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Suggested horror titles.
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

Epic Fantasy:

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

Urban Fantasy

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

Swords and sorcery

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

Entry Level

  • First King of Shamhara (Terry Brooks)
  • The dark is rising (Susan Cooper)
  • Pawn of prophecy (David Eddings)
  • The Diamond Throne (David Eddings)
  • Magician ( Raymond E.Feist)
  • Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman)
  • Dragon Wing (Margaret Weiss, Tracy Hickman)
  • Rose of the Prophet (Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman)

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