Stephen King, Danse Macabre
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King's analysis of the horror genre includes appendices of films and books from the period (1950-1980) covered by the book.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 110
Publication: Everest House, 1981
Compile Notes
Compiled are the 110 titles listed in Appendix 2.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 110
Publication: Everest House, 1981
Compile Notes
Compiled are the 110 titles listed in Appendix 2.
- Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs (Lane & Collings, 1977)
- Richard Adams, Watership Down (Rex Collings, 1972)
- Robert Aickman, Cold Hand in Mine (Gollancz, 1975)
- Robert Aickman, Painted Devils (Scribner's, 1979)
- Marcel Ayme, The Walker-through-Walls (Berkley Medallion, 1962)
- Beryl Bainbridge, Harriet Said... (Duckworth, 1972)
- J. G. Ballard, Concrete Island (Jonathan Cape, 1974)
- J. G. Ballard, High-Rise (Jonathan Cape, 1975)
- Charles Beaumont, The Hunger (Putnam's, 1957)
- Charles Beaumont, The Magic Man and Other Fantasy Stories (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1965)
- Robert Bloch, Pleasant Dreams (Arkham House, 1960)
- Robert Bloch, Psycho (Simon & Schuster, 1959)
- Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine (Doubleday, 1957)
- Ray Bradbury, The October Country (Ballantine, 1955)
- Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes (Simon & Schuster, 1962)
- Joseph Payne Brennan, The Shapes of Midnight (Berkley, 1980)
- Fredric Brown, Nightmares and Geezenstacks (Bantam, 1961)
- Edward Bryant, Among the Dead (Macmillan, 1973)
- Janet Caird, The Loch (Geoffrey Bles, 1968)
- Ramsey Campbell, Demons by Daylight (Arkham House, 1973)
- Ramsey Campbell, The Doll Who Ate His Mother (Bobbs-Merrill, 1976)
- Ramsey Campbell, The Parasite (Macmillan , 1980)
- Suzy McKee Charnas, The Vampire Tapestry (Simon & Schuster, 1980)
- Julio Cortazar, The End of the Game and Other Stories (Random House, 1967)
- Harry Crews, A Feast of Snakes (Secker & Warburg, 1977)
- Roald Dahl, Kiss Kiss (Knopf, 1960)
- Roald Dahl, Someone Like You (Knopf, 1953)
- Les Daniels, The Black Castle (Scribner's, 1978)
- Stephen R. Donaldson, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever (series, 1977)
- Daphne du Maurier, Don't Look Now (Doubleday, 1966)
- Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories (Harper & Row, 1975)
- Harlan Ellison, Strange Wine (Harper & Row, 1978)
- John Farris, All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By (Playboy, 1977)
- Charles G. Finney, The Ghosts of Manacle (Pyramid, 1964)
- Jack Finney, The Body Snatchers (Dell, 1955)
- Jack Finney, I Love Galesburg in the Springtime (Simon & Schuster, 1963)
- Jack Finney, The Third Level (Rinehart, 1957)
- Jack Finney, Time and Again (Simon & Schuster, 1970)
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (In Spanish, 1967; Harper & Row, 1970)
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies (Faber and Faber, 1954)
- Edward Gorey, Amphigorey (Putnam, 1972)
- Edward Gorey, Amphigorey Too (Putnam, 1975)
- Charles L. Grant, The Hour of the Oxrun Dead (Doubleday , 1977)
- Charles L. Grant, The Sound of Midnight (Doubleday , 1978)
- Davis Grubb, Twelve Tales of Horror (Scribner's, 1964)
- William H. Hallahan, The Keeper of the Children (Morrow, 1978)
- William H. Hallahan, The Search for Joseph Tully (Bobbs-Merrill, 1974)
- James Herbert, The Fog (NEL, 1975)
- James Herbert, The Spear (NEL, 1980)
- James Herbert, The Survivor (NEL, 1976)
- William Hjortsberg, Falling Angel (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978)
- Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (Viking, 1959)
- Shirley Jackson, The Lottery and Other Stories (Modern Library, 2000)
