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
  2. 2.
    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  3. 3.
    ?
    The White Devil (1612)
    by John Webster
  4. 4.
    Caleb Williams
    by William Godwin
  5. 5.
    The Monk (Penguin Classics)
    by Matthew Lewis
  6. 6.
    The Best Tales of Hoffmann
    by E. T. A. Hoffmann
  7. 7.
    Northanger Abbey (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  8. 8.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley
  9. 9.
    Melmoth the Wanderer (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Maturin
  11. 11.
    Tales of Mystery and Imagination
    by Edgar Allen Poe
  12. 12.
    Twice-told Tales
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  13. 13.
    ?
    The Black Spider
    by Jeremias Gotthelf
  14. 14.
    ?
    The Wandering Jew
    by Eugene Sue
  15. 15.
    The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
    by Herman Melville
  16. 16.
    Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Hugh (Penguin Classics)
    by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  18. 18.
    She (Oxford World's Classics)
    by H. Rider Haggard
  19. 19.
    The King in Yellow
    by Robert W. Chambers
  20. 20.
    The Island of Dr. Moreau
    by H. G. Wells
  21. 21.
    Bram Stoker's Dracula
    by Bram Stoker
  22. 22.
    The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Henry James
  23. 23.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph Conrad
  24. 24.
    The Jewel of Seven Stars
    by Bram Stoker
  25. 25.
    Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
    by M. R. James
  26. 26.
    The House of Souls
    by Arthur Machen
  27. 27.
    John Silence, a Physician Extraordinary
    by Algernon Blackwood
  28. 28.
    The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
    by G. K. Chesterton
  29. 29.
    The House on the Borderland
    by William Hope Hodgson
  30. 30.
    The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. II
    by Ambrose Bierce
  31. 31.
    Widdershins
    by Oliver Onions
  32. 32.
    ?
    The Horror Horn: The Best Horror Stories of E.F. Benson
    by E.F. Benson (Alexis Lykiard, ed.)
  33. 33.
    A Voyage to Arcturus
    by David Lindsay
  34. 34.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka
  35. 35.
    Something About Eve
    by James Branch Cabell
  36. 36.
    ?
    Medusa
    by E. H. Visiak
  37. 37.
    The Werewolf Of Paris
    by Guy Endore
  38. 38.
    ?
    The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales
    by Marjorie Bowen
  39. 39.
    ?
    The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck
    by Alexander Laing
  40. 40.
    ?
    A Second Century of Creepy Stories
    by Sir Hugh Walpole (ed.)
  41. 41.
    The Dark Tower and Other Stories
    by C.S. Lewis
  42. 42.
    Johnny Got His Gun
    by Dalton Trumbo
  43. 43.
    ?
    The Outsider, and Others
    by H.P. Lovecraft
  44. 44.
    ?
    Out of Space and Time
    by Clark Ashton Smith
  45. 45.
    ?
    Conjure Wife
    by Fritz Leiber
  46. 46.
    Night Has a Thousand Eyes: a novel of suspense
    by Cornell Woolrich
  47. 47.
    The Lurker at the Threshold
    by H. P. Lovecraft
  48. 48.
    ?
    Deliver Me from Eva
    by Paul Bailey
  49. 49.
    ?
    And the Darkness Falls
    by Boris Karloff
  50. 50.
    ?
    The Sleeping and the Dead: Fifteen Uncanny Tales
    by August Derleth (ed.)

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Created by bah on Mar 28, 2007.
 

Comments

MARK

version — 4 years 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.

Apr 30, 12:12AM | 2 comments | Reply to this

MARK

fantasy — 4 years ago

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

Apr 29, 09:40AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

bah

Painted Bird — 4 years ago

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

Jun 06, 08:41AM | 6 comments | Reply to this



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