Horror: The 100 Best Books

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First published in 1988, Horror: The 100 Best Books has remained the only book of its kind: a solid (and entertaining) annotated reading list spanning the range of horror fiction from the 16th to the näytä lisää 20th century. The device of asking 100 horror, fantasy, and science fiction writers to write about their favorite horror books might seem at first to capture an idiosyncratic sample, but through diplomacy and diligence, editors Stephen Jones and Kim Newman succeeded in obtaining short essays on most (if not all) of the well-known classics, as well as many more lesser-knowns that are well worth discovering. näytä vähemmän
Year Awarded:
1988
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Hawksmoor : romaani (1985) (tekijä: Peter Ackroyd)
Sub Rosa: Strange Tales (1968) (tekijä: Robert Aickman)
The Green Man (1969) (tekijä: Kingsley Amis)
Neito vanhassa linnassa (1817) (tekijä: Jane Austen)
Deliver Me From Eva (1946) (tekijä: Paul Bailey)
The Crystal World (1966) (tekijä: J. G. Ballard)
Ampiaistehdas (1984) (tekijä: Iain Banks)
Kadotuksen peli (1985) (tekijä: Clive Barker)
Horror Horn (1974) (tekijä: E. F. Benson)
The collected works of Ambrose Bierce (1966) (tekijä: Ambrose Bierce)
Who Made Stevie Crye? (1984) (tekijä: Michael Bishop)
John Silence, Physician Extraordinary (1908) (tekijä: Algernon Blackwood)
Manaaja (1971) (tekijä: William Peter Blatty)
Psyko (1959) (tekijä: Robert Bloch)
The Compleat Werewolf and Other Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1969) (tekijä: Anthony Boucher)
The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales (2009) (tekijä: Marjorie Bowen)
Lokakuun maa (1955) (tekijä: Ray Bradbury)
Nine Horrors and a Dream (1958) (tekijä: Joseph Payne Brennan)
The Sheep Look Up (1972) (tekijä: John Brunner)
Something about Eve : a comedy of fig-leaves (1927) (tekijä: James Branch Cabell)
Dark Feasts: The World of Ramsey Campbell (1987) (tekijä: Ramsey Campbell)
Naurujen maa (1980) (tekijä: Jonathan Carroll)
Murgunstrumm and Others (1977) (tekijä: Hugh B. Cave)
Keltainen kuningas (1895) (tekijä: Robert W. Chambers)
Mies joka oli Torstaina : painajainen (1908) (tekijä: G. K. Chesterton)
The Track of the Cat (1949) (tekijä: Walter Van Tilburg Clark)
Pimeyden sydän (1899) (tekijä: Joseph Conrad)
The Sleeping and the Dead (1963) (tekijä: August Derleth)
Palmer Eldritch - kolmasti merkitty mies (1964) (tekijä: Philip K. Dick)
Deathbird Stories (1975) (tekijä: Harlan Ellison)
The Werewolf of Paris (1933) (tekijä: Guy Endore)
The Dark Country (1982) (tekijä: Dennis Etchison)
All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By (1977) (tekijä: John Farris)
Grendel (1971) (tekijä: John Gardner)
Caleb Williams (1794) (tekijä: William Godwin)
Kärpästen herra (1954) (tekijä: William Golding)
The Black Spider (1842) (tekijä: Jeremias Gotthelf)
The Pet (1986) (tekijä: Charles L. Grant)
Kuolematon kuningatar (1886) (tekijä: H. Rider Haggard)
Punainen lohikäärme (1981) (tekijä: Thomas Harris)
Twice-Told Tales (1837) (tekijä: Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Falling Angel (1978) (tekijä: William Hjortsberg)
Kauhujen talo (1908) (tekijä: William Hope Hodgson)
Tales of Hoffmann (1814) (tekijä: E. T. A. Hoffmann)
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) (tekijä: James Hogg)
Alkumetsä (1984) (tekijä: Robert Holdstock)
Tuhannen ja yhden yön painajainen (1985) (tekijä: Robert Irwin)
The Haunting of Hill House (1959) (tekijä: Shirley Jackson)
The Turn of the Screw (1898) (tekijä: Henry James)
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) (tekijä: M. R. James)
