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I love me some M.R. James, so much in fact that I spent a pretty penny on a hardback version of his complete supernatural writings a few years back, and just a few weeks ago I purchased a copy of his autobiography, Eton and King's, Glad to hear you enjoyed his stories (for the most part)!

Holy cow... That Ash Tree edition looks really nice but that's WAY above my price point. The local bookstore in my area had a nicely illustrated Folio Society edition of his collected ghost stories for I think around $150 and even that was out of my range.

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82. Through the Woods (Emily Carroll, 2014)
Through the Woods is a wonderfully illustrated and unsettlingly told collection of gothic fairy tale horror in graphic novel form. I've read a lot of horror comics, and this one is one of the creepier and more effective ones I've come across. The use of color in particular is striking with deep reds and blacks that really give it an expressionist quality that exudes unease. One story in particular has a grotesque image that looks like something straight out of a Junji Ito book. The five stories themselves range from just ok to skin-crawling and overall make for a nice cross-section of different styles most in the vein of old folk tales and fairy tale most obviously influenced by Angela Carter but also the gothic tradition of writers like Elizabeth Gaskell and Mary Shelley. Much like the traditional fairy tale, the much horror in these stories comes from external forces encroaching on a safe haven, in the case of Our Neighbor's House, drawing them out like a leech, in the case of a story like The Nesting Place, an invader from without. If you like horror comics, then I will definitely recommend this one.

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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
Ring	Koji Suzuki
Broken Monsters	Lauren Beukes
The Changeling	Victor LaValle
Dark Matter	Michelle Paver
HEX	Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Drowning Girl	Caitlin R. Kiernan
Pandemonium	Daryl Gregory
Frankenstein in Baghdad	Ahmed Saadawi
Last Days	Brian Evenson
Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill
The Snowman	Jo Nesbø
The Case Against Satan	Ray Russell
Night Film	Marissa Pessl
Drawing Blood	Poppy Z. Brite
The Last Werewolf	Glen Duncan
Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories	China Miéville
The Bad Seed	William March
The Walls Around Us	Nova Ren Suma
The Good House	Tananarive Due
Mr. Shivers	Robert Jackson Bennett
Hammers on Bone	Cassandra Khaw
Shutter	Courtney Alameda
Fiend: A Novel	Peter Stenson
The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction	Violet Kupersmith
Obscura	Joe Hart
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier
Rosemary's Baby	Ira Levin
Those Across the River	Christpher Buehlman
The Hunger	Alma Katsu
Let the Right One In	John Ajvide Lindqvist
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories	Mariana Enriquez
Feed	Mira Grant
The Other	Thomas Tryon
The Collector	John Fowles
Queen of the Damned	Anne Rice
World War Z	Max Brooks
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
Intensity	Dean Koontz
The Elementals	Michael McDowell
The Atrocity Archives	Charles Stross
The Ballad of Black Tom	Victor LaValle
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
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
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
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 Painted Bird	Jerzy Kosiński
The Pmrivate 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 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 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
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
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
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
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
Some of Your Blood	Theodore Sturgeon
The Grotesque	Patrick McGrath
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 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
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
A Haunting Beauty	Charles Birkin
Year of the Sex Olympics: Three Television Plays	Nigel Kneale
Fancies and Goodnights	John Collier
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
Skin Folk	Nalo Hopkinson
Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice
Come Closer	Sara Gran
The Blind Owl	Sadegh Heydayat
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty
City of Glass	Paul Auster
The Devil in Silver	Victor LaValle
The Fisherman	John Langan
The Mask	Dean Koontz
Psycho	Robert Bloch
Gothic Tales	Elizabeth Gaskell
The Queen of Spades	Alexander Pushkin
NOS4A2: A Novel	Joe Hill
The Beauty	Aliya Whiteley
The Fifth Child	Doris Lessing
The Six-Gun Tarot	R.S. Belcher
Tales of Terror	Charles Higham
The Bloody Chamber	Angela Carter
The House on the Borderland	William Hope Hodgson
The Girl with All the Gifts	M.R. Carey
Experimental Film	Gemma Files
I Am Legend	Richard Matheson
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Horror Horn	E. F. Benson
Our Lady of Darkness	Fritz Lieber
The Killer Inside Me	Jim Thompson
Dark Forces	Edited by Kirby McCauley
Dread Nation	Justina Ireland
Mongrels: A Novel	Stephen Graham Jones
The Grip of It	Jac Jemc
The King in Yellow	Robert W. Chambers
The Woman In Black	Susan Hill
The Anubis Gates	Tim Powers
Pages from Cold Point	Paul Bowles
The Pet	Charles L. Grant
Swan Song	Robert McCammon
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories	Carmen Maria Machado
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Patrick Süskind
Parasite Eve	Hideaki Sena
The Lesser Dead	Christopher Buehlman
Fever Dream	Samanta Schweblin
Bird Box	Josh Malerman
Exquisite Corpse	Poppy Z. Brite
Rotters	Daniel Kraus
The Croning	Laird Barron
The Cellar	Richard Laymon
Collected Ghost Stories*	M.R. James
Nightshade	Derek Marlowe
The Vampire Lestat	Anne Rice
The Troop	Nick Cutter
White is for Witching	Helen Oyeyemi
The Haunted Omnibus	Edited by Alexander Laing
Through the Woods	Emily Carroll

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Scrolled through the thread. Realised I really haven't read much horror. I've read many of the biggest classics, but that's kinda it. The Exorcist and Psycho were ones that I read for some challenge here back in the day or at least I remember writing about them here. Good examples of the movie being more effective.

Anyway, I realise this is bit lazy of me, since I could do some research on the books and lists posted here, but do you have horror short story collection recs? Either by specific author, or many. I've read the essential stories from Poe and Lovecraft, but really not much else. Both classics and more modern stuff is fine. I tend to prefer more fantastical stuff.

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Scrolled through the thread. Realised I really haven't read much horror. I've read many of the biggest classics, but that's kinda it. The Exorcist and Psycho were ones that I read for some challenge here back in the day or at least I remember writing about them here. Good examples of the movie being more effective.

Anyway, I realise this is bit lazy of me, since I could do some research on the books and lists posted here, but do you have horror short story collection recs? Either by specific author, or many. I've read the essential stories from Poe and Lovecraft, but really not much else. Both classics and more modern stuff is fine. I tend to prefer more fantastical stuff.

So of the ones I've read for this thread, if you want to sample the breath of horror fiction, The Haunted Omnibus is a good one to start on to get a wide selection of pre-1940s stuff. The collected stories of M. R. James is probably also pretty important in the overall scope of horror. As far as a more modern collection, Dark Forces offered a good overview of the state of horror fiction in the '80s as did The Silver Scream. I haven't come across a really great short story collection of different authors that would cover recent years yet (although I suspect The Weird will be a really good one, but I just haven't gotten to it yet). As far as other single authors, I'm a big fan of Richard Matheson's short stories in general as well as Ray Bradbury's (although both did a wide array of sci-fi, horror and fantasy in equal measure instead of staying in a single genre). Bradbury's Dark Carnival (mostly reissued as The October Country) is full of great horror stories, and Matheson's Nightmare at 30,000 Feet and Other Stories has a bunch of good stuff in it too.

[Kowry]

Scrolled through the thread. Realised I really haven't read much horror. I've read many of the biggest classics, but that's kinda it. The Exorcist and Psycho were ones that I read for some challenge here back in the day or at least I remember writing about them here. Good examples of the movie being more effective.

Anyway, I realise this is bit lazy of me, since I could do some research on the books and lists posted here, but do you have horror short story collection recs? Either by specific author, or many. I've read the essential stories from Poe and Lovecraft, but really not much else. Both classics and more modern stuff is fine. I tend to prefer more fantastical stuff.

