I’ve got a little list – of 20 Horror novels

Apart from the usual suspects of Stoker, Shelley and Stevenson which are givens, here’s a list of 20 of my favorite books in the genre. I’ve excluded ghost stories from this one as I intend to do a list of them separately. As ever, only one per author, otherwise the likes of King, Campbell and Barker would be filling it up.

Apart from the Nevill, these are at least 20 years old now – that’s either because most of my horror reading these days is in the short story form, or that the longer ones I’ve read by authors other than the ones listed haven’t had time to percolate into personal favorites yet.

Shadowland – Peter Straub
The Hour of the Oxrun Dead – Charles L Grant
Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
Falling Angel – William Hjortsberg
Our Lady of Darkness – Fritz Leiber
The Damnation Game – Clive Barker
The Dead Zone – Stephen King
Parasite – Ramsey Campbell
The Matrix – Jonathan Aycliffe
The Ritual – Adam Nevill
The Trickster – Muriel Gray
Prey – Graham Masterton
Toady – Mark Morris
Bury Him Darkly – John Blackburn
Spectre – Stephen Laws
Exquisite Corpse – Poppy Z Brite
The Scream – John Skipp and Craig Spector
The Fog – James Herbert
Legion – William Peter Blatty
All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By – John Farris