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I have completed the first round of compiling. 50 books have made the cut so far.

We need 50 more. And for this, I need your collective help.

As many as 145 entries have ended up being nominated ONCE. I will need you to back up some of these choices, to make it into the final tally.

Since we need 50 out of a possible 145, we will tackle this with batches of 5 - five master lists of 29 nominations in number. You will have to select 10 nominations, out of the 29 posted, to back them up with your support. You may post your choices in this thread, or through PM to me.

If you feel a particular book/short story/poem doesn't deserve to make the cut (out of these lists), feel free to post it along with your reasons. Vice versa, if you feel that a particular book/short story/poem DESERVES to make the cut, post your reasons why. If you get enough people to agree with you, it will be in.

Please don't select a written work just because you nominated it, but look at the overall picture and see if it is a fitting entry to be marked permanently in a Top 100 list. Remember, quality comes first.

Here we go with the first list of 29 nominations. All the best choosing, folks!


The First Batch

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
A Warning To The Curious - M R James
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith
Adrift on The Haunted Seas - William Hope Hodgson
And Then There Were None/Ten Little Indians - Agatha Christie
Annabel Lee - Edgar Allen Poe (poem)
Ariel - Sylvia Plath (poems)
Batman: the Long Halloween - Jeph Loeb (comic book)
Black Man With a Horn - T.E.D. Klein
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Books of Blood series - Clive Barker (collections)
Brain - Robin Cook
Cabal - Clive Barker
Carrie - Stephen King
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Cell - Stephen King
Children of the Kingdom - T.E.D. Klein
Coma - Robin Cook
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dagon and other Macabre Tales - H.P. Lovecraft
Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
Der Struwwelpeter - Heinrich Hoffmann (graphical book)
Desperation - Stephen King
Duncan's Diary: Birth of a Serial Killer - Christopher C. Payne
Dune - Frank Herbert
Eyebrows and Other Fish - Anthony Scally
Fengriffen: A Chilling Tale - David Case