So of the ones I've read for this thread, if you want to sample the breath of horror fiction, The Haunted Omnibus is a good one to start on to get a wide selection of pre-1940s stuff. The collected stories of M. R. James is probably also pretty important in the overall scope of horror. As far as a more modern collection, Dark Forces offered a good overview of the state of horror fiction in the '80s as did The Silver Scream. I haven't come across a really great short story collection of different authors that would cover recent years yet (although I suspect The Weird will be a really good one, but I just haven't gotten to it yet). As far as other single authors, I'm a big fan of Richard Matheson's short stories in general as well as Ray Bradbury's (although both did a wide array of sci-fi, horror and fantasy in equal measure instead of staying in a single genre). Bradbury's Dark Carnival (mostly reissued as The October Country) is full of great horror stories, and Matheson's Nightmare at 30,000 Feet and Other Stories has a bunch of good stuff in it too.

Thanks, cool suggestions! Not really familiar with M.R. James, and haven't read Matheson either. From Bradbury I have read some short stories, but not the collection you mentioned.

Actually, when I looked at the description of a M.R. James collection, got an idea that it would be cool to read them aloud with friends, since apparently that was the intention when he wrote those stories.

[flavo5000]

Scrolled through the thread. Realised I really haven't read much horror. I've read many of the biggest classics, but that's kinda it. The Exorcist and Psycho were ones that I read for some challenge here back in the day or at least I remember writing about them here. Good examples of the movie being more effective.

Anyway, I realise this is bit lazy of me, since I could do some research on the books and lists posted here, but do you have horror short story collection recs? Either by specific author, or many. I've read the essential stories from Poe and Lovecraft, but really not much else. Both classics and more modern stuff is fine. I tend to prefer more fantastical stuff.

So of the ones I've read for this thread, if you want to sample the breath of horror fiction, The Haunted Omnibus is a good one to start on to get a wide selection of pre-1940s stuff. The collected stories of M. R. James is probably also pretty important in the overall scope of horror. As far as a more modern collection, Dark Forces offered a good overview of the state of horror fiction in the '80s as did The Silver Scream. I haven't come across a really great short story collection of different authors that would cover recent years yet (although I suspect The Weird will be a really good one, but I just haven't gotten to it yet). As far as other single authors, I'm a big fan of Richard Matheson's short stories in general as well as Ray Bradbury's (although both did a wide array of sci-fi, horror and fantasy in equal measure instead of staying in a single genre). Bradbury's Dark Carnival (mostly reissued as The October Country) is full of great horror stories, and Matheson's Nightmare at 30,000 Feet and Other Stories has a bunch of good stuff in it too.

Thanks, cool suggestions! Not really familiar with M.R. James, and haven't read Matheson either. From Bradbury I have read some short stories, but not the collection you mentioned.

Actually, when I looked at the description of a M.R. James collection, got an idea that it would be cool to read them aloud with friends, since apparently that was the intention when he wrote those stories.

Yea, I actually listened to the audiobook of his stories which I think worked pretty well.

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83. Mythago Wood (Robert Holdstock, 1984)
Brothers Steven and Christian are drawn to Ryhope Wood, a mysterious forest their father was obsessed with investigating and where they discover mythagos, myths and legends are rendered flesh and blood out of their imaginations. When Christian goes missing in the wood pursuing his mythago, a beautiful woman he thought dead but now believes may be remade, Steven finds his own incarnation of the mythago to have appeared from the wood, the wild and ravishing Guiwenneth. Eventually events transpire that causes Steven and Harry Keeton, a man Steven brings on to aid in his investigation of the wood, to venture into the woods themselves, bringing forth danger and destiny.
This dark gothic fantasy had a pretty interesting premise and at times fulfills its promise with engaging and philosophically stimulating passages on the role of archetype in the human consciousness. It's certainly the kind of novel that impresses critics, earning the World Fantasy Award back when it was released, and surprisingly has a clean and elegant prose that makes it quite readable. And yet, something felt missing for me. It seemed to take too long to get to the meat of the story, spending far too long on an awkward romance plot that was not Holdstock's strong suit. When in the woods themselves though, the book is a well-paced fantasy adventure with dark undertones of madness and murder. As an aside, I'm honestly not sure why this was included in a list of Best Horror though as the horror elements themselves are very light in general. I'm reading through the Jones/Newman books on the side though so I imagine I'll get to the rationale behind it as I've seen with others that feel non-genre.

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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
Ring	Koji Suzuki
Broken Monsters	Lauren Beukes
The Changeling	Victor LaValle
Dark Matter	Michelle Paver
HEX	Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Drowning Girl	Caitlin R. Kiernan
Pandemonium	Daryl Gregory
Frankenstein in Baghdad	Ahmed Saadawi
Last Days	Brian Evenson
Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill
The Snowman	Jo Nesbø
The Case Against Satan	Ray Russell
Night Film	Marissa Pessl
Drawing Blood	Poppy Z. Brite
The Last Werewolf	Glen Duncan
Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories	China Miéville
The Bad Seed	William March
The Walls Around Us	Nova Ren Suma
The Good House	Tananarive Due
Mr. Shivers	Robert Jackson Bennett
Hammers on Bone	Cassandra Khaw
Shutter	Courtney Alameda
Fiend: A Novel	Peter Stenson
The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction	Violet Kupersmith
Obscura	Joe Hart
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier
Rosemary's Baby	Ira Levin
Those Across the River	Christpher Buehlman
The Hunger	Alma Katsu
Let the Right One In	John Ajvide Lindqvist
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories	Mariana Enriquez
Feed	Mira Grant
The Other	Thomas Tryon
The Collector	John Fowles
Queen of the Damned	Anne Rice
World War Z	Max Brooks
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
Intensity	Dean Koontz
The Elementals	Michael McDowell
The Atrocity Archives	Charles Stross
The Ballad of Black Tom	Victor LaValle
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
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
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
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 Painted Bird	Jerzy Kosiński
The Pmrivate Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	James Hogg
Song of Kali	Dan Simmons
The Sheep Look Up	John Brunner
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 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
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
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
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
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
Some of Your Blood	Theodore Sturgeon
The Grotesque	Patrick McGrath
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 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
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
A Haunting Beauty	Charles Birkin
Year of the Sex Olympics: Three Television Plays	Nigel Kneale
Fancies and Goodnights	John Collier
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
Skin Folk	Nalo Hopkinson
Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice
Come Closer	Sara Gran
The Blind Owl	Sadegh Heydayat
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty
City of Glass	Paul Auster
The Devil in Silver	Victor LaValle
The Fisherman	John Langan
The Mask	Dean Koontz
Psycho	Robert Bloch
Gothic Tales	Elizabeth Gaskell
The Queen of Spades	Alexander Pushkin
NOS4A2: A Novel	Joe Hill
The Beauty	Aliya Whiteley
The Fifth Child	Doris Lessing
The Six-Gun Tarot	R.S. Belcher
Tales of Terror	Charles Higham
The Bloody Chamber	Angela Carter
The House on the Borderland	William Hope Hodgson
The Girl with All the Gifts	M.R. Carey
Experimental Film	Gemma Files
I Am Legend	Richard Matheson
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Horror Horn	E. F. Benson
Our Lady of Darkness	Fritz Lieber
The Killer Inside Me	Jim Thompson
Dark Forces	Edited by Kirby McCauley
Dread Nation	Justina Ireland
Mongrels: A Novel	Stephen Graham Jones
The Grip of It	Jac Jemc
The King in Yellow	Robert W. Chambers
The Woman In Black	Susan Hill
The Anubis Gates	Tim Powers
Pages from Cold Point	Paul Bowles
The Pet	Charles L. Grant
Swan Song	Robert McCammon
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories	Carmen Maria Machado
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Patrick Süskind
Parasite Eve	Hideaki Sena
The Lesser Dead	Christopher Buehlman
Fever Dream	Samanta Schweblin
Bird Box	Josh Malerman
Exquisite Corpse	Poppy Z. Brite
Rotters	Daniel Kraus
The Croning	Laird Barron
The Cellar	Richard Laymon
Collected Ghost Stories*	M.R. James
Nightshade	Derek Marlowe
The Vampire Lestat	Anne Rice
The Troop	Nick Cutter
White is for Witching	Helen Oyeyemi
The Haunted Omnibus	Edited by Alexander Laing
Through the Woods	Emily Carroll
Mythago Wood	Robert Holdstock

