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HORROR BOOKS OF ALL TIME |
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) was formed to foster a greater appreciation of dark fiction among the general public.The HWA observes that "horror oftenhas a poor reputation - it's hard to convince people who have read one too many second-rate horror novels that there is, indeed, horror worth reading." For that reason HWA compiled the following list.
| Algernon Blackwood | Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood |
| William Peter Blatty | The Exorcist |
| Ray Bradbury | Something Wicked This Way Comes |
| Poppy Z. Brite | Lost Souls |
| Ramsey Campbell | The Hungry Moon |
| Tananarive Due | The Between |
| Dennis Etchison | Darklands |
| Charles L. Grant | Raven |
| Nancy Holder | Dead in the Water |
| Shirley Jackson | The Haunting of Hill House |
| Shirley jackson | The Lottery and Other Stories |
| Henry James | Turn of the Screw |
| M.R. James | The Ghost Stories |
| K.W. Jeter | Dr. Adder |
| Franz Kafka | The Metamorphosis and Other Stories |
| Stephen King | Pet Semetary |
| Stephen King | The Shining |
| Stephen King | The Stand |
| Kathe Koja | Skin |
| Tanith Lee | Dark Dance |
| Fritz Leiber | Conjure Wife |
| Ira Levin | Rosemary's Baby |
| Thomas Ligotti | Songs of a Dead Dreamer |
| Richard Lortz | Lovers Living, Lovers Dead |
| H.P. Lovecraft | The Dunwich Horror and Others |
| H.P. Lovecraft | All the Mountains of Madness |
| Artur Machen | The Hill of Dreams |
| Arthur Machen | Tales of Horror and the Supernatural |
| Elizabeth Massie | Sineater |
| Richard Matheson | I Am Legend |
| Douglas Preston & Lincoln Childs | Relic |
| Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |
| John Skipp & Craig Spectoe, eds. | Book of the Dead |
| Michael Slade | Ghoul |
| S.P. Samtow | Vampire Junction |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| Bram Stoker | Dracula |
| Theodore Sturgeon | Some of Your Blood |
| Thomas Tessier | Phantom |
| Andrew Vachss | Sacrifice |
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