"Many of the authors below have written many books and stories. Where that is the case, I've selected the books on the list based on how they affected me. Meaning: at one time or another they made me feel like curling up in the corner.
I tried to do this all off the top of my head, which wasn't as hard as it might sound. When a book has really rattled me, I tend to remember it. Full disclosure: I did look up some of the author's names so I could get the spelling right."
1. Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark by Alvin Schwartz
2. The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates
3. The Witches by Roald Dahl
4. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
5. The Suicide Collectors by David OppeGaard
6. Alone With The Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell
7. The Complete Stories of Algernon Blackwood (out of print--try this collection instead)
8. The Modern Library's Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
9. Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
10. The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro
11. The Passage by Justin Cronin
12. High Cotton by Joe R. Lansdale
13. The Monk by Matthew Lewis
14. 11/23/63 by Stephen King
15. The Walking Dead Graphic Novels
16. Feed by Mira Grant
17. The Complete HP Lovecraft
18. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
19. The Conqueror Worms by Brian Keene (out of print) (other books by Keene HERE)
20. Collected Ghost Stories by M.R. James
21. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
22. Aura by Carlos Fuentes
23. Goosebumps Series by R.L. Stein
24. The Sound Machine by Roald Dahl
25. Variant by Robison Wells
26. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
27. The Serial Killers Club by Jeff Povey
28. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
29. Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
30. It by Stephen King
31. Hell House by Richard Matheson
32. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
33. Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
34. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
35. Koko by Peter Straub
36. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
37. Books of Blood by Clive Barker
38. The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
39. The Omen by David Seltzer (isbn 978-0451219428, not in our database)
40. Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
41. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
42. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
43. The Horla by Guy Du Maupassant
44. Oddkins by Dan Koontz (isbn 9780446514903, not in our database)
45. Off Season by Jack Ketchum
46. Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
47. The Orphanmaster by Jean Zimmerman
48. The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
49. When The People Fell by Cordwainer Smith (at least read A
Planet Called Shayol)
50. The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
51. On Ugliness by Umberto Eco
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