Horror: The 100 Best Books (48 page)

STEPHEN JONES (b. 1953) was born in Pimlico, London, and currently lives in Wembley. He is the winner of two World Fantasy Awards, two Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Awards and The International Horror Critics Guild Award as well as being a ten-time recipient of the British Fantasy Award and a Hugo Award nominee. A full-time columnist, television producer/director and genre movie publicist and consultant (the first three
Hellraiser
movies,
Night Life
,
Nightbreed
,
Split Second
,
Mind Ripper
,
Last Gasp
etc.), he is the co-editor of
Horror: 100 Best Books
,
The Best Horror from Fantasy Tales
,
Gaslight & Ghosts
,
Now We Are Sick
,
H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror
,
The Anthology of Fantasy & the Supernatural
,
Secret City: Strange Tales of London
, and the
Best New Horror, Dark Terrors, Dark Voices
and
Fantasy Tales
series. He has written The
Illustrated Vampire Movie Guide
,
The Illustrated Dinosaur Movie Guide
,
The Illustrated Frankenstein Movie Guide
and
The Illustrated Werewolf Movie Guide
, and compiled
The Mammoth Book of Terror
,
The Mammoth Book of Vampires
,
The Mammoth Book of Zombies
,
The Mammoth Book of Werewolves
,
The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein
,
The Mammoth Book of Dracula
,
Shadows Over Innsmouth
,
Dancing With the Dark
,
Exorcisms and Ecstasies
by Karl Edward Wagner,
The Vampire Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes
,
Dark of the Night
,
Dark Detectives
,
James Herbert: By Horror Haunted
,
Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror
,
Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden
,
Clive Barker's The Nightbreed Chronicles
and
The Hellraiser Chronicles
.

KIM NEWMAN (b. 1959) was born in Brixton, London, and currently lives in Islington. He has won the Bram Stoker Award, the British Science Fiction Award, the Children of the Night Award, the Fiction Award of the Lord Ruthven Assembly and the International Horror Critics Guild Award. A film and book critic for
Monthly Film Bulletin
,
Shock Xpress
,
Sight and Sound
and many other publications, he was the regular film critic for the
Channel 4 Daily
, and appears frequently on radio and television. He has scripted the TV documentaries
The Hero Strikes Back
and
The Vault of Horror
, three seasons of
Dr. Terror's Vault of Horror
for the BBC, Radio 3's
Film in the Forties: Out of the Dark -- Val Lewton
, and Radio 2's
The Rise and Fall of the House of Hammer
. His novels are
The Night Mayor
,
Bad Dreams
,
Iago
,
Anno Dracula
,
The Quorum
,
The Bloody Red Baron
,
Back in the USSA
(with Eugene Byrne),
Life's Lottery
and
Dracula Cha Cha Cha
. As "Jack Yeovil", he has written
Drachenfels
,
Demon Download
,
Krokodil Tears
,
Comeback Tour
,
Beasts in Velvet
,
Genevieve Undead
,
Route 666
and
Orgy of the Blood Parasites
. His short stories are collected in
The Original Dr. Shade and Other Stories
and
Famous Monsters
, and his non-fiction books are
Ghastly Beyond Belief: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of Quotations
(with Neil Gaiman),
Horror: 100 Best Books
,
Nightmare Movies: A Critical History of the Horror Film Since 1968
,
Wild West Movies
and
The BFI Companion to Horror
. He also edited (with Paul J. McAuley) the anthology,
In Dreams
.

Book titles included in this volume are capitalized; authors are indicated by a bold page number, and contributor's notes are shown as an italicised page number.

Ackerman, Forrest J 305 Ackroyd, Peter 282 Aickman, Robert 192 Aldiss, Brian W. 305 ALL HEADS TURN WHEN THE HUNT GOES BY 229 Amis, Kingsley 195 AND THE DARKNESS FALLS 149 THE ANUBIS GATES 261 THE ARABIAN NIGHTMARE 265 Ashley, Mike 306 Austen, Jane 33

Bailey, Paul 147 Ballard, J.G. 190 Barker, Clive 280, 306 Banks, Iain 267 Belloc, Hilaire 307 Benson, E.F. 105 Berlin, Eddy C. 307 THE BEST TALES OF HOFFMANN 30 Bierce, Ambrose 101 Bishop, Michael 275 Blackburn, John 308 THE BLACK SPIDER 47 Blackwood, Algernon 93 Blatty, William Peter 205 Bloch, Robert 171, 308 Boucher, Anthony 198 Bowen, Marjorie 120 Bradbury, Ray 164 Bradfield, Scott 309 Brennan, Joseph Payne 167 Brunner, John 209 Bryant, Edward
310
BURNT OFFERINGS 216

