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

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

  3. 3.
    The Ghost Pirates
    by William Hope Hodgson

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

  5. 5.
    ?
    Burn Witch Burn
    by A. Merritt

  6. 6.
    ?
    To Walk The Night
    by William Sloane

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

  8. 8.
    Fear
    by L. Ron Hubbard

  9. 9.
    Darker Than You Think
    by Jack Williamson

  10. 10.
    Conjure Wife
    by Fritz Leiber

  11. 11.
    I Am Legend
    by Richard Matheson

  12. 12.
    Rosemary's Baby
    by Ira Levin

  13. 13.
    ?
    Collected Stories
    by Richard Matheson

  14. 14.
    Hell House
    by Richard Matheson

  15. 15.
    The October Country
    by Ray Bradbury

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

  17. 17.
    The Exorcist
    by William Peter Blatty

  18. 18.
    Falling Angel
    by William Hjortsberg

  19. 19.
    Salem's Lot
    by Stephen King

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

  21. 21.
    Watchers
    by Dean Koontz

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Created by bah on Dec 14, 2007.
 

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