Oikeusjuttu (1925) (tekijä: Franz Kafka)
And the Darkness Falls (1946) (tekijä: Boris Karloff)
Hohto (1977) (tekijä: Stephen King)
Painajainen (1975) (tekijä: Stephen King)
The Ceremonies (1984) (tekijä: T. E. D. Klein)
Quatermass and the Pit (1960) (tekijä: Nigel Kneale)
The Painted Bird (1965) (tekijä: Jerzy Kosiński)
The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck (1942) (tekijä: Alexander Laing)
The Cellar (1980) (tekijä: Richard Laymon)
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (1864) (tekijä: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)
Conjure Wife (1953) (tekijä: Fritz Leiber)
The Dark Tower and Other Stories (1977) (tekijä: C. S. Lewis)
Munkki (1796) (tekijä: Matthew Lewis)
A Voyage to Arcturus (1920) (tekijä: David Lindsay)
Kauhun kynnys (1945) (tekijä: H. P. Lovecraft)
The Lurking Fear and Other Stories (1971) (tekijä: H. P. Lovecraft)
The Outsider, and Others (1939) (tekijä: H. P. Lovecraft)
The House of Souls (1922) (tekijä: Arthur Machen)
Burnt Offerings (1973) (tekijä: Robert Marasco)
Doctor Faustus (1601) (tekijä: Christopher Marlowe)
Olen legenda (1954) (tekijä: Richard Matheson)
Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) (tekijä: Charles Maturin)
Swan Song (1987) (tekijä: Robert R. McCammon)
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857) (tekijä: Herman Melville)
The Totem (1979) (tekijä: David Morrell)
Widdershins (1911) (tekijä: Oliver Onions)
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1832) (tekijä: Edgar Allan Poe)
The Anubis Gates (1983) (tekijä: Tim Powers)
The Sound of His Horn (1952) (tekijä: Sarban)
Macbeth (1606) (tekijä: William Shakespeare)
Frankenstein (1818) (tekijä: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Kalin laulu (1985) (tekijä: Dan Simmons)
Out of Space and Time (1942) (tekijä: Clark Ashton Smith)
Tohtori Jekyll ja herra Hyde (1886) (tekijä: Robert Louis Stevenson)
Dracula (1897) (tekijä: Bram Stoker)
The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903) (tekijä: Bram Stoker)
Kummitusjuttu (1979) (tekijä: Peter Straub)
The Wolfen (1978) (tekijä: Whitley Strieber)
VAELTAVA JUUTALAINEN 1 (1892) (tekijä: Eugène Sue)
Sweetheart, Sweetheart (1977) (tekijä: Bernard Taylor)
Sotilaspoika (1939) (tekijä: Dalton Trumbo)
A Nest of Nightmares (1986) (tekijä: Lisa Tuttle)
Medusa : a Story of Mystery, and Ecstasy & Strange Horror (1946) (tekijä: E. H. Visiak)
In a Lonely Place (1983) (tekijä: Karl Edward Wagner)
The Second Century of Creepy Stories (1937) (tekijä: Sir Hugh Walpole)
The White Devil (1612) (tekijä: John Webster)
Worse Things Waiting (1973) (tekijä: Manly Wade Wellman)
Tohtori Moreaun saari (1896) (tekijä: H. G. Wells)
The Keep (1981) (tekijä: F. Paul Wilson)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1945) (tekijä: Cornell Woolrich)

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First published in 1988, Horror: The 100 Best Books has remained the only book of its kind: a solid (and entertaining) annotated reading list spanning the range of horror fiction from the 16th to the 20th century. The device of asking 100 horror, fantasy, and science fiction writers to write about their favorite horror books might seem at first to capture an idiosyncratic sample, but through diplomacy and diligence, editors Stephen Jones and Kim Newman succeeded in obtaining short essays on most (if not all) of the well-known classics, as well as many more lesser-knowns that are well worth discovering. (English, Member-written)

Has the follow-up: Horror: Another 100 Best Books

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