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84. Forget the Sleepless Shores: Stories (featuring "All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts") (Sonya Taffe, 2017)
Many of these stories are melancholy sea-tinged ruminations on loss and desire featuring ghosts and creatures of the dark as surrogates for our own inner turmoil. The centerpiece of the collection "All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts" (and the story that was actually featured on the NPR list) is a Lovecraftian tale of those in Innsmouth left behind, destined to be apart from humanity while also unable to be accepted by their own people. It's an interesting, unique story, and I can see why it's admired. Taffe's prose for the majority of the stories is willfully obtuse, over-written and self-indulgent but for this one story, she seems to reign it in to create something a little more special. Many of the other stories in the collection though are just tough reads to be frank. I found myself unable to focus on the text, the florid, obfuscated passages blurring into a morass of inconsequentiality that made it increasingly difficult to actually follow what's happening. Several stories are intentionally vague in their conversations and descriptions. Some are written in second person present tense. It all feels very experimental and even more poetry prose. I think a small subset of people will find Taffe's writing style absolutely captivating. But as for me, I have no desire to follow Taffe any further down the rabbit hole.

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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
Ring	Koji Suzuki
Broken Monsters	Lauren Beukes
The Changeling	Victor LaValle
Dark Matter	Michelle Paver
HEX	Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Drowning Girl	Caitlin R. Kiernan
Pandemonium	Daryl Gregory
Frankenstein in Baghdad	Ahmed Saadawi
Last Days	Brian Evenson
Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill
The Snowman	Jo Nesbø
The Case Against Satan	Ray Russell
Night Film	Marissa Pessl
Drawing Blood	Poppy Z. Brite
The Last Werewolf	Glen Duncan
Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories	China Miéville
The Bad Seed	William March
The Walls Around Us	Nova Ren Suma
The Good House	Tananarive Due
Mr. Shivers	Robert Jackson Bennett
Hammers on Bone	Cassandra Khaw
Shutter	Courtney Alameda
Fiend: A Novel	Peter Stenson
The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction	Violet Kupersmith
Obscura	Joe Hart
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier
Rosemary's Baby	Ira Levin
Those Across the River	Christpher Buehlman
The Hunger	Alma Katsu
Let the Right One In	John Ajvide Lindqvist
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories	Mariana Enriquez
Feed	Mira Grant
The Other	Thomas Tryon
The Collector	John Fowles
Queen of the Damned	Anne Rice
World War Z	Max Brooks
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
Intensity	Dean Koontz
The Elementals	Michael McDowell
The Atrocity Archives	Charles Stross
The Ballad of Black Tom	Victor LaValle
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
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
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
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 Painted Bird	Jerzy Kosiński
The Pmrivate Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	James Hogg
Song of Kali	Dan Simmons
The Sheep Look Up	John Brunner
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 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
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
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
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
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
Some of Your Blood	Theodore Sturgeon
The Grotesque	Patrick McGrath
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 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
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
A Haunting Beauty	Charles Birkin
Year of the Sex Olympics: Three Television Plays	Nigel Kneale
Fancies and Goodnights	John Collier
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
Skin Folk	Nalo Hopkinson
Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice
Come Closer	Sara Gran
The Blind Owl	Sadegh Heydayat
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty
City of Glass	Paul Auster
The Devil in Silver	Victor LaValle
The Fisherman	John Langan
The Mask	Dean Koontz
Psycho	Robert Bloch
Gothic Tales	Elizabeth Gaskell
The Queen of Spades	Alexander Pushkin
NOS4A2: A Novel	Joe Hill
The Beauty	Aliya Whiteley
The Fifth Child	Doris Lessing
The Six-Gun Tarot	R.S. Belcher
Tales of Terror	Charles Higham
The Bloody Chamber	Angela Carter
The House on the Borderland	William Hope Hodgson
The Girl with All the Gifts	M.R. Carey
Experimental Film	Gemma Files
I Am Legend	Richard Matheson
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Horror Horn	E. F. Benson
Our Lady of Darkness	Fritz Lieber
The Killer Inside Me	Jim Thompson
Dark Forces	Edited by Kirby McCauley
Dread Nation	Justina Ireland
Mongrels: A Novel	Stephen Graham Jones
The Grip of It	Jac Jemc
The King in Yellow	Robert W. Chambers
The Woman In Black	Susan Hill
The Anubis Gates	Tim Powers
Pages from Cold Point	Paul Bowles
The Pet	Charles L. Grant
Swan Song	Robert McCammon
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories	Carmen Maria Machado
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Patrick Süskind
Parasite Eve	Hideaki Sena
The Lesser Dead	Christopher Buehlman
Fever Dream	Samanta Schweblin
Bird Box	Josh Malerman
Exquisite Corpse	Poppy Z. Brite
Rotters	Daniel Kraus
The Croning	Laird Barron
The Cellar	Richard Laymon
Collected Ghost Stories*	M.R. James
Nightshade	Derek Marlowe
The Vampire Lestat	Anne Rice
The Troop	Nick Cutter
White is for Witching	Helen Oyeyemi
The Haunted Omnibus	Edited by Alexander Laing
Through the Woods	Emily Carroll
Mythago Wood	Robert Holdstock
"All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts"	Sonya Taaffe

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**Interlude: Goosebumps Breakdown Part 1:
So NPR was kind enough to put the entire 62-book Goosebumps series on their list. I hadn't really intended to read all of them, but my son seems to be into them at the moment. So I thought, hey, why not read along with him and post groups of them as we finish as a little side quest? I doubt I'll read all of them or possibly even half of them by the end of this, but I guess I'll see how far it takes me. I actually read a decent amount of them when I was a kid but don't remember much. Anyway, without further ado...
Go Eat Worms: I don't know why my son picked this one to read first. It's certainly one of the least scary of the Goosebumps books (of course, none of them are actually that scary to begin with) instead going for the 'ick' factor. Lots of worms being put in people's hair and down shirts, goofy shenanigans like that. The ending is by far the best thing about this one which is otherwise super lame.
Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes: Hey, lawn gnomes are kinda creepy, right? Well, not here. Instead they come off more obnoxious, sneaking around at night and damaging the neighbor's property, getting our protagonist and his dog in trouble. Even the ending where Stine usually tries to come up with some kiddie Twilight Zone kind of thing falls flat.
Beware, the Snowman! This was just dumb. Coming late in the original Goosebumps series, it's obvious Stine was running out of ideas. It even has a lame fakeout where the snowman pretends to be the protagonist's father. Pretty bottom of the barrel Goosebumps.
Shocker on Shock Street: Finally, a Goosebumps book that seems to legitmiately be capable of scaring little kids. This one is basically one long theme park ride of a book with the two main kids being constantly tormented by all the ooky stuff on the hot new Shock Street ride. Plus is has a kind of clever twist ending.
A Night in Terror Tower: This is another above average entry for Goosebumps with kind of grotesque torture tower as the initial setting before it switches gears into a loopy time travel story. This one also has a pretty decent twist that puts it a step above crappy evil snowmen and sinister lawn gnomes.

