THE BOOKS

Below is a list of roughly one hundred books-novels and collections-which span the period we have been discussing. They are listed alphabetically according to author. As with my list of films, you may not find all of these to your taste, but all seem-to me, at least-important to the genre we have been discussing. Thanks again to Kirby McCauley, who helped with the list, and a special tip of the hat to "Fast Eddie" Melder, who owns a pub in North Lovell and who put up with our wild talk until well past closing time.

Once again, I've marked with an asterisk ( * ) books which I felt were particularly important.

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 *