Jones & Newman's "Horror: 100 Best Books"

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From the 1988 book Horror: 100 Best Books edited by Stephen Jones & Kim Newman. It’s a collection of essays by “leading horror writers” about their nominations for best horror stories/novels. This is a list of their choices.

The list is chronological by date of publication.

If you’re looking for more, there’s also a Recommended Reading List http://www.listsofbests.com/list/29606 at the back of the book – books that didn’t make the top 100 but that the editors and contributors consider important to the genre. There’s also a follow-up book, Horror: Another 100 Best Books, which I’ve made of list of here: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/35260.

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  1. 1.
    Tragical History of Dr. Faustus (Great Plays of the Millennium)
    by Christopher Marlowe

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  2. 2.
    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  3. 3.
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    The White Devil (1612)
    by John Webster

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  4. 4.
    Caleb Williams
    by William Godwin

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  5. 5.
    The Monk (Penguin Classics)
    by Matthew Lewis

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  6. 6.
    The Best Tales of Hoffmann
    by E. T. A. Hoffmann

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  7. 7.
    Northanger Abbey (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  8. 8.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  9. 9.
    Melmoth the Wanderer (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Maturin

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  10. 11.
    Tales of Mystery and Imagination
    by Edgar Allen Poe

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  11. 12.
    Twice-told Tales
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  12. 13.
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    The Black Spider
    by Jeremias Gotthelf

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  13. 14.
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    The Wandering Jew
    by Eugene Sue

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  14. 15.
    Confidence-man: His Masquerade
    by Herman Melville

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  15. 16.
    Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Hugh (Penguin Classics)
    by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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  16. 18.
    She (Oxford World's Classics)
    by H. Rider Haggard

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  17. 19.
    The King In Yellow
    by Robert W. Chambers

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  18. 20.
    The Island Of Dr. Moreau
    by H. G. WELLS

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  19. 21.
    Bram Stoker's Dracula
    by Bram Stoker

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  20. 22.
    The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Henry James

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  21. 23.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph Conrad

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  22. 24.
    The Jewel Of Seven Stars
    by Bram Stoker

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  23. 25.
    Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
    by M. R. James

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  24. 26.
    The House of Souls
    by Arthur Machen

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  25. 27.
    John Silence, a Physician Extraordinary
    by Algernon Blackwood

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  26. 28.
    The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
    by Gilbert, Keith Chesterton

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  27. 29.
    The House on the Borderland
    by William Hope Hodgson

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  28. 30.
    The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce
    by Ambrose Bierce

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  29. 31.
    Widdershins
    by Oliver Onions

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  30. 32.
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    The Horror Horn: The Best Horror Stories of E.F. Benson
    by E.F. Benson (Alexis Lykiard, ed.)

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  31. 33.
    A Voyage to Arcturus
    by David Lindsay

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  32. 34.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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  33. 35.
    Something About Eve
    by James Branch Cabell

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    Medusa
    by E. H. Visiak

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  35. 37.
    The Werewolf Of Paris
    by Guy Endore

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  36. 38.
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    The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales
    by Marjorie Bowen

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  37. 39.
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    The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck
    by Alexander Laing

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  38. 40.
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    A Second Century of Creepy Stories
    by Sir Hugh Walpole (ed.)

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  39. 41.
    The Dark Tower and Other Stories
    by C.S. Lewis

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  40. 42.
    Johnny Got His Gun
    by Dalton Trumbo

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    The Outsider, and Others
    by H.P. Lovecraft

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  42. 44.
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    Out of Space and Time
    by Clark Ashton Smith

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  43. 45.
    Conjure Wife
    by Fritz Leiber

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  44. 46.
    Night Has a Thousand Eyes: a novel of suspense
    by Cornell Woolrich

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  45. 47.
    The Lurker at the Threshold
    by H. P. Lovecraft

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  46. 48.
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    Deliver Me from Eva
    by Paul Bailey

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  47. 49.
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    And the Darkness Falls
    by Boris Karloff

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  48. 50.
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    The Sleeping and the Dead: Fifteen Uncanny Tales
    by August Derleth (ed.)

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Comments

mark
Randolph

version — 36 weeks ago

does it count if you didn’t read the version listed? for dr jekyll and mr. hyde , i don’t think i read that paticular book but i did read it.


mark
Randolph

fantasy — 36 weeks ago

i noticed alot of these books on the top 100 list for fantasy and some for sci fi.


Painted Bird — 1 year ago

Sorry, all – I just noticed I had the wrong name for the author of The Painted Bird (#62), so I changed the edition.