Books I’m going to order

This one’s for my homies over on Twitter. At the college library I work at, we (quite unexpectedly) have some extra money to spend on books. We (the college) also have classes on horror fiction and film. So I decided to increase our collection of horror fiction, so that when the students want to write their papers and do their presentations, they’ll have an array of books to read and use. I mentioned this on Twitter, and there was interest from folks there about what books I was going to order. So here’s the list (which includes a few non-horror novels I thought the library should own) (keep in mind that a lot of omissions here are either out of print or already owned by the library):



Robert Aickman’s Compulsory Games
Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Elechi Amadi’s The ConcubineThe Great Ponds
Leonid Andreyev’s The Abyss
Ines Arredondo’s The Underground River
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s Pather Panchali
Charles Beaumont’s A Touch of the Creature
E.F. Benson’s Night Terrors
Michel Bernanos’ The Other Side of the Mountain
Robert Bloch’s The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch
Maria Luisa Bombal’s House of Mist
Marjorie Bowen’s The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories
Serge Brussolo’s Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome
Dino Buzzati’s Catastrophe and Other Stories, Tartar Steppe
Leonora Carrington’s The Complete Stories
Fred Chappell’s Dagon
John Collier’s Fancies and Goodnights
A.E. Coppard’s The Black Dog
Julio Cortazar’s Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much
Cristina Fernandez Cubas’ Nona’s Room
Bernard Dadie’s The Black Cloth
Amparo Davila’s The Houseguest
Walter de la Mare’s Out of the Deep
Mario de Sa-Carneiro’s The Great Shadow
Giorgio di Maria’s Twenty Days of Turin
Birago Diop’s Tales of Amadou Koumba
Jose Donoso’s The Obscene Bird of Night
Lord Dunsany’s In The Land of TimeGods of Pegana
Stanley Ellin’s The Specialty of the House
Buchi Emechata’s The Rape of ShaviThe Joys of Motherhood
Daniel Fagunwa’s Forest of a Thousand Daemons
Rosario Ferre’s The Youngest Doll
Mary Wilkins Freeman’s A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader
Enchi Fumiko’s Masks, A Tale of False Fortunes
Stefan Grabinski’s The Dark Domain
Julien Gracq’s Dark Stranger
Ken Greenhall’s Hell Hound
Davis Grubb’s Night of the Hunter 
Hella Haasse’s The Black Lake
Wilson Harris’ Palace of the Peacock
L.P. Hartley’s The Travelling Grave
Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl
Felisberto Hernandez’s Piano Stories
William Hope Hodgon’s The House on the Borderlands
Margaret Irwin’s Still She Wished For Company
Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill HouseWe Have Always Lived in the Castle
Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels
Gerald Kersh’s Nightshades and Damnation
Kobo Abe’s The Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another 
Kurahashi Yumiko’s The Woman with the Flying Head
Kyoka Izumi’s Japanese Gothic Tales
Carmen Laforet’s Nada
Tommaso Landolfi’s Gogol’s Wife
Camara Laye’s The Radiance of the King
Vernon Lee’s Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales
Maurice Level’s Thirty Hours with a Corpse
Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby
Mieko Kanai’s Word Book
Ibrahim Kuni’s The Bleeding of the Stone
Leopold Lugones’ Leopold Lugones-Selected Writings
Dorothy Macardle’s The Uninvited
Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories
Gustav Meyrink’s Walpurgisnacht
Edgar Mittelholzer’s EltonsbrodyMy Bones and My Flute
Premendra Mitra’s The Mosquito
Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka
Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Prairies of Fever
Silvina Ocampo’s And Thus Were Their Faces
Ben Okri’s The Famished Road
Oliver Onions’ The Hand of Kornelius Voyt
Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet
Horacio Quiroga’s The Decapitated Chicken
Graciliano Ramos’ Barren Lives
Forrest Reid’s Denis Bracknell
Merce Rodoreda’s The Time of the DovesA Broken Mirror
Joao Guimaraes Rosa’s Backlands
Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Parama
Ernesto Sabato’s The TunnelAngel of Darkness
Sarban’s The Sound of His Horn
May Sinclair’s Uncanny Stories
Armonia Somers’ The Naked Woman
Muriel Spark’s four novel collection
Tanizaki Junichiro’s Seven Japanese Tales
Sony Labou Tansi’s Life and a Half
Lygia Fagundes Telles’ The Girl in the Photograph
Jamie-Martinez Tolentino’s 13 After Midnight
Amos Tutuola’s Palm Wine Drinkard
H.R. Wakefield’s The Red Lodge
Eudora Welty’s The Robber Bridegroom
Robert Westall’s Antique Dust
John Wyndham’s Day of the TriffidsMidwich Cuckoos
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