What You Are Meant to Know: 21 Horror Classics (from On Writing Horror)

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In the revised 2007 edition of On Writing Horror (put out by the Horror Writers Association) there’s a chapter called What You Are Meant to Know listing 21 horror classics anyone who wants to write horror should read (but it’s good if you like to read horror, too). (Here’s a link to the book itself: http://allconsuming.net/item/view/2328951 )

In chronological order.

  1. 1.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  2. 2.
    Dracula (Signet Classics)
    by Bram Stoker

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  3. 3.
    The Ghost Pirates
    by William Hope Hodgson

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  4. 4.
    The Penguin Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James
    by M. R. James

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  5. 5.
    Burn Witch Burn
    by A. Merritt

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  6. 6.
    To Walk The Night
    by William Sloane

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  7. 7.
    The Dunwich Horror and Others
    by H. P. Lovecraft

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  8. 8.
    Fear
    by L. Ron Hubbard

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  9. 9.
    Darker Than You Think
    by Jack Williamson

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  10. 10.
    Conjure Wife
    by Fritz Leiber

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  11. 11.
    I Am Legend (ties into movie)
    by Richard Matheson

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  12. 12.
    Rosemary's Baby
    by Ira Levin

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  13. 13.
    Collected Stories
    by Richard Matheson

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  14. 14.
    Hell House
    by Richard Matheson

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  15. 15.
    The October Country
    by Ray Bradbury

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  16. 16.
    Something Wicked This Way Comes
    by Ray Bradbury

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  17. 17.
    The Exorcist
    by William Peter Blatty

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  18. 18.
    Falling Angel
    by William Hjortsberg

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  19. 19.
    Salem's Lot
    by Stephen King

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  20. 20.
    The Stand (Modern Classics)
    by Stephen King

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  21. 21.
    Watchers
    by Dean Koontz

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Created by The Subjected Reader on Dec 14, 2007.
 

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