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"O horror! horror! horror! Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee!" (William Shakespeare, Macbeth)


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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z





A

Mario Acevedo
The Nymphos of Rocky Flats

C.T. Adams & Cathy Clamp
Touch of Evil

Kelley Armstrong
Women of the Otherworld #1: Bitten
Women of the Otherworld #2: Stolen
Women of the Otherworld #3: Dime Store Magic
Women of the Otherworld #4: Industrial Magic

Michael A. Arnzen
100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories

B

Camille Bacon-Smith
The Face of Time

Dale Bailey & Jack Slay Jr.
Sleeping Policemen

Nancy Baker
Blood & Chrysanthemums
The Night Inside (also published as Kiss of the Vampire)
A Terrible Beauty

L.A. Banks
Vampire Huntress #1: Minion
Vampire Huntress #2: The Awakening
Vampire Huntress #3: The Hunted

Clive Barker
Mister B. Gone

Peter Benchley
White Shark

Nigel Bennett & P.N. Elrod
Keeper of the King

Amber Benson & Christopher Golden
The Seven Whistlers

Elaine Bergstrom
Nocturne

Steve Berman
Vintage: A Ghost Story

Jenna Black
Guardians of the Night #1: Watchers in the Night
Guardians of the Night #2: Secrets in the Shadows
Guardians of the Night #3: Shadows on the Soul
Morgan Kingsley, Exorcist #1: The Devil Inside

James P. Blaylock
The Rainy Season

Robert Bloch
The Lost Bloch: Vol. 3, edited by David J. Schow
The Night of the Ripper

Alice Borchardt
The Silver Wolf

Patricia Briggs
Mercy Thompson #1: Moon Called
Mercy Thompson #2: Blood Bound

Poppy Z. Brite
Antediluvian Tales
The Devil You Know
Lost Souls
Plastic Jesus
Triads, with Christa Faust

Max Brooks
The Zombie Survival Guide

Cara Bruce, editor
Viscera

Steven Brust
Agyar

Jim Butcher
Blood Rites
Dead Beat
Death Masks
Fool Moon
Storm Front
Summer Knight



C

Rachel Caine
The Morganville Vampires #1: Glass Houses
The Morganville Vampires #2: Dead Girl's Dance

Mayra Calvani
Embraced by the Shadows

Peter Carver, editor
The Horrors: Terrifying Tales, Book I

Karen Chance
Claimed by Shadow
Touch the Dark

Suzy McKee Charnas
Stagestruck Vampires & Other Phantasms

Frank Chigas
The Damp Chamber & Other Bad Places

Richard Chizmar, editor
Trick or Treat: A Collection of Halloween Novellas

Richard Chizmar & Robert Morrish, editors
October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween

Joseph A. Citro
The Gore

Christopher Conlon, editor
Poe's Lighthouse

Peter Crowther
Songs of Leaving
The Spaces Between the Lines
Taps & Sighs (editor)



D

Les Daniels
Yellow Fog

Frank Darabont
Walpuski's Typewriter

Ellen Datlow, editor
A Whisper of Blood

Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, editors
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 11th edition
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 12th edition
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 13th edition
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 14th edition

Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, editors
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 18th annual edition

Peter David
Howling Mad

MaryJanice Davidson
Undead & Unwed
Undead & Unemployed
Undead & Unappreciated

Charles de Lint
Angel of Darkness, writing as Samuel M. Key
Mulengro
Wolf Moon
Yarrow

Nolene-Patricia Dougan
Vrolok

Frederic Durbin
Dragonfly

Karen Duvall
Project Resurrection



E

Bret Easton Ellis
American Psycho

P.N. Elrod
Cold Streets
Keeper of the King, with Nigel Bennett



F

Mick Farren
Darklost
The Time of Feasting
Underland

Jeffrey Ford
The Empire of Ice Cream

Anne Frasier
Play Dead

Bob Freeman
Cairnwood Manor, Book I: Shadows Over Somerset

Brian Freeman
Blue November Storms

Gregory Frost
Attack of the Jazz Giants & Other Stories

James Futch & James Newman
Night of the Loving Dead



G

Christopher Golden
Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier & the Vampire, with Mike Mignola
The Gathering Dark
The Seven Whistlers, with Amber Benson
Spike & Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row

