Stanley Wiater's "Modern Horror Fiction: 113 Best Books"

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From Stanley Wiater’s book Dark Thoughts on Writing (http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1227949 ). In the reference section at the back is this list of books by horror, dark fantasy, or dark suspense authors who have "received critical success or awards in his or her career." Wiater’s list includes "styles ranging from the most repulsively explicit to the most maddeningly subtle."

"Modern" here means published after 1960 (but before 1997, when the book was published.)

The list is alphabetical by author.

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    Tales of Love and Death
    by Robert Aickman

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    The Vanishment
    by Jonathan Aycliffe

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    Crash: A Novel
    by J. G. Ballard

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    The Wasp Factory
    by Iain Banks

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    The Books of Blood (vols. 1-6)
    by Clive Barker

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    The Smell of Evil
    by Charles Birkin

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    Aliens: Tribes
    by Stephen R. Bissette

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    The Exorcist
    by William Peter Blatty

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    Selected Short Stories (3 vols.)
    by Robert Bloch

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    Brains of Rats
    by Michael Blumlein

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  12. 12.
    The October Country
    by Ray Bradbury

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    Howling
    by Gary Brandner

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    The Shapes of Midnight
    by Joseph Payne Brennan

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    Swamp Foetus: A Collection of Short Stories
    by Poppy Z. Brite

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    The Face That Must Die
    by Ramsey Campbell

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    The Panic Hand
    by Jonathan Carroll

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    Burning Your Boats
    by Angela Carter

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    Death Stalks the Night
    by Hugh B. Cave

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    Shudders and Shivers
    by R. Chetwynd-Hayes

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    Deus-X
    by Joseph A. Citro

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    The Pain Doctors of Suture Self General
    by THE BOVINE SMOKE SOCIETY

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    The Children's Hour
    by Douglas Clegg

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    Nameless Sins (Gauntlet)
    by Nancy A. Collins

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    Homecoming
    by Matthew J. Costello

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    Escardy Gap
    by Peter Crowther

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  27. 27.
    Tales of the Unexpected
    by Roald Dahl

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    The Black Castle
    by Les Daniels

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    From the Heart of Darkness
    by David Drake

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  30. 30.
    The Essential Ellison: A 35 Year Retrospective
    by Harlan Ellison

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    Lizard Wine
    by Elizabeth Engstrom

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    The Dark Country
    by Dennis Etchison

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    Scare Tactics
    by John Farris

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    The Sandman (series)
    by Neil Gaiman

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    She Let Him Continue
    by Stephen Geller

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    Methods of Madness
    by Ray Garton

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    Moonchasers and other stories
    by Ed Gorman

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    Tales From The Nightside
    by Charles Grant

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    The Cormorant
    by Stephen Gregory

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    12 Stories of Suspense and The Supernatural
    by Davis Grubb

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    Red Dragon
    by Thomas Harris

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    The Mountain King
    by Rick Hautala

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    Portent
    by James Herbert

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    Happy Man
    by Eric Higgs

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    Falling Angel
    by William Hjortsberg

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    The Convulsion Factory
    by Brian Hodge

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    Dead in the Water
    by Nancy Holder

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    The End Of Alice
    by A.M. Homes

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    The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)
    by Shirley Jackson

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    Twilight Zone Scripts and Stories
    by George Clayton Johnson

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Comments

Tales of the Unexpected — 2 years ago

Changed from this version of Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected to one with a picture.


Anno Dracula — 2 years ago

Just noticed I had the wrong Anno Dracula on here (Judgment of Tears: Anno Dracula 1959 is a sequel), so I’ve changed it.