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| So, you like to read horror, eh? Well The Crypt has composed a must read list here, sort of like a book club, but I assure you none of these would ever be on Oprah's list. |
| For some suggested reading, try this list as compiled by the Horror Writers Asscoiation. THE TOP 40 HORROR BOOKS OF ALL TIME As chosen by the Horror Writers Association Note: This list is alphabetical by surname; no ranking is implied. Best Ghost stories of Algernon Blackwood The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite The Hungry Moon by Ramsey Campbell The Between by Tananarive Due Darklands by Dennis Etchison Raven by Charles L Grant Dead in the Water by Nancy Holder The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Ghost Stories of M.R. James Dr. Adder by K.W. Jeter The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka Pet Semetary by Stephen King The Shining by Stephen King The Stand by Stephen King Skin by Kathe Koja Dark Dance by Tanith Lee Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti Lovers Living, Lovers Dead by Richard Lortz The Dunwich Horror and Others by H.P. Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen Tales of Horror and the Supernatural by Arthur Machen Sineater by Elizabeth Massie I Am Legend by Richard Matheson Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Childs Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Book of the Dead edited by John Skipp and Craig Spector Ghoul by Michael Slade Vampire Junction by S.P. Somtow The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Dracula by Bram Stoker Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon Phantom by Thomas Tessier Sacrifice by Andrew Vachss Complied by Thomeas Deja & Nicholas Kauffman |