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

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.

by Charles Brockden Brown

by Willam Wordsworth & Samuel Coleridge

by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

by Frederick Marryat

by James Malcolm Rymer

by Charlotte Brontë

by William Harrison Ainsworth

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Charles Baudelaire

by Villiers de l'Isle Adam

by Fitz-James O'Brien

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Algernon Blackwood

by F. Marion Crawford

by William Hope Hodgson

by Marie Belloc Lowndes

by Jessie Douglas Kerruish

by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Send to Printer Jones & Newman's "Horror: 100 Best Books (Recommended Reading List)" 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.		Aeschylus I: Oresteia (The Complete Greek Tragedies) by Aeschylus
	2.		Inferno (Modern Library Classics) by Dante
	3.		Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton
	4.		The Castle of Otranto (Penguin Classics) by Horace Walpole
	5.	?	Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Ueda Akinari
	6.		The Old English Baron (Oxford World's Classics) by Clara Reeve
	7.		Vathek (Nonsuch Classics Series) by William Beckford
	8.		The Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford World's Classics) by Ann Radcliffe
	9.		Wieland, or the Transformation: An American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown
	10.	?	Lyrical Ballads (1798) by Willam Wordsworth & Samuel Coleridge
	11.	?	The Devil's Elixirs (Die Elixir Des Teufels) by E.T.A. Hoffmann
	12.		The Vampyre: And Other Tales of the Macabre by John Polidori
	13.		The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics) by Victor Hugo
	14.		The Queen Of Spades by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
	15.		The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym Of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
	16.		Phantom Ship (Nonsuch Classics) by Frederick Marryat
	17.		A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
	18.	?	Varney the Vampire, or the Feast of Blood by James Malcolm Rymer
	19.		Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions) by Emily Bronte
	20.		Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
	21.	?	Auriol, or, The Elixir of Life by William Harrison Ainsworth
	22.		The House of the Seven Gables (Norton Critical Edition) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
	23.	?	The Piazza Tales (1851) by Herman Melville
	24.		Flowers of Evil (New Directions Paperbook) by Charles Baudelaire
	25.		The Woman in White (Penguin Classics) by Wilkie Collins
	26.		The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
	27.		In a Glass Darkly (Oxford World's Classics) by Sheridan Le Fanu
	28.		Contes cruels by Villiers de l'Isle Adam
	29.		The Diamond Lens and Other Strange Tales by Fitz-James O'Brien
	30.	?	The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Tales by Rudyard Kipling
	31.		Hauntings: Fantastic Stories by Vernon Lee
	32.		The Damned (La-Bas) (Penguin Classics) by Joris-Karl Huysmans
	33.		The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
	34.		A Bid for Fortune by Guy Boothby
	35.		The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen
	36.		The Beetle by Richard Marsh
	37.		The War of the Worlds (Modern Library Classics) by H. G. Wells
	38.		The Hound of the Baskervilles (Signet Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle
	39.		Kwaidan: Stories And Studies Of Strange Things (Classics of Japanese Literature) by Lafcadio Hearn
	40.		The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories by Algernon Blackwood
	41.		The Complete Wandering Ghosts by F. Marion Crawford
	42.	?	The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel by Gaston LeRoux
	43.		The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson
	44.		The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes
	45.		The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu (Dover Classic Mysteries) by Sax Rohmer
	46.	?	Beasts and Superbeasts by Saki
	47.		Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker
	48.	?	The Golem by Gustav Meyrink
	49.	?	The Undying Monster by Jessie Douglas Kerruish
	50.	?	Madam Crowl's Ghost (1923) by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
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