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| Title | : | Horror: The 100 Best Books |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.49 (641 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B002UXS14W |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-02 |
| Language | : | English |
"GREAT BOOK!" according to JR Pinto. Of course this list can't be complete (and now it is twenty years old) but it is still a great place to start for a survey of horror literature. For those of us who take horror literature seriously, this is one of the essential nonfiction books to have - along with Danse Macabre,. If you want to know, THIS is the book to get. This book is an amazing list of horror books with comments from various horror authors who review/comment on the books in the list. You not only get to find out which books are considered classics and/or noteworthy but gain insights into each book/collection from masters of horro. Amazon Customer said A horror aficionado's guide to great reading!. This updated version of the 1988 Bram Stoker Award winner is appealing for several reasons. First, it's a modern classic in horror scholarship, a survey of horror literature spanning fifteen centuries, several genres, and a plethora of authors. Second, there's the thrill of readi
Creators of horror (Stephen King, Clive Barker and Peter Straub etc) write about their favourite works.
James Marriott is the author of "Virgin Books' Tourist Trap, Danger Down Under" and "Holidaymakers from Hell" (all written as Patrick Blackden).
Also valuable are write-ups on literary works not always acknowledged as horror, such as Kingsley Amis's The Green Man, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird, and John Gardner's Grendel. This 10th anniversary edition makes no changes in the list of 100 books, but updates the entries and includes a 9-page reading list of titles from 458 B.C. to 1997. And the write-ups offer a fascinating peek into the minds of the contributors, who include just about all the top horror writers of the'60s-'80s. The device of asking 100 horror, fantasy,and science fiction writers to write about their favorite horror books might seem at first to capture an idiosyncratic sample, but through diplomacy and diligence, editors Stephen Jones and Kim Newman succeeded in obtaining short essays on most (if not all) o
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