Jones & Newman, Horror: 100 Best Books
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In the manner of Pringle's volumes and the fantasy volume by Cawthorn and Moorcock, this book has 1-2 page essays on 100 titles, though in this volume Jones and Newman are editors, not writers, and the essays are by a wide range of contributors, including Clive Barker, Brian W. Aldiss, Terry Pratchett, Thomas M. Disch, Jack Williamson, Gene Wolfe, Harlan Ellison, and many others.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 100
Publication: Carroll & Graf, 1988
Compile Notes
The 100 main titles are compiled here, and listed below. The book also includes an extensive recommended reading list at the end, not yet compiled.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 100
Publication: Carroll & Graf, 1988
Compile Notes
The 100 main titles are compiled here, and listed below. The book also includes an extensive recommended reading list at the end, not yet compiled.
- Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor (Hamish Hamilton, 1985)
- Robert Aickman, Sub Rosa (Gollancz, 1968)
- Kingsley Amis, The Green Man (Cape, 1969)
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (John Murray, 1817)
- Paul Bailey, Deliver Me from Eva (Murray & Gee, 1946)
- J. G. Ballard, The Crystal World (Jonathan Cape, 1966)
- Iain M. Banks, The Wasp Factory (Macmillan, 1984)
- Clive Barker, The Damnation Game (Weidenfeld & Nicolson , 1985)
- E. F. Benson, The Horror Horn (Panther, 1974)
- Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (Neale Publishing, 1909-1912)
- Michael Bishop, Who Made Stevie Crye? (Arkham House, 1984)
- Algernon Blackwood, John Silence (Richards Press, 1942)
- William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist (Harper & Row, 1971)
- Robert Bloch, Psycho (Simon & Schuster, 1959)
- Anthony Boucher, The Compleat Werewolf and Other Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Simon & Schuster , 1969)
- Marjorie Bowen, The Last Bouquet (The Bodley Head, 1933)
- Ray Bradbury, The October Country (Ballantine, 1955)
- Joseph Payne Brennan, Nine Horrors and a Dream (Arkham House, 1958)
- John Brunner, The Sheep Look Up (Harper & Row, 1972)
- James Branch Cabell, Something About Eve (Robert M McBride, 1927)
- Ramsey Campbell, Dark Feasts (Robinson, 1987)
- Jonathan Carroll, The Land of Laughs (Viking, 1980)
- Hugh B. Cave, Murgunstrumm and Others (Carcosa House, 1977)
- Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow (Neely, 1895)
- G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday (Arrowsmith, 1908)
- Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Track of the Cat (Random House, 1949)
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Gresham, 1925)
- August Derleth, ed., The Sleeping and the Dead (Pellegrini Cudahy, 1947)
- Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Doubleday, 1965)
- Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories (Harper & Row, 1975)
- Guy Endore, The Werewolf of Paris (Farrar and Rinehart, 1933)
- Dennis Etchison, The Dark Country (Scream/Press , 1982)
- John Farris, All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By (Playboy, 1977)
- John Gardner, Grendel (Knopf , 1971)
- William Godwin, Caleb Williams (-, 1794)
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies (Faber and Faber, 1954)
- Jeremias Gotthelf, Die Schwarze Spinne [The Black Spider] (1842)
- Charles L. Grant, The Pet (Tor , 1986)
- H. Rider Haggard, She (Harper and Bros, 1886)
- Thomas Harris, Red Dragon (Putnam, 1981)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales (American Stationers Co, 1837)
- William Hjortsberg, Falling Angel (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978)
- William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland (Chapman & Hall, 1908)
- E. T. A. Hoffmann, edited by Everett F. Bleiler, The Best Tales of Hoffman (Dover, 1967)
- James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner ([unknown], 1824)
- Robert Holdstock, Mythago Wood (Gollancz, 1984)
- Robert Irwin, The Arabian Nightmare (Dedalus, 1983)
- Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (Viking, 1959)
- Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (Heinemann, 1898)
- M. R. James, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (Edward Arnold, 1904)
- Franz Kafka, The Trial (Gollancz, 1937; Germany 1925)
- Boris Karloff, ed., And the Darkness Falls (World, 1946)
- Stephen King, ' Salem's Lot (Doubleday, 1975)
- Stephen King, The Shining (Doubleday , 1977)
- T. E. D. Klein, The Ceremonies (Viking , 1984)
- Nigel Kneale, Quatermass and the Pit (Penguin, 1960)
- Jerzy Kosinski, The Painted Bird (Houghton Mifflin, 1965)
- Alexander Laing, The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck (Farrar and Rinehart, 1934)
- Richard Laymon, The Cellar (Warner, 1980)
- J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas (Richard Bentley, 1864)
- Fritz Leiber, Conjure Wife (Twayne, 1953)
- C. S. Lewis, The Dark Tower and Other Stories (Collins, 1977)
- Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk (unknown, 1796)
- David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus (Methuen , 1920)
- H. P. Lovecraft, Cry Horror! (Avon, 1958)
- H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth, The Lurker at the Threshold (Arkham House, 1945)
- H. P. Lovecraft, The Outsider and Others (Arkham House, 1939)
- Arthur Machen, The House of Souls (E Grant Richards, 1906)
- Robert Marasco, Burnt Offerings (Delacorte, 1973)
- Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (unknown, 1592)
- Richard Matheson, I Am Legend (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1954)
- Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer (Hurst, Robinson, 1820)
- Robert R. McCammon, Swan Song (Pocket , 1987)
- Herman Melville, The Confidence Man (Dix and Edwards, 1857)
- David Morrell, The Totem (M. Evans, 1979)
- Oliver Onions, Widdershins (Martin Secker, 1911)
- Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Henry Vizetelly, 1852)
- Tim Powers, The Anubis Gates (Ace, 1983)
- Sarban, The Sound of His Horn (Peter Davies, 1952)
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth (--, 1606)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Lackington Hughes, 1818)
- Dan Simmons, Song of Kali (Bluejay, 1985)
- Clark Ashton Smith, Out of Space and Time (Arkham House, 1942)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (George Munro, 1886)
- Bram Stoker, Dracula (Constable , 1897)
- Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars (William Heinemann, 1903)
- Peter Straub, Ghost Story (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979)
- Whitley Strieber, The Wolfen (Morrow, 1978)
- Eugene Sue, The Wandering Jew (Chapman & Hall , 1844-5)
- Bernard Taylor, Sweetheart, Sweetheart (Souvenir Press, 1977)
- Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun (Lippincott, 1939)
- Lisa Tuttle, A Nest of Nightmares (Sphere, 1986)
- E. H. Visiak, Medusa (Gollancz, 1929)
- Karl Edward Wagner, In a Lonely Place (Warner, 1983)
- Hugh Walpole, ed., A Second Century of Creepy Stories (Hutchinson, 1937)
- John Webster, The White Devil (--, 1612)
- Manly Wade Wellman, Worse Things Waiting (Carcosa, 1973)
- H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau (Heinemann , 1896)
- F. Paul Wilson, The Keep (Morrow , 1981)
- Cornell Woolrich, Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Farrar & Rinehart, 1945)
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