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

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. Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
by Mary Shelley
  
2. Dracula (Signet Classics)
by Bram Stoker
  
3. The Ghost Pirates
by William Hope Hodgson
  
4. The Penguin Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James
by M. R. James
  
5.
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 Burn Witch Burn
by A. Merritt
  
6.
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 To Walk The Night
by William Sloane
  
7.
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 The Dunwich Horror and Others
by H. P. Lovecraft
  
8. Fear
by L. Ron Hubbard
  
9. Darker Than You Think
by Jack Williamson
  
10.
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 Conjure Wife
by Fritz Leiber
  
11. I Am Legend (ties into movie)
by Richard Matheson
  
12. Rosemary's Baby
by Ira Levin
  
13.
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 Collected Stories
by Richard Matheson
  
14. Hell House
by Richard Matheson
  
15. The October Country
by Ray Bradbury
  
16. Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury
  
17. The Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty
  
18. Falling Angel
by William Hjortsberg
  
19. Salem's Lot
by Stephen King
  
20. The Stand (Modern Classics)
by Stephen King
  
21. Watchers
by Dean Koontz
  
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Created by The Subjected Reader on Dec 14, 2007.