Could someone recommend me some good horror writers or stories besides:
Poe and his works
Lovecraft and his works
Bram Stroker and Dracula
Mary shelly and Frakenstein
S. King and his works
Le Fanu and his works
M.R. James and his works
Could someone recommend me some good horror writers or stories besides:
Poe and his works
Lovecraft and his works
Bram Stroker and Dracula
Mary shelly and Frakenstein
S. King and his works
Le Fanu and his works
M.R. James and his works
Arthur Macken, William Beckford, Henry James...
Last edited by JCamilo; 01-04-2011 at 07:34 AM. Reason: Getting old...
Came in here ready to write H. P. Lovecraft, haha.
I'm currently reading "American Fantastic Tales" (Library of America) - two volumes of dozens of horror and fantastic tales by American authors. Only one tale per author, so Poe and Lovecraft are not over-represented. It's a pretty good collection.
Stories by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) not exactly classic horror but different kind of horror - highly recommended!
I second Henry James, particularly The Turn of the Screw.
"I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche
1.De Maupassant- The Horla
2.Henry James- The Turn of the Screw
3.H.G. Wells- The Island of Dr. Moreau
4.Robert Louis Stevenson- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
5.Arthur Machen- The Great God Pan
6.Richard Matheson- I am Legend
7.W.W. Jacobs- The Monkey's Paw
8.Shirley Jackson- The Haunting of Hill House
9.Robert Browning- Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
10.Samuel Taylor Coleridge- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
11.E.T.A. Hoffman- The Sandman
12.Horace Walpole- The Castle of Otranto
13.Anne Rice- Interview with a Vampire
14.Sheridan Le Fanu- In a Glass Darkly
15.Matthew Gregory Lewis- The Monk
16.Charlotte Perkins Gilman- The Yellow Wallpaper
17.M.R. James- Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
18.Ann Radcliffe- The Mysteries of Udolpho
19.Oscar Wilde- The Picture of Dorian Gray
20.Marie de France- Bisclavret (The Werewolf)
21.Pliny the Younger- Letter to Sura
22.Algernon Blackwood- The Willows
23.Nikolai Gogol- Viy
24.Max Brooks- World War Z
25.William Faulkner- A Rose For Emily
26.Ramsey Campbell- Alone with the Horrors
27.Fritz Leiber- Conjure Wife
28.Charles Maturin- Melmoth the Wanderer
29.Charles Nodier- Smarra
30.Washington Irving- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
31.Nathaniel Hawthorne- Young Goodman Brown
32.Tsuruya Nanboku IV- Yotsuya Kaidan
33.Gaston Leroux- The Phantom of the Opera
34.Peter Straub- Ghost Story
35.Thomas Harris- The Silence of the Lambs
36.William Peter Blatty- The Exorcist
37.Thomas Ligotti- The Nightmare Factory
38.Charles Dickens- The Signal Man
39.Horacio Quiroga- The Feather Pillow
40.Perceval Landon- Thurnley Abbey
41.Ray Bradbury- The Small Assassin
42.Edgar Allan Poe- The Cask of Amontillado
43.H.P. Lovecraft- The Call of Cthulhu
44.Stephen King- The Shining
45.Bram Stoker- Dracula
46.Mary Shelley- Frankenstein
47.Pu Songling- Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
48.Theophile Gautier- The Dead Leman
49.Gustav Meyrink- The Golem
50.S. Ansky- The Dybbuk
51.Erckmann-Chatrian- The Man-Wolf
52.Maurice Level- Those Who Return
53.George Eliot- The Lifted Veil
54.Ambrose Bierce- The Death of Halpin Frayser
55.Rudyard Kipling- The Phantom Rickshaw
56.Oliver Onions- The Beckoning Fair One
57.Isak Dinesen- Monkey
58.Prosper Mérimée- The Venus of Ille
59.Robert W. Chambers- The King in Yellow
60.Ira Levin- Rosemary's Baby
61.Edward Bulwer-Lytton- The House and the Brain
62.William Hope Hodgson- The House on the Borderland
63.Friedrich Schiller- The Ghost-Seer
64.Johann Ludwig Tieck- Wake Not the Dead
65.Jacques Cazotte- The Devil in Love
66.Alexander Dumas, pere- One Thousand and One Ghosts
67.Paul Feval, pere- Vampire City
68.Jean Ray- Malpertuis
69.Arthur Conan Doyle- Lot 249
70.Lafcadio Hearn- Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
71.Julio Cortazar- House Taken Over
Last edited by mortalterror; 01-06-2011 at 05:26 PM.
