Horror: The 100 Best Books

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First published in 1988, Horror: The 100 Best Books has remained the only book of its kind: a solid (and entertaining) annotated reading list spanning the range of horror fiction from the 16th to the mostra altro 20th century. The device of asking 100 horror, fantasy, and science fiction writers to write about their favorite horror books might seem at first to capture an idiosyncratic sample, but through diplomacy and diligence, editors Stephen Jones and Kim Newman succeeded in obtaining short essays on most (if not all) of the well-known classics, as well as many more lesser-knowns that are well worth discovering. mostra meno
Anno di conferimento:
1988
Opera
Hawksmoor (1985) di Peter Ackroyd
Sub Rosa: Strange Tales (1968) di Robert Aickman
The Green Man (1969) di Kingsley Amis
L'abbazia di Northanger (1817) di Jane Austen
Deliver Me From Eva (1946) di Paul Bailey
Foresta di cristallo (1966) di J. G. Ballard
La fabbrica degli orrori (1984) di Iain Banks
Gioco dannato (1985) di Clive Barker
Horror Horn (1974) di E. F. Benson
The collected works of Ambrose Bierce (1966) di Ambrose Bierce
Who Made Stevie Crye? (1984) di Michael Bishop
John Silence, Physician Extraordinary (1908) di Algernon Blackwood
L'esorcista (1971) di William Peter Blatty
Psycho (1959) di Robert Bloch
The Compleat Werewolf and Other Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1969) di Anthony Boucher
The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales (2009) di Marjorie Bowen
Paese d'ottobre (1955) di Ray Bradbury
Nine Horrors and a Dream (1958) di Joseph Payne Brennan
Il gregge alza la testa (1972) di John Brunner
Something about Eve : a comedy of fig-leaves (1927) di James Branch Cabell
Dark Feasts: The World of Ramsey Campbell (1987) di Ramsey Campbell
ˆIl ‰paese delle pazze risate (1980) di Jonathan Carroll
Murgunstrumm and Others (1977) di Hugh B. Cave
Il re giallo (1895) di Robert W. Chambers
L'uomo che fu Giovedì: storia di un incubo (1908) di G. K. Chesterton
The Track of the Cat (1949) di Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Cuore di tenebra (1899) di Joseph Conrad
The Sleeping and the Dead (1963) di August Derleth
Le tre stimmate di Palmer Eldritch: romanzo (1964) di Philip K. Dick
Deathbird Stories (1975) di Harlan Ellison
The Werewolf of Paris (1933) di Guy Endore
The Dark Country (1982) di Dennis Etchison
All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By (1977) di John Farris
Grendel (1971) di John Gardner
Caleb Williams: il primo romanzo giallo della storia (1794) di William Godwin
Il signore delle mosche (1954) di William Golding
Il ragno nero (1842) di Jeremias Gotthelf
La carezza della paura (1986) di Charles L. Grant
Lei (1886) di H. Rider Haggard
Red Dragon (1981) di Thomas Harris
Twice-Told Tales (1837) di Nathaniel Hawthorne
Angel heart: ascensore per l'inferno (1978) di William Hjortsberg
La casa sull'abisso (1908) di William Hope Hodgson
Racconti (1814) di E. T. A. Hoffmann
Confessioni di un peccatore (1824) di James Hogg
La foresta dei Mitago (1984) di Robert Holdstock
The Arabian Nightmare (1985) di Robert Irwin
L'incubo di Hill House (1959) di Shirley Jackson
Giro di vite (1898) di Henry James
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) di M. R. James
Il processo (1925) di Franz Kafka
And the Darkness Falls (1946) di Boris Karloff
Le notti di Salem (1975) di Stephen King
Shining (1977) di Stephen King
Cerimonia di sangue (1984) di T. E. D. Klein
Quatermass and the Pit (1960) di Nigel Kneale
L' uccello dipinto (1965) di Jerzy Kosiński
The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck (1942) di Alexander Laing
La casa della bestia (1980) di Richard Laymon
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (1864) di Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Conjure Wife (1953) di Fritz Leiber
The Dark Tower and Other Stories (1977) di C. S. Lewis
Il monaco (1796) di Matthew Lewis
A Voyage to Arcturus (1920) di David Lindsay
The Lurker at the Threshold (1945) di H. P. Lovecraft
The Lurking Fear and Other Stories (1971) di H. P. Lovecraft
The Outsider, and Others (1939) di H. P. Lovecraft
The House of Souls (1922) di Arthur Machen
Burnt Offerings (1973) di Robert Marasco
Il dottor Faust (1601) di Christopher Marlowe
Io sono leggenda (1954) di Richard Matheson
Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) di Charles Maturin
Swan Song (1987) di Robert R. McCammon
L' uomo di fiducia: una mascherata (1857) di Herman Melville
The Totem (1979) di David Morrell
Widdershins (1911) di Oliver Onions
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1832) di Edgar Allan Poe
The Anubis Gates (1983) di Tim Powers
Il richiamo del corno (1952) di Sarban
Macbeth (1606) di William Shakespeare
Frankenstein (1818) di Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Il canto di Kali (1985) di Dan Simmons
Out of Space and Time (1942) di Clark Ashton Smith
Lo strano caso del dottor Jekyll e del signor Hyde (1886) di Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula (1897) di Bram Stoker
Il Gioiello delle Sette Stelle (1903) di Bram Stoker
Ghost story (1979) di Peter Straub
The Wolfen (1978) di Whitley Strieber
The Wandering Jew, Volume I (1892) di Eugène Sue
Sweetheart, Sweetheart (1977) di Bernard Taylor
E Johnny prese il fucile (1939) di Dalton Trumbo
A Nest of Nightmares (1986) di Lisa Tuttle
Medusa : a Story of Mystery, and Ecstasy & Strange Horror (1946) di E. H. Visiak
In a Lonely Place (1983) di Karl Edward Wagner
The Second Century of Creepy Stories (1937) di Sir Hugh Walpole
Il diavolo bianco o vittoria corombona (1612) di John Webster
Worse Things Waiting (1973) di Manly Wade Wellman
L'isola del dottor Moreau (1896) di H. G. Wells
La fortezza (1981) di F. Paul Wilson
La notte ha mille occhi (1945) di Cornell Woolrich

Descrizioni

First published in 1988, Horror: The 100 Best Books has remained the only book of its kind: a solid (and entertaining) annotated reading list spanning the range of horror fiction from the 16th to the 20th century. The device of asking 100 horror, fantasy, and science fiction writers to write about their favorite horror books might seem at first to capture an idiosyncratic sample, but through diplomacy and diligence, editors Stephen Jones and Kim Newman succeeded in obtaining short essays on most (if not all) of the well-known classics, as well as many more lesser-knowns that are well worth discovering. (English, Scritto da un membro)

Has the follow-up: Horror: Another 100 Best Books

(English, Nota tecnica/disambiguazione)
URL: https://www.librarything.com/award/191/

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