Newman and Jones 100 Best Horror Novels

Submitted by Bibliobabe on Fri, 09/21/2007 - 11:52
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  1. Christopher Marlowe - The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
  2. William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Macbeth
  3. John Webster - The White Devil
  4. William Godwin - Things As They Are; or: The Adventures of Caleb Williams
  5. Matthew Gregory Lewis - The Monk: A Romance
  6. E.T.A. Hoffmann - The Best Tales of Hoffmann
  7. Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
  8. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
  9. Charles Maturin - Melmoth the Wanderer
  10. James Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
  11. Edgar Allen Poe - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
  12. Nathaniel Hawthorne - Twice-Told Tales
  13. Jeremias Gotthelf - The Black Spider
  14. Eugène Sue - The Wandering Jew
  15. Herman Melville - The Confidence Man: His Masquerade
  16. J. Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bertram-Haugh
  17. Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  18. H. Rider Haggard - She
  19. Robert W. Chambers - The King in Yellow
  20. H.G. Wells - The Island of Dr. Moreau
  21. Bram Stoker - Dracula
  22. Henry James The Turn of the Screw
  23. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
  24. Bram Stoker - The Jewel of Seven Stars
  25. M.R. James - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
  26. Arthur Machen - The House of Souls
  27. Algernon Blackwood - John Silence, Physician Extraordinary
  28. G.K. Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday
  29. William Hope Hodgson - The House On the Borderland
  30. Ambrose Bierce - The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce
  31. Oliver Onions - Widdershins
  32. E.F. Benson - The Horror Horn: The Best Horror Stories of E.F. Benson
  33. David Lindsay - A Voyage To Arcturus
  34. Franz Kafka - The Trial
  35. James Branch Cabell - Something About Eve
  36. E.H. Visiak - Medusa
  37. Guy -The Werewolf of Paris
  38. Marjorie Bowen - The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales
  39. Alexander Laing - The Cadaver of Gideaon Wyck
  40. Sir Hugh Walpole (ed) - A Second Century of Creepy Stories
  41. C.S. Lewis - The Dark Tower and The Day After Judgment
  42. Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun
  43. H.P Lovecraft - The Outsider and Others
  44. Clark Ashton Smith - Out of Space and Time
  45. Fritz Leiber - Conjure Wife
  46. Cornell Woolrich - Night Has a Thousand Eyes
  47. H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth - The Lurker at the Threshold
  48. Paul Bailey - Deliver Me From Eva
  49. Boris Karloff (ed) - And the Darkness Falls
  50. August Derleth (ed) - The Sleeping and the Dead
  51. Walter Van Tilburg Clark - Track of the Cat
  52. Sarban - The Sound of His Horn
  53. William Golding - Lord of the Flies
  54. Richard Matherson - I Am Legend
  55. Ray Bradbury - The October Country
  56. Joseph Payne Brennan - Nine Horrors and a Dream
  57. Robert Bloch - Psycho
  58. Nigel Kneale - Quatermass and the Pit
  59. H.P. Lovecraft - Cry Horror!
  60. Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
  61. Philip K. Dick - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
  62. Jerzy kosinski - The Painted Bird
  63. J.G. Ballard - The Crystal World
  64. Robert Aikman - Sub Rosa
  65. Kingsley Amis - The Green Man
  66. Anthony Boucher - The Compleat Werewolf, and Other Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction
  67. John Gardner - Grendel
  68. William Peter Blatty - The Exorcist
  69. John Brunner - The Sheep Look Up
  70. Manly Wade Wellman - Worse Things Waiting
  71. Robert Marasco - Burnt Offerings
  72. Stephen King - Salems's Lot
  73. Harlan Ellison - Deathbird Stories
  74. Hugh B. Cave - Murgunstrumm and Others
  75. Bernard Taylor - Sweetheart, Sweetheart
  76. John Farris - All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By
  77. Stephen King - The Shining
  78. William Hjortsberg - Falling Angel
  79. Whitely Streiber - The Wolfen
  80. David Morrell - The Totem
  81. Peter Straub - Ghost Story
  82. Jonathan Carroll - The Land of Laughs
  83. Richard Laymon - The Cellar
  84. Thomas Harris - Red Dragon
  85. F. Paul Wilson - The Keep
  86. Deniis Etchison - The Dark Country
  87. Karl Edward Wagner - In a Lonely Place
  88. Tim Powers - The Anubis Gates
  89. Robert Irwin - The Arabian Nightmare
  90. Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory
  91. T.E.D. Klein - The Ceremonies
  92. Robert Holdstock - Mythago Wood
  93. Michael Bishop - Who Made Stevie Crye?
  94. Dan Simmons - The Song of Kali
  95. Clive Barker - The Damnation Game
  96. Peter Ackroyd - Hawksmoor
  97. Lisa Tuttle - A Nest of Nightmares
  98. Charles L. Grant - The Pet
  99. Robert McCammon - Swan Song
  100. Ramsey Campbell - Dark Feasts
Author Comments: 

I found this list when playing the other day online and found it interesting. I was quite surprised that I hadn't read more on the list. Hope you guys enjoy it too.

Just finished I Am Legend. It is good, but I foud the short stories that followed it to really creepy and very well written.