The following lists of recommended titles are from Stanley Wiater’s definitive compilation, Dark Thoughts: On Writing, Advice and Commentary from Fifty Masters of Fear and Suspense (Underwood Books, 1998). The are used here with the author’s permission (found at: http://www.darkecho.com/darkecho/web/best_horror.html#best)
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Robert Aickman: Tales of Love and Death (1977)
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Jonathan Aycliffe: The Vanishment (1993)
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J.G. Ballard: Crash (1973)
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Clive Barker's Books of Blood 1-3
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Ian Banks: The Wasp Factory (1984)
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Charles Beaumont: The Howling Man and Other Stories (1992)
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Stephen R. Bissette: Aliens--Tribes (1992)
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Charles Birkin: The Smell of Evil (1964)
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Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty
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Robert Bloch: Selected Short Stories (1988)
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Micheal Blumlien: The Brains of Rats (1990)
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The October Country
by Ray Bradbury
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Gary Brandner: The Howling (1977)
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Joseph Payne Brennan: The Shapes of Midnight (1980)
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Poppy Z. Brite: Swamp Foetus (1993)
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Ramsey Campbell: The Face That Must Die (1979)
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Jonathan Carroll: The Panic Hand (1996)
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Angela Carter: Burning Your Boats: Collected Stories (1995)
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Hugh B. Cave: Death Stalks the Night (1995)
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R. Chetwynd-Hayes: Shudders and Shivers (1995)
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Joseph A. Citro: Deus-X (1994)
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Alan M. Clark: The Pain Doctors of Suture Self General (1995)
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Douglas Clegg: The Children's Hour (1996)
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Nancy A. Collins: Nameless Sins (1994)
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Matthew J. Costello: Homecoming (1992)
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Peter Crowther & James Lovegrove: Escardy Gap (1996)
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Roald Dahl: Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
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Les Daniels: The Black Castle (1978)
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David Drake: From the Heart of Darkness (1983)
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Harlan Ellison: The Essential Ellison (1987)
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Elizabeth Engstrom: Lizard Wine (1996)
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Dennis Etchison: The Dark Country (1982)
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John Farris: Scare Tactics (1988)
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The Sandman (series)
by Neil Gaiman
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Stephen Geller: She Let Him Continue (1966) to 1996)
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Ray Garton: Methods of Madness (1990)
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Ed Gorman: Moonchasers (1996)
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Charles L. Grant: Tales from the Nightside (1981)
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Stephen Gregory: The Cormorant (1986)
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Davis Grubb: 12 Stories of Suspense and the Supernatural (1964)
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Red Dragon
by Thomas Harris
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Rick Hautala: The Mountain King (1996)
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James Herbert: Portent (1996)
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Eric C. Higgs: The Happy Man (1985)
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Falling Angel
by William Hjortsberg
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The Convulsion Factory
by Brian Hodge
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Nancy Holder: Dead in the Water (1994)
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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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George Clayton Johnson: Twilight Zone Scripts & Stories (1977)
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