Dark Carnival13 reviews Ray Bradbury Gauntlet Press, 2001 45 Years Waiting + Not Free SF Reader + Best money I've spent ! + Worth the money.......and then some!             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             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 ...             Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions84 reviews Neil Gaiman Harper Perennial, 2001 Book Review: Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman + What more can be said Neil Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors is a collection of his short stories and poems. Like his other short story/poem collection titled Fragile Things, this book too has an introduction with commentary of each of the stories and poems contained within. For me, this introduction is the best part of the ...             Deathbird Stories (Collier nucleus fantasy & science fiction)14 reviews Harlan Ellison Collier Books, 1990 JUST ANOTHER COLLECTION THAT SHOWS WHY ELLISON IS THE BEST + Cruel gods + Excellent Collection of Short Fiction + Modern Gods, What's This?! It's Out of Print?! + Harlan At His Best             Dark Gods8 reviews T.E.D. Klein Viking Adult, 1985 Intelligent, atmospheric and beautifully written (Spoiler Alert!) + This is great stuff.... + Worth Tracking Down I must disagree with the reviewer who found these four novellas weak. Of course, I should clarify my criteria for rating such works: I am not a big fan of the graphic, bloody, "modern" horror fiction: I have reservations about Stephen King (I think my favorite work of his is his novella "The ...             The Dark Descent14 reviews Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, ... Tor Books, 1997 Multitudinous tome for the horror and preternatural aficionado + Scary stuff + Not Free SF Reader + A fine anthology for the horror afficianado             Night Shift (Signet)166 reviews Stephen King Signet, 1979 Not Free SF Reader + Great book but is missing some stories from the original + short story surprise Stephen King's first collection, and very good it was too. Mostly horror as you would expect, but some SF horror, a twisted little crime story, and a call it would you like death by disease story to finish. Demons, Elder Gods, voodoo, punishment, armageddon, bloody murder and more exist for you ...             Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque24 reviews Joyce Carol Oates Plume, 1995 Up and Down Your Spine I Shall Pace and Stomp Hyenas + No one does it like Joyce Carol Oates + Dark and Depressing + Solid but inconsistent collection of JCO's dark side...             Dark Forces: 22 reviews Viking Adult, 1980 A wonderfully comprehensive collection of horror stories + edward Gorey 's only full length illustrated story DARK FORCES is a real tour-de-force to read. There are some incredibly imaginative stories in here. My personal favorites are "Where the Summer Ends" by Karl Edward Wagner, a story set in Knoxville, Tennessee that delivers a new and horrifying spin on an old "Japanese import"--namely, kudzu; and ...             Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961-199113 reviews Ramsey Campbell Tor Books, 2004 Campbell outdoes even King & Barker in my opinion! + Not Free SF Reader + Best Horror Anthology Ever!!!! + Some of the best ever + vVERY CREEPY             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             The Hellbound Heart62 reviews Clive Barker HarperTorch, 1991 Can you put the puzzle box down? + Books are always better than the movies + Hellbound is Heavensent + A beautiful (terrifying) edition             The Nightmare Factory22 reviews Thomas Ligotti Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1996 authentic horror, not for the timid King fan + A great collection of creepy weird tales! + Gnostic Nihilism + Waking up in a nightmare             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             The Black Gondolier4 reviews Fritz Leiber e-reads.com, 2003 5 Stars for Leiber, 1 Star for Publisher 'e-Reads' + Breadth and Vision + the master Fantasy/SF writer can do horror too! + Fine collection of rare weird tales by this master of genres             The Black Stranger: And Other American Tales (The Works of Robert E. Howard Series)8 reviews Robert Ervin Howard Bison Books, 2005 A first rate collection! + a very good introduction to re howard + The Black Stranger & Other American Tales by Robert E. Howard + something to note...             Hell House148 reviews Richard Matheson Tor Books, 1999 Definitive Haunted House Novel + Creepy... + Not for the weak of soul After reading Hell House, I immediately ordered all three volumes of Richard Matheson's Collected works. It is hands-down the best haunting novel I've read, and possibly the best horror novel. Steven King often refers to Matheson as his main influence - and it is abundantly clear why when you read ...             Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories (Oxford World's Classics)12 reviews M. R. James Oxford University Press, USA, 1999 Spooky as all get up + Some of the very best of MR James + The Mood of the Macabre + Horror, Lite + Write a Review, and I'll Come to You, My Lad.             The Dark Descent14 reviews Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, ... Tor Books, 1997 Multitudinous tome for the horror and preternatural aficionado + Scary stuff + Not Free SF Reader + A fine anthology for the horror afficianado