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Richard Adams. The Plague Dogs; Watership Down*

Robert Aickman. Cold Hand in Mine; Painted Devils

Marcel Ayme. The Walker through Walls

Beryl Bainbridge. Harriet Said

J. G. Ballard. Concrete Island*; High Rise

Charles Beaumont. Hunger*; The Magic Man

Robert Bloch. Pleasant Dreams*; Psycho*

Ray Bradbury. Dandelion Wine; Something Wicked This Way Comes*; The October Country

Joseph Payne Brennan. The Shapes of Midnight*

Frederic Brown. Nightmares and Geezenstacks*

Edward Bryant. Among the Dead

Janet Caird. The Loch

Ramsey Campbell. Demons By Daylight; The Doll Who Ate His Mother*; The Parasite *

Suzy McKee Charnas. The Vampire Tapestry

Julio Cortazar. The End of the Game and Other Stories

Harry Crews. A Feast of Snakes

Roald Dahl. Kiss Kiss*; Someone Like You*

Les Daniels. The Black Castle

Stephen R. Donaldson. The Thomas Covenant Trilogy (3 vols.)*

Daphne Du Maurier. Don't Look Now

Harlan Ellison. Deathbird Stories*; Strange Wine*

John Farris. All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By

Charles G. Finney. The Ghosts of Manacle

Jack Finney. The Body Snatchers*; I Love Galesburg in the Springtime; The Third Level*; Time and Again*

William Golding. Lord of the Flies*

Edward Gorey. Amphigorey; Amphigorey Too

Charles L. Grant. The Hour of the Oxrun Dead; The Sound of Midnight*

Davis Grubb. Twelve Tales of Horror*

William H. Hallahan. The Keeper of the Children; The Search for Joseph Tully

James Herbert. The Fog; The Spear*; The Survivor

William Hjortsberg. Falling Angel*

Shirley Jackson. The Haunting of Hill House*; The Lottery and Others*; The Sundial

Gerald Kersh. Men Without Bones*

Russell Kirk. The Princess of All Lands

Nigel Kneale. Tomato Caine

William Kotzwinkle. Dr. Rat*

Jerry Kozinski. The Painted Bird*

Fritz Leiber. Our Lady of Darkness*

Ursula LeGuin. The Lathe of Heaven*; Orsinian Tales

Ira Levin. Rosemary's Baby*; The Stepford Wives

John D. MacDonald. The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything

Bernard Malamud. The Magic Barrel*; The Natural

Robert Marasco. Burnt Offerings*

Gabriel Maria Marquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude

Richard Matheson. Hell House; I Am Legend*; Shock II; The Shrinking Man*; A Stir of Echoes

Michael McDowell. The Amulet*; Cold Moon Over Babylon*

Ian McEwen. The Cement Garden

John Metcalf. The Feasting Dead

Iris Murdoch. The Unicorn

Joyce Carol Oates. Nightside*

Flannery O'Connor. A Good Man Is Hard to Find*

Mervyn Peake. The Gormenghast Trilogy (3 volumes)

Thomas Pynchon. V.*

Edogawa Rampo. Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Jean Ray. Ghouls in My Grave

Anne Rice. Interview with the Vampire

Philip Roth. The Breast

Ray Russell. Sardonicus*

Joan Samson. The Auctioneer*

William Sansom. The Collected Stories of William Sansom

Sarban. Ringstones; The Sound of His Horn*

Anne Rivers Siddons. The House Next Door*

Isaac Bashevis Singer. The Seance and Other Stories*

Martin Cruz Smith. Nightwing

Peter Straub. Ghost Story*; If You Could See Me Now; Julia; Shadowland*

Theodore Sturgeon. Caviar; The Dreaming jewels; Some of Your Blood*

Thomas Tessier. The Nightwalker

Paul Theroux. The Black House

Thomas Tryon. The Other*

Les Whitten. Progeny of the Adder*

Thomas Williams. Tsuga's Children*

Gahan Wilson. I Paint What I See

T. M. Wright. Strange Seed*

John Wyndham. The Chrysalids; The Day of the Triffids*

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