Best Horror Short Story Collection

[paranoid marvin]

For me, there's no better horror anthology than Mr James' collection of ghost stories.

 

[BAYLOR]

ive been reading science fiction, fantasy and horror for decades and im still finding writers and books and stories ive never previously heard of. Of the writers they we do know , there are many more who have fallen by the wayside and have been forgotten altogether some of them really good writers too.

 

[BAYLOR]

For me, there's no better horror anthology than Mr James' collection of ghost stories.

Oliver Onions writer pretty good stories too,

 

[Davelectro]

For me, there's no better horror anthology than Mr James' collection of ghost stories.

It is awesome indeed! Stands against any collection I've ever read.

 

[Davelectro]

Oliver Onions writer pretty good stories too,

I've just gotten Onion's dead of night collection, the beckoning fair one easily goes in an anthology of my own making. One of the best ghost stories ever.

 

[BAYLOR]

I've just gotten Onion's dead of night collection, the beckoning fair one easily goes in an anthology of my own making. One of the best ghost stories ever.

Also check out F Marion Crawford collecting For The Blood is Life

 

[Davelectro]

Also check out F Marion Crawford collecting For The Blood is Life

I may have ordered "the upper berth, for the blood is the life and other stories" I have to check. Haven't read much of him, just the popular ones like the screaming skull & the ones already mentioned.

I've just received "the collected tales of walter de la mare", a nice old hardback from 1950. I've only ever read seaton's aunt (another one I would put in a collection).

Do you read de la mare?

 

[BAYLOR]

Revelations in Black by Carl Jacobi Thats a very good collection

Citadel of Fear by Francis Stevens she winced the general of Dark Fantasy and this book is something a classic.

Shambleau by C L Moore of or best horror stores. it can be found Northwest Of Earth The Complete Northwest Smith
also by her I recommend Black Gods Kiss this book contains all of here wonderful Jirel of Joiry stories

The Dark World by Henry Kuttner This is a dark fantasy novel with a most unusual protagonist . It an underrated classic. Henry Kuttner was terrific writerwhoe died age 45. He was C l Moore husband and the collaborated on books and stories. His shot story The Last Mimzy was made into movie.

Escardy Gap by Peter Crowther and James Lovegrove This horror novel is is in vein of both Stephen King and Ray Bradbury antis quite Nasty horror novel , I think you'd like it

 

[BAYLOR]

I may have ordered "the upper berth, for the blood is the life and other stories" I have to check. Haven't read much of him, just the popular ones like the screaming skull & the ones already mentioned.

I've just received "the collected tales of walter de la mare", a nice old hardback from 1950. I've only ever read seaton's aunt (another one I would put in a collection).

Do you read de la mare?

Have not read de la mare , ive heard of him of him though

Here another writer for you A M Burrage Ive read two satires by him the I remember is Waxworks . he was major writer, all but forgotten

Darker than You Think by Jack Williamson one the of the the best werewolf novels ever written .

The Sombrus Tower Tannith Lee She also did her own dark version of Grims Fairy Tales Red as Blood or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer

The Trail of Cthulhu by August Derleth

The Lurker at the Threshold by August Derleth and H P Lovecraft

Bats Belfry by August Derleth one his great short stories

The Manitou by Graham Masterton

 

[Davelectro]

I'll hunt amongst those suggestions, wow I've got a lot to digest here!

By the way I don't read novels, strictly in short story mode lol. I was looking at the jacobi book, I'll probably get that, also the tannith lee looks very interesting!

 

[BAYLOR]

I'll hunt amongst those suggestions, wow I've got a lot to digest here!

By the way I don't read novels, strictly in short story mode lol. I was looking at the jacobi book, I'll probably get that, also the tannith lee looks very interesting!

Ive a read number of things by Tanith Lee over the years, her stories can get quite dark.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Complete Werewolf by Anthony Boucher This isa really good collection of stories . Fun to read.

 

[Davelectro]

Cool ty!

If you want to check out de la mare, the story "seaton's aunt" is widely considered one of his best, sort of has a robert aickman vibe to it.

Love a m burrage and am going to get a collection or two soon hopefully.

 

[Randy M.]