Jewelle Gomez
The Gilda Stories

Sherry Gottlieb
Worse Than Death

Simon R. Green
Nightside #1: Something from the Nightside
Nightside #2: Agents of Light & Darkness
Nightside #3: Nightingale's Lament
Nightside #4: Hex & the City
Nightside #5: Paths Not Taken

Martin H. Greenberg, editor
Haunted Holidays, with Russell Davis
Horrible Beginnings, with Steven Silver
The Repentant, with Brian M. Thomsen



H

Peter Haining, editor
Great Irish Tales of Horror: A Treasury of Fear

Joe Haldeman
Camouflage

Tate Hallaway
Tall, Dark & Dead
Dead Sexy

Laurell K. Hamilton
Guilty Pleasures

Charlaine Harris
Grave Sight
Sookie Stackhouse #1: Dead Until Dark
Sookie Stackhouse #2: Living Dead in Dallas
Sookie Stackhouse #3: Club Dead
Sookie Stackhouse #4: Dead to the World
Sookie Stackhouse #5: Dead as a Doornail
Sookie Stackhouse #6: Definitely Dead
Sookie Stackhouse #7: All Together Dead

Kim Harrison
Rachel Morgan #1: Dead Witch Walking
Rachel Morgan #2: The Good, the Bad & the Undead
Rachel Morgan #3: Every Which Way But Dead

Mark Henry
Happy Hour of the Damned

S.E. Hinton
Hawkes Harbor

Glen Hirshberg
The Two Sams

David Holland
Murcheston: The Wolf's Tale

Deborah Howe
Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery

H.R. Howland
Ashes

Tanya Huff
Blood Debt
Blood Lines
Blood Pact
Blood Price
Blood Trail
The Keeper's Chronicles #1: Summon the Keeper
The Keeper's Chronicles #2: The Second Summoning
The Keeper's Chronicles #3: Long Hot Summoning

Charlie Huston
Already Dead



J

Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House



K

Marvin Kaye, editor
The Vampire Sextette

Brian Keene
City of the Dead
The Conqueror Worms
Dead Sea
The Rising
Kill Whitey

Julie Kenner
Carpe Demon

Jackie Kessler
Hell's Belles
The Road to Hell

Samuel M. Key
Angel of Darkness

James Kidman
Black Fire

Caitlin R. Kiernan
Low Red Moon
Threshold

Lee Killough
Blood Games

Stephen King
Bag of Bones
Carrie
Cell
Different Seasons
From the Borderlands: Stories of Terror & Madness
Lisey's Story
Pet Sematary
'Salem's Lot
see also The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book

E.E. Knight
Vampire Earth #1: The Way of the Wolf
Vampire Earth #2: Choice of the Cat

Lorna Joy Knox
Two Tales of Mystery

Karen Koehler
Slayer

Elizabeth Kostova
The Historian

Steven Krane
Stranger Inside

Susan Krinard, Tanith Lee, Evelyn Vaughn
When Darkness Falls



L

Mercedes Lackey
Burning Water

James Richard Larson
The Right Thing

Ann Lawrence
Do You Believe?

