Ok I'll back up Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte
and add:-
James Herbert-The Spear

Melmoth the Wanderer- Charles Robert Maturin
The Mysteries of Udolpho- Ann Radcliffe
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde- Robert Louis Stevenson
Vathek- William Beckford
Inferno- Dante
The Hound of the Baskervilles- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Monk- Matthew Lewis
Dracula- Bram Stoker
Frankenstein- Mary Shelly
The Vampyre- John Polidori
The Old Testament- Various

Not sure how to quantify Poe, but The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat & The Fall of the House of Usher are amongst my favourite short stories.

I'll back up The Monk by Matthew Lewis that's one weird book.

Gotta get ahold of that sometime. And Melmoth. And Vathek. And bury myself under ground for a couple days.

Sorry it's taken a while to get back to you, been busy all week.

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll get round to watching it fairly soon.

Thanks for letting me pick your brains on the book and the movie. I wasn't being argumentative, I just wanted to hear your opinion on both.:)

That's okay. I don't know what you're going to think of the film though.:eek:

I have a 3 year old and a one year old and you know how it is when you have kids. It makes it that much harder to watch people being horrible to eachother but, I'm sure I'll persevere in the name of art. :D

I felt the same way when my children were that age. Now my children are 19 and 16 so I don't feel that insular, protective feeling as much, so hardcore horror bothers me much less than it used to.

P.S. My daughter took that Marquis De Sade book with her to college.:o

Just say it, I've turned into a bit of a pussy!:D

I'm still at the stage of trying to convince the kids that eating their greens is a good idea. I have no idea how I'm gonna deal with my daughter reading de Sade. I guess I'll just pass the buck to mum:)

They grow up. One day you're reading Dr. Seuss to them; the next they're teaching you what tentacle hentai is.:eek:

As long as they watch horror, listen to guitar based music and follow Liverpool I don't give a shit what they do cause, if they're doing any of those, we're going to get on fine.

I bet they grow up a pair of rom com watching, raver Evertonians!:D

Let's see some more readers!

Apologies everyone for having been in as infrequently as I have. Three weeks ago, I found out my mother has lung cancer and will have to undergo chemo. It's been difficult dealing with this and the need to produce more work. I'm with you, HDC and hope to see some more lists and ideas for this project.

Really sorry to hear that.

Damn...

Really sorry to hear that, Doc. I hope the chemo works and she responds to it and pulls through. My best wishes to her, you and your family, my friend.

Thank you, Wickerfan, V. We're all hoping so. My youngest brother is 9 and my sister is 11. I'm doing everything I can to keep my mind off things, so I might end up spending more time on here.

Just went through the entire thread...nice project, Mr Prez.

I see that most of the popular stuff has already been mentioned by others, so I ll think of some uncommon ones. Off the top of my head...

• The Parasite by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Judge's House by Bram Stoker
• The Princess of All Lands by Russell Kirk (more specifically, "There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding")
• Prophecy by David Seltzer
• World War Z by Max Brooks
• The Damned by Algernon Blackwood
• Brain by Robin Cook
• Fengriffen by David Case
• The Third Grave by David Case
• Carrie by Stephen King
• The Uttermost Farthing by A.C. Benson
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• The Rope in the Rafters by Oliver Onions
• At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
• Black Man With a Horn by T.E.D. Klein
• Children of the Kingdom by T.E.D. Klein
• Nadelman's God by T.E.D. Klein
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R.L. Stevenson
• The Island of Dr Moreau by H.G. Wells
• The Feasting Dead by John Metcalfe
• The Rising by Brian Keene

hmm lets see, some of my favs...

1) IT - Stephen King
2) Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
3) Dracula - Bram Stoker
4) The fall of the house of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
5) Darkly dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsey
6) 1984 - George Orwell (not really horror but it did scare me...)
7) Lisey's story - Stephen King
8) Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
9) Prince of Mist - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
10) The yellow wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I see you mention Carrie there V. Quick question, is it a better book or movie?