Of course an above average Goosebumps book is still pretty weak sauce for the average adult horror fan, so you know, keep that in mind with these micro-reviews.

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[tr][td] The Passage [/td][td] Justin Cronin [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] We Have Always Lived in the Castle [/td][td] Shirley Jackson [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] The Historian [/td][td] Elizabeth Kostova [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Silence of the Lambs [/td][td] Thomas Harris [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] The Wasp Factory [/td][td] Iain Banks [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories [/td][td] H.P. Lovecraft [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Hell House [/td][td] Richard Matheson [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] The Silent Companions [/td][td] Laura Purcell [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Her Fearful Symmetry [/td][td] Audrey Niffenegger [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Fledgling [/td][td] Octavia E. Butler [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Whispers [/td][td] Dean Koontz [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket [/td][td] Edgar Allan Poe [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Carrion Comfort [/td][td] Dan Simmons [/td][/tr]
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[tr][td] Ring [/td][td] Koji Suzuki [/td][/tr]
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[tr][td] The Snowman [/td][td] Jo Nesbø [/td][/tr]
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[tr][td] Mr. Shivers [/td][td] Robert Jackson Bennett [/td][/tr]
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[tr][td] Shutter [/td][td] Courtney Alameda [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Fiend: A Novel [/td][td] Peter Stenson [/td][/tr]
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[tr][td] Obscura [/td][td] Joe Hart [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Rebecca [/td][td] Daphne Du Maurier [/td][/tr]
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[tr][td] Those Across the River [/td][td] Christpher Buehlman [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] The Hunger [/td][td] Alma Katsu [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Let the Right One In [/td][td] John Ajvide Lindqvist [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories [/td][td] Mariana Enriquez [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Feed [/td][td] Mira Grant [/td][/tr]
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[tr][td] The Other [/td][td] Thomas Tryon [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] The Collector [/td][td] John Fowles [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Queen of the Damned [/td][td] Anne Rice [/td][/tr]
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[tr][td] The House with a Clock in its Walls [/td][td] John Bellairs [/td][/tr]
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[tr][td] Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation [/td][td] Octavia E. Butler, John Jennings and Damian Duffy [/td][/tr]
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[tr][td] Elizabeth [/td][td] Ken Greenhall [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] The Red Tree [/td][td] Caitlin R. Kiernan [/td][/tr]
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[tr][td] A Voyage to Arcturus [/td][td] Dave Lindsay [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade [/td][td] Herman Melville [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] The Crystal World [/td][td] J.G. Ballard [/td][/tr]
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[tr][td] Falling Angel [/td][td] William Hjortsberg [/td][/tr]
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[tr][td] The Second Century of Creepy Stories [/td][td] Sir Hugh Walpole [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Deliver Me from Eva [/td][td] Paul Bailey [/td][/tr]
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[tr][td] The Monk [/td][td] Matthew Lewis [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] The Hound of the Baskervilles [/td][td] Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] The Picture of Dorian Gray [/td][td] Oscar Wilde [/td][/tr]
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[tr][td] Edge of Running Water [/td][td] William Sloane [/td][/tr]
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[tr][td] The Weirdstone of Brisingamen [/td][td] Alan Garner [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Who Fears the Devil? [/td][td] Manly Wade Wellman [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] The Book of Skulls [/td][td] Robert Silverberg [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" [/td][td] William Hope Hodgson [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] The Midwich Cuckoos [/td][td] John Wyndham [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen [/td][td] Elizabeth Bowen [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Tales from the Nightside [/td][td] Charles L. Grant [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] The Hunger and Other Stories [/td][td] Charles Beaumont [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] The Case of Charles Dexter Ward [/td][td] H.P. Lovecraft [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] The Cement Garden [/td][td] Ian McEwan [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Lost Souls [/td][td] Poppy Z. Brite [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Outer Dark [/td][td] Cormac McCarthy [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] The Manuscript Found in Saragossa [/td][td] Jan Potocki [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] New Grub Street [/td][td] George Gissing [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] A Sight for Sore Eyes [/td][td] Ruth Rendell [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] A Stir of Echoes [/td][td] Richard Matheson [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] Peace [/td][td] Gene Wolfe [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] They Thirst [/td][td] Robert McCammon [/td][/tr]
[tr][td] The Dark Descent [/td][td] David G. Hartwell [/td][/tr]
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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
Skin Folk	Nalo Hopkinson
Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice
Come Closer	Sara Gran
The Blind Owl	Sadegh Heydayat
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty
City of Glass	Paul Auster
The Devil in Silver	Victor LaValle
The Fisherman	John Langan
The Mask	Dean Koontz
Psycho	Robert Bloch
Gothic Tales	Elizabeth Gaskell
The Queen of Spades	Alexander Pushkin
NOS4A2: A Novel	Joe Hill
The Beauty	Aliya Whiteley
The Fifth Child	Doris Lessing
The Six-Gun Tarot	R.S. Belcher
Tales of Terror	Charles Higham
The Bloody Chamber	Angela Carter
The House on the Borderland	William Hope Hodgson
The Girl with All the Gifts	M.R. Carey
Experimental Film	Gemma Files
I Am Legend	Richard Matheson
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Horror Horn	E. F. Benson
Our Lady of Darkness	Fritz Lieber
The Killer Inside Me	Jim Thompson
Dark Forces	Edited by Kirby McCauley
Dread Nation	Justina Ireland
Mongrels: A Novel	Stephen Graham Jones
The Grip of It	Jac Jemc
The King in Yellow	Robert W. Chambers
The Woman In Black	Susan Hill
The Anubis Gates	Tim Powers
Pages from Cold Point	Paul Bowles
The Pet	Charles L. Grant
Swan Song	Robert McCammon
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories	Carmen Maria Machado
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Patrick Süskind
Parasite Eve	Hideaki Sena
The Lesser Dead	Christopher Buehlman
Fever Dream	Samanta Schweblin
Bird Box	Josh Malerman
Exquisite Corpse	Poppy Z. Brite
Rotters	Daniel Kraus
The Croning	Laird Barron
The Cellar	Richard Laymon
Collected Ghost Stories*	M.R. James
Nightshade	Derek Marlowe
The Vampire Lestat	Anne Rice
The Troop	Nick Cutter
White is for Witching	Helen Oyeyemi
The Haunted Omnibus	Edited by Alexander Laing
Through the Woods	Emily Carroll
Mythago Wood	Robert Holdstock
"All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts"	Sonya Taaffe