Cabell, James Branch 114 THE CADAVER OF GIDEON WYCK 123 Campbell, Ramsey 292, 320 Carroll, Jonathan 245 Cave, Hugh B. 224,
311
THE CELLAR 247 THE CEREMONIES 270 Chambers, Robert W. 65 Charnas, Suzy McKee
312
Chesterton, G.K. 96 Chetwynd-Hayes, R. 312 Clute, John 323 Cole, Adrian 323 THE COLLECTED WORKS OF AMBROSE BIERCE 101 THE COMPLEAT WEREWOLF, AND OTHER TALES OF FANTASY AND SF 198 THE CONFIDENCE MAN: HIS MASQUERADE 53 CONJURE WIFE 139 Conrad, Joseph 77 Copper, Basil 324 CRY HORROR! 176 THE CRYSTAL WORLD 190

Dalby, Richard 324 THE DAMNATION GAME 280 Daniels, Les
315
Dann, Jack 325 THE DARK COUNTRY 256 DARK FEASTS 292 THE DARK TOWER 127 DEATHBIRD STORIES 221 de Lint, Charles
316
DELIVER ME FROM EVA 147 Derleth, August 145, 151 Dick, Philip K. 181 Disch, Thomas M.
316
DRACULA 71

Edwards, Malcolm 327 Ellison, Harlan 221,
317
Endore, Guy 118 Etchison, Dennis 256,
318
Evans, Christopher
319
THE EXORCIST 205

FALLING ANGEL 234 Fanthorpe, Lionel
319
Farris, John 229 Ford, John M. 329 FRANKENSTEIN: or, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS 35

Gaiman, Neil 320 Gallagher, Stephen
321
Gardner, Craig Shaw
321
Gardner, John 202 Garneld, Frances 322 Garnett, David 322 GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY 85 GHOST STORY 242 Godwin, William 25 Golding, William 159 Gotthelf, Jeremias 47 Grant, Charles L 287, 323 Greenland, Colin 323 THE GREEN MAN 195 GRENDEL 202

Hadji, Robert S. 324 Haggard, Sir Henry Rider 62 Haining, Peter
324
Haldeman, Joe 324 Harris, Thomas 250 Hartwell, David G. 325 THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE 178 HAWKSMOOR 282 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 45 Hay, George 325 HEART OF DARKNESS 77 Hjortsberg, William 234 Hodgson, William Hope 98 Hogg, James 40 Holdstock, Robert 272, 326 Hoffmann, E.T.A. 30 THE HORROR HORN: THE BEST HORROR STORIES OF E.F.BENSON 105 THE HOUSE OF SOULS 88 THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND 98 Howard, Robert E. 326 Hutson, Shaun 327

I AM LEGEND 161 IN A LONELY PLACE 258 Irwin, Robert 265 THE ISLAND OF DR MOREAU 68

Jackson, Shirley 178 Jakubowski, Maxim 328 James, Henry 74 James, M.R. 85, 328 THE JEWEL OF SEVEN STARS 81 JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN 130 JOHN SILENCE, PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY 93 Jones, Diana Wynne 329

Kafka, Franz 111 Karloff, Boris 149 Kaye, Marvin 329 THE KEEP 253 Kilworth, Garry 330 King, Stephen 219, 232, 330 THE KING IN YELLOW 65 Klein, T.E.D. 270,
331
Kneale, Nigel 173 Kosinski, Jerzy 185

Laing, Alexander 123 Lamb, Hugh
331
THE LAND OF LAUGHS 245 Langford, David
332
Lansdale, Joe R.
332
THE LAST BOUQUET: SOME TWILIGHT TALES 120 Laws, Stephen
333
Laymon, Richard 247 Lee, Samantha 333 Le Fanu, J. Sheridan 56 Leiber, Fritz 139 Lewis, C.S. 127 Lewis, Matthew Gregory 27 Lindsay, David 108 LORD OF THE FLIES 159 Lovecraft, H.P. 132, 145, 176, 334 Lumley, Brian 334 THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD 145

Machen, Arthur 88 THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY: A NIGHTMARE 96 Marasco, Robert 216 Marlowe, Christopher 17 Masterton, Graharrt 335 Matheson, Richard 161 Matheson, Richard Christian 336 Maturin, Charles 37 McCammon, Robert 290, 336 McDowell, Michael 337 MEDUSA 116 Melville, Herman 53 MELMOTH THE WANDERER 37 THE MONK: A ROMANCE 27 Monteleone, Thomas F. 337 Moorcock, Michael
338
Morrell, David 239 MURGUNSTRUMM AND OTHERS 224 MYTHAGO WOOD 272

