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. 2.
    Inferno (Modern Library Classics)
    by Dante

  2. 3.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

  3. 4.
    The Castle of Otranto (Classic, Modern, Penguin)
    by Horace Walpole

  4. 5.
    ?
    Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales
    by Ueda Akinari

  5. 6.
    The Old English Baron (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Clara Reeve

  6. 7.
    Vathek (Nonsuch Classics)
    by William Beckford

  7. 8.
    The Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Ann Radcliffe

  8. 9.
    Wieland, or the Transformation: An American Tale
    by Charles Brockden Brown

  9. 10.
    Lyrical Ballads (1798)
    by Willam Wordsworth & Samuel Coleridge

  10. 11.
    ?
    The Devil's Elixirs (Die Elixir Des Teufels)
    by E.T.A. Hoffmann

  11. 12.
    The Vampyre: And Other Tales of the Macabre
    by John Polidori

  12. 14.
    The Queen Of Spades
    by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

  13. 15.
    The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym Of Nantucket
    by Edgar Allan Poe

  14. 16.
    Phantom Ship (Nonsuch Classics)
    by Frederick Marryat

  15. 17.
    A Christmas Carol
    by Charles Dickens

  16. 18.
    Varney the Vampire, or the Feast of Blood
    by James Malcolm Rymer

  17. 19.
    Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Emily Brontë

  18. 20.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  19. 21.
    ?
    Auriol, or, The Elixir of Life. Routledge illustrated edition
    by William Harrison; Browne, H K [illus.] Ainsworth

  20. 22.
    The House of the Seven Gables (Norton Critical Edition)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  21. 23.
    ?
    The Piazza Tales (1851)
    by Herman Melville

  22. 24.
    Flowers of Evil (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Charles Baudelaire

  23. 25.
    The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

  24. 26.
    The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  25. 27.
    In a Glass Darkly (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Sheridan Le Fanu

  26. 28.
    Contes cruels
    by Villiers de l'Isle Adam

  27. 29.
    The Diamond Lens and Other Strange Tales
    by Fitz-James O'Brien

  28. 30.
    ?

  29. 31.
    Hauntings: Fantastic Stories
    by Vernon Lee

  30. 32.
    The Damned (La-Bas) (Penguin Classics)
    by Joris-Karl Huysmans

  31. 33.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    by Oscar Wilde

  32. 34.
    A Bid for Fortune
    by Guy Boothby

  33. 35.
    The Hill of Dreams
    by Arthur Machen

  34. 36.
    The Beetle
    by Richard Marsh

  35. 37.
    The War of the Worlds (Modern Library Classics)
    by H. G. Wells

  36. 38.

  37. 40.
    The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
    by Algernon Blackwood

  38. 41.
    The Complete Wandering Ghosts
    by F. Marion Crawford

  39. 42.
    The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel
    by Gaston LeRoux

  40. 43.
    The Night Land
    by William Hope Hodgson

  41. 44.
    The Lodger
    by Marie Belloc Lowndes

  42. 45.
    The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu (Dover Classic Mysteries)
    by Sax Rohmer

  43. 46.
    ?
    Beasts and Superbeasts
    by Saki

  44. 47.
    Dracula's Guest
    by Bram Stoker

  45. 48.
    The Golem
    by Gustav Meyrink

  46. 49.
    ?
    The Undying Monster
    by Jessie Douglas Kerruish

  47. 50.
    Madam Crowl's Ghost (1923)
    by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

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Created by bah on Mar 29, 2007.
 

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bah

Dorian Gray — 4 years ago

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


Untitled — 4 years ago

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