Thursday, April 29, 2010

HWA's recommended reading list

I’ve been holding back on this recommended reading list for some time, mainly because it’s one of my favorites: The Horror Writers Association Horror Reading List.
I’ve liked scary stories for as long as I can remember, and this list features some all time classics from such authors as Stephen King, Ray Bradbury and H.P. Lovecraft.
Compiled by Thomas Deja and Nicholas Kauffman from a survey of the HWA’s general membership in 1996, this list is arranged alphabetically by author’s last name, so no ranking is implied by the order in which they’re listed. Here they are:
1. Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
2. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
3. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
4. Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
5. The Hungry Moon by Ramsey Campbell
6. The Between by Tananarive Due
7. Darklands by Dennis Etchison
8. Raven by Charles L Grant
9. Dead in the Water by Nancy Holder
10. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
11. The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
12. Turn of the Screw by Henry James
13. The Ghost Stories of M.R. James
14. Dr. Adder by K.W. Jeter
15. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
16. Pet Semetary by Stephen King
17. The Shining by Stephen King
18. The Stand by Stephen King
19. Skin by Kathe Koja
20. Dark Dance by Tanith Lee
21. Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber
22. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
23. Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti
24. Lovers Living, Lovers Dead by Richard Lortz
25. The Dunwich Horror and Others by H.P. Lovecraft
26. At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
27. The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen
28. Tales of Horror and the Supernatural by Arthur Machen
29. Sineater by Elizabeth Massie
30. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
31. Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
32. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
33. Book of the Dead edited by John Skipp and Craig Spector
34. Ghoul by Michael Slade
35. Vampire Junction by S.P. Somtow
36. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
37. Dracula by Bram Stoker
38. Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon
39. Phantom by Thomas Tessier
40. Sacrifice by Andrew Vachss
I’ve had the chance to read more than a few of these books, and I’d be interested to know how many you all have read and what you thought about them. (I’ve marked the one’s I’ve read in bold face type, so if you have any questions about them, just shoot me an e-mail.)
For more information about the Horror Writers Association, visit their Web site at www.horror.org.

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