I've at least tried to read every one of the books on that list, and I can say that with few exceptions (Dracula, Frankenstein, Poe, Moreau) they're "horror novels" only if you apply the broadest definition of the term (and are an extraordinarily patient and sensitive reader). Many of them are good reads, but chills are hard to come by. Some of the ones that clicked with me --more as thrillers or 'fantastic fiction'--include Melmoth the Wanderer, Uncle Silas, She, The King in Yellow, Turn of the Screw, Doraian Grey and The Ms. Found in Saragossa.

Some of the ones I didn't see on the list that were very creepy to me would be "Las Bas" and "Against Nature" by J.K. Huysmans, "Les Chants de Malderor" by Isadore Ducasse, "Confessions of a Thug" by Philip Meadows Taylor, and "Armadale" by Wilkie Collins.

I think what the 19th c. excelled at in terms of horror was short fiction.

But why be a fuddy-duddy? The illusions are generally good fun and the whole movie is harmless claptrap.
--William Mootz
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