Richard Laymon
Bite

Tim Lebbon
After the War
Berserk
Fears Unnamed

Tanith Lee, Susan Krinard, Evelyn Vaughn
When Darkness Falls

David Leviatan
The Mummy

Marc Joel Levitt
Tales of an October Moon

Jacqueline Lichtenberg
Those of My Blood

Brian Lumley
The Taint & Other Novellas: Best Mythos Tales, Vol. I



M

Erin McCarthy
Vegas Vampires #1: High Stakes
Vegas Vampires #2: Bit the Jackpot
Vegas Vampires #3: Bled Dry
Vegas Vampires #4: Sucker Bet

Kevin McCarthy, with David Silva
Into the Darkness

Michael McCrann
Midnight Tableau

Patrick McGrath
Blood & Water & Other Tales

Robin McKinley
Sunshine

Richelle Mead
Succubus Blues

Elizabeth E. & Thomas F. Monteleone, editors
From the Borderlands: Stories of Terror & Madness

Christopher Moore
Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
A Dirty Job
You Suck

James A. Moore
Under the Over Tree

David Morrell
Creepers
NightScape

Billie Sue Mosiman
Craven Moon
Malachi's Moon
Red Moon Rising

A.S. Mott
Gothic Ghost Stories: Tales of Intrigue & Fantasy from Beyond the Grave
Haunting Fireside Stories

Justine Musk
Bloodangel



N

Scott Nicholson
The Farm
The Red Church



O

Tom Orrell
Not Alone Out Here

Helen Oyeyemi
The Icarus Girl



P

John Pelan, editor
Dark Arts
The Darker Side: Generations of Horror
A Walk on the Darkside: Visions of Horror

Frank Peretti & Ted Dekker
House

Stefan Petrucha & Thomas Pendleton
Wicked Dead: Lurker

Edgar Allan Poe
Poe's Lighthouse, edited by Christopher Conlon

Tim Powers
Declare

Terry Pratchett
Mort (Discworld #4)
Reaper Man (Discworld #11)
Soul Music (Discworld #16)
Maskerade (Discworld #18)
Hogfather (Discworld #20)
Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23)

[Editor's note: OK, Terry Pratchett doesn't write horror, as such, but these novels do deal with the likes of Death, the Phantom of the Opera, vampires and witches. That's scary, right? Um, well, it could be, if the light was just right....]

Cherie Priest
Dreadful Skin

Jack Priest
Gecko



R

Anne Rice
Blackwood Farm
Interview with the Vampire
The Queen of the Damned
The Vampire Lestat
Vittorio the Vampire
The Witching Hour

Kat Richardson
Greywalker

Craig Rondinone
Ten Tales to Make Your Head Explode



S

Al Sarrantonio
Hallows Eve
Hornets & Others

David J. Schow
Rock Breaks Scissors Cut
Zombie Jam

Marcus Sedgwick
My Swordhand is Singing

Lorelei Shannon
Rags & Old Iron

Lucius Shepard
Colonel Rutherford's Colt

Dan Simmons
A Winter Haunting

Susan Sizemore
Laws of the Blood: Deceptions
Laws of the Blood: Heroes

Justin Somper
Vampirates #1: Demons of the Ocean

William Browning Spencer
The Ocean & All Its Devices

John Steakley
Vampire$

Jeanne C. Stein
The Anna Strong Chronicles #3: The Watcher

Bart Stewart
Tales of Real & Dream Worlds

Sean Stewart
The Night Watch

Peter Straub
Pork Pie Hat

Whitley Strieber
From the Borderlands: Stories of Terror & Madness



T

Karen E. Taylor
Blood Secrets
Twelve Steps from Darkness

Thomas Tessier
Father Panic's Opera Macabre

Jeffrey Thomas
Punktown

Brian M. Thomsen & Martin H. Greenberg, editors
The Repentant

Rob Thurman
Nightlife



V

Edo Van Belkom
Teeth

Carrie Vaughn
Kitty Norville #2: Kitty Goes to Washington



W

Steven E. Wedel
Shara

David Wellington
Monster Island
Monster Nation

Mark West
Strange Tales

Chet Williamson
The Crow: Clash By Night
Figures in Rain
Second Chance
The Story of Noichi the Blind

Terri Windling & Ellen Datlow, editors
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 11th edition
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 12th edition
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 13th edition
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 14th edition



Y

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Borne in Blood
Dark of the Sun
Hotel Transylvania
Night Blooming
Roman Dusk
States of Grace



Z

George Zebrowski
Black Pockets & Other Dark Thoughts