Neil Barron, Fantasy and Horror
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Subtitled, "A Critical and Historical Guide to Literature, Illustration, Film, TV, Radio, and the Internet", this is a massive reference work with numerous contributors analogous to Barron's science fiction volume Anatomy of Wonder, which ran to five editions. The central section, "The Primary Literature", consists of short descriptions of several thousand titles from 1762 to 1998, arranged by period, from annotators including Brian Stableford and Stefan Dziemianowicz.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 877
Publication: book, 1999
Compile Notes
Compiled in this database (so far) are titles published from 1950 and later, drawn from two sections on horror and fantasy that cover that period. In addition, a section of "best books" listings (p657ff) identify those titles with one or two stars, identifying first-purchase and most essential books. Listed below are the two-star titles, most essential; though note that in several cases books all books in a series are granted two stars based on text descriptions within main entries of the first series title. Additional titles are listed here -->.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 877
Publication: book, 1999
Compile Notes
Compiled in this database (so far) are titles published from 1950 and later, drawn from two sections on horror and fantasy that cover that period. In addition, a section of "best books" listings (p657ff) identify those titles with one or two stars, identifying first-purchase and most essential books. Listed below are the two-star titles, most essential; though note that in several cases books all books in a series are granted two stars based on text descriptions within main entries of the first series title. Additional titles are listed here -->.
- Richard Adams, Watership Down (Rex Collings, 1972)
- Robert Aickman, Cold Hand in Mine (Gollancz, 1975)
- Clive Barker, Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Vols. I-III (Sphere, 1984)
- Charles Beaumont, Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories (Dark Harvest, 1988)
- John Bellairs, The House with a Clock in Its Walls (Dial, 1973)
- William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist (Harper & Row, 1971)
- James Blish, Black Easter (Doubleday, 1968)
- James Blish, The Day After Judgment (Doubleday, 1971)
- Robert Bloch, Psycho (Simon & Schuster, 1959)
- Ray Bradbury, The Stories of Ray Bradbury (Knopf, 1980)
- Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (Harper & Row, 1967; France 1967)
- Ramsey Campbell, Demons by Daylight (Arkham House, 1973)
- Ramsey Campbell, Incarnate (Macmillan, 1983)
- Angela Carter, Burning Your Boats (Chatto & Windus, 1995)
- John Collier, The John Collier Reader (Knopf, 1972)
- Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising (Atheneum , 1973)
- Susan Cooper, Greenwitch (Atheneum, 1974)
- Susan Cooper, The Grey King (Atheneum, 1975)
- Susan Cooper, Over Sea, Under Stone (Cape, 1965)
- Susan Cooper, Silver on the Tree (Atheneum , 1977)
- Stephen R. Donaldson, The Illearth War (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1977)
- Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1977)
- Stephen R. Donaldson, The One Tree (Ballantine Del Rey, 1982)
- Stephen R. Donaldson, The Power that Preserves (Holt, Rinehart & Winston , 1977)
- Stephen R. Donaldson, White Gold Wielder (Ballantine Del Rey, 1983)
- Stephen R. Donaldson, The Wounded Land (Ballantine Del Rey, 1980)
- Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories (Harper & Row, 1975)
- Harlan Ellison, ed by Terry Dowling with Richard Delap and Gil Lamont, The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective (The Nemo Press, 1987)
- Dennis Etchison, The Dark Country (Scream/Press , 1982)
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies (Faber and Faber, 1954)
- Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs (St. Martin's, 1988)
- James Herbert, The Fog (NEL, 1975)
- Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (Viking, 1959)
- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (Epstein & Carroll, 1961)
- Stephen King, The Shining (Doubleday , 1977)
- Stephen King, Skeleton Crew (Putnam, 1985)
- Stephen King, The Stand (Doubleday, 1978)
- T. E. D. Klein, Dark Gods (Viking, 1984)
- Fritz Leiber, Our Lady of Darkness (Berkley-Putnam, 1977)
- Fritz Leiber, Swords Against Death (Ace, 1970)
- Fritz Leiber, Swords Against Wizardry (Ace, 1968)
- Fritz Leiber, Swords and Deviltry (Ace, 1970)
- Fritz Leiber, Swords and Ice Magic (Ace, 1977)
- Fritz Leiber, Swords in the Mist (Ace, 1968)
- Fritz Leiber, The Swords of Lankhmar (Ace, 1968)
- Thomas Ligotti, Songs of a Dead Dreamer (Robinson, 1989)
- Richard Matheson, Richard Matheson: Collected Stories (Dream/Press, 1989)
- Robert R. McCammon, Usher's Passing (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984)
- Joyce Carol Oates, Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (Dutton, 1994)
- Philip Pullman, Northern Lights (Scholastic, 1995)
- Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife (Scholastic, 1997)
- Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (Knopf , 1976)
- Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat (Knopf, 1985)
- Alan Ryan, Cast a Cold Eye (Tor, 1984)
- David J. Schow, Seeing Red (Tor, 1990)
- Lucius Shepard, The Jaguar Hunter (Arkham House, 1987)
- Peter Straub, Ghost Story (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (series, 1954-1955)
- Thomas Tryon, The Other (Knopf, 1971)
- Chet Williamson, Ash Wednesday (Tor, 1987)
- Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator (Simon & Schuster/Timescape, 1981)
- Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer (Simon & Schuster, 1980)
- Gene Wolfe, The Sword of the Lictor (Timescape, 1982)
- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun (Gollancz, 1987)
- Jane Yolen, The Devil's Arithmetic (Viking Kestrel, 1988)
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