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Woