I'm interested in the thoughts of those who've read some of the older horror novels listed in Stephen Jones and Kim Newman's books HORROR 100 BEST BOOKS and HORROR ANOTHER 100 BEST BOOKS. I've listed the titles below and would welcome any and all recommendations, as I'm trying to expand my knowledge of more obscure (to current readers) horror from the past.
I'd like to know if you enjoyed the book as a reading experience or purely for historical knowledge, and what kind of horror content. Any surprises--truly scary, or not, good pacing or too slow?
from volume one:
I'd like to know if you enjoyed the book as a reading experience or purely for historical knowledge, and what kind of horror content. Any surprises--truly scary, or not, good pacing or too slow?
from volume one:
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The White Devil by John Webster
Caleb Williams by William Godwin
The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Best Tales of Hoffmann by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
The Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf
The Wandering Jew by Eug
The Confidence Man by Herman Melville
Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
She by H. Rider Haggard
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
from volume two:
The Revenger's Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur
from volume two:
The Revenger's Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur
Pikovaia Dama/The Queen of Spades by Aleksandr Pushkin
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Rekopiz Znaleziony w Saragossie/ The Manuscrit Found in Saragossa by Jan, Count Potocki
New Grub Street by George Gissing
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Any pre-20th century horror novels you found enjoyable that aren't noted here, feel free to recommend them.
Any pre-20th century horror novels you found enjoyable that aren't noted here, feel free to recommend them.
