Lists of Bests: Jones & Newman's "Horror: 100 Best Books (Recommended Reading List)" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/29606 From the 1988 book _Horror: 100 Best Books_ edited by Stephen Jones & Kim Newman. It's a collection of essays by “leading horror writers” about their nominations for best horror stories/novels. _This is the List of Recommended Reading from the back of the book._ It features "important works and authors [that] have been unavoidably overlooked or forgotten" in the 100 Best. The list of the Best 100 Books is here: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/29566. (And here's a link to the book itself: http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/566934.) _The list is chronological by date of publication._ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:27:38 GMT en-us 0 50 260 50 0 Aeschylus I: Oresteia (The Complete Greek Tragedies) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69929 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69929"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226307786.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> Inferno (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1160522 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1160522"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812970063.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dante</div> Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3150 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3150"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140424393.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Milton</div> The Castle of Otranto (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/325286 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/325286"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140437673.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Horace Walpole</div> Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2486704 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ueda Akinari</div> The Old English Baron (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1716957 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1716957"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0192803271.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Clara Reeve</div> Vathek (Nonsuch Classics Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1267761 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1267761"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1845880609.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121327958_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Beckford</div> The Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/468483 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/468483"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192825232.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Radcliffe</div> Wieland, or the Transformation: An American Tale http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/912078 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/912078"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1931468028.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056539072_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Brockden Brown</div> Lyrical Ballads (1798) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766442 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willam Wordsworth & Samuel Coleridge</div> The Devil's Elixirs (Die Elixir Des Teufels) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766445 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.T.A. Hoffmann</div> The Vampyre: And Other Tales of the Macabre http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/117767 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/117767"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0192838946.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1087372439_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Polidori</div> The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32786 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32786"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1593080476.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Victor Hugo</div> The Queen Of Spades http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1659095 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1659095"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1419179594.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin</div> The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym Of Nantucket http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970077 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970077"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1595404279.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edgar Allan Poe</div> Phantom Ship (Nonsuch Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2519962 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2519962"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1845882067.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V62179239_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederick Marryat</div> A Christmas Carol http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68937 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68937"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580495796.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Varney the Vampire, or the Feast of Blood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/908745 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Malcolm Rymer</div> Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11057 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11057"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393978893.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div> Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3704 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3704"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437204.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Brontë</div> Auriol, or, The Elixir of Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766462 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Harrison Ainsworth</div> The House of the Seven Gables (Norton Critical Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147353 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147353"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393924769.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45261710_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathaniel Hawthorne</div> The Piazza Tales (1851) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766463 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herman Melville</div> Flowers of Evil (New Directions Paperbook) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/906980 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/906980"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811211177.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Baudelaire</div> The Woman in White (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/668629 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/668629"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439610.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wilkie Collins</div> The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/907329 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/907329"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140439269.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> In a Glass Darkly (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4327 <div id="position">27</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> Contes cruels http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766464 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766464"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/2266049097.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Villiers de l'Isle Adam</div> The Diamond Lens and Other Strange Tales http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766467 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766467"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1592249159.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fitz-James O'Brien</div> The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Tales http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766470 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rudyard Kipling</div> Hauntings: Fantastic Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766471 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766471"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1426438125.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vernon Lee</div> The Damned (La-Bas) (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3318 <div id="position">32</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 Picture of Dorian Gray http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53664 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53664"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1420925288.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oscar Wilde</div> A Bid for Fortune http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766474 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766474"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1587155427.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Guy Boothby</div> The Hill of Dreams http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792698 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792698"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01YSbu3-y+L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Machen</div> The Beetle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1118256 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1118256"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1419153846.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Marsh</div> The War of the Worlds (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9393 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9393"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375759239.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H. G. Wells</div> The Hound of the Baskervilles (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/336587 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/336587"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528018.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Conan Doyle</div> Kwaidan: Stories And Studies Of Strange Things (Classics of Japanese Literature) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/433299 <div id="position">39</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 Empty House and Other Ghost Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766479 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766479"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1426480172.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43911981_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Algernon Blackwood</div> The Complete Wandering Ghosts http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1131309 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1131309"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1592240399.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Marion Crawford</div> The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2477612 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gaston LeRoux</div> The Night Land http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2611294 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2611294"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1406905143.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44270409_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Hope Hodgson</div> The Lodger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/290610 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/290610"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0897332997.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121187582_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marie Belloc Lowndes</div> The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu (Dover Classic Mysteries) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1164415 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1164415"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0486298981.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sax Rohmer</div> Beasts and Superbeasts http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766488 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saki</div> Dracula's Guest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1647942 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1647942"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1847022944.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V64048256_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bram Stoker</div> The Golem http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2355158 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gustav Meyrink</div> The Undying Monster http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/861687 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jessie Douglas Kerruish</div> Madam Crowl's Ghost (1923) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766491 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. Sheridan Le Fanu</div>