Got a little carried away. A few of these are not supernatural, a few are s.f. Oh, and all of them were published before 1970. If I have time tomorrow, I'll list some post-1970 stories.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu: “Carmilla”; “Green Tea”; Mr. Justice Harbottle”
Edgar Allan Poe: “The Fall of the House of Usher”; “The Black Cat”; “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Algernon Blackwood: "The Willows"; "The Wendigo"; "Ancient Sorceries"
Arthur Machen: "The Great God Pan"; "The Novel of the Black Seal”; “The Novel of the White Powder”
Vernon Lee: “Amour Dure”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “The Yellow Wallpaper”
W. C. Morrow: “The Monster Maker”; “His Unconquerable Enemy”
Saki: “Sredni Vashtar”; “Gabriel-Ernest”
Lord Dunsany: “The Bureau d’Echange de Maux”; “The Two Bottles of Relish”
Thomas Burke: “The Hands of Mr. Ottermole”
H.P. Lovecraft: “The Colour Out of Space”: “The Rats in the Walls”
Robert E. Howard: “Pigeons from Hell”
Clark Ashton Smith: “The Tale of Satampra Zeiros”; “The Empire of the Necromancers”
E. F. Benson: “Caterpillars”
M. R. James: “Count Magnus”; “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”; “Casting the Runes”
Robert W. Chambers: “The Yellow Sign”; “The Repairer of Reputations”
Walter de la Mare: “Seaton’s Aunt”; “Mr. Kempe”
William Faulkner: “A Rose for Emily”
Fritz Leiber: “Smoke Ghost”; “The Girl with the Hungry Eyes”; “Belsen Express”
Robert Bloch: “Enoch”; “Talent”; “Return to the Sabbeth”
Cornell Woolrich: “Papa Benjamin”; “I’m Dangerous Tonight”
L. P. Hartley: “A Visitor from Down Under”; “Three or Four for Dinner”
Elizabeth Bowen: “The Demon Lover”
Muriel Spark: “The Portobello Road”
John Collier: “The Lady on the Grey”; “A Touch of Nutmeg Makes It”; “Bird of Prey”
Ray Bradbury: “The Playground”; “The Crowd”; “The Veldt”; “Small Assassin”
Anthony Boucher: “They Bite”
Richard Matheson: “Prey”; “Born of Man and Woman”
Charles Beaumont: “The Howling Man”
Peter Beagle: “Come, Lady Death”
Davis Grubb: “Where the Woodbine Twineth”
Robert Aickman: “The Hospice”; “The Inner Room”; “Ringing the Changes”
Elizabeth Jan Howard: “Three Miles Up”
Shirley Jackson: “The Lottery”; “The Summer People”
Avram Davidson: “The House the Blakeney's Built”

 

[BAYLOR]

Got a little carried away. A few of these are not supernatural, a few are s.f. Oh, and all of them were published before 1970. If I have time tomorrow, I'll list some post-1970 stories.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu: “Carmilla”; “Green Tea”; Mr. Justice Harbottle”
Edgar Allan Poe: “The Fall of the House of Usher”; “The Black Cat”; “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Algernon Blackwood: "The Willows"; "The Wendigo"; "Ancient Sorceries"
Arthur Machen: "The Great God Pan"; "The Novel of the Black Seal”; “The Novel of the White Powder”
Vernon Lee: “Amour Dure”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “The Yellow Wallpaper”
W. C. Morrow: “The Monster Maker”; “His Unconquerable Enemy”
Saki: “Sredni Vashtar”; “Gabriel-Ernest”
Lord Dunsany: “The Bureau d’Echange de Maux”; “The Two Bottles of Relish”
Thomas Burke: “The Hands of Mr. Ottermole”
H.P. Lovecraft: “The Colour Out of Space”: “The Rats in the Walls”
Robert E. Howard: “Pigeons from Hell”
Clark Ashton Smith: “The Tale of Satampra Zeiros”; “The Empire of the Necromancers”
E. F. Benson: “Caterpillars”
M. R. James: “Count Magnus”; “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”; “Casting the Runes”
Robert W. Chambers: “The Yellow Sign”; “The Repairer of Reputations”
Walter de la Mare: “Seaton’s Aunt”; “Mr. Kempe”
William Faulkner: “A Rose for Emily”
Fritz Leiber: “Smoke Ghost”; “The Girl with the Hungry Eyes”; “Belsen Express”
Robert Bloch: “Enoch”; “Talent”; “Return to the Sabbeth”
Cornell Woolrich: “Papa Benjamin”; “I’m Dangerous Tonight”
L. P. Hartley: “A Visitor from Down Under”; “Three or Four for Dinner”
Elizabeth Bowen: “The Demon Lover”
Muriel Spark: “The Portobello Road”
John Collier: “The Lady on the Grey”; “A Touch of Nutmeg Makes It”; “Bird of Prey”
Ray Bradbury: “The Playground”; “The Crowd”; “The Veldt”; “Small Assassin”
Anthony Boucher: “They Bite”
Richard Matheson: “Prey”; “Born of Man and Woman”
Charles Beaumont: “The Howling Man”
Peter Beagle: “Come, Lady Death”
Davis Grubb: “Where the Woodbine Twineth”
Robert Aickman: “The Hospice”; “The Inner Room”; “Ringing the Changes”
Elizabeth Jan Howard: “Three Miles Up”
Shirley Jackson: “The Lottery”; “The Summer People”
Avram Davidson: “The House the Blakeney's Built”

Excellent list Randy

 

[paranoid marvin]

The best horror and ghost stories are those that can be told/read in one sitting.