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85-87. The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (1916-1959)
**Note: There were five different H.P. Lovecraft books on the list (two of which I had already read) so I figured I'd just read through the entire fiction of Lovecraft as a catch all for all of them. Also note that this doesn't include collaborations like Lurker at the Threshold which August Derleth completed based on a Lovecraft story fragment.
This audiobook collection of over 50 hours of material courtesy of the H.P. Lovecraft Historyical Society starts with the relatively straightforward "The Alchemist", his first published story, before launching directly into a novella that's one of the cornerstones of the Lovecraftian mythos "At the Mountains of Madness". It's an appropriate story to kick things off proper with as it gives you almost everything Lovecraft is known for, both for good and bad: you have his elaborate descriptions of otherworldly architecture and culture, his excellence sense of mood and atmosphere, his ability to build to a an impressive finale, his long-windedness and tediousness in belaboring points that could've been made more efficiently... I mean, by the end of this one, you should be either totally bought in or completely alienated, so in that respect it's a smart move.
Of course this being a complete collection, all the major touchstones of Lovecraft's mythos are here including "Call of Cthulhu", "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", "Dagon", "The Nameless City", "The Dunwich Horror" and others. My personal favorites in the core Cthulhu mythos include "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" with its creepy fish people, the third section of "The Call of Cthulhu" (the only time we actually get the main god himself to make an appearance), "The Whisperer in the Darkness" (a macabre tale of alien mad science) and "The Thing on the Doorstep" (a strange tale of evil wizard body swapping).
Some of the ones I enjoy the most aren't actually tied to the overarching Cthulhu mythos at all like the creeping urban horror of "Pickman's Model" (I wonder if this was an influence on Fritz Leiber), the gruesome Frankenstein riff "Herbert West Reanimator" (which has a nice dark sense of humor to it), the amusingly self-referential "The Unnameable" and the more straightforward terror of "The Tomb" and "The Lurking Fear".
Not all of them are gems though. Honestly some of my least favorite are some of the longest like The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward which feels like a short story idea extended to novel length and the obnoxiously self-indulgent Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. Also of lesser interest are ones that seem to exist solely to build out the mythos without offering much of an actual interesting narrative like "Nyarlathotep", "The Descendent", and "History of the Necronomicon".
It also contains some little curios that seem to stick out from the rest like "The Mysterious Ship","Sweet Ermengarde" (the rare straight up comedy with not even a little horror or mystery) and a discarded draft of "Shadow Over Innsmouth" that are really only of interest to completionists.
Of course this wouldn't be a write-up without mentioning Lovecraft's racism which is definitely there. You get touches of it in stories like "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" with his distrust of "the other" but the notorious "Terror at Red Hook" is certainly his most blatant and unappealing (which is a shame since the story itself is actually told quite well). Even an otherwise nice little pulp exercise like "The Rats in the Walls" is spoiled by a very unfortunate pet name.
One last thing of note to this particular audiobook edition is that I quite liked the 5 minutes of outtakes at the end with the readers themselves cursing Lovecraft's at times labyrinthian, overly prosaic and dense dialogue.
Overall while I wouldn't say I am an unabashed massive fan of everything Lovecraft ever produced, he was undeniably a massive influence on horror fiction and a damn good writer when he reigned in his most over-indulgent impulses.

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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
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
Ring	Koji Suzuki
Broken Monsters	Lauren Beukes
The Changeling	Victor LaValle
Dark Matter	Michelle Paver
HEX	Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Drowning Girl	Caitlin R. Kiernan
Pandemonium	Daryl Gregory
Frankenstein in Baghdad	Ahmed Saadawi
Last Days	Brian Evenson
Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill
The Snowman	Jo Nesbø
The Case Against Satan	Ray Russell
Night Film	Marissa Pessl
Drawing Blood	Poppy Z. Brite
The Last Werewolf	Glen Duncan
Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories	China Miéville
The Bad Seed	William March
The Walls Around Us	Nova Ren Suma
The Good House	Tananarive Due
Mr. Shivers	Robert Jackson Bennett
Hammers on Bone	Cassandra Khaw
Shutter	Courtney Alameda
Fiend: A Novel	Peter Stenson
The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction	Violet Kupersmith
Obscura	Joe Hart
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier
Rosemary's Baby	Ira Levin
Those Across the River	Christpher Buehlman
The Hunger	Alma Katsu
Let the Right One In	John Ajvide Lindqvist
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories	Mariana Enriquez
Feed	Mira Grant
The Other	Thomas Tryon
The Collector	John Fowles
Queen of the Damned	Anne Rice
World War Z	Max Brooks
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
Intensity	Dean Koontz
The Elementals	Michael McDowell
The Atrocity Archives	Charles Stross
The Ballad of Black Tom	Victor LaValle
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
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
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
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
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 Painted Bird	Jerzy Kosiński
The Pmrivate Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	James Hogg
Song of Kali	Dan Simmons
The Sheep Look Up	John Brunner
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 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
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
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
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
Lost Souls	Poppy Z. Brite
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
Some of Your Blood	Theodore Sturgeon
The Grotesque	Patrick McGrath
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 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
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
A Haunting Beauty	Charles Birkin
Year of the Sex Olympics: Three Television Plays	Nigel Kneale
Fancies and Goodnights	John Collier
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
Skin Folk	Nalo Hopkinson
Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice
Come Closer	Sara Gran
The Blind Owl	Sadegh Heydayat
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty
City of Glass	Paul Auster
The Devil in Silver	Victor LaValle
The Fisherman	John Langan
The Mask	Dean Koontz
Psycho	Robert Bloch
Gothic Tales	Elizabeth Gaskell
The Queen of Spades	Alexander Pushkin
NOS4A2: A Novel	Joe Hill
The Beauty	Aliya Whiteley
The Fifth Child	Doris Lessing
The Six-Gun Tarot	R.S. Belcher
Tales of Terror	Charles Higham
The Bloody Chamber	Angela Carter
The House on the Borderland	William Hope Hodgson
The Girl with All the Gifts	M.R. Carey
Experimental Film	Gemma Files
I Am Legend	Richard Matheson
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Horror Horn	E. F. Benson
Our Lady of Darkness	Fritz Lieber
The Killer Inside Me	Jim Thompson
Dark Forces	Edited by Kirby McCauley
Dread Nation	Justina Ireland
Mongrels: A Novel	Stephen Graham Jones
The Grip of It	Jac Jemc
The King in Yellow	Robert W. Chambers
The Woman In Black	Susan Hill
The Anubis Gates	Tim Powers
Pages from Cold Point	Paul Bowles
The Pet	Charles L. Grant
Swan Song	Robert McCammon
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories	Carmen Maria Machado
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Patrick Süskind
Parasite Eve	Hideaki Sena
The Lesser Dead	Christopher Buehlman
Fever Dream	Samanta Schweblin
Bird Box	Josh Malerman
Exquisite Corpse	Poppy Z. Brite
Rotters	Daniel Kraus
The Croning	Laird Barron
The Cellar	Richard Laymon
Collected Ghost Stories*	M.R. James
Nightshade	Derek Marlowe
The Vampire Lestat	Anne Rice
The Troop	Nick Cutter
White is for Witching	Helen Oyeyemi
The Haunted Omnibus	Edited by Alexander Laing
Through the Woods	Emily Carroll
Mythago Wood	Robert Holdstock
"All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts"	Sonya Taaffe
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
The Outsider, and Others	H.P. Lovecraft
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward	H.P. Lovecraft

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88. Strange Toys (Patricia Geary, 1987)
9-year-old Pet's family is eccentric. Her mom and dad are lackadaisical and inattentive. Her 13-year-old sister June is both Pet's best friend and harshest critic, calling her fat constantly while also cultivating a toy poodle collection with her. Their oldest sister Deane gets into some trouble with some bad people and gets arrested, and the family skips town on an extended cross-country road trip until the problems blow over. They stop at every tourist destination and tourist trap they come across as a way to spend time. Along the way, Pet comes across a mysterious gentleman named Sammy who only wants Deane's personal diary. Pet doesn't understand it but ultimately decides to do it to make Deane disappear and stop causing her family trouble. This seemingly innocuous transaction sends dark magic repercussions through Pet's entire life as we jump forward to Pet at 16 and then Pet at 30, trying to break a familial cycle of regret and sadness.
I liked this one quite a bit, but I feel like the final third of the book just doesn't quite stick the landing. Still, it does a great job of building out the character of Pet, representing her inner voice at different points in her life as she wrestles with trauma and a sense of independence. The early chapters have this entrancing sense of magical realism and horror Americana to them that Stephen King has so often trafficked in, and it's interesting to see Pet's character arc leading up to pivotal moments in her life that center around bizarre voodoo rituals. As I mentioned before though, the final third of the book just doesn't pull everything together the way I hoped it would and leaves things a little unsatisfyingly vague. Still I think it's worth reading for the interesting characterization alone.

