Horror: 100 Best Books
Carroll & Graf
Year : November 1988
Book No. : ISBN-10: 0881844179
Edition : 1st
Format : Hardcover with dustjacket
Pages : 256
Cover art : Not credited (possibly Les Edwards)
Illustrations : None
Contents
"Something About Eve"
Non-REH Contents
"Foreword" by Ramsey Campbell
"Introduction" by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
List of Recommended Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index to the Books, Authors, and Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Critiqued Books
DOCTOR FAUSTUS by Christopher Marlowe
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH 
by William Shakespeare

THE WHITE DEVIL  by John Webster
CALEB WILLIAMS  by William Godwin
THE MONK  by Matthew Gregory Lewis
THE BEST TALES OF HOFFMANN
by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

NORTHANGER ABBEY  by Jane Austen
FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
MELMOTH THE WANDERER  by Charles Maturin
THE CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER 
by James Hogg

TWICE-TOLD TALES  by Nathaniel Hawthorne
TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION
by Edgar Allan Poe

THE BLACK SPIDER  by Jeremias Gotthelf
THE WANDERING JEW by Eugene Sue
THE CONFIDENCE MAN  by Herman Melville
UNCLE SILAS by Sheridan Le Fanu
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE 
by Robert Louis Stevenson

SHE by H. Rider Haggard
THE KING IN YELLOW  by Robert W. Chambers
THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU  by H. G. Wells
DRACULA  by Bram Stoker
THE TURN OF THE SCREW by Henry James
HEART OF DARKNESS  by Joseph Conrad
THE JEWEL OF SEVEN STARS by Bram Stoker
GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY 
by M. R. James

THE HOUSE OF SOULS  by Arthur Machen
JOHN SILENCE  by Algernon Blackwood
THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY
by G. K. Chesterton

THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND
by William Hope Hodgson

COLLECTED  WORKS OF AMBROSE BIERCE
by Ambrose Bierce

WIDDERSHINS by Oliver Onions
THE HORROR HORN  by E. F. Benson
A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS by David Lindsay
THE TRIAL  by Franz Kafka
SOMETHING ABOUT EVE by James Branch Cabell
MEDUSA  by E. H. Visiak
THE WEREWOLF OF PARIS by Guy Endore
THE LAST BOUQUET  by Marjorie Bowen
THE CADAVER OF GIDEON WYCK
by Alexander Laing

A SECOND CENTURY OF CREEPY STORIES 
by Hugh Walpole, ed.
THE DARK TOWER by C. S. Lewis
JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN  by Dalton Trumbo
THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS by H. P. Lovecraft
OUT OF SPACE AND TIME by Clark Ashton Smith
CONJURE WIFE  by Fritz Leiber
NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES by Cornell Woolrich
THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD 
by H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth
DELIVER ME FROM EVA by Paul Bailey
AND THE DARKNESS FALLS  by Boris Karloff, ed.
THE SLEEPING AND THE DEAD
by August Derleth, ed.



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Notes
Edited by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
Working with a team of author/reviewers, Jones and Newman describe and critique 100 horror books they consider to be the best written. Two to three pages are devoted to each of the 100 works.
First U.S. Edition

List of Critiqued Books (Continued)
TRACK OF THE CAT  by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
THE SOUND OF HIS HORN by Sarban
LORD OF THE FLIES  by William Golding
I AM LEGEND by Richard Matheson
THE OCTOBER COUNTRY by Ray Bradbury
NINE HORRORS AND A DREAM 
by Joseph Payne Brennan

PSYCHO  by Robert Bloch
QUATERMASS AND THE PIT by Nigel Kneale
CRY HORROR!  by H. P. Lovecraft
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH
by Philip K. Dick

THE PAINTED BIRD by Jerzy Kosinski
THE CRYSTAL WORLD by J. G. Ballard
SUB ROSA  by Robert Aickman
THE GREEN MAN  by Kingsley Amis
THE COMPLETE WEREWOLF  by Anthony Boucher
GRENDEL by John Gardner
THE EXORCIST by William Peter Blatty
THE SHEEP LOOK UP  by John Brunner
WORSE THINGS WAITING by Manly Wade Wellman
BURNT OFFERINGS  by Robert Marasco
SALEM'S LOT by Stephen King
DEATHBIRD STORIES  by Harlan Ellison
MURGUNSTRUMM AND OTHERS by Hugh B. Cave
SWEETHEART, SWEETHEART by Bernard Taylor
ALL HEADS TURN WHEN THE HUNT GOES BY 
by John Farris

THE SHINING by Stephen King
FALLING ANGEL  by William Hjortsberg
THE WOLFEN  by Whitley Streiber
THE TOTEM by David Morrell
GHOST STORY by Peter Straub
THE LAND OF LAUGHS  by Jonathan Carroll
THE CELLAR  by Richard Laymon
RED DRAGON by Thomas Harris
THE KEEP  by F. Paul Wilson
THE DARK COUNTRY by Dennis Etchison
IN A LONELY PLACE by Karl Edward Wagner
THE ANUBIS GATES  by Tim Powers
THE ARABIAN NIGHTMARE  by Robert Erwin
THE WASP FACTORY  by Iain Banks
THE CEREMONIES  by T. E. D. Klein
MYTHAGO WOOD  by Robert Holdstock
WHO MADE STEVIE CRYE?  by Michael Bishop
SONG OF KALI by Dan Simmons
THE DAMNATION GAME  by Clive Barker
HAWKSMOOR  by Peter Ackroyd
A NEST OF NIGHTMARES  by Lisa Tuttle
THE PET  by Charles N. Grant
SWAN SONG by Robert McCammon
DARK FEASTS by Ramsey Campbell