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"This ain't over."- Charles Bronson
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Did you make that list up mortalterror, or find it somewhere?
The day is boring so...Originally Posted by mortalterror
Well, for psychological stories I would add Melville's Benito Cereno.
James has a serie of short ghost tales which are interesting too.2.Henry James- The Turn of the Screw
His story The terror and also Jade figurines (I think) are quite good. Those Jade figurines made that AntiChrist movie with Williem Dafoe seems silly.3.H.G. Wells- The Island of Dr. Moreau
4.Robert Louis Stevenson- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
5.Arthur Machen- The Great God Pan
The history I like that he wrote is the one that the guy keeps receiving phone calls from someone who goes claiming to be god, voices in his head, etc. In the age of mobile phones, call centers, etc it turns in something else.6.Richard Matheson- I am Legend
Really?I find she worst than Rowling. I mean, she makes King seems like Poe...7.W.W. Jacobs- The Monkey's Paw
8.Shirley Jackson- The Haunting of Hill House
9.Robert Browning- Childe Harold to the Dark Tower Came
10.Samuel Taylor Coleridge- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
11.E.T.A. Hoffman- The Sandman
12.Horace Walpole- The Castle of Otranto
13.Anne Rice- Interview with a Vampire
This and almost all Irving stories are more comedies. He does not believe the supernatural, joking about it all the time. Albeit, they are an ABC of how to construct the athmophere of a gothic tale.14.Sheridan Le Fanu- In a Glass Darkly
15.Matthew Gregory Lewis- The Monk
16.Charlotte Perkins Gilman- The Yellow Wallpaper
17.M.R. James- Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
18.Ann Radcliffe- The Mysteries of Udolpho
19.Oscar Wilde- The Picture of Dorian Gray
20.Marie de France- Bisclavret (The Werewolf)
21.Pliny the Younger- Letter to Sura
22.Algernon Blackwood- The Willows
23.Nikolai Gogol- The Overcoat
24.Max Brooks- World War Z
25.William Faulkner- A Rose For Emily
26.Ramsey Campbell- Alone with the Horrors
27.Fritz Leiber- Conjure Wife
28.Charles Maturin- Melmoth the Wanderer
29.Charles Nodier- Smarra
30.Washington Irving- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
31.Nathaniel Hawthorne- Young Goodman Brown
32.Tsuruya Nanboku IV- Yotsuya Kaidan
33.Gaston Leroux- The Phantom of the Opera
34.Peter Straub- Ghost Story
35.Thomas Harris- The Silence of the Lambs
36.William Peter Blatty- The Exorcist
37.Thomas Ligotti- The Nightmare Factory
38.Charles Dickens- The Signal Man
39.Horacio Quiroga- The Feather Pillow
I found this too similar with Dracula chapter about Lucy's death. Quiroga has an story which a pack of dogs try to prevent Death from reaching their owner, much more interesting.
Part I made up from memory, part I cobbled together from previous litnet horror threads, and a brief perusal of H.P. Lovecraft's Supernatural Horror in Literature.
"So-Crates: The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing." "That's us, dude!"- Bill and Ted
"This ain't over."- Charles Bronson
Feed the Hungry!
Some of your list are not horror though. For example The Overcoat is by no means a horror story, exceptional literature though it is
And i am happy that you included Hoffmann's The Sandman.
A guy comes back as a ghost and starts stealing people's coats, ie a ghost story.Some of your list are not horror though. For example The Overcoat is by no means a horror story, exceptional literature though it is
"So-Crates: The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing." "That's us, dude!"- Bill and Ted
"This ain't over."- Charles Bronson
Feed the Hungry!
Besides Lovecraft, there is also Italo Calvino collection of XIX supernatural tales. It is a guide of a shorts.
http://www.amazon.com/Fantastic-Tale.../dp/0679755446
Well it is a ghost story, again marginally since that is by no means the center of the plot, and it only happens in the very end, but this is a list of horror stories, which it definately is not
hehehe you beat me to that comment : ]]
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