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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jan 27, 2012 19:35:05 GMT
So, here are my (admittedly idiosyncratic and biased) choices: "idiosyncratic and biased" they may well be, but if that's a fault, then it's one you share with my very favourite anthologists, most of whom, i notice, avoid incorperating the words 'Great', 'Best' or (God forbid) 'Ultimate' in their titles. I'm paraphrasing horribly here, but Hugh Lamb resurrected a Howard Pease story in The Man Wolf and wrote something to the effect that, although The Warlock Of Glororum was probably far from Pease's finest moment, and certainly not the pick of the current collection, he was including it because he'd enjoyed it. That's good enough reason for me. i love your selection , btw, though several of the post- New Terrors entries are a mystery to me and i've never been near The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. will try to retaliate over the weekend if i can grab some hours. Thank you! I don't know if I'll have ever read enough to attempt a "best" list, so I'm happy to settle for writing a "favorite" list. Here are a few quick notes on the more recent titles: The Shapes of Midnight (Joseph Payne Brennan, 1980)Nine Horrors and a Dream was taken, so I included this collection to represent Brennan. Highlights include "The Horror at Chilton Castle" and "The Willow Platform" (also includes "Canavan's Back Yard," but that one appears in Nine Horrors as well). Lonely Vigils (Manly Wade Wellman, 1981)My favorite of the Wellman collections that weren't included in either of the 100 Best Books lists. This one is heavy on John Thunstone stories. Red as Blood (Tanith Lee, 1983)Horror/fantasy stories based on fairy tales. Standouts are "When the Clock Strikes," "Wolfland," and "The Princess and Her Future." Lee's ornate style can come across as either pretentious or rich, depending on one's tastes and/or mood. Dark Gods (T.E.D. Klein, 1985)Needs no introduction here; I can't believe this book didn't make either of the 100 Best Books lists. Vampire’s Honeymoon (Cornell Woolrich, 1985)I love the titles of these stories, though I prefer the alternative title for "Vampire's Honeymoon" ("My Lips Destroy"). I found the book through a Vault thread: vaultofevil.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=shudderpulp&action=display&thread=3271On Stranger Tides (Tim Powers, 1987)The Anubis Gates was taken, so I went with my second-favorite Powers book. Zombies, pirates, and black magic in a horror-fantasy-historical fiction blend. Ring (Koji Suzuki, 1991)The basis for a great Japanese film and a very good U.S. remake. Suzuki published another novel, Drop, printed on rolls of toilet paper. Clever idea, but perhaps not a book to buy used. Foundations of Fear (ed. David Hartwell, 1992)Follow-up to Hartwell's gargantuan anthology The Dark Descent. Includes two stories so disturbing that I don't even like to think about them, Barker's "In the Hills, the Cities" and Engstrom's "When Darkness Loves Us." Also includes the only Thomas Ligotti story that I've ever thought that I understood. 100 Wild Little Weird Tales (ed. Robert Weinberg et al., 1994)This book collects a hundred short-short stories from Weird Tales magazine, more than a few of them never reprinted since initial publication. Highly variable in quality, but that's half the fun. The Cleft and Other Odd Tales (Gahan Wilson, 1997)Illustrations and oddball tales, my favorite of which is "The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be." Coraline (Neil Gaiman, 2002)A creepy children's book. There's also a film, which I haven't seen. Mad Night (Richard Sala, 2005)A gloriously over-the-top graphic novel involving mad scientists, evil children, and female pirates. The Ruins (Scott Smith, 2006)Bleak tale about young tourists falling prey to evil plants at an ancient temple. The film version wasn't too bad. Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror (Chris Priestley, 2007)Another book I discovered through the Vault: vaultofevil.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=fearfullyfrightening&action=display&thread=704&page=1Pretty Monsters (Kelly Link, 2008)Postmodern young-adult horror and fantasy. Of the horror stories, "The Specialist's Hat" and "Monster" are outstanding. A one-of-a-kind writer. |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Aug 2, 2020 12:55:41 GMT
