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Karl Edward Wagner's Best Horror Novels edit
Since this list gets referenced a lot online, I thought it would be useful to reprint the lists of Wagner's best horror novels in the Twilight Zone magazine issues of July and August 1983.
I. The Thirteen Best Supernatural Horror Novels:
Hell! Said the Duchess by Michael Arlen
The Burning Court by John Dickson Carr
Alraune by Hanns Heinz Ewers
Dark Sanctuary by H.B. Gregory
Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
Maker of Shadows by Jack Mann
The Yellow Mistletoe by Walter S. Masterman
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
Burn Witch Burn by A. Merritt
Fingers of Fear by J.U. Nicolson
Doctors Wear Scarlet by Simon Raven
Echo of a Curse by R. R. Ryan
Medusa by E. H. Visiak
II. The Thirteen Best Science Fiction Horror Novels:
The Death Guard by Philip George Chadwick
Final Blackout by L. Ron Hubbard
Vampires Overhead by Alan Hyder
The Quatermass Experiment by Nigel Kneale
Quatermass and the Pit by Nigel Kneale
The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck by Alexander Laing
The Flying Beast by Walter S. Masterman
The Black Corridor by Michael Moorcock
Land Under England by Joseph O'Neill
The Cross of Carl by Walter Owen
Freak Museum by R.R. Ryan
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
III. The Thirteen Best Non-Supernatural Horror Novels:
The Deadly Percheron by John Franklin Bardin
Psycho by Robert Bloch
Here Comes a Candle by Fredric Brown
The Screaming Mimi by Fredric Brown
The Fire-Spirits by Paul Busson
The Crooked Hinge by John Dickson Carr
The Sorceror's Apprentice by Hanns Heinz Ewers
Vampire by Hanns Heinz Ewers
Fully Dressed and in His Right Mind by Michael Fessier
The Shadow on the House by Mark Hansom
Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau
The Master of the Day of Judgement by Leo Perutz
The Subjugated Beast by R.R. Ryan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.61.97.121 (talk) 15:40, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
For the sake of completeness, here are the other lists besides Wagner's that appeared in the TZ magazine series, the "The Fantasy Five-Foot Bookshelf" :
Thirteen Supreme Masters of Weird Fiction by R.S Hadji:
Hanns Heinz Ewers
Thirteen All-Time Classics of Fantasy by Thomas M. Disch:
Caleb Williams by William Godwin
Undine by Baron de la Motte Fouque
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions
Lady into Fox by David Garnett
The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore
The Sound of His Horn by Sarban (John William Wall)
Snow White by Donald Barthelme
176.61.97.121 (talk) 18:57, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Thirteen Worst Stinkers of the Weird by R.S. Hadji:
The Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli
Unholy Relics by M.P. Dare
Count Dracula's Canadian Affair by Otto Fredrick
The Grip of Fear by Vern Hassan
Rest in Agony by Ivar Jorgenson
Dracutwig by Mallory T. Knight
The Transition of Titus Crow by Brian Lumley
The Vampire Tapes by Arabella Randolphe
Suffer the Children by John Saul
Cellars by John Shirley
The Sucking Pit by Guy N. Smith
The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker
The Vampire Baronesses by Violet Van Der Elst — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.61.97.121 (talk) 19:19, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Thirteen Great Works of Fantasy from the Last 13 Years by Thomas M. Disch
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories by Cynthia Ozick
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Shamp of the City-Solo by Jaimy Gordon
The Great Victorian Collection by Brian Moore
The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium and other Novels by Harry Mathews
The Auctioneer by Joan Samson
The Dancers at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock
Alyx by Joanna Russ
The Kingdoms of Elfin by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Lovers Living, Lovers Dead by Richard Lortz
Childhood and Other Neighborhoods by Stuart Dybek
176.61.97.121 (talk) 20:00, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Thirteen Neglected Masterpieces of the Macabre by R.S. Hadji
Basil Netherby by A. C. Benson
Bury Him Darkly by John Blackburn
The Dark Chamber by Leonard Cline
The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Hanns Heinz Ewers
The Shiny Narrow Grin by Jane Gaskell
Children of the Black Sabbath by Anne Hébert
Neither the Sea Nor the Sand by Gordon Honeycombe
Tales of the Uneasy by Violet Hunt
A Book of Bargains by Vincent O'Sullivan
The Hole of the Pit by Adrian Ross
Randall's Round by Eleanor Scott
The Accursed by Claude Seignolle
Medusa by E. H. Visiak
176.61.97.121 (talk) 20:00, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
The Thirteen Most Terrifying Horror Stories by R.S. Hadji:
"The Striding Place" Gertrude Atherton
"Negotiam Perambulans" by E. F. Benson
"The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood
"The Jar" by Ray Bradbury
"In the Bag" by Ramsey Campbell
"The Upper Berth" by F. Marion Crawford
"Mujina" by Lafcadio Hearn
"Pigeons from Hell" by Robert E. Howard
"The Ash-Tree" by M. R. James
"The Thing in the Cellar" by David H. Keller
"The Graveyard Rats" by Henry Kuttner
"The Haunter of the Dark" by H. P. Lovecraft
"The Frontier Guards" by H. Russell Wakefield
176.61.97.121 (talk) 20:08, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
The Thirteen Most Terrifying Horror Stories by T. E. D. Klein :
"Casting the Runes" by M.R. James (also "Count Magnus," "The Ash-Tree,"
"The Treasure of Abbott Thomas")
"The Novel of the Black Seal" by Arthur Machen (also " The White People," "Out of the Picture")
"The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood
"The Dunwich Horror" by H. P. Lovecraft (also "The Call of Cthulhu")
"Bird of Prey" by John Collier
Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell
"They Bite" by Anthony Boucher
"Stay Off the Moon!" by Raymond F. Jones
"Ottmar Balleau X 2" by George Bamber
"First Anniversary" by Richard Matheson (also "Prey")
"The Autopsy" by Michael Shea
"The Trick" by Ramsey Campbell (also "Cold Print," "The Interloper,"
"The End of a Summer's Day")
"To Build a Fire" by Jack London
Klein's "Honorable Mentions" :
"Fritschen" by Charles Beaumont
"Mimic" by Donald A. Wollheim
"A Bit of the Dark World" by Fritz Leiber
Ringstones by "Sarban"
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson 176.61.97.121 (talk) 21:30, 22 December 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.61.97.121 (talk) 21:27, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
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