Откопал у себя в закромах любопытный сборник рецензий "Horror:The 100 Best Books". Редакторы: Ким Ньюман и Стивен Джонс. Начинаю грызть потихоньку. А вот список этой лучшей сотни, на будущее уже кое-что из него прочитать себе наметил:
1. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe (c.1592) 2. The Tragedy of Macbeth, by William Shakespeare (1606) 3. The White Devil, by John Webster (1612) 4. Caleb Williams, by William Godwin (1794) 5. The Monk, by Matthew Gregory Lewis (1796) 6. The Best Tales of Hoffman (1814-16) 7. Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen (1817) 8. Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1818) 9. Melmoth the Wanderer, by Charles Maturin (1820) 10. The Confessions of a Justified Sinner, by James Hogg (1824) 11. Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allan Poe (1838) 12. Twice-Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1838) 13. The Black Spider, by Jeremias Gotthelf (1842) 14. The Wandering Jew, by Eugene Sue (1844-5) 15. The Confidence Man, by Herman Melville (1857) 16. Uncle Silas, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1864) 17. Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) 18. She, by H. Rider Haggard (1887) 19. The King in Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers (1895) 20. The Island of Dr. Moreau, by H. G. Wells (1896) 21. Dracula, by Bram Stoker (1897) 22. The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James (1898) 23. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad (1902) 24. The Jewel of Seven Stars, by Bram Stoker (1903) 25. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, by M. R. James (1904) 26. The House of Souls, by Arthur Machen (1906) 27. John Silence, by Algernon Blackwood (1908) 28. The Man Who Was Thursday, by G. K. Chesterton (1908) 29. The House on the Borderland, by William Hope Hodgson (1908) 30. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (1909) 31. Widdershins, by Oliver Onions (1911) 32. The Horror Horn, by E. F. Benson (1912-34) 33. A Voyage to Arcturus, by David Lindsay (1920) 34. The Trial, by Franz Kafka (1925) 35. Something About Eve, by James Branch Cabell (1929) 36. Medusa, by E. H. Visiak (1929) 37. The Werewolf of Paris, by Guy Endore (1933) 38. The Last Bouquet, by Marjorie Bowen (1933) 39. The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck, by Alexander Laing (1934) 40. A Second Century of Creepy Stories, ed. Hugh Walpole (1937) 41. The Dark Tower, by C. S. Lewis (c. 1938) 42. Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo (1939) 43. The Outsider and Others, by H. P. Lovecraft (1939) 44. Out of Space and Time, by Clark Ashton Smith (1942) 45. Conjure Wife, by Fritz Leiber (1943) 46. Night Has a Thousand Eyes, by Cornell Woolrich (1945) 47. The Lurker at the Threshold, by H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth (1945) 48. Deliver Me from Eva, by Paul Bailey (1946) 49. And the Darkness Falls, ed. Boris Karloff (1946) 50. The Sleeping and the Dead, ed. August Derleth (1947) 51. Track of the Cat, by Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1949) 52. The Sound of His Horn, by Sarban (1952) 53. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding (1954) 54. I am Legend, by Richard Matheson (1954) 55. The October Country, by Ray Bradbury (1955) 56. Nine Horrors and a Dream, by Joseph Payne Brennan (1958) 57. Psycho, by Robert Bloch (1959) 58. Quatermass and the Pit, by Nigel Kneale (1959) 59. Cry Horror!, by H. P. Lovecraft (1959) 60. The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson (1959) 61. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, by Philip K. Dick (1964) 62. The Painted Bird, by Jerzy Kosinski (1965) 63. The Crystal World, by J. G. Ballard (1966) 64. Sub Rosa, by Robert Aickman (1968) 65. The Green Man, by Kingsley Amis (1969) 66. The Compleat Werewolf, by Anthony Boucher (1969) 67. Grendel, by John Gardner (1971) 68. The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty (1971) 69. The Sheep Look Up, by John Brunner (1972) 70. Worse Things Waiting, by Manly Wade Wellman (1973) 71. Burnt Offerings, by Robert Marasco (1973) 72. 'Salem's Lot, by Stephen King (1975) 73. Deathbird Stories, by Harlan Ellison (1975) 74. Murgunstrumm and Others, by Hugh B. Cave (1977) 75. Sweetheart, Sweetheart, by Bernard Taylor (1977) 76. All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By, by John Farris (1977) 77. The Shining, by Stephen King (1977) 78. Falling Angel, by William Hjortsberg (1978) 79. The Wolfen, by Whitley Strieber (1978) 80. The Totem, by David Morrell (1979) 81. Ghost Story, by Peter Straub (1979) 82. The Land of Laughs, by Jonathan Carroll (1980) 83. The Cellar, by Richard Laymon (1980) 84. Red Dragon, by Thomas Harris (1981) 85. The Keep, by F. Paul Wilson (1981) 86. The Dark Country, by Dennis Etchison (1982) 87. In a Lonely Place, by Karl Edward Wagner (1983) 88. The Anubis Gates, by Tim Powers (1983) 89. The Arabian Nightmare, by Robert Irwin (1983) 90. The Wasp Factory, by Iain Banks (1984) 91. The Ceremonies, by T. E. D. Klein (1984) 92. Mythago Wood, by Robert Holdstock (1984) 93. Who Made Stevie Crye?, by Michael Bishop (1984) 94. Song of Kali, by Dan Simmons (1985) 95. The Damnation Game, by Clive Barker (1985) 96. Hawksmoor, by Peter Ackroyd (1985) 97. A Nest of Nightmares, by Lisa Tuttle (1986) 98. The Pet, by Charles L. Grant(1986) 99. Swan Song, by Robert McCammon (1987) 100. Dark Feasts, by Ramsey Campbell (1987)
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