one massive apology to Brian Stableford later! the first book, and who nominated what. Stephen Jones & Kim Newman (eds.) - Horror: 100 Best Books (Xanadu, 1988) 
Introduction - Stephen Jones & Kim Newman
1. Clive Barker - The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
2. John Blackburn - The Tragedy of Macbeth, William Shakespeare
3. Diana Wynne Jones - The White Devil, John Webster
4. Scott Bradfield - Caleb Williams, William Godwin
5. Les Daniels - The Monk, Matthew Gregory Lewis
6. John Sladek - The Best Tales of E. T. A. Hoffman
7. David Pirie - Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
8. Jane Yolen - Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
9. Peter Tremayne - Melmoth the Wanderer, Charles Maturin
10. Garry Kilworth - The Confessions of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg
11. John M. Ford - Tales of Mystery & Imagination, Edgar Allan Poe
12. Edgar Allen Poe - Twice-Told Tales, Nathaniel Hawthorne
13. Thomas Tessier - The Black Spider, Jeremias Gotthelf
14. Thomas M. Disch - The Wandering Jew, Eugéne Sue
15. Michael McDowell - The Confidence Man, Herman Melville
16. M. R. James - Uncle Silas, J. Sheridan Le Fanu
17. Jack Williamson - Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Rober Louis Stevenson
18. Tim Stout - She, H. Rider Haggard
19. H. P. Lovecraft - The King in Yellow, Rober W. Chambers
20. Gene Wolfe - The Island of Dr Moreau, H. G. Wells
21. Colin Wilson - Dracula, Bram Stoker
22. R. Chetwynd-Hayes - The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
23. Douglas E. Winter - Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
24. Richard Dalby - The Jewel of Seven Stars, Bram Stoker
25. Geoff Ryman - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, M. R. James
26. T. E. D. Klein - The House of Souls, Arthur Machen
27. Hilaire Belloc - John Silence, Algernon Blackwood
28. David Langford - The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton
29. Terry Pratchett - The House on the Borderland, William Hope Hodgson
30. Milton Subotsky - The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce
31. Mike Ashley - Widdershins, Oliver Onions
32. Basil Copper - The Horror Horn, E. F. Benson
33. George Hay - A Voyage of Arcturus, David Lindsay
34. Steve Rasnic Tem - The Trial, Franz Kafka
35. Robert E. Howard - Something About Eve, James Branch Cabell
36. Karl E. Wagner - Medusa, E. H. Visiak
37. Marvin Kaye - The Werewolf of Paris, Guy Endore
38. Jessica Amanda Salmonson - The Last Bouquet, Marjorie Bowen
39. Robert Bloch - The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck, Alexander Laing
40. Hugh Lamb - A Second Century of Creepy Stories, Hugh Walpole
41. Lionel Fanthorpe - The Dark Tower, C. S. Lewis
42. Dennis Etchison - Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
43. Donald A. Wollheim -The Outsider and Others, H.P. Lovecraft
44. Harlan Ellison - Out of Space and Time, Clark Ashton Smith
45. Gerald W. Page - Conjure Wife, Fritz Leiber
46. Maxim Jakubowski - Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Cornell Woolrich
47. Graham Masterton - The Lurker at the Threshold, H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth
48. Forrest J. Ackerman - Deliver Me from Eva, Paul Bailey
49. David J. Hartwell - And the Darkness Falls, Boris Karloff
50. Peter Haining - The Sleeping and the Dead, August Derleth
51. Robert R. McMaccon - Track of the Cat, Walter Van Tilburg Clark
52. Suzy McKee Charnas - The Sound of His Horn, Sarban
53. Joe Haldeman - Lord of the Flies, William Golding
54. Richard Christian Matheson - I am Legend, Richard Matheson
