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Horror

Classic Horror

• Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
• Bram Stoker - Dracula
• Henry James - The Turn of the Screw
• Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• Edgar Allen Poe - The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
• Robert W. Chambers - The King in Yellow
• Matthew Lewis - The Monk
• Charles Maturin - Melmoth the Wanderer
• Ambrose Bierce - Ghost, and Other Stories

20th Century Horror

• Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
• Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
• Clive Barker - Books of Blood
• Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes
• Stephen King - It
• Thomas Harris - The Silence of the Lambs
• Dan Simmons - Song of Kali
• Algernon Blackwood - Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
• M.R. James - Casting the Runes, and Other Ghost Stories
• Mervyn Peake - Boy in Darkness
• Stephen King - Pet Sematary
• William Hodgson - The House on the Borderland
• H. P. Lovecraft - The Dunwich Horror

New Horror

• Laird Barron - Occultation
• Joe R. Lansdale - The Best of Joe R. Lansdale
• Will Elliot - The Pilo Family Circus
• Edward Lee - Bullet Through Your Face
• Tim Curran - The Devil Next Door
• Dave Brockie - Whargoul
• Joe Hill - Heart-Shaped Box
• China Mieville - King Rat

Fantasy

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Epic Fantasy:

• Joe Abercrombie The blade itself
• R.Scott Bakker The darkness that comes before
• Steven Erikson Gardens of the moon
• J.V.Jones A Cavern of black Ice
• Robert Jordan The eye of the world
• Paul Kearney Hawkwood's voyage
• George R.R. Martin A game of thrones
• K.J.Parker Devices and desires
• Melanie Rawn Dragon Prince
• Brian Ruckley Winterbirth
• J.R.R. Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring
• Tad WIlliams The Dragonbone chair
• Terry Goodkind Wizard's first rule
• David Zindell The lightsone
• Daniel Abraham A shadow in summer
• Chris Wooding The braided path
• S.L.Farrell A magic of Twilight
• Greg Keyes The Briar King

Urban Fantasy

• Neil Gaiman Neverwhere
• Graham Joyce The tooth fairy
• R.A.Macavoy Tea with the black dragon
• Jonathan Carroll The land of laughs

Swords and sorcery

• R.E.Howard Conan
• Fritz Leiber The first book of Lankhmar
• Michael Moorcock Elric of Melnibone
• Michael Shea The incomplete nifft
• Jack Vance Tales of the dying earth
• Karl Edward Wagner Gods in Darkness
• C.L.Moore Jirel of Joiry

Entry Level

• Terry Brooks First King of Shamhara
• Susan Cooper The dark is rising
• David Eddings Pawn of prophecy
• David Eddings The Diamond Throne
• Raymond E.Feist Magician
• Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman Dragons of Autumn Twilight
• Margaret Weiss, Tracy Hickman Dragon Wing
• Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman Rose of the Prophet
• Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Time of the twins
• C.S.Lewis The Lion, The witch and the wardrobe.
• R.A.Salvatore Homeland
• Philip Pullman His dar materials

Coming of age

• Glen Cook The swordbearer
• Robin Hobb Assassin's apprentice
• J.V.Jones The Baker's boy
• Rebecca Bradley Lady in gil

Historic Fantasy

• David Gemell Troy
• Guy Gavriel Kay The lions of Al-rassan
• J.Gregory Keyes Newton's cannon
• R.A.MacAvoy Damiano
• T.H.White The once and future king
• Gene Wolfe Latro in the mist
• George R.R Martin Fevre dream
• John M.Ford The dragon waiting
• Mary Gentle A secret History

Mistery

• Steven Brust The book of Jhereg
• Jim Butcher Storm Front
• Glen Cook Sweet silver blues
• Barry Hughart Bridge of birds
• Matthew Hughes Majestrum

Comic Fantasy

• Terry Pratchet Carpe Jugulum
• Christopher Moore Lamb
• Peter David Sir Apropos of nothing
• Mary Gentle Grunts
• William Goldman The princess bride

Weird

• H.P.Lovecraft At the mountains of madness
• William Hope Hodgson The house in the borderland
• Clark Ashton Smith The emperor of dreams
• Teff Vandermeer City of saints and madmen
• China Miéville Perdido street station

Mythic

• Roger Zelazny Creatures of light and darkness
• Mickey Zucker Reichert The last of the Renshai
• Jonh Myers Myers Silverlock
• Steven Brust To reign in hell
• Poul Anderson The broken sword
• Michael Scott Rogan The anvil of ice

Alternate world

• Stephen Donaldson The chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the unbeliever
• Julian May The many-coloured land
• Stephen R.Donaldson The mirror in her dreams
• Stephen R. Lawhead The paradise war
• Poul Anderson Three heards and three lions
• Roger Zelazny The great book of Amber

Old School

• George MacDonal Phantastes
• E.R.Eddison The worm Ouroboros
• Lord Dunsany The king of elfland's daughter
• Ernest Bramah The wallet of Kail Lung
• David Lindsay A voyage to Arcturus
• Charles G. Finney The circus of Dr.Lao
• Mikhail Bulgakov The master and Margarita
• Mervyn Peake Titus groan

Miscellaneous

• Paul Edwin Zimmer The lost prince
• David Gemell Legend
• C.S.Friedman Black Sun Rising
• K.J.Parker Shadow
• Kate Elliot King's dragon
• Michael A.Stackpole Talion revenant
• Matthew Woodring Stover Heroes die
• Gene Wolfe The shadow of the torturer
• Tim Powers The Anubis gates
• John Marco The Jackal of Nar
• Andrzej Sapkowsku Blood of elves
• Ken Grimwood Replay
• Glen Cook Chronicles of the black company
• Patricia A. Mckillip The riddle-master of Hed
• Sean Ruselss The initiate brother
• Brent Weeks The way of shadows
• Jeniffer Fallon The immortal prince
• John Crowley Little, big
• Catherynne M. Valente In the night garden
• M. John Harrison Viriconium
• Jack Vance Lyonesse

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