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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
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
Ring	Koji Suzuki
Broken Monsters	Lauren Beukes
The Changeling	Victor LaValle
Dark Matter	Michelle Paver
HEX	Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Drowning Girl	Caitlin R. Kiernan
Pandemonium	Daryl Gregory
Frankenstein in Baghdad	Ahmed Saadawi
Last Days	Brian Evenson
Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill
The Snowman	Jo Nesbø
The Case Against Satan	Ray Russell
Night Film	Marissa Pessl
Drawing Blood	Poppy Z. Brite
The Last Werewolf	Glen Duncan
Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories	China Miéville
The Bad Seed	William March
The Walls Around Us	Nova Ren Suma
The Good House	Tananarive Due
Mr. Shivers	Robert Jackson Bennett
Hammers on Bone	Cassandra Khaw
Shutter	Courtney Alameda
Fiend: A Novel	Peter Stenson
The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction	Violet Kupersmith
Obscura	Joe Hart
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier
Rosemary's Baby	Ira Levin
Those Across the River	Christpher Buehlman
The Hunger	Alma Katsu
Let the Right One In	John Ajvide Lindqvist
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories	Mariana Enriquez
Feed	Mira Grant
The Other	Thomas Tryon
The Collector	John Fowles
Queen of the Damned	Anne Rice
World War Z	Max Brooks
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
Intensity	Dean Koontz
The Elementals	Michael McDowell
The Atrocity Archives	Charles Stross
The Ballad of Black Tom	Victor LaValle
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
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
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
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
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 Painted Bird	Jerzy Kosiński
The Pmrivate Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	James Hogg
Song of Kali	Dan Simmons
The Sheep Look Up	John Brunner
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 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
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
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
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
Lost Souls	Poppy Z. Brite
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
Some of Your Blood	Theodore Sturgeon
The Grotesque	Patrick McGrath
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 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
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
A Haunting Beauty	Charles Birkin
Year of the Sex Olympics: Three Television Plays	Nigel Kneale
Fancies and Goodnights	John Collier
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
Skin Folk	Nalo Hopkinson
Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice
Come Closer	Sara Gran
The Blind Owl	Sadegh Heydayat
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty
City of Glass	Paul Auster
The Devil in Silver	Victor LaValle
The Fisherman	John Langan
The Mask	Dean Koontz
Psycho	Robert Bloch
Gothic Tales	Elizabeth Gaskell
The Queen of Spades	Alexander Pushkin
NOS4A2: A Novel	Joe Hill
The Beauty	Aliya Whiteley
The Fifth Child	Doris Lessing
The Six-Gun Tarot	R.S. Belcher
Tales of Terror	Charles Higham
The Bloody Chamber	Angela Carter
The House on the Borderland	William Hope Hodgson
The Girl with All the Gifts	M.R. Carey
Experimental Film	Gemma Files
I Am Legend	Richard Matheson
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Horror Horn	E. F. Benson
Our Lady of Darkness	Fritz Lieber
The Killer Inside Me	Jim Thompson
Dark Forces	Edited by Kirby McCauley
Dread Nation	Justina Ireland
Mongrels: A Novel	Stephen Graham Jones
The Grip of It	Jac Jemc
The King in Yellow	Robert W. Chambers
The Woman In Black	Susan Hill
The Anubis Gates	Tim Powers
Pages from Cold Point	Paul Bowles
The Pet	Charles L. Grant
Swan Song	Robert McCammon
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories	Carmen Maria Machado
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Patrick Süskind
Parasite Eve	Hideaki Sena
The Lesser Dead	Christopher Buehlman
Fever Dream	Samanta Schweblin
Bird Box	Josh Malerman
Exquisite Corpse	Poppy Z. Brite
Rotters	Daniel Kraus
The Croning	Laird Barron
The Cellar	Richard Laymon
Collected Ghost Stories*	M.R. James
Nightshade	Derek Marlowe
The Vampire Lestat	Anne Rice
The Troop	Nick Cutter
White is for Witching	Helen Oyeyemi
The Haunted Omnibus	Edited by Alexander Laing
Through the Woods	Emily Carroll
Mythago Wood	Robert Holdstock
"All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts"	Sonya Taaffe
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
The Outsider, and Others	H.P. Lovecraft
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward	H.P. Lovecraft

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89. Dark Matter: A Ghost Story (Michelle Paver, 2010)
Jack Miller sets off on an Arctic expedition for a year with a couple of guys from Oxford University, one of which, Gus, he's a tremendous admirer of, bordering on obsession by the end. The first ill omen strikes when the sea captain tries to refuse to take them to Gruhuken, but they ignore his pleas and forge on. When Jack is left alone at the eerie and mysterious campsite after Gus takes ill with appendicitis and has to return to a town with better facilities, Jack begins to see things in the snow as he struggled to deal with the harsh conditions and isolation.
This one is something of a Yin to Dan Simmons' The Terror's yang. Both are about struggles of survival in incredibly cold, harsh conditions while being plagued with something supernatural. But where Simmons takes the macro view and follows over a dozen different characters who were crew on a major expedition, Paver's Dark Matter is much more intimate, a first person account structured as journal entries. Both do a good job of fusing creeping dread with wintry desolation, although Simmons may win out just by sheer virtue of magnitude of severity of conditions. Also I do feel like the ending of this one was a little too brief and a little anti-climactic. Still Dark Matter is a well-crafted novel with a nice sense of atmosphere and a very well-fleshed out central character worth che king out.

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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
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
Ring	Koji Suzuki
Broken Monsters	Lauren Beukes
The Changeling	Victor LaValle
Dark Matter	Michelle Paver
HEX	Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Drowning Girl	Caitlin R. Kiernan
Pandemonium	Daryl Gregory
Frankenstein in Baghdad	Ahmed Saadawi
Last Days	Brian Evenson
Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill
The Snowman	Jo Nesbø
The Case Against Satan	Ray Russell
Night Film	Marissa Pessl
Drawing Blood	Poppy Z. Brite
The Last Werewolf	Glen Duncan
Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories	China Miéville
The Bad Seed	William March
The Walls Around Us	Nova Ren Suma
The Good House	Tananarive Due
Mr. Shivers	Robert Jackson Bennett
Hammers on Bone	Cassandra Khaw
Shutter	Courtney Alameda
Fiend: A Novel	Peter Stenson
The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction	Violet Kupersmith
Obscura	Joe Hart
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier
Rosemary's Baby	Ira Levin
Those Across the River	Christpher Buehlman
The Hunger	Alma Katsu
Let the Right One In	John Ajvide Lindqvist
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories	Mariana Enriquez
Feed	Mira Grant
The Other	Thomas Tryon
The Collector	John Fowles
Queen of the Damned	Anne Rice
World War Z	Max Brooks
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
Intensity	Dean Koontz
The Elementals	Michael McDowell
The Atrocity Archives	Charles Stross
The Ballad of Black Tom	Victor LaValle
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
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
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
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
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 Painted Bird	Jerzy Kosiński
The Pmrivate Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	James Hogg
Song of Kali	Dan Simmons
The Sheep Look Up	John Brunner
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 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
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
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
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
Lost Souls	Poppy Z. Brite
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
Some of Your Blood	Theodore Sturgeon
The Grotesque	Patrick McGrath
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 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
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
A Haunting Beauty	Charles Birkin
Year of the Sex Olympics: Three Television Plays	Nigel Kneale
Fancies and Goodnights	John Collier
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
Skin Folk	Nalo Hopkinson
Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice
Come Closer	Sara Gran
The Blind Owl	Sadegh Heydayat
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty
City of Glass	Paul Auster
The Devil in Silver	Victor LaValle
The Fisherman	John Langan
The Mask	Dean Koontz
Psycho	Robert Bloch
Gothic Tales	Elizabeth Gaskell
The Queen of Spades	Alexander Pushkin
NOS4A2: A Novel	Joe Hill
The Beauty	Aliya Whiteley
The Fifth Child	Doris Lessing
The Six-Gun Tarot	R.S. Belcher
Tales of Terror	Charles Higham
The Bloody Chamber	Angela Carter
The House on the Borderland	William Hope Hodgson
The Girl with All the Gifts	M.R. Carey
Experimental Film	Gemma Files
I Am Legend	Richard Matheson
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Horror Horn	E. F. Benson
Our Lady of Darkness	Fritz Lieber
The Killer Inside Me	Jim Thompson
Dark Forces	Edited by Kirby McCauley
Dread Nation	Justina Ireland
Mongrels: A Novel	Stephen Graham Jones
The Grip of It	Jac Jemc
The King in Yellow	Robert W. Chambers
The Woman In Black	Susan Hill
The Anubis Gates	Tim Powers
Pages from Cold Point	Paul Bowles
The Pet	Charles L. Grant
Swan Song	Robert McCammon
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories	Carmen Maria Machado
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Patrick Süskind
Parasite Eve	Hideaki Sena
The Lesser Dead	Christopher Buehlman
Fever Dream	Samanta Schweblin
Bird Box	Josh Malerman
Exquisite Corpse	Poppy Z. Brite
Rotters	Daniel Kraus
The Croning	Laird Barron
The Cellar	Richard Laymon
Collected Ghost Stories*	M.R. James
Nightshade	Derek Marlowe
The Vampire Lestat	Anne Rice
The Troop	Nick Cutter
White is for Witching	Helen Oyeyemi
The Haunted Omnibus	Edited by Alexander Laing
Through the Woods	Emily Carroll
Mythago Wood	Robert Holdstock
"All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts"	Sonya Taaffe
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
The Outsider, and Others	H.P. Lovecraft
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward	H.P. Lovecraft