55. Joe R. Lansdale - The October Country, Ray Bradbury
56. Stephen Gallagher - Nine Horrors and a Dream, Joseph Payne Brennan
57. Hugh B. Cave - Psycho, Robert Bloch
58. Stephen Laws -Quatermass and the Pit, Nigel Kneale
59. Michel Parry - Cry Horror!, H. P. Lovecraft
60. Lisa Tuttle -The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
61. Tad Williams - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Philip K. Dick
62. Jack Dann - The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski
63. Craig Shaw Gardner - The Crystal World, J. G. Ballard
64. Colin Greenland - Sub Rosa, Robert Aickman
65. Brian Aldiss - The Green Man, Kingsley Amis
66. Neil Gaiman - The Compleat Werewolf, Anthony Boucher
67. Dan Simmons - Grendel, John Gardner
68. F. Paul Wilson - The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty
69. John Skipp - The Sheep Look Up, John Brunner
70. Francis Garfield - Worse Things Waiting, Manly Wade Wellman
71. Stephen King - Burnt Offerings, Robert Marasco
72. Al Sarrantonio - 'Salem's Lot, Stephen King
73. Craig Spector - Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
74. Brian Lumley - Murgunstrumm and Others, Hugh B. Cave
75. Charles L. Grant - Sweetheart, Sweetheart, Bernard Taylor
76. David J. Schow - All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes, by, John Farris
77. Peter Straub - The Shining, Stephen King
78. William F. Nolan - Falling Angel, William Hjortsberg
79. Charles de Lint - The Wolfen, Whitley Strieber
80. Shaun Hutson - The Totem, David Morrell
81. Peter Nicholls - Ghost Story, Peter Straub
82. Christopher Evans - The Land of Laughs, Jonathan Carrol
83. David S. Garnett - The Cellar, Richard Laymon
84. Geoff Williamson - Red Dragon, Thomas Harris
85. J. N. Williamson -The Keep, F. Paul Wilson
86. Samantha Lee - The Dark Country, Dennis Etchison
87. Ramsey Campbell - In a Lonely Place, Karl Edward Wagner
88. John Clute - The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers
89. Brian Stableford - The Arabian Nightmare,, Robert Irwin
90. Malcolm Edwards - The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
91. Thomas F. Monteleone - The Ceremonies, T. E. D. Klein
92. Michael Moorcock - Mythago Wood, Robert Holdstock
93. Ian Watson - Who Made Stevie Crye?, Michael Bishop
94. Edward Bryant - Song of Kali, Dan Simmons
95. Adrian Cole - Damnation Game, Clive Barker
96. R. S. Hadji - Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd
97. Robert Holdstock - A Nest of Nightmares, Lisa Tuttle
98. Guy N. Smith - The Pet, Charles L. Grant
99. Eddy C. Bertin - Swan Song, Robert McCammon
100. Jack Sullivan - Dark Feasts, Ramsey Campbelljust found out that Charles Birkin's A Haunting Beauty made the second best hundred books. so who is the person of impeccable taste went for that? According to Mike Ashley the Onions of Oliver Onions should be pronounced as O-ny-ons. We've all been wrong since last century. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Aug 2, 2020 13:24:37 GMT
According to Mike Ashley the Onions of Oliver Onions should be pronounced as O-ny-ons. We've all been wrong since last century. |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Aug 3, 2020 9:44:01 GMT
According to Mike Ashley the Onions of Oliver Onions should be pronounced as O-ny-ons. We've all been wrong since last century. Muck. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Aug 4, 2020 18:54:49 GMT
Perhaps it works better if you watch the whole thing: |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Aug 4, 2020 19:34:42 GMT
Perhaps it works better if you watch the whole thing: Or perhaps not. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Aug 4, 2020 19:38:41 GMT
Perhaps it works better if you watch the whole thing: Or perhaps not. Nevertheless, it ties in with what Onions was doing when he tried to convince people to pronounce his name differently. Please let me know if you need me to elaborate further. |
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