Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Stephen King's Favorite Horror Books, Part II

Last night, I gave you the first part of Stephen King’s list of favorite horror books, which was published in the back of his 1981 non-fiction classic, “Danse Macabre.”
In all, he listed about 100 titles, alphabetically by author, and yesterday I gave you authors A-K. Here’s the rest and remember, King’s favorites are marked with an asterisk (*).
- Fritz Leiber. Our Lady of Darkness*
- Ursula LeGuin. The Lathe of Heaven*; Orsinia 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 vols.)
- 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 Séance 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*
In the end, I’d be interested to know how many of these books you’ve read and what you thought about them. I’ve read a few of them and they’re all pretty good, especially “Rosemary’s Baby,” “I Am Legend” and “Interview with the Vampire.”

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