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Now that the Top 100 Writers project is done, let's complete this one.

Anyone else want to share their top 10 books? Here are the guidelines for your list, as posted by Doc Faustus in the opening post :-

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Originally Posted by Doc Faustus (Post 887636)

To start with, I'd like folks to post 10 books, plays, poems or books of poetry containing horror elements or influencing the genre.

Plath's Ariel (the book, not the poem), Shakespeare's Macbeth, Joyce's Ulysses have as much horror to be found in them as Salem's Lot or American Psycho and should not be ignored just because they do not meet some arbitrary standard for the genre.

Unlike real politicians, this HDC President is going to hear out your arguments in favor of works that you think might be controversial. Arguments against things are for later in the process.

No eyerolls, no "Kafka isn't horror", "The Invisible Man isn't horror", "Haunting of Hill House isn't horror", "The Joy of Sex isn't horror" yet.

Be my guest.

1984~George Orwell
The woman~Jack ketchum
The hunger games~Suzanne Collins
Ron Jeremys autobiography
Catch 22~Joseph Heller
Cabal~Clive Barker
It~Stephen King
Where the wild things are~Maurice Sendak
Eyebrows and other fish~Anthony Scally
Lord of the flies~William Golding

In no particular order:

Frankenstein
Dracula
Hell House
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
They Thirst
Salem's Lot
Interview With the Vampire
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Stand

Anyone else wishes to share their choices of top 10 horror books?

*bump*

One final call for submissions, before we go for compilation work.

My Top Horro r Novels

1)Salems Lot
2)Watchers
3)The Girl Next Door
4)The Lost
5)Psycho
6)The Vampire Lestat
7)Vampire Junction
8)Pet Semetary
9)Misery
10)Dracula

I Am Legend Richard Matheson
It Stephen King
Dracula Bram Stoker
Hellbound Heart Clive Barker
The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe
Annabel Lee Edgar Allen Poe
Hell House Richard Matheson
'Salem's Lot Stephen King
Macbeth Shakespeare
The Last Wish Andrzej Sapkowski

Just saw this. Will try to get a list ready in a day or two. Hopefully by that time I'll have finished Dracula so I can list it legitimately

Thanks, wordsmithjts and JudgeU.

Eagerly waiting to see your choices, sfear.

DRACULA by Bram Stoker
MOON OF THE WOLF by Leslie H. Whitten
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES by Arthur Conan Doyle
A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens
I AM LEGEND by Richard Matheson
THE MIST by Stephen King
"The Father Thing" by Philip K. Dick
"Pidgeons From Hell" by Robert E. Howard
"The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In case we forgot Doc's original guidlines allowed for individual stories and poems along with books of same.