A NEST OF NIGHTMARES 285 Nicholls, Peter 338 NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES 142 NINE HORRORS AND A DREAM 167 Nolan, William F. 339 NORTHANGER ABBEY 33

THE OCTOBER COUNTRY 164 Onions, Oliver 103 OUT OF SPACE AND TIME 135 THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS 132

Page, Gerald W. 339 THE PAINTED BIRD 185 Parry, Michel 340 THE PET 287 Pirie, David 340 Poe, Edgar Allan 42,
341
Powers, Tim 261 Pratchett, Terry 342 THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS AND CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER 40 PSYCHO 171

QUATERMASS AND THE PIT 173

RED DRAGON 250 Ryman, Geoff 342

'SALEM'S LOT 219 Salmonson, Jessica Amanda 342 Sarban 156 Sarrantonio, Al 343 Schow, David J. 343 A SECOND CENTURY OF CREEPY STORIES 125 Shakespeare, William 21 SHE 62 THE SHEEP LOOK UP 209 Shelley, Mary W. 35 THE SHINING 232 Simmons, Dan 277,
344
Skipp, John
344
Sladek, John
345
THE SLEEPING AND THE DEAD 151 Smith, Clark Ashton 135 Smith, Guy N.
346
SOMETHING ABOUT EVE 114 SONG OF KALI 277 THE SOUND OF HIS HORN 156 Spector, Craig 346 Stableford, Brian
346
Stevenson, Robert Louis 60 Stoker, Bram 71, 81 Stout, Tim 347 THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE 60 Straub, Peter 242, 347 Strieber, Whitley 237 Subotsky, Milton 348 SUB ROSA 192 Sue, Eugene 49 Sullivan, Jack 349 SWAN SONG 290 SWEETHEART, SWEETHEART 227

TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION 42 Taylor, Bernard 227 Tem, Steve Rasnic 349 Tessier, Thomas 350 THINGS AS THEY ARE; OR: THE ADVENTURES OF CALEB WILLIAMS 25 THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH 181 THE TOTEM 239 TRACK OF THE CAT 154 THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH 21 THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DR FAUSTUS 17 Tremayne, Peter 350 THE TRIAL 111 Trumbo, Dalton 130 THE TURN OF THE SCREW 74 Tuttle, Lisa 285, 350 TWICE-TOLD TALES 45

UNCLE SILAS: A TALE OF BERTRAM-HAUGH 56

van Tilburg Clark, Walter 154 Visiak, E.H. 116 A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS 108

Wagner, Karl Edward 258, 353 Walpole, Hugh 125 THE WANDERING JEW 49 THE WASP FACTORY 267 Watson, Ian 352 Webster, John 23 Wellman, Manly Wade 214 Wells, H.G. 68 THE WEREWOLF OF PARIS 118 WHO MADE STEVIE CRYE? 275 WIDDERSHINS 103 Williams, Tad 352 Williamson, Chet 352 Williamson, Jack 353 Williamson, J.N. 353 Wilson, Colin 354 Wilson, F. Paul 253, 354 Winter, Douglas E. 355 THE WHITE DEVIL 23 Wolfe, Gene 355 THE WOLFEN 237 Wollheim, Donald A. 356 Woolrich, Cornell 142 WORSE THINGS WAITING 214

Yolen, Jane 357

Acknowledgements

A project like this needs lots of friends. For books, information, advice and criticism, we'd like to thank Forrest J Ackerman, Mike Ashley, Ramsey Campbell, John Clute, Richard Dalby, Meg Davis, Kathy Gale, Jo Fletcher, Stefan Jaworzyn, Tom Milne, Humphrey Price, The Society of Authors and Lisa Tuttle. Among many reference works, we found the most invaluable to be
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
edited by Peter Nicholls,
The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural
edited by Jack Sullivan,
Supernatural Horror in Literature
by H.P. Lovecraft,
Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction
by Mike Ashley and
Locus
edited by Charles N. Brown. Of course, we'd also like to thank all our contributors, whose self-sacrifice and dedication to this project is perhaps typified by Malcolm Edwards, who took time out from his honeymoon to write his piece.