 

[BAYLOR]

Cool ty!

If you want to check out de la mare, the story "seaton's aunt" is widely considered one of his best, sort of has a robert aickman vibe to it.

Love a m burrage and am going to get a collection or two soon hopefully.

Thanks



Have you ever read Night Has A Thousand Eyes by Cornell Woolrich. a nor novel with supernatural elements very atmospheric and suspense as hell and keeps you reading right to the end.

 

[Davelectro]

Thanks



Have you ever read Night Has A Thousand Eyes by Cornell Woolrich. a nor novel with supernatural elements very atmospheric and suspense as hell and keeps you reading right to the end.

Never read that one, sounds neat though!

 

[BAYLOR]

Never read that one, sounds neat though!

I found this writer because Harlan Ellison. he great ly admired Woolrich as a writer, He met him one at a party got n long covnerstion with him about wring books and stories and did even. whats funny about his tory is they talk and after while Woolrich left the party. Ellopm had had India that he had been talking to Cornell Woolrich neither told the other their names. Woolrich died not log after that meeting. Woolich i was quote prolific . one hie most famous short stories the Rear Window was the basis for the famous Alfred Hitchcock film. Alfred Hitchcock tried and failed to get Woolrich to write the screen play of that film .

Night Has a Thousand Eyes was made into film in 1948 staring Edward G Robinson . It a good film, but compare to the book, it's very lacking and the made changes I didn't like at all.

 

[Davelectro]

Got a little carried away. A few of these are not supernatural, a few are s.f. Oh, and all of them were published before 1970. If I have time tomorrow, I'll list some post-1970 stories.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu: “Carmilla”; “Green Tea”; Mr. Justice Harbottle”
Edgar Allan Poe: “The Fall of the House of Usher”; “The Black Cat”; “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Algernon Blackwood: "The Willows"; "The Wendigo"; "Ancient Sorceries"
Arthur Machen: "The Great God Pan"; "The Novel of the Black Seal”; “The Novel of the White Powder”
Vernon Lee: “Amour Dure”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “The Yellow Wallpaper”
W. C. Morrow: “The Monster Maker”; “His Unconquerable Enemy”
Saki: “Sredni Vashtar”; “Gabriel-Ernest”
Lord Dunsany: “The Bureau d’Echange de Maux”; “The Two Bottles of Relish”
Thomas Burke: “The Hands of Mr. Ottermole”
H.P. Lovecraft: “The Colour Out of Space”: “The Rats in the Walls”
Robert E. Howard: “Pigeons from Hell”
Clark Ashton Smith: “The Tale of Satampra Zeiros”; “The Empire of the Necromancers”
E. F. Benson: “Caterpillars”
M. R. James: “Count Magnus”; “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”; “Casting the Runes”
Robert W. Chambers: “The Yellow Sign”; “The Repairer of Reputations”
Walter de la Mare: “Seaton’s Aunt”; “Mr. Kempe”
William Faulkner: “A Rose for Emily”
Fritz Leiber: “Smoke Ghost”; “The Girl with the Hungry Eyes”; “Belsen Express”
Robert Bloch: “Enoch”; “Talent”; “Return to the Sabbeth”
Cornell Woolrich: “Papa Benjamin”; “I’m Dangerous Tonight”
L. P. Hartley: “A Visitor from Down Under”; “Three or Four for Dinner”
Elizabeth Bowen: “The Demon Lover”
Muriel Spark: “The Portobello Road”
John Collier: “The Lady on the Grey”; “A Touch of Nutmeg Makes It”; “Bird of Prey”
Ray Bradbury: “The Playground”; “The Crowd”; “The Veldt”; “Small Assassin”
Anthony Boucher: “They Bite”
Richard Matheson: “Prey”; “Born of Man and Woman”
Charles Beaumont: “The Howling Man”
Peter Beagle: “Come, Lady Death”
Davis Grubb: “Where the Woodbine Twineth”
Robert Aickman: “The Hospice”; “The Inner Room”; “Ringing the Changes”
Elizabeth Jan Howard: “Three Miles Up”
Shirley Jackson: “The Lottery”; “The Summer People”
Avram Davidson: “The House the Blakeney's Built”

Wow that's a killer list, lots I know, lots I don't. Nice one!