Jones & Newman's "Horror: 100 Best Books (Recommended Reading List)"

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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 the List of Recommended Reading from the back of the book. It features "important works and authors [that] have been unavoidably overlooked or forgotten" in the 100 Best.

The list of the Best 100 Books is here: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/29566. (And here’s a link to the book itself: http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/566934.)

The list is chronological by date of publication.

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  1. 1.
    Aeschylus I: Oresteia (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
    by Aeschylus

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  2. 2.
    Inferno (Modern Library Classics)
    by Dante

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  3. 3.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

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  4. 4.
    The Castle of Otranto (Penguin Classics)
    by Horace Walpole

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    Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain
    by Ueda Akinari

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  6. 6.
    The Old English Baron (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Clara Reeve

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  7. 7.
    Vathek (Nonsuch Classics Series)
    by William Beckford

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  8. 8.
    The Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Ann Radcliffe

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  9. 9.
    Wieland, or the Transformation: An American Tale
    by Charles Brockden Brown

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  10. 10.
    Lyrical Ballads (1798)
    by Willam Wordsworth & Samuel Coleridge

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    The Devil's Elixirs (Die Elixir Des Teufels)
    by E.T.A. Hoffmann

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  12. 12.
    The Vampyre: And Other Tales of the Macabre
    by John Polidori

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  13. 13.
    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
    by Victor Hugo

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  14. 14.
    The Queen Of Spades
    by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

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  15. 15.
    The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym Of Nantucket
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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  16. 16.
    Phantom Ship (Nonsuch Classics)
    by Frederick Marryat

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  17. 17.
    A Christmas Carol
    by Charles Dickens

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  18. 18.
    Varney the Vampire, or the Feast of Blood
    by James Malcolm Rymer

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  19. 19.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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  20. 20.
    Wuthering Heights (Classic Novels Series)
    by Emily Bronte

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    Auriol, or, The Elixir of Life
    by William Harrison Ainsworth

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  22. 22.
    The House of the Seven Gables (Norton Critical Edition)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  23. 23.
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    The Piazza Tales (1851)
    by Herman Melville

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  24. 24.
    Flowers of Evil (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Charles Baudelaire

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  25. 25.
    The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

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  26. 26.
    The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  27. 27.
    In a Glass Darkly (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Sheridan Le Fanu

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  28. 28.
    Contes cruels
    by Villiers de l'Isle Adam

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  29. 29.
    The Diamond Lens and Other Strange Tales
    by Fitz-James O'Brien

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  30. 30.
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    The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Tales
    by Rudyard Kipling

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  31. 31.
    Hauntings: Fantastic Stories
    by Vernon Lee

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  32. 32.
    The Damned (La-Bas) (Penguin Classics)
    by Joris-Karl Huysmans

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  33. 33.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    by Oscar Wilde

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  34. 34.
    A Bid for Fortune
    by Guy Boothby

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  35. 35.
    The Hill of Dreams
    by Arthur Machen

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  36. 36.
    The Beetle
    by Richard Marsh

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  37. 37.
    The War of the Worlds (Modern Library Classics)
    by H. G. Wells

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  38. 38.
    The Hound of the Baskervilles (Signet Classics)
    by Arthur Conan Doyle

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  39. 40.
    The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
    by Algernon Blackwood

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  40. 41.
    The Complete Wandering Ghosts
    by F. Marion Crawford

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  41. 42.
    The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel
    by Gaston LeRoux

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  42. 43.
    The Night Land
    by William Hope Hodgson

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  43. 44.
    The Lodger
    by Marie Belloc Lowndes

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  44. 45.
    The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu (Dover Classic Mysteries)
    by Sax Rohmer

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    Beasts and Superbeasts
    by Saki

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  46. 47.
    Dracula's Guest
    by Bram Stoker

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  47. 48.
    The Golem
    by Gustav Meyrink

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    The Undying Monster
    by Jessie Douglas Kerruish

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  49. 50.
    Madam Crowl's Ghost (1923)
    by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

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Comments

Dorian Gray — 1 year ago

Just changed to a less advertisement-esque edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray (#33).


Untitled — 1 year ago

Thanks for taking the time to enter this list.