- Shirley Jackson, The Sundial (Farra, Starus, 1958)
- Gerald Kersh, Men Without Bones (Heinemann, 1962)
- Russell Kirk, The Princess of All Lands (Arkham House, 1979)
- Nigel Kneale, Tomato Caine and Other Stories (Collins, 1949)
- Jerzy Kosinski, The Painted Bird (Houghton Mifflin, 1965)
- William Kotzwinkle, Doctor Rat (Knopf, 1976)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven (Scribner's, 1971)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, Orsinian Tales (Harper & Row, 1976)
- Fritz Leiber, Our Lady of Darkness (Berkley-Putnam, 1977)
- Ira Levin, Rosemary's Baby (Random House, 1967)
- Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives (Random House , 1972)
- John D. MacDonald, The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1962)
- Bernard Malamud, The Magic Barrel (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1958)
- Bernard Malamud, The Natural (Harcourt Brace, 1952)
- Robert Marasco, Burnt Offerings (Delacorte, 1973)
- Richard Matheson, Hell House (Viking, 1971)
- Richard Matheson, I Am Legend (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1954)
- Richard Matheson, Shock II (Dell, 1964)
- Richard Matheson, The Shrinking Man (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1956)
- Richard Matheson, A Stir of Echoes (Lippincott, 1958)
- Michael McDowell, The Amulet (Avon, 1979)
- Michael McDowell, Cold Moon Over Babylon (Avon, 1980)
- John Metcalf, The Feasting Dead (Arkham House, 1954)
- Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn (Chatto & Windus, 1963)
- Joyce Carol Oates, Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (Vanguard, 1977)
- Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Harcourt, Brace, 1955)
- Mervyn Peake, The Gormenghast Trilogy (series, 1946-1959)
- Thomas Pynchon, V. (Lippincott, 1963)
- Edogawa Rampo, Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Charles E Tuttle, 1956)
- Jean Ray, Ghouls in My Grave (Berkley Medallion, 1965)
- Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (Knopf , 1976)
- Philip Roth, The Breast (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972)
- Ray Russell, Sardonicus and Other Stories (Ballantine, 1961)
- Joan Samson, The Auctioneer (Simon and Schuster, 1975)
- William Sansom, The Stories of William Sansom (Little, Brown, 1963)
- Sarban, Ringstones and other Curious Tales (Peter Davies, 1951)
- Sarban, The Sound of His Horn (Peter Davies, 1952)
- Anne Rivers Siddons, The House Next Door (Simon & Schuster, 1978)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Séance and Other Stories (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968)
- Martin Cruz Smith, Nightwing (Norton, 1977)
- Peter Straub, Ghost Story (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979)
- Peter Straub, If You Could See Me Now (Jonathan Cape, 1977)
- Peter Straub, Julia (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979)
- Peter Straub, Shadow Land (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1980)
- Theodore Sturgeon, Caviar (Ballantine, 1955)
- Theodore Sturgeon, The Dreaming Jewels (Greenberg, 1950)
- Theodore Sturgeon, Some of Your Blood (Ballantine, 1961)
- Thomas Tessier, The Nightwalker (Atheneum, 1980)
- Paul Theroux, The Black House (Hamish Hamilton, 1974)
- Thomas Tryon, The Other (Knopf, 1971)
- Les Whitten, Progeny of the Adder (Doubleday, 1965)
- Thomas Williams, Tsuga's Children (Random House, 1977)
- Gahan Wilson, I Paint What I See (Simon and Schuster, 1971)
- T. M. Wright, Strange Seed (Everest House, 1978)
- John Wyndham, The Chrysalids (Michael Joseph, 1955)
- John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids (Doubleday, 1951)
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