Horror - Another 100 Best Books (Jones and Newman, 2005)

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Here's the last list I have of this kind that relates to speculative fiction in general. As you can gather from the title, it's a follow-up by the authors of the original list, once more arranged by order of publication. Some titles may come as a surprise, but in general, everything has at least some form of dread about them, I would think. It also goes a bit further into the modern era, which is a bonus in itself.


1.   The Revenger's Tragedy (1607) by Cyril Tourneur
2.   The Queen of Spades (1834) by Aleksandr Pushkin
3.   A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens
4.   Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë
5.   The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1847) by Jan, Count Potocki
6.   New Grub Street (1891) by George Gissing
7.   The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) by Oscar Wilde
8.   The War of the Worlds (1898) by H. G. Wells
9.   The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
10.   The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" (1907) by William Hope Hodgson
11.   The Phantom of the Opera (1911) by Gaston Leroux
12.   Fantômas (1911) by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain
13.   The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927-28) by H. P. Lovecraft
14.   They Return at Evening (1928) by H. Russell Wakefield
15.   Creep, Shadow! (1934) by A. Merritt
16.   The Trail of Fu Manchu (1934) by Sax Rohmer
17.   The Devil Rides Out (1934) by Dennis Wheatley
18.   The Haunted Omnibus (1937) edited by Alexander Laing
19.   The Edge of Running Water (1939) by William Sloane
20.   The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus
21.   Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur (1944) edited by August Derleth
22.   Lost Worlds (1944) by Clark Ashton Smith
23.   Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales (1944) by Henry S. Whitehead
24.   Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (1944) edited by Herbert A. Wise and Phyllis Fraser
25.   The Opener of the Way (1945) by Robert Bloch
26.   Gormenghast (1946-50) by Mervyn Peake
27.   Carnacki the Ghost-Finder (1947) by William Hope Hodgson
28.   Darker Than You Think (1948) by Jack Williamson
29.   Tales of Horror and the Supernatural (1949) by Arthur Machen
30.   Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell
31.   House of Flesh (1950) by Bruno Fischer
32.   Fancies and Goodnights (1951) by John Collier
33.   The Killer Inside Me (1952) by Jim Thompson
34.   The Third Ghost Book (1955) edited by Lady Cynthia Asquith
35.   The Body Snatchers (1955) by Jack Finney
36.   The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) by Patricia Highsmith
37.   The Hunger and Other Stories (1957) by Charles Beaumont
38.   The Blind Owl (1957) by Sadegh Hedayat
39.   The Midwich Cuckoos (1957) by John Wyndham
40.   A Scent of New-Mown Hay (1958) by John Blackburn
41.   A Stir of Echoes (1958) by Richard Matheson
42.   The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960) by Alan Garner
43.   Tales of Terror (1961) edited by Charles Higham
44.   Some of Your Blood (1961) by Theodore Sturgeon
45.   We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) by Shirley Jackson
46.   The Case Against Satan (1962) by Ray Russell
47.   Something Wicked This Way Comes (1963) by Ray Bradbury
48.   The Collector (1963) by John Fowles
49.   Who Fears the Devil? (1963) by Manly Wade Wellman
50.   A Wrinkle in the Skin (1965) by John Christopher
51.   Rosemary's Baby (1967) by Ira Levin
52.   The Playboy Book of Horror and the Supernatural (1967) edited by the Editors of Playboy
53.   Pages from Cold Point (1968) by Paul Bowles
54.   Outer Dark (1968) by Cormac McCarthy
55.   The Book of Skulls (1971) by Robert Silverberg
56.   Harvest Home (1973) by Thomas Tryon
57.   The Night Stalker (1973) by Jeff Rice
58.   Blood Sport (1974) by Robert F. Jones
59.   Nightshade (1975) by Derek Marlowe
60.   Peace (1975) by Gene Wolfe
61.   The Year of the Sex Olympics: Three TV Plays (1976) by Nigel Kneale
62.   Our Lady of Darkness (1977) by Fritz Leiber
63.   The Cement Garden (1978) by Ian McEwan
64.   Darkness Weaves with Many Shades (1978) by Karl Edward Wagner
65.   The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979) by Angela Carter
66.   Sweeney Todd (1979) by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler
67.   The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (1980) by Elizabeth Bowen
68.   Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror (1980) edited by Kirby McCauley
69.   Tales from the Nightside (1981) by Charles L. Grant
70.   They Thirst (1981) by Robert R. McCammon
71.   The Face That Must Die (1983) by Ramsey Campbell
72.   The Woman in Black (1983) by Susan Hill
73.   Pet Sematary (1983) by Stephen King
74.   Clive Barker's Books of Blood Volumes One, Two, and Three (1984) by Clive Barker
75.   Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (1986) by Patrick Süskind
76.   Finishing Touches (1986) by Thomas Tessier
77.   Strange Toys (1987) by Patricia Geary
78.   The Dark Decent (1987) edited by David G. Hartwell
79.   Misery (1987) by Stephen King
80.   The Silence of the Lambs (1988) by Thomas Harris
81.   Prime Evil (1988) edited by Douglas E. Winter
82.   By Bizarre Hands: Stories (1989) by Joe R. Lansdale
83.   The Grotesque (1989) by Patrick McGrath
84.   Carrion Comfort (1989) by Dan Simmons
85.   From Hell (1989-99) by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
86.   American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis
87.   Lost Souls (1992) by Poppy Z. Brite
88.   The Course of the Heart (1992) by M. John Harrison
89.   Flicker (1992) by Theodore Roszak
90.   X, Y (1993) by Michael Blumlein
91.   Skin (1993) by Kathe Koja
92.   Throat Sprockets: A Novel of Erotic Obsession (1994) by Tim Lucas
93.   The Off Season: A Victorian Sequel (1995) by Jack Cady
94.   The Nightmare Factory (1996) by Thomas Ligotti
95.   A Sight for Sore Eyes (1998) by Ruth Rendell
96.   Reprisal (1999) by Mitchell Smith
97.   A Haunting Beauty (2000) by Sir Charles Birkin
98.   House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski
99.   Feesters in the Lake & Other Stories (2002) by Bob Leman
100.   More Tomorrow & Other Stories (2003) by Michael Marshall Smith


So that's everything - at least what's been collected into book form. I have more lists, but they're not really fantasy-oriented; it's more along the lines of "the 100 best books ever written", but if anyone's interested, I'll gladly share those too. In the meantime, what's your opinion about this list? Is it any better than the original? How many books off of it have you read or shown interest in reading? How many have you never heard of?