DR FAUSTUS/Marlow Copyright (c) 1988 Clive Barker; MACBETH/Shakespeare Copyright (c) 1988 John Blackburn; THE WHITE DEVIL/Webster Copyright (c) 1988 Diana Wynne Jones; CALEB WILLIAMS/Godwin Copyright (c) 1988 Scott Bradfield; THE MONK/Lewis Copyright (c) 1988 Les Daniels; NORTHANGER ABBEY/Austen Copyright (c) 1988 David Pirie; FRANKENSTEIN/Shelley Copyright (c) 1988 Jane Yolen; MELMOTH THE WANDERER/Maturin Copyright (c) 1988 Peter Tremayne; CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER/Hogg Copyright (c) 1988 Garry Kilworth; TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION/Poe Copyright (c) 1988 John M. Ford; TWICE TOLD TALES/Hawthorne from
The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
, 1850; THE BLACK SPIDER/Gotthelf Copyright (c) 1988 Thomas Tessier; THE WANDERING JEW/Sue Copyright (c) 1988 Thomas M. Disch; THE CONFIDENCE MAN/Melville Copyright (c) 1988 Michael McDowell; UNCLE SILAS/Le Fanu Copyright (c) 1926, The World's Classics edition; DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE/Stevenson Copyright (c) 1988 Jack Williamson; SHE/Haggard Copyright (c) 1988 Tim Stout; THE KING IN YELLOW/Chambers Copyright (c) 1927 W. Paul Cook. Copyright (c) 1939, 1945 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei; THE ISLAND OF DR MOREAU/Wells Copyright (c) 1988 Gene Wolfe; DRACULA/Stoker Copyright (c) 1988 Colin Wilson; THE TURN OF THE SCREW/James Copyright (c) 1988 R. Chetwynd-Hayes; HEART OF DARKNESS/Conrad Copyright (c) 1988 Douglas E. Winter; THE JEWEL OF SEVEN STARS/Stoker Copyright (c) 1988 Richard Dalby; GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY/James Copyright (c) 1988 Geoff Ryman; THE HOUSE OF SOULS/Machen Copyright (c) 1988 T. E. D. Klein; JOHN SILENCE, PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY/Blackwood reprinted from
The Morning Post
, September 17,1908; THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY/Chesterton Copyright (c) 1988 David Langford; THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND/Hodgson Copyright (c) 1988 Terry Pratchett; THE COLLECTED WORKS OF AMBROSE BIERCE Copyright (c) 1988 Milton Subtosky; WIDDERSHINS/Onions Copyright (c) 1988 Mike Ashley; A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS/Lindsay Copyright (c) 1988 George Hay; THE TRIAL/Kafka Copyright (c) 1988 Steve Rasnic Tern; SOMETHING ABOUT EVE/Cabell Copyright (c) 1968 the Terminus, Owlswick & Ft. Mudge Electrick St. Railway Gazette for
Amra
, Vol. 2, No. 47; MEDUSA/Visiak Copyright (c) 1988 Karl Edward Wagner; WEREWOLF OF PARIS/Endore Copyright (c) 1988 Marvin Kaye; THE LAST BOUQUET: SOME TWILIGHT TALES/Bowen Copyright (c) 1988 Jessica Amanda Salmonson; THE CADAVER OF GIDEON WYCK Copyright (c) 1988 Robert Bloch; A SECOND CENTURY OF CREEPY STORIES/Walpole Copyright (c) 1988 Hugh Lamb; JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN/Trumbo Copyright (c) 1988 Dennis Etchison; Commentary on OUT OF SPACE AND TIME/Smith by Harlan Ellison Copyright (c) 1988 by the Kilimanjaro Corporation. All rights reserved. CONJURE WIFE/Leiber Copyright (c) 1988 Gerald W. Page; NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES/Woolrich Copyright (c) 1988 Maxim Jakubowski; THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD/Lovecraft-Derleth Copyright (c) 1988 Graham Masterton; THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS/Lovecraft Copyright (c) 1988 Donald A. Wollheim; DELIVER ME FROM EVA/Bailey Copyright (c) 1988 Forrest J Ackerman; AND THE DARKNESS FALLS/Karloff Copyright (c) 1988 David Hartwell; THE SLEEPING AND THE DEAD/Derleth Copyright (c) 1988 Peter Haining; TRACK OF THE CAT/van Tilburg Clark Copyright (c) 1988 Robert McCammon; THE SOUND OF HIS HORN/Sarban Copyright (c) 1988 Suzy McKee Charnas; LORD OF THE FLIES/Golding Copyright (c) 1988 Joe Haldeman; I AM LEGEND/Matheson Copyright (c) 1988 Richard Christian Matheson; THE OCTOBER COUNTRY/Bradbury Copyright (c) 1988 Joe R. Lansdale; NINE HORRORS AND A DREAM/Brennan Copyright (c) 1988 Stephen Gallagher; CRY HORROR!/Lovecraft Copyright (c) 1988 Michel Parry; PSYCHO/Bloch Copyright (c) 1988 Hugh B. Cave; QUATERMASS AND THE PIT/Kneale Copyright (c) 1988 Stephen Laws; THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE/Jackson (c) 1988 Lisa Tuttle; THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH/Dick Copyright (c) 1988 Tad Williams; THE PAINTED BIRD/Kosinski Copyright (c) 1988 Jack Dann; THE CRYSTAL WORLD/Ballard Copyright (c) 1988 Craig Shaw Gardner; TALES OF HOFFMAN/Hoffmann Copyright (c) 1988 John Sladek; SUB ROSA/Aickman Copyright (c) 1988 Colin Greenland; THE GREEN MAN/Amis Copyright (c) 1988 Brian W. Aldiss; THE COMPLEAT WEREWOLF/Boucher Copyright (c) 1988 Neil Gaiman; GRENDEL/Gardner Copyright (c) 1988 Dan Simmons; THE EXORCIST/Blatty Copyright (c) 1988 F. Paul Wilson; THE SHEEP LOOK UP/Brunner Copyright (c) 1988 John Skipp; WORSE THINGS WAITING/Wellman Copyright (c) 1988 Frances Garfield; BURNT OFFERINGS/Marasco Copyright (c) 1988 Stephen King; THE HORROR HORN/Benson Copyright (c) 1988 Basil Copper; 'SALEM'S LOT/King Copyright (c) 1988 Al Sarrantonio; DEATHBIRD STORIES/Ellison Copyright (c) 1988 Craig Spector; THE DARK TOWER/Lewis Copyright (c) 1988 Lionel Fanthorpe; SWEETHEART, SWEETHEART/Taylor Copyright (c) 1988 Charles L. Grant; MURGUNSTRUMM/Cave Copyright (c) 1988 Brian Lumley; ALL HEADS TURN WHEN THE HUNT GOES BY/Farris Copyright (c) 1988 David J. Schow; THE SHINING/King Copyright (c) 1988 Peter Straub; THE WOLFEN/Strieber Copyright (c) 1988 Charles de Lint; THE TOTEM/Morrell Copyright (c) 1988 Shaun Hutson; GHOST STORY/Straub Copyright (c) 1988 Peter Nicholls; FALLING ANGEL/Hjortsberg Copyright (c) 1988 William F. Nolan; THE LAND OF LAUGHS/Carroll Copyright (c) 1988 Christopher Evans; THE CELLAR/Laymon Copyright (c) 1988 David Garnett; RED DRAGON/Harris Copyright (c) 1988 Chet Williamson; THE KEEP/Wilson Copyright (c) 1988 J. N. Williamson; THE DARK COUNTRY/Etchison Copyright (c) 1988 Samantha Lee; IN A LONELY PLACE/Wagner Copyright (c) 1988 Ramsey Campbell; THE ANUBIS GATES/Powers Copyright (c) 1988 John Clute; THE WASP FACTORY/Banks Copyright (c) 1988 Malcolm Edwards; THE ARABIAN NIGHTMARE/Irwin Copyright (c) 1988 Brian Stableford; THE CEREMONIES/Klein Copyright (c) 1988 Thomas F. Monteleone; MYTHAGO WOOD/Holdstock Copyright (c) 1988 Michael Moorcock; WHO MADE STEVIE CRYE?/Bishop Copyright (c) 1988 Ian Watson; SONG OF KALI/Simmons Copyright (c) 1988 Edward Bryant; A NEST OF NIGHTMARES/Tuttle Copyright (c) 1988 Robert Holdstock; THE DAMNATION GAME/Barker Copyright (c) 1988 Adrian Cole; HAWKSMOOR/Ackroyd Copyright (c) 1988 Robert S. Hadji; THE PET/Grant Copyright (c) 1988 Guy N. Smith; SWAN SONG/McCammon Copyright (c) 1988 Eddy C. Bertin; DARK FEASTS/Campbell Copyright (c) 1988 Jack Sullivan; Introduction Copyright (c) 1988 Ramsey Campbell; All other material Copyright (c) 1988, 1992 Stephen Jones and Kim Newman.