturin
Infidel	Pornsak Pichetshote
The Terror	Dan Simmons
The Night They Missed the Horror Show	Joe R. Lansdale
Anna Dressed in Blood	Kendare Blake

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29. Skin Folk: Stories (Nalo Hopkinson 2001)
This one was quite interesting and very different than the type of book I normally read. Skin Folk is a bizarre, fascinating melting pot of Caribbean folklore, fantasy, sci-fi, horror and sexual frenzy used to explore themes of genre politics, racial and ethnic identity and other themes that can come across as heavy-handed if not handled properly. But Hopkinson knows what she's doing. This is one I listened to the audiobook of and based on some of the reviews I looked up after I was done, I think that may actually be the way to go. Like Cormac McCarthy, it seems that Hopkinson uses odd cadence and format in her stories which may lead to difficulty in trying to focus on the content itself. But also it just feels appropriate to HEAR these stories given that many of them are told in the tradition of folk tales passed down through generations verbally. Stories like "Tam Tam and Dry Bone" have a certain flow to them when delivered aurally that I think wouldn't work as well on the written page. Among the highlights includes "The Glass Bottle Trick", a Bluebeard-esque story involving duppies (basically a kind of Caribbean ghost), "Ganger (Ball Lightning)", a perverse sci-fi/horror story of an out-of-control sentient sex suit that ends on a touching note on the value of self-identity, a topic that "A Habit of Waste" also explores using a mild science fiction underpinning. Certainly recommended for those looking for a collection of unique genre stories that explore headier themes. Word of warning though. A couple stories in here have EXTREMELY graphic sexual content, so you know... If you're sensitive to that kind of thing, buyer beware.

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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
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
Drawing Blood	Poppy Z. Brite
The Last Werewolf	Glen Duncan
The Mask	Dean Koontz
Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
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
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 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.
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
The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore
Spirit Hunters	Ellen Oh
Furnace	Livia Llewellyn
"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 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
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
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
Jane Eyre