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90. The Ballad of Black Tom (Victor Lavalle, 2016)
Tommy Tester is a scheming hack street musician who live in Harlem with his dad. Everything in his life changes when a storm of events converge around him. He meets a strange and eccentric old man named Robert Suydam who pulls him into an otherworldly conspiracy of cosmic horror. Meanwhile his father is gunned down by the police for something Tommy did which sends him on a perilously self-destructive path.
Man, this one was really good. This is a kind of re-imagining and elaboration on H.P. Lovecraft's notoriously racist "Horror at Red Hook" but rather than just following the police detective Malone, we follow and see the perspective of a black man who finds himself entangled in these events. Interestingly, while "Horror at Red Hook" was not a story that tied in with Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos, Lavalle is able to tie it in pretty cleverly while still referencing the events of the original story. This novella not only improves and fleshes out the one-dimensional racist caricatures of the original story but improves on the story in a few different ways, widening the scope and creating a very cool character in Tommy Tester. Lavalle's much more sparse, narrative-driven prose contributes positively as well, avoiding the overly flowery digressions Lovecraft is prone to at times. I definitely recommend checking this one out after reading "Horror at Red Hook".

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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
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
Ring	Koji Suzuki
Broken Monsters	Lauren Beukes
The Changeling	Victor LaValle
Dark Matter	Michelle Paver
HEX	Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Drowning Girl	Caitlin R. Kiernan
Pandemonium	Daryl Gregory
Frankenstein in Baghdad	Ahmed Saadawi
Last Days	Brian Evenson
Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill
The Snowman	Jo Nesbø
The Case Against Satan	Ray Russell
Night Film	Marissa Pessl
Drawing Blood	Poppy Z. Brite
The Last Werewolf	Glen Duncan
Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories	China Miéville
The Bad Seed	William March
The Walls Around Us	Nova Ren Suma
The Good House	Tananarive Due
Mr. Shivers	Robert Jackson Bennett
Hammers on Bone	Cassandra Khaw
Shutter	Courtney Alameda
Fiend: A Novel	Peter Stenson
The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction	Violet Kupersmith
Obscura	Joe Hart
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier
Rosemary's Baby	Ira Levin
Those Across the River	Christpher Buehlman
The Hunger	Alma Katsu
Let the Right One In	John Ajvide Lindqvist
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories	Mariana Enriquez
Feed	Mira Grant
The Other	Thomas Tryon
The Collector	John Fowles
Queen of the Damned	Anne Rice
World War Z	Max Brooks
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
Intensity	Dean Koontz
The Elementals	Michael McDowell
The Atrocity Archives	Charles Stross
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
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
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
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
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 Painted Bird	Jerzy Kosiński
The Pmrivate Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	James Hogg
Song of Kali	Dan Simmons
The Sheep Look Up	John Brunner
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 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
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
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
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
Lost Souls	Poppy Z. Brite
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
Some of Your Blood	Theodore Sturgeon
The Grotesque	Patrick McGrath
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 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
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
A Haunting Beauty	Charles Birkin
Year of the Sex Olympics: Three Television Plays	Nigel Kneale
Fancies and Goodnights	John Collier
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
Skin Folk	Nalo Hopkinson
Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice
Come Closer	Sara Gran
The Blind Owl	Sadegh Heydayat
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty
City of Glass	Paul Auster
The Devil in Silver	Victor LaValle
The Fisherman	John Langan
The Mask	Dean Koontz
Psycho	Robert Bloch
Gothic Tales	Elizabeth Gaskell
The Queen of Spades	Alexander Pushkin
NOS4A2: A Novel	Joe Hill
The Beauty	Aliya Whiteley
The Fifth Child	Doris Lessing
The Six-Gun Tarot	R.S. Belcher
Tales of Terror	Charles Higham
The Bloody Chamber	Angela Carter
The House on the Borderland	William Hope Hodgson
The Girl with All the Gifts	M.R. Carey
Experimental Film	Gemma Files
I Am Legend	Richard Matheson
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Horror Horn	E. F. Benson
Our Lady of Darkness	Fritz Lieber
The Killer Inside Me	Jim Thompson
Dark Forces	Edited by Kirby McCauley
Dread Nation	Justina Ireland
Mongrels: A Novel	Stephen Graham Jones
The Grip of It	Jac Jemc
The King in Yellow	Robert W. Chambers
The Woman In Black	Susan Hill
The Anubis Gates	Tim Powers
Pages from Cold Point	Paul Bowles
The Pet	Charles L. Grant
Swan Song	Robert McCammon
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories	Carmen Maria Machado
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Patrick Süskind
Parasite Eve	Hideaki Sena
The Lesser Dead	Christopher Buehlman
Fever Dream	Samanta Schweblin
Bird Box	Josh Malerman
Exquisite Corpse	Poppy Z. Brite
Rotters	Daniel Kraus
The Croning	Laird Barron
The Cellar	Richard Laymon
Collected Ghost Stories*	M.R. James
Nightshade	Derek Marlowe
The Vampire Lestat	Anne Rice
The Troop	Nick Cutter
White is for Witching	Helen Oyeyemi
The Haunted Omnibus	Edited by Alexander Laing
Through the Woods	Emily Carroll
Mythago Wood	Robert Holdstock
"All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts"	Sonya Taaffe
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
The Outsider, and Others	H.P. Lovecraft
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward	H.P. Lovecraft
The Ballad of Black Tom	Victor LaValle

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91. A Nest of Nightmares (Lisa Tuttle, 1986)
This delightfully twisted collection of mostly psychological horror stories is just great. It's rare to come across a short story collection, especially by a single author, that's solid front to back, and yet Lisa Tuttle brings us one right here. Tuttle has a strong grasp of succinct character building, knowing when to elaborate and develop the internal psyche of an individual and knowing when to keep moving. The pacing, often at a slow burn, is top notch with endings that are as often gut punches as they are slow twists of the knife. Her characters are people of sad, quiet desperation like in "The Nest" and "Flying to Byzantium" with stories that while not visceral are grim and sickening in their own ways. Others like "Bughouse" and "Sun City" are much more grotesque and blatant in their horrors. These two in particular actually remind me of Ramsey Campbell, which is definitely a good thing. Some of the stories like "The Other Mother" and "The Memory of Wood" plumb the depths of motherhood anxiety with ends that will tear out your insides if you're a parent.
Overall, this is an excellent collection of stories that I thoroughly enjoyed. While a handful of them are more pleasant diversions that outright brilliant, it's still rare to come across a tome this consistently good.

