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The Century's Best Horror Fiction

The Century's Best Horror Fiction

by John Pelan
Publication Date: 01/12/2011

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In celebration of the new millennium, Cemetery Dance Publications has commissioned a spectacular two-volume anthology project under the editorship of noted author and historian of the horror genre, John Pelan. John will be selecting one story published during each year of the 20th Century (1901-2000) as the most notable story of that year -- all 100 stories will then be collected in The Century''s Best Horror Fiction.The ground rules are simple: Only one selection per author. Only one selection per year.One hundred authors, one hundred classic stories -- history in the making!Table of Contents1901: Barry Pain -- The Undying Thing1902: W.W. Jacobs -- The Monkey''s Paw1903: H.G.Wells -- The Valley of the Spiders1904: Arthur Machen -- The White People1905: R. Murray Gilchrist -- The Lover''s Ordeal 1906: Edward Lucas White -- House of the Nightmare1907: Algernon Blackwood -- The Willows1908: Perceval Landon -- Thurnley Abbey1909: Violet Hunt -- The Coach1910: Wm Hope Hodgson -- The Whistling Room1911: M.R. James -- Casting the Runes1912: E.F. Benson -- Caterpillars1913: Aleister Crowley -- The Testament of Magdelan Blair1914: M. P. Shiel -- The Place of Pain1915: Hanns Heinz Ewers -- The Spider1916: Lord Dunsany -- Thirteen at Table1917: Frederick Stuart Greene -- The Black Pool1918: H. De Vere Stacpoole -- The Middle Bedroom1919: Ulric Daubeny -- The Sumach1920: Maurice Level -- In the Light of the Red Lamp1921: Vincent O''Sullivan -- Master of Fallen Years1922: Walter de la Mare -- Seaton''s Aunt1923: George Allen England -- The Thing from Outside1924: C.M. Eddy -- The Loved Dead1925: John Metcalfe -- The Smoking Leg1926: H.P. Lovecraft -- The Outsider1927: Donald Wandrei -- The Red Brain1928: H.R. Wakefield -- The Red Lodge1929: Eleanor Scott -- Celui-La1930: Rosalie Muspratt -- Spirit of Stonhenge1931: Henry S. Whitehead -- Cassius1932: David H. Keller -- The Thing in the Cellar1933: C.L. Moore -- Shambleau1934: L.A. Lewis -- The Tower of Moab1935: Clark Ashton Smith -- The Dark Eidolon1936: Thorp McCluskey -- The Crawling Horror1937: Howard Wandrei -- The Eerie Mr Murphy1938: Robert E. Howard -- Pigeons from Hell1939: Robert Barbour Johnson -- Far Below1940: John Collier -- Evening Primrose1941: C.M. Kornbluth -- The Words of Guru1942: Jane Rice -- The Idol of the Flies1943: Anthony Boucher -- They Bite1944: Ray Bradbury -- The Jar1945: August Derleth -- Carousel1946: Manly Wade Wellman -- Shonokin Town1947: Theodore Sturgeon -- Bianca''s Hands1948: Shirley Jackson -- The Lottery1949: Nigel Kneale -- The Pond1950: Richard Matheson -- Born of Man & Woman1951: Russell Kirk -- Uncle Isiah1952: Eric Frank Russell -- I Am Nothing1953: Robert Sheckley -- The Altar1954: Everill Worrell -- Call Not Their Names1955: Robert Aickman -- Ringing the Changes1956: Richard Wilson -- Lonely Road1957: Clifford Simak -- Founding Father1958: Robert Bloch -- That Hell-Bound Train1959: Charles Beaumont -- The Howling Man1960: Frederic Brown -- The House1961: Ray Russell -- Sardonicus1962: Carl Jacobi -- The Aquarium1963: Robert Arthur -- The Mirror of Cagliostro1964: Charles Birkin -- A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts1965: Jean Ray -- The Shadowy Street1966: Arthur Porges -- The Mirror1967: Norman Spinrad -- Carcinoma Angels1968: Anna Hunger -- Come1969: Stefan Aletti -- The Last Work of Pietro Apono1970: David A Riley -- The Lurkers in the Abyss1971: Dorothy K. Haynes -- The Derelict Track1972: Gary Brandner -- The Price of a Demon1973: Eddy C. Bertin -- Like Two White Spiders1974: Karl Edward Wagner -- Sticks1975: David Drake -- The Barrow Troll1976: Dennis Etchison -- It Only Comes Out at Night1977: Barry Malzberg -- The Man Who Loved the Midnight Lady1978: Michael Bishop -- Within the Walls of Tyre1979: Ramsey Campbell -- Mackintosh Willy1980: Michael Shea -- The Autopsy1981: Stephen King -- The Reach1982: Fritz Leiber -- Horrible Imagings1983: David Schow -- One for the Horrors1984: Bob Leman -- The Unhappy Pilgrimage of Clifford M1985: Michael Reaves -- The Night People1986: Tim Powers -- Night Moves1987: Ian Watson -- Evil Water1988: Joe Lansdale -- The Night They Missed the Horror Show1989: Joel Lane -- The Earth Wire1990: Elizabeth Massie -- Stephen1991: Thomas Ligotti -- The Glamour1992: Poppy Z. Brite -- Calcutta Lord of Nerves1993: Lucy Taylor -- The Family Underwater1994: Jack Ketchum -- The Box1995: Terry Lamsley -- The Toddler1996: Caitlin R. Kiernan -- Tears Seven, Times Salt1997: Stephen Laws -- The Crawl1998: Brian Hodge -- As Above, So Below1999: Glen Hirshberg -- Mr. Dark''s Carnival2000: Tim Lebbon -- Reconstructing Amy
ISBN:
9781587670800
9781587670800
Category:
Horror & ghost stories
Publication Date:
01-12-2011
Publisher:
Cemetery Dance Publications
Country of origin:
United States

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