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

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. Tragical History of Dr. Faustus (Great Plays of the Millennium)
by Christopher Marlowe
  
2. Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
3.
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 The White Devil (1612)
by John Webster
  
4. Caleb Williams
by William Godwin
  
5. The Monk (Penguin Classics)
by Matthew Lewis
  
6. The Best Tales of Hoffmann
by E. T. A. Hoffmann
  
7. Northanger Abbey (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
8. Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
by Mary Shelley
  
9. Melmoth the Wanderer (Oxford World's Classics)
by Charles Maturin
  
10. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Oxford World's Classics)
by James Hogg
  
11. Tales of Mystery and Imagination
by Edgar Allen Poe
  
12. Twice-told Tales
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
13.
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 The Black Spider
by Jeremias Gotthelf
  
14.
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 The Wandering Jew
by Eugene Sue
  
15. Confidence-man: His Masquerade
by Herman Melville
  
16. Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Hugh (Penguin Classics)
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  
17. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
  
18. She (Oxford World's Classics)
by H. Rider Haggard
  
19. The King In Yellow
by Robert W. Chambers
  
20. The Island Of Dr. Moreau
by H. G. WELLS
  
21. Bram Stoker's Dracula
by Bram Stoker
  
22. The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Henry James
  
23. Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
  
24. The Jewel Of Seven Stars
by Bram Stoker
  
25. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
by M. R. James
  
26. The House of Souls
by Arthur Machen
  
27. John Silence, a Physician Extraordinary
by Algernon Blackwood
  
28. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
by Gilbert, Keith Chesterton
  
29. The House on the Borderland
by William Hope Hodgson
  
30. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce
by Ambrose Bierce
  
31. Widdershins
by Oliver Onions
  
32.
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 The Horror Horn: The Best Horror Stories of E.F. Benson
by E.F. Benson (Alexis Lykiard, ed.)
  
33. A Voyage to Arcturus
by David Lindsay
  
34. The Trial
by Franz Kafka
  
35. Something About Eve
by James Branch Cabell
  
36.
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 Medusa
by E. H. Visiak
  
37. The Werewolf Of Paris
by Guy Endore
  
38.
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 The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales
by Marjorie Bowen
  
39.
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 The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck
by Alexander Laing
  
40.
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 A Second Century of Creepy Stories
by Sir Hugh Walpole (ed.)
  
41. The Dark Tower and Other Stories
by C.S. Lewis
  
42. Johnny Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo
  
43.
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 The Outsider, and Others
by H.P. Lovecraft
  
44.
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 Out of Space and Time
by Clark Ashton Smith
  
45.
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 Conjure Wife
by Fritz Leiber
  
46. Night Has a Thousand Eyes: a novel of suspense
by Cornell Woolrich
  
47. The Lurker at the Threshold
by H. P. Lovecraft
  
48.
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 Deliver Me from Eva
by Paul Bailey
  
49.
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 And the Darkness Falls
by Boris Karloff
  
50.
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 The Sleeping and the Dead: Fifteen Uncanny Tales
by August Derleth (ed.)
  
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Created by The Subjected Reader on Mar 28, 2007.