Horror: The 100 Best Books

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First published in 1988, Horror: The 100 Best Books has remained the only book of its kind: a solid (and entertaining) annotated reading list spanning the range of horror fiction from the 16th to the vis mere 20th century. The device of asking 100 horror, fantasy, and science fiction writers to write about their favorite horror books might seem at first to capture an idiosyncratic sample, but through diplomacy and diligence, editors Stephen Jones and Kim Newman succeeded in obtaining short essays on most (if not all) of the well-known classics, as well as many more lesser-knowns that are well worth discovering. vis mindre
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1988
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Hawksmoor (1985) af Peter Ackroyd
Sub Rosa: Strange Tales (1968) af Robert Aickman
The Green Man (1969) af Kingsley Amis
Northanger Abbey (1817) af Jane Austen
Deliver Me From Eva (1946) af Paul Bailey
Krystalverdenen (1966) af J. G. Ballard
Hvepsefabrikken (1984) af Iain Banks
The Damnation Game (1985) af Clive Barker
Horror Horn (1974) af E. F. Benson
The collected works of Ambrose Bierce (1966) af Ambrose Bierce
Who Made Stevie Crye? (1984) af Michael Bishop
John Silence, Physician Extraordinary (1908) af Algernon Blackwood
Exorcisten (1971) af William Peter Blatty
Psycho (1959) af Robert Bloch
The Compleat Werewolf and Other Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1969) af Anthony Boucher
The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales (2009) af Marjorie Bowen
Manden med leen (1955) af Ray Bradbury
Nine Horrors and a Dream (1958) af Joseph Payne Brennan
The Sheep Look Up (1972) af John Brunner
Something about Eve : a comedy of fig-leaves (1927) af James Branch Cabell
Dark Feasts: The World of Ramsey Campbell (1987) af Ramsey Campbell
The Land of Laughs (1980) af Jonathan Carroll
Murgunstrumm and Others (1977) af Hugh B. Cave
The King in Yellow (1895) af Robert W. Chambers
Manden, som var Torsdag (1908) af G.K. Chesterton
The Track of the Cat (1949) af Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Mørkets hjerte (1899) af Joseph Conrad
The Sleeping and the Dead (1963) af August Derleth
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964) af Philip K. Dick
Deathbird Stories (1975) af Harlan Ellison
The Werewolf of Paris (1933) af Guy Endore
The Dark Country (1982) af Dennis Etchison
All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By (1977) af John Farris
Grendel (1971) af John Gardner
Caleb Williams (1794) af William Godwin
Fluernes herre (1954) af William Golding
The Black Spider (1842) af Jeremias Gotthelf
The Pet (1986) af Charles L. Grant
Hun (1886) af H. Rider Haggard
Den røde drage (1981) af Thomas Harris
Twice-Told Tales (1837) af Nathaniel Hawthorne
Falling Angel (1978) af William Hjortsberg
The House on the Borderland (1908) af William Hope Hodgson
Tales of Hoffmann (1814) af E. T. A. Hoffmann
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) af James Hogg
Mythago Wood (1984) af Robert Holdstock
Det arabiske mareridt (1985) af Robert Irwin
The Haunting of Hill House (1959) af Shirley Jackson
Skruen strammes (1898) af Henry James
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) af M. R. James
Processen (1925) af Franz Kafka
And the Darkness Falls (1946) af Boris Karloff
De dødes by (1975) af Stephen King
Ondskabens hotel (1977) af Stephen King
The Ceremonies (1984) af T. E. D. Klein
Quatermass and the Pit (1960) af Nigel Kneale
Den bemalede fugl (1965) af Jerzy Kosiński
The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck (1942) af Alexander Laing
The Cellar (1980) af Richard Laymon
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (1864) af Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Heksenatten (1953) af Fritz Leiber
The Dark Tower and Other Stories (1977) af C. S. Lewis
The Monk (1796) af Matthew Lewis
A Voyage to Arcturus (1920) af David Lindsay
The Lurker at the Threshold (1945) af H. P. Lovecraft
The Lurking Fear and Other Stories (1971) af H. P. Lovecraft
The Outsider, and Others (1939) af H. P. Lovecraft
The House of Souls (1922) af Arthur Machen
Ond nat (1973) af Robert Marasco
Den tragiske historie om doktor Faust (1601) af Christopher Marlowe
Jeg er den sidste (1954) af Richard Matheson
Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) af Charles Maturin
Swan Song (1987) af Robert R. McCammon
Bondefangeren (1857) af Herman Melville
The Totem (1979) af David Morrell
Widdershins (1911) af Oliver Onions
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1832) af Edgar Allan Poe
The Anubis Gates (1983) af Tim Powers
The Sound of His Horn (1952) af Sarban
Macbeth (1606) af William Shakespeare
Frankenstein (1818) af Mary Shelley
Kalis sang (1985) af Dan Simmons
Out of Space and Time (1942) af Clark Ashton Smith
Dr. Jekyll og Mr. Hyde (1886) af Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula (1897) af Bram Stoker
The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903) af Bram Stoker
Gost Story ( det forfærdeligste) (1979) af Peter Straub
Skygger i natten (1978) af Whitley Strieber
The Wandering Jew, Volume I (1892) af Eugène Sue
Sweetheart, Sweetheart (1977) af Bernard Taylor
Johnny Got His Gun (1939) af Dalton Trumbo
A Nest of Nightmares (1986) af Lisa Tuttle
Medusa : a Story of Mystery, and Ecstasy & Strange Horror (1946) af E. H. Visiak
In a Lonely Place (1983) af Karl Edward Wagner
The Second Century of Creepy Stories (1937) af Sir Hugh Walpole
The White Devil (1612) af John Webster
Worse Things Waiting (1973) af Manly Wade Wellman
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) af H. G. Wells
The Keep (1981) af F. Paul Wilson
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1945) af Cornell Woolrich

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First published in 1988, Horror: The 100 Best Books has remained the only book of its kind: a solid (and entertaining) annotated reading list spanning the range of horror fiction from the 16th to the 20th century. The device of asking 100 horror, fantasy, and science fiction writers to write about their favorite horror books might seem at first to capture an idiosyncratic sample, but through diplomacy and diligence, editors Stephen Jones and Kim Newman succeeded in obtaining short essays on most (if not all) of the well-known classics, as well as many more lesser-knowns that are well worth discovering. (English, Member-written)

Has the follow-up: Horror: Another 100 Best Books

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