Lists of Bests: Rue Morgue's "50 Essential Alternative Horror Books" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/28566 This list of novels, novellas & short story collections was published in Issue #61 (October 2006) of _Rue Morgue_ magazine. These are books that connoisseurs of horror might have overlooked. The aim of the list is to "avoid the mainstream titles to bring you what [they] feel is a diverse sampling of the best in alternative horror fiction." If you want to read the write-ups for each book, you can buy back issues of the magazine here: http://www.rue-morgue.com/countrysel.php _The list is chronological, by order of publication._ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:36:19 GMT en-us 0 50 50 0 0 The Monk (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/752113 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/752113"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140436030.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matthew Lewis</div> Tales of Hoffmann (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81260 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81260"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140443924.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernst Theodor Hoffman</div> Maldoror http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25093 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25093"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811200825.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Comte de Lautreamont</div> In a Glass Darkly (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4327 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4327"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192839470.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sheridan Le Fanu</div> The Great God Pan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2555949 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2555949"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1406942731.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44284315_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Machen</div> The Damned (La-Bas) (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3318 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3318"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140447679.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joris-Karl Huysmans</div> The King In Yellow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2758504 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2758504"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0809557541.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert W. Chambers</div> Kwaidan: Stories And Studies Of Strange Things (Classics of Japanese Literature) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/433299 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/433299"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0804836620.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lafcadio Hearn</div> The House on the Borderland http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2609085 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2609085"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1426438281.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Hope Hodgson</div> The Trial http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24692 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24692"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805210407.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122576327_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> The Plague http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18615 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18615"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679720219.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44869057_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/660861 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/660861"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0804803196.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edogawa Rampo</div> Nine Horrors and a Dream http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2758532 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Payne Brennan</div> A Scent of a New-Mown Hay http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2758541 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Blackburn</div> The Owl Service http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2475216 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Garner</div> Picnic at Hanging Rock http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2680980 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2680980"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099750619.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan Lindsay</div> The Green Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27713 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27713"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0897332202.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kingsley Amis</div> Zothique http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/959939 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Clark Ashton Smith</div> Blackbriar http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2758566 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Sleator</div> All Heads Turn When The Hunt Goes By http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1539203 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Farris</div> The Bloody Chamber http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2745 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2745"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014017821X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Angela Carter</div> San Diego Lightfoot Sue and Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/593898 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Reamy</div> The Totem http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/992967 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/992967"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446691909.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Morrell</div> The Nameless http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2758579 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ramsey Campbell</div> Voice of Our Shadow (Fantasy Masterworks) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/141038 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/141038"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0575073675.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Carroll</div> The Wasp Factory http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2433306 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2433306"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316858560.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Iain Banks</div> Dark Gods http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2758591 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T.E.D. Klein</div> Song of Kali http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39294 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39294"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/031286583X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057189625_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dan Simmons</div> Why Not You and I http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2048817 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karl Edward Wagner</div> Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2602707 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> By Bizarre Hands http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/469433 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joe R. Lansdale</div> Songs of a Dead Dreamer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/158601 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Ligotti</div> Vampires http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2476253 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2476253"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014027698X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steakley</div> Wilding http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2287299 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Melanie Tem</div> Skin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/414157 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kathe Koja</div> Throat Sprockets http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2758616 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tim Lucas</div> The Matrix http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2208427 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2208427"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/000649319X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Aycliffe</div> The Bloody Red Baron http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/464167 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/464167"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0786702524.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kim Newman</div> The Elementals http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2758624 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael McDowell</div> Black Butterflies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/399007 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/399007"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0843948442.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Shirley</div> Cows http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2758634 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2758634"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1840680059.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matthew Stokoe</div> Pontypool Changes Everything: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/450646 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tony Burgess</div> The Collected Strange Stories (2 vols.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2758635 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Aickman</div> The Descent http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14868 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14868"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/051513175X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeff Long</div> A Life in the Cinema http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/283098 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/283098"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/188736837X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mick Garris</div> House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9070 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9070"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375703764.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1118931899_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Z. Danielewski</div> Under the Skin: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4001 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4001"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156011603.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michel Faber</div> Straw Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14880 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14880"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0515134279.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Marshall</div> A Choir of Ill Children http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93021 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93021"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553587196.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Piccirilli</div> The Fear Report http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2758672 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Massie</div>