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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
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
Ring	Koji Suzuki
Broken Monsters	Lauren Beukes
The Changeling	Victor LaValle
Dark Matter	Michelle Paver
HEX	Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Drowning Girl	Caitlin R. Kiernan
Pandemonium	Daryl Gregory
Frankenstein in Baghdad	Ahmed Saadawi
Last Days	Brian Evenson
Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill
The Snowman	Jo Nesbø
The Case Against Satan	Ray Russell
Night Film	Marissa Pessl
Drawing Blood	Poppy Z. Brite
The Last Werewolf	Glen Duncan
Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories	China Miéville
The Bad Seed	William March
The Walls Around Us	Nova Ren Suma
The Good House	Tananarive Due
Mr. Shivers	Robert Jackson Bennett
Hammers on Bone	Cassandra Khaw
Shutter	Courtney Alameda
Fiend: A Novel	Peter Stenson
The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction	Violet Kupersmith
Obscura	Joe Hart
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier
Rosemary's Baby	Ira Levin
Those Across the River	Christpher Buehlman
The Hunger	Alma Katsu
Let the Right One In	John Ajvide Lindqvist
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories	Mariana Enriquez
Feed	Mira Grant
The Other	Thomas Tryon
The Collector	John Fowles
Queen of the Damned	Anne Rice
World War Z	Max Brooks
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
Intensity	Dean Koontz
The Elementals	Michael McDowell
The Atrocity Archives	Charles Stross
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
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
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
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
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 Painted Bird	Jerzy Kosiński
The Pmrivate Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	James Hogg
Song of Kali	Dan Simmons
The Sheep Look Up	John Brunner
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 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
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
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
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
Lost Souls	Poppy Z. Brite
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
Some of Your Blood	Theodore Sturgeon
The Grotesque	Patrick McGrath
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 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
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
A Haunting Beauty	Charles Birkin
Year of the Sex Olympics: Three Television Plays	Nigel Kneale
Fancies and Goodnights	John Collier
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
Skin Folk	Nalo Hopkinson
Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice
Come Closer	Sara Gran
The Blind Owl	Sadegh Heydayat
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty
City of Glass	Paul Auster
The Devil in Silver	Victor LaValle
The Fisherman	John Langan
The Mask	Dean Koontz
Psycho	Robert Bloch
Gothic Tales	Elizabeth Gaskell
The Queen of Spades	Alexander Pushkin
NOS4A2: A Novel	Joe Hill
The Beauty	Aliya Whiteley
The Fifth Child	Doris Lessing
The Six-Gun Tarot	R.S. Belcher
Tales of Terror	Charles Higham
The Bloody Chamber	Angela Carter
The House on the Borderland	William Hope Hodgson
The Girl with All the Gifts	M.R. Carey
Experimental Film	Gemma Files
I Am Legend	Richard Matheson
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Horror Horn	E. F. Benson
Our Lady of Darkness	Fritz Lieber
The Killer Inside Me	Jim Thompson
Dark Forces	Edited by Kirby McCauley
Dread Nation	Justina Ireland
Mongrels: A Novel	Stephen Graham Jones
The Grip of It	Jac Jemc
The King in Yellow	Robert W. Chambers
The Woman In Black	Susan Hill
The Anubis Gates	Tim Powers
Pages from Cold Point	Paul Bowles
The Pet	Charles L. Grant
Swan Song	Robert McCammon
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories	Carmen Maria Machado
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Patrick Süskind
Parasite Eve	Hideaki Sena
The Lesser Dead	Christopher Buehlman
Fever Dream	Samanta Schweblin
Bird Box	Josh Malerman
Exquisite Corpse	Poppy Z. Brite
Rotters	Daniel Kraus
The Croning	Laird Barron
The Cellar	Richard Laymon
Collected Ghost Stories*	M.R. James
Nightshade	Derek Marlowe
The Vampire Lestat	Anne Rice
The Troop	Nick Cutter
White is for Witching	Helen Oyeyemi
The Haunted Omnibus	Edited by Alexander Laing
Through the Woods	Emily Carroll
Mythago Wood	Robert Holdstock
"All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts"	Sonya Taaffe
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories	H.P. Lovecraft
The Outsider, and Others	H.P. Lovecraft
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward	H.P. Lovecraft
The Ballad of Black Tom	Victor LaValle

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Shameless promotion: Valancourt's edition of Tuttle's The Dead Hours of Night just made the preliminary ballot for this year's Bram Stoker Awards. I haven't read it yet, but it might make for a nice follow-up for you...

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Shameless promotion: Valancourt's edition of Tuttle's The Dead Hours of Night just made the preliminary ballot for this year's Bram Stoker Awards. I haven't read it yet, but it might make for a nice follow-up for you...

I'm actually super excited that Valancourt is releasing Karl Edward Wagner's In A Lonely Place this year. That's one of the few books on the big horror list I'm working through that just doesn't seem accessible with it being super out of print and expensive online.

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92. A Sight for Sore Eyes (Ruth Rendell, 1998)
Teddy is an emotionally detached young man who grew up in a shit household with neglectful parents. He admires things a great deal but has never cared much for people, that is, until he espies Francine. Francine is a doe-eyed, sheltered young woman who lives with her father and smothering stepmother Julia. Francine was once traumatized from seeing her mother's murder, and Julia has kept her incredibly close to the vest ever since then. Harriet is an aging beauty living in a luxurious, expansive mansion with a distant and detached husband who has grown tired of her and vice versa. How does she factor into the proceedings? Suffice it to say, Teddy is willing to go a long way to get the things he wants.
Oooh.... I liked this one a lot. Rendell is perhaps most well-known for her series of Inspector Wexford mysteries, but in between those, she has been known to put out some dark and nasty little thrillers like this one. The book certainly takes it time in building the characters and setting pieces in motion so gradually you don't even notice until it all comes colliding together into a damn near perfect and devilishly twisted ending. While there are certainly aspects of this that could have been cut down on, particularly in the back story of some of the characters that ultimately don't play that major a role in the pivotal events of the book, it still becomes quite engrossing and as it goes on with a strong sense of character motivation and rationale. While it's hard to tell what Rendell's intentions were here, I really think the final act of the book has an incredibly dark sense of humor to it in how neat and tidy the little coincidences pile up. Definitely recommended if you like a grimdark character study that takes its time.

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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
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
Ring	Koji Suzuki
Broken Monsters	Lauren Beukes
The Changeling	Victor LaValle
HEX	Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Drowning Girl	Caitlin R. Kiernan
Pandemonium	Daryl Gregory
Frankenstein in Baghdad	Ahmed Saadawi
Last Days	Brian Evenson
Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill
The Snowman	Jo Nesbø
The Case Against Satan	Ray Russell
Night Film	Marissa Pessl
Drawing Blood	Poppy Z. Brite
The Last Werewolf	Glen Duncan
Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories	China Miéville
The Bad Seed	William March
The Walls Around Us	Nova Ren Suma
The Good House	Tananarive Due
Mr. Shivers	Robert Jackson Bennett
Hammers on Bone	Cassandra Khaw
Shutter	Courtney Alameda
Fiend: A Novel	Peter Stenson
The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction	Violet Kupersmith
Obscura	Joe Hart
Rebecca