100 Greatest Horror Books Edited by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
366 pages, Paperback
Published May, 1998 by Running Press
First published January 1, 1988
Literary awards: Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction (1989)
Very short review here, on the live PKD Hang we had bizarro/horror writer Garrett Cook on to talk about Philip K. Dick. Garrett talked about how he discovered PKD and many other authors from reading this book. Starting in centuries past, with Clive Barker talking about Faust From 1592 to modern novels. This is an amazing resource to highlight the range of great horror books that have been scaring us for centuries.
For me, it was incredible to get this survey, so I have some base knowledge of works I may not have actually read. Certain Essays stand out. Peter Straub on The Shining, Stephen King on the Haunting of Hill, and of course TAD Williams writing about PKD’s Three Stigmata is a huge part of why I ordered it.
Anyone who is interested in the history of the horror genre must have read this book.
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