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

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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1.
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 Tales of Love and Death
by Robert Aickman
  
2.
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 The Vanishment
by Jonathan Aycliffe
  
3. Crash: A Novel
by J. G. Ballard
  
4. The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
  
5.
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 The Books of Blood (vols. 1-6)
by Clive Barker
  
6.
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 Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories  
7.
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 The Smell of Evil
by Charles Birkin
  
8. Aliens: Tribes
by Stephen R. Bissette
  
9. The Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty
  
10.
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 Selected Short Stories (3 vols.)
by Robert Bloch
  
11. Brains of Rats
by Michael Blumlein
  
12. The October Country
by Ray Bradbury
  
13.
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 Howling
by Gary Brandner
  
14.
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 The Shapes of Midnight
by Joseph Payne Brennan
  
15.
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 Swamp Foetus: A Collection of Short Stories
by Poppy Z. Brite
  
16. The Face That Must Die
by Ramsey Campbell
  
17. The Panic Hand
by Jonathan Carroll
  
18. Burning Your Boats
by Angela Carter
  
19.
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 Death Stalks the Night
by Hugh B. Cave
  
20.
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 Shudders and Shivers
by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
  
21. Deus-X
by Joseph A. Citro
  
22.
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 The Pain Doctors of Suture Self General
by THE BOVINE SMOKE SOCIETY
  
23. The Children's Hour
by Douglas Clegg
  
24.
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 Nameless Sins (Gauntlet)
by Nancy A. Collins
  
25.
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 Homecoming
by Matthew J. Costello
  
26. Escardy Gap
by Peter Crowther
  
27. Tales of the Unexpected
by Roald Dahl
  
28. The Black Castle
by Les Daniels
  
29.
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 From the Heart of Darkness
by David Drake
  
30. The Essential Ellison: A 35 Year Retrospective
by Harlan Ellison
  
31. Lizard Wine
by Elizabeth Engstrom
  
32. The Dark Country
by Dennis Etchison
  
33.
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 Scare Tactics
by John Farris
  
34.
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 The Sandman (series)
by Neil Gaiman
  
35.
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 She Let Him Continue
by Stephen Geller
  
36.
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 Methods of Madness
by Ray Garton
  
37. Moonchasers and other stories
by Ed Gorman
  
38.
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 Tales From The Nightside
by Charles Grant
  
39.
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 The Cormorant
by Stephen Gregory
  
40. 12 Stories of Suspense and The Supernatural
by Davis Grubb
  
41. Red Dragon
by Thomas Harris
  
42. The Mountain King
by Rick Hautala
  
43. Portent
by James Herbert
  
44.
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 Happy Man
by Eric Higgs
  
45. Falling Angel
by William Hjortsberg
  
46.
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 The Convulsion Factory
by Brian Hodge
  
47. Dead in the Water
by Nancy Holder
  
48. The End Of Alice
by A.M. Homes
  
49. The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)
by Shirley Jackson
  
50. Twilight Zone Scripts and Stories
by George Clayton Johnson
  
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Created by The Subjected Reader on Apr 01, 2007.