As a companion piece to my Movies From The Darkside, here's my list of key Dark Fantasy/Horror works. Are there any I've missed, not read yet or omitted? Please, I'm open to further suggestions...and I'm wanting something new - and dark - to read.



Aldiss, Brian: Frankenstein Unbound
Amis, Kingsley: The Green Man
Amis, Martin: Other People
Ballard, J G: The Atrocity Exhibition, Concrete Island, Crash, High Rise
Banks, Iain: Complicity, The Crow Road, The Wasp Factory, Walking On Glass
Barker, Clive: The Books of Blood (1-6), The Damnation Game
Bierce, Ambrose: Complete Works
Bishop, Michael: Who Made Stevie Crye?
Boulle, Pierre: Le Planete des Singes (Monkey Planet)
Bradbury, Ray: Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Brite, Poppy Z: Drawing Blood
Bryant, Edward: Among the Dead
Burgess, Anthony: A Clockwork Orange
Burroughs, William: Naked Lunch
Campbell, Ramsey: The Doll Who Ate His Mother
Carroll, Jonathon: The Land of Laughs, Voice of My Shadow
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
Dahl, Roald: Kiss Kiss, Someone Like You
Danielewski, Mark Z.: House of Leaves
Dick, Philip K: Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
Disch, Thomas M: The Businessman (A Tale of Terror)
Easton, Brett Ellis: American Psycho
Ellison, Harlan: Deathbird Stories, I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, Strange Wine
Etchison, Dennis: The Dark Country, Red Dreams
Farris, John: All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By
Finney, Jack: The Body Snatchers
Fowles, John: The Collector, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Magus
Gaiman, Neil: Sandman
Gallagher, Stephen: Valley of Lights
Gibson, Miles: The Sandman
Gibson, William: Neuromancer
Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
Grant, Charles L: The Pet
Grass, Gunter: The Tin Drum
Grubb, Davis: Night of the Hunter
Harris, Thomas: Hannibal, Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs
Herbert, James: The Fog
Hjortsberg, William: Falling Angel
Hoban, Russell: Riddley Walker
Joyce, Graham: The Tooth Fairy
Kafka, Franz: Metamorphosis
Kerr, Philip: A Philosophical Investigation
King, Stephen: Carrie, The Dead Zone, The Shining, The Stand
Klein, T E D: The Ceremonies
Kotzwinkle, William: Doctor Rat
Kosinski, Jerzy: The Painted Bird
Lansdale, Joe R: The Drive-In
LeGuin, Ursula: The Lathe of Heaven
Leiber, Fritz: Our Lady of Darkness
Leiberman, Herbert: Crawlspace
Levin, Ira: Rosemary's Baby
Ligotti, Thomas: Songs of a Dead Dreamer
Lustbader, Eric Van: The Ninja
Malamud, Bernard: The Natural
Marasco, Robert: Burnt Offerings
Matheson, Richard: I Am Legend
McEwen, Ian: The Cement Garden
Morrell, David: First Blood, The Totem
Nolan, Christopher: Under The Eye of the Clock
Nye, Robert: Faust
Peake, Mervyn: Gormenghast Trilogy
Picano, Felice: Eyes, The Lure
Poe, Edgar Allen: Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Priest, Christopher: The Glamour
Raucher, Herman: Maynard's House
Rhinehart, Luke: The Dice Man
Roth, Philip: The Breast
Sarban: The Sound of His Horn
Sayer, Paul: The Comforts of Madness
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
Siddons, Anne Rivers: The House Next Door
Simmons, Dan: Song of Kali
Slade, Michael: Ghoul
Stevenson, R L: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Stoker, Bram: Dracula
Straub, Peter: Ghost Story
Strieber, Whitley: The Hunger
Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver's Travels
Taylor, Bernard: Sweetheart, Sweetheart
Tessier, Thomas: The Nightwalker
Theroux, Paul: The Black House, Chicago Loop
Travis, Tristan: Lamia
Trumbo, Dalton: Johnny Got His Gun
Tryon, Thomas: The Other
Updike, John: The Witches of Eastwick
Weiss, Daniel Evan: Unnatural Selection
Weldon, Fay: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Puffball
Wellman, Manly Wade: The John Books
Wells, H G: The Island of Doctor Moreau
Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wyndham, John: The Chrysalids



Sleep well, fellow darktrippers.


[Edited by darktrippers on 05-28-01 at 09:40 AM]

Although I do not agree with the horror subject on some of these books, I would recommend Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr.

E.L. Doctorow: The Waterworks
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

I would add Jack Ketchum's Off Season and Dean Koontz's Watchers.

You're missing Lovecraft. Unfortunately his stories have been published in various different collections, but I guess I could say "At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales" and "The Call of Cthulu and Other tales" -- it all depends which publisher you pick up.

Tuan Jim

Yeah, I agree, let's say it's more of a dark reading list.

I'll add Last Exit and the Lovecraft stuff later.

Cheers.

I just finished One Rainy Night by Richard Laymon and it was pretty damn_decent. I understand this guy is huge in England, but not to big in the U.S.

Apparently he is a pretty prolific (sp?) author and I'm sure someone could offer up some essential reading written by Laymon.

-Steve

I would recommend The Cellar, Beast House, Midnight Tour, Funland, Endless Night, Fiends, and The Stake...to start.

Definitely need to add Lovecraft there, and Robert McCammon too. Although, I am very glad to see Hjortsberg's Falling Angel there... what a read!!

p.s., wow, just noticed, no Koontz either. His early stuff is pretty dang cool.


Poe and Bierce rule. If you dig them, maybe try Clarke Ashton Smith and Sheridan LeFanu. Great stuff.

I would add a few more Dan Simmons titles: Carrion Comfort (a very original vampire story) and Summer of Night (an excellent coming of age horror tale).
Also, Swan Song and Boy's Life by Robert R Mccammon are must reads.
And, of course, Bentley Little: The Store, The Mailman, and The Ignored