I think it's one of the rare occasions when the movie surpasses the book, just. Though both are excellent.

Nice contribution, V! It's cool that you included Keene. Him and I have the same editor.

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 :-

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.

Do people like me who posted their top tens earlier in the thread need to choose again? Or are they already counted?

If you want to edit that top 10, feel free. I have already saved the lists from the beginning of the thread.

Deadline for submitting entries - December 10th, 2012.

I hope the compilation work is over and we have the 100 with us before New Year's Eve. It should be a fitting New Year gift from the good ol' Doc Faustus to HDC.

Thanks-I'll re-edit my original list if that's ok

1.Imajica-Clive Barker
2.At The Mountains Of Madness-HP Lovecraft
3.The Masque Of The Red Death-Edgar Allan Poe
4.The Wasp Factory-Iain Banks
5.Shadowlands-Peter Straub
6.The Turn Of The Screw-Henry James
7.The Monk-Matthew Lewis
8.A Warning To The Curious-MR James
9.The Vampire Lestat-Anne Rice
10.Insomnia-Stephen King

Just a reminder that tomorrow will be the last date for submission of entries. So if you are in the process of making a list of your choices, do it before midnight EDT (US) tomorrow.

1. IT by Stephen King
2. Tommyknockers by Stephen King
3. Ghoul by Brian Keene
4. The Traveling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon
5. Strange Magic by Gord Rollo
6. The Conqueror Worms AKA Earthworm Gods by Brian Keene
7. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
8. Salems Lot by Stephen King
9. In The Dark by Richard Laymon
10. Red by Jack Ketchum

I'm totally going ditto with this one but respect to everyones. They all look pretty good.

Thank you for all of your submissions, folks. We have received an overwhelming number of entries.

Compilation work starts from today. Will keep you posted on the progress and developments as they happen, before chiseling out the final top 100.

I have completed the first round of compiling. 50 books have made the cut so far.

We need 50 more. And for this, I need your collective help.

As many as 145 entries have ended up being nominated ONCE. I will need you to back up some of these choices, to make it into the final tally.

Since we need 50 out of a possible 145, we will tackle this with batches of 5 - five master lists of 29 nominations in number. You will have to select 10 nominations, out of the 29 posted, to back them up with your support. You may post your choices in this thread, or through PM to me.

If you feel a particular book/short story/poem doesn't deserve to make the cut (out of these lists), feel free to post it along with your reasons. Vice versa, if you feel that a particular book/short story/poem DESERVES to make the cut, post your reasons why. If you get enough people to agree with you, it will be in.

Please don't select a written work just because you nominated it, but look at the overall picture and see if it is a fitting entry to be marked permanently in a Top 100 list. Remember, quality comes first.

Here we go with the first list of 29 nominations. All the best choosing, folks!


The First Batch

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
A Warning To The Curious - M R James
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith
Adrift on The Haunted Seas - William Hope Hodgson
And Then There Were None/Ten Little Indians - Agatha Christie
Annabel Lee - Edgar Allen Poe (poem)
Ariel - Sylvia Plath (poems)
Batman: the Long Halloween - Jeph Loeb (comic book)
Black Man With a Horn - T.E.D. Klein
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Books of Blood series - Clive Barker (collections)
Brain - Robin Cook
Cabal - Clive Barker
Carrie - Stephen King
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Cell - Stephen King
Children of the Kingdom - T.E.D. Klein
Coma - Robin Cook
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dagon and other Macabre Tales - H.P. Lovecraft
Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
Der Struwwelpeter - Heinrich Hoffmann (graphical book)
Desperation - Stephen King
Duncan's Diary: Birth of a Serial Killer - Christopher C. Payne
Dune - Frank Herbert
Eyebrows and Other Fish - Anthony Scally
Fengriffen: A Chilling Tale - David Case

No inputs? Come on, gang! I need your help.