Nightmare Magazine's top 100 horror books

[tld314]

I'm unable to paste a link to the list, since I am new at the forum, but a quick google search can bring it up.

(if someone else could provide the link, I'd appreciate it)

It seems to be a pretty solid list, but I've only read about 25 of them, so I may not be the best judge. I'm betting people will claim some glaring omissions; some of the works seem unnecessary (do we need 7 King novels? Do we need any Brian Keene novels?).

Anyways, what do you think?

 

[dask]

https://www.worldswithoutend.com/lists_NightmareMag.asp

Nice that they show the covers.

 

[Rodders]

I've only read 17 of them.

Nice to see F. Paul Wilson in there.

 

[Randy M.]

Interesting list, and the only entries I have questions about are ones I haven't read. Still, look closely and except for Frankenstein, Dracula and the Lovecraft volumes (why so many? why not just include the complete works volumes?) everything else was written post-1950. No Poe, no Hawthorne, no Machen, no Blackwood, no M. R. James, no Ambrose Bierce, no Clark Ashton Smith or Robert E. Howard, no Fritz Leiber.

There is a concession to pre-1950 horror stories with the inclusion of Hartwell's The Dark Descent, but that's a pretty slight concession.


Randy M.

 

[Fried Egg]

That site also provides another horror list: Horror Writers Association Reading List that does contain a lot more in the way of pre-1950's horror.

 

[Randy M.]

That site also provides another horror list: Horror Writers Association Reading List that does contain a lot more in the way of pre-1950's horror.

Thanks. I hadn't seen that. The two lists together make for a better balance.


Randy M.

 

[dask]

Anyone read ZOMBIE by Joyce Carol Oates? Wonder if it's any good?

 

[tld314]

Thanks for the link, dask.

And I do agree that the HWA's list does round it out a bit more, but does the HWA have anything to do with Nightmare magazine?

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

Interesting list, I've read 21 on there, surprised not to see any James Herbert

 

[J Riff]

There's a list of Banned Science fiction too. Only 3 or 4 Steven King there and of course LOTR.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Not read many of them myself. Have to say I'm surprised that 1984 isn't on the list; Orwell's vision of the future must surely be one of the most horrifying. And the way that things are going , we are well along the way to making it reality.

 

[Sourdust]

I think Stephen Jones & Kim Newman's list (from the book Horror: The 100 Best Books, published in 1988) is a more interesting one, particularly for anyone looking for older suggestions.

 

[BAYLOR]

A pretty good list.