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John Pelan


The Century's Best Horror Fiction 1901-1950

The Century's Best Horror Fiction: Book 1

John Pelan

In celebration of the new millennium, Cemetery Dance Publications has commissioned a spectacular two-volume anthology project under the editorship of noted author and historian of the horror genre, John Pelan.

John will be selecting one story published during each year of the 20th Century (1901-2000) as the most notable story of that year -- all 100 stories will then be collected in The Century's Best Horror Fiction.

The ground rules are simple: Only one selection per author. Only one selection per year.

Two huge volumes, one hundred authors, one hundred classic stories, over 700,000 words of fiction -- history in the making!

Table of Contents:

  • One Hundred Years of Horror - essay by John Pelan
  • The Undying Thing - (1901) - by Barry Pain
  • The Monkey's Paw - (1902) - by W. W. Jacobs
  • The Valley of Spiders - (1903) - by H. G. Wells
  • The White People - (1904) - by Arthur Machen
  • The Lover's Ordeal - (1905) - by R. Murray Gilchrist
  • The House of the Nightmare - (1906) - by Edward Lucas White
  • The Willows - (1907) - by Algernon Blackwood
  • Thurnley Abbey - (1907) - by Perceval Landon
  • The Coach - (1909) - by Violet Hunt
  • The Whistling Room - (1910) - by William Hope Hodgson
  • Casting the Runes - (1911) - by M. R. James
  • Caterpillars - (1912) - by E. F. Benson
  • The Testament of Magdalen Blair - (1913) - by Aleister Crowley
  • The Place of Pain - (1914) - by M. P. Shiel
  • The Spider - (1915) - by Hanns Heinz Ewers (trans. of Die Spinne 1908)
  • Thirteen at Table - (1916) - by Lord Dunsany
  • The Black Pool - (1917) - by Frederick Stuart Greene
  • The Middle Bedroom - (1918) - by H. de Vere Stacpoole
  • The Sumach - (1919) - by Ulric Daubeny
  • In the Light of the Red Lamp - (1909) - by Maurice Level
  • Master of Fallen Years - (1921) - by Vincent O'Sullivan
  • Seaton's Aunt - (1922) - by Walter de la Mare
  • The Thing From—"Outside" - (1923) - by George Allan England
  • The Loved Dead - (1924) - by C. M. Eddy, Jr. and H. P. Lovecraft
  • The Smoking Leg - (1925) - by John Metcalfe
  • The Outsider - - (1926) - by H. P. Lovecraft
  • The Red Brain - (1927) - by Donald Wandrei
  • The Red Lodge - (1928) - by H. Russell Wakefield
  • Celui-La - (1929) - by Eleanor Scott
  • The Spirit of Stonehenge - (1930) - by Rosalie Muspratt
  • Cassius - - (1931) - by Henry S. Whitehead
  • The Thing in the Cellar - (1932) - by David H. Keller, M.D.
  • Shambleau - (1933) - by C. L. Moore
  • The Tower of Moab - (1934) - by L. A. Lewis
  • The Dark Eidolon - (1935) - by Clark Ashton Smith
  • The Crawling Horror - (1936) - by Thorp McClusky
  • The Eerie Mr. Murphy - (1937) - by Howard Wandrei
  • Pigeons from Hell - (1938) - by Robert E. Howard
  • Far Below - (1939) - by Robert Barbour Johnson
  • Evening Primrose - (1940) - by John Collier
  • The Words of Guru - (1941) - by C. M. Kornbluth
  • The Idol of the Flies - (1942) - by Jane Rice
  • They Bite - (1943) - by Anthony Boucher
  • The Jar - (1944) - by Ray Bradbury
  • Carousel - (1945) - by August Derleth
  • Shonokin Town - (1946) - by Manly Wade Wellman
  • Bianca's Hands - (1947) - by Theodore Sturgeon
  • The Lottery - (1948) - by Shirley Jackson
  • The Pond - (1949) - by Nigel Kneale
  • Born of Man and Woman - (1950) - by Richard Matheson

The Century's Best Horror Fiction 1951-2000

The Century's Best Horror Fiction: Book 2

John Pelan

In celebration of the new millennium, Cemetery Dance Publications has commissioned a spectacular two-volume anthology project under the editorship of noted author and historian of the horror genre, John Pelan.

John will be selecting one story published during each year of the 20th Century (1901-2000) as the most notable story of that year -- all 100 stories will then be collected in The Century's Best Horror Fiction.

The ground rules are simple: Only one selection per author. Only one selection per year.

Two huge volumes, one hundred authors, one hundred classic stories, over 700,000 words of fiction -- history in the making!

Table of Contents:

  • Uncle Isaiah - (1951) - by Russell Kirk
  • I Am Nothing - (1952) - by Eric Frank Russell
  • The Altar - (1953) - by Robert Sheckley
  • Call Not Their Names - (1954) - by Everil Worrell
  • Ringing the Changes - (1955) - by Robert Aickman
  • Lonely Road - (1956) - by Richard Wilson
  • Founding Father - (1957) - by Clifford D. Simak
  • That Hell-Bound Train - (1958) - by Robert Bloch
  • The Howling Man - (1959) - by Charles Beaumont
  • The House - (1960) - by Fredric Brown
  • Sardonicus - (1961) - by Ray Russell
  • The Aquarium - (1962) - by Carl Jacobi
  • The Mirror of Cagliostro - (1963) - by Robert Arthur
  • A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts - (1964) - by Charles Birkin
  • The Shadowy Street - (1965) - by Jean Ray (trans. of La ruelle ténébreuse 1932)
  • The Mirror - (1966) - by Arthur Porges
  • Carcinoma Angels - (1967) - by Norman Spinrad
  • Come - (1968) - by Anna Hunger
  • The Last Work of Pietro of Apono - (1969) - by Steffan B. Aletti
  • The Lurkers in the Abyss - (1970) - by David A. Riley
  • The Derelict Track - (1971) - by Dorothy K. Haynes
  • The Price of a Demon - (1972) - by Gary Brandner
  • Like Two White Spiders - (1973) - by Eddy C. Bertin (trans. of Als Twee Grote Witte Spinnen 1971)
  • Sticks - (1974) - by Karl Edward Wagner
  • The Barrow Troll - (1975) - by David Drake
  • It Only Comes Out at Night - (1976) - by Dennis Etchison
  • The Man Who Loved the Midnight Lady - (1977) - by Barry N. Malzberg
  • Within the Walls of Tyre - (1978) - by Michael Bishop
  • Mackintosh Willy - (1979) - by Ramsey Campbell
  • The Autopsy - (1980) - by Michael Shea
  • The Reach - (1981) - by Stephen King
  • Horrible Imaginings - (1982) - by Fritz Leiber
  • One for the Horrors - (1983) - by David J. Schow
  • The Pilgrimage of Clifford M. - (1984) - by Bob Leman
  • The Night People - (1985) - by Michael Reaves
  • Night Moves - (1986) - by Tim Powers
  • Evil Water - (1987) - by Ian Watson
  • The Night They Missed the Horror Show - (1988) - by Joe R. Lansdale
  • The Earth Wire - (1989) - by Joel Lane
  • Stephen - (1990) - by Elizabeth Massie
  • The Glamour - (1991) - by Thomas Ligotti
  • Calcutta, Lord of Nerves - (1992) - by Poppy Z. Brite
  • The Family Underwater - (1993) - by Lucy Taylor
  • The Box - (1994) - by Jack Ketchum
  • The Toddler - (1995) - by Terry Lamsley
  • Tears Seven Times Salt - (1996) - by Caitlín R. Kiernan
  • The Crawl - (1997) - by Stephen Laws
  • As Above, So Below - (1998) - by Brian Hodge
  • Mr. Dark's Carnival - (2000) - by Glen Hirshberg
  • Reconstructing Amy - (2000) - by Tim Lebbon

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