The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time1 review Leslie Pockell Grand Central Publishing, 2002 A Super and Scary Selection Note: I made some Mormon reader angry over my negative reviews of books written by Mormons out to prove the Book of Mormon, and they have been slamming my reviews as soon as they are posted. Oh, well. Your "helpful" votes are appreciated. Thanks. This book is worth it for one story alone--the ...             The White People and Other Stories: Vol. 2 of the Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen (Call of Cthulhu Fiction)4 reviews Arthur Machen Chaosium Inc., 2003 Volume 2 of Arthur Machen's work + Another excellent collection of weird stories from this Welsh master + A Refreshing Change I was vary impressed by Chaosium's first collection of Machen's work, which was THE THREE IMPOSTERS AND OTHER STORIES. "The Three Imposters" was a narrative of interwoven tales describing a paranoid man's encounter with three people who are not who they seem. Each is an excellent story in its own ...             Nightmare At 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories By Richard Matheson20 reviews Richard Matheson Tor Books, 2002 Nightmare at 335 pages + Something to Read on Your Next Flight! + An excellent entry into Matheson's work + Great selection of Matheson's short stories + Wonderful             Great Weird Tales: 14 Stories by Lovecraft, Blackwood, Machen and Others4 reviews Dover Publications, 1998 Must Read Horror + An Introduction To The Golden Age Of The Eerie And The Strange This volume is an indispensible guide to the authors that have inspired modern horror, as well as a darn good read. Blackwood's "The Man Whom the Trees Loved" is a study in despair that will surprise even the most savvy of readers. R.H. Barlow's "A Dim-Remembered Story" creates a feeling of the ...             Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood25 reviews Algernon Blackwood Dover Publications, 1973 Pulls You Right In... + Slow and spooky + Some excellent tales, but also marred by some quite mediocre ones + Best Book of Modern Ghost Stories from the 20th century. + This book will mess with you             Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu11 reviews J. Sheridan LeFanu Dover Publications, 1964 Deceased judges, a vampire, & a nasty supernatural monkey + Best Gothic Tales of Yestreday that Still Thrills Today's Ghost-Story Readers + TERRIFIC STORIES + Bar none the best..... + Not your standard ghostly fare             H.P. Lovecraft's Favorite Weird Tales: The Roots of Modern Horror1 review Cold Spring Press, 2005 Superlative collection This is an absolutely superlative collection -- important for its assemblage of some of the very best of the horror genre and also because it helps provide historical insight into the tastes of H.P. Lovecraft, serving as a reading guide for his classic SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE. It also ...             The October Country38 reviews Ray Bradbury Del Rey, 1985 read and reread + Still Chills After Fifty Years + Not Free SF Reader + The October Country + some gems with some clunkers             The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce9 reviews Ambrose Bierce Bison Books, 1984 I suppose this must be death + No Library is complete without this book! + Great collection of short stories, the title is incorrect + Civil War Survivor and Damn Good Author             Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos24 reviews H. P. Lovecraft Del Rey, 1998 J.K. Potter's Illustrations Are Rich (Eldritch) + good read + suspenseful but the payoff is not always there + Excellent intro into the Cthulhu Mythos! + Finding Horror in the Little Things             *OP For the Blood is the Life3 reviews F. Marion Crawford White Wolf Publishing, 1996 Superb supernatural fiction + An excellent collection... but with one huge flaw + A master story-teller in the same league as Lovecraft. This collection of F. Marion Crawford's blood-curdling short stories is well worth tracking down. Though all of the stories are worth great merrit, there are a few in particular that need to be highlighted. "For The Blood Is The Life" is one of the absolute best tales of the folkloric vampire of ...             Visions of Fear (Foundations of Fear, No 3) Tor Books, 1994 The third and final volume of the Foundations of Fear anthology series features the such works as "In the Hills, the Cities" by Clive Barker, "Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler, and "Duel" by Richard Matheson. Reprint. PW.             Nameless Cults: The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales Of Robert E. Howard (Call of Cthulhu Fiction)8 reviews Robert E. Howard Chaosium, 2002 Buy This Book. Even My Wife Likes It! + 5 stars for the book, ZERO stars for Amazon! + The "other" Robert E. Howard + Skull Face and Others + IMHO, best Chaosium book yet             The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre136 reviews H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch Del Rey, 1987 Lovecraft is a master + You know, the amorphous toad-like being hinted at ... + Best of Lovecraft + Revisiting Lovecraft             Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Modern Library)24 reviews Modern Library, 1994 Essential -- the roots of modern short horror fiction + Relative Perfection... + Absolutely Excellant + Excellent collection of classic tales + A deadly little jewel             Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old and New5 reviews Doubleday, 1985 The Best Horror Anthology I have ever read + Absolutely Adore! + 5 stars! + Mind-boggling collection + A Pretty Good Collection             Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe72 reviews Edgar Allan Poe Doubleday, 1966 The Enduring Master of the Macabre + POEtic Justice + poes book Edgar Allan Poe, born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809, died October 7, 1849. What is it that makes an author famous? I don't mean famous in the sense a news article reports that "Jack Greylea's novels sold 15 million copies last year," but in the sense that he is thought of as being ...             Ghost Stories of an Antiquary8 reviews M. R. James Dover Publications, 1971 First collected stories of M. R. James + Masterpieces from the very master himself + Ghostly Tales from a Scholar of Medieval Manuscripts + Truly scary stories + beware of james             Adrift on The Haunted Seas: The Best Short Stories of William Hope Hodgson1 review William Hope Hodgson Cold Spring Press, 2005 Adrift on the Haunted Seas. _Adrift on the Haunted Seas: The Best Short Stories of William Hope Hodgson_ is an excellent collection of the various eerie sea stories of William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918). Praised as an expert story-teller by H. P. Lovecraft, Hodgson was British born and became a cabin boy on a ship defying his ...             Prime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of Modern Horror4 reviews Signet, 1989 A super collection of "horror" stories, by some of the best + A good anthology + HE SAID ONCE, "HORROR IS AN EMOTION..." There are some great stories in this collection, including "The Night Flyer" by Stephen King, which would later be released in Nightmares and Dreamscapes. The biggest surprise, however, is from David Morrell, best known for creating Rambo. His story, "Orange is for Anguish, Blue is for Insanity" ...