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Fearonsarms 03-07-2011 11:47 PM

Ok 11th-The Wasp Factory-Iain Banks

The Flayed One 03-08-2011 12:06 PM

Adding some comic love.

The Preacher series - Garth Ennis
Batman: the Long Halloween - Jeph Loeb

Angra 03-08-2011 12:28 PM

"It" - Stephen King

"Summer of night" - Dan Simmons

"The witch herself" - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

swiss tony 03-08-2011 01:44 PM

At the Mountains of Madness and other Macabre Tales - Dagon and other Macabre Tales - Dunwich Horror and others - The Horror in the Museum and other Revisions - Must be the Arkham House corrected versions.

Bleak House - Charles Dickens

The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole

Jaws - Peter Benchley

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham

The Collected Stories of Gogol - any publisher's collection (mine is Folio Society)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving

The Devils of Loudon - Aldous Huxley

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

I know I've just picked all the heavy weight, genre defining works but they are my favourites, probably because they're the best. Anyway, it's a Top 100 list we're compiling, not a 'lets impress everyone with my knowledge of lesser known works' list.

swiss tony 03-08-2011 02:19 PM

Almost forgot... The Keep by F. Paul Wilson

neverending 03-08-2011 06:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by swiss tony (Post 887918)
Anyway, it's a Top 100 list we're compiling, not a 'lets impress everyone with my knowledge of lesser known works' list.


If we don't expand the list beyond the top 10 most popular books of horror, how are we ever to compile a top 100? As the Prez said in the first post, this is not the time to criticize people's choices, now is the time to brainstorm.

Ferox13 03-08-2011 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by swiss tony (Post 887918)
The Horror in the Museum and other Revisions.

My edition doesn't have The LOved Dead in it which is one of the weirdest Lovecraft Stories (collaborations) :(

roshiq 03-08-2011 11:54 PM

I've read very few horror books so far:o...but still I'll post a list here later though most of them already got mentioned.

Ferox13 03-09-2011 12:06 AM

Neverending - do you have any info on whether Lovecraft really worked on 'The Loved Dead' or it was all just C. M. Eddy?

neverending 03-09-2011 12:39 AM

Both of the Lovecraft biographies I have are in storage, and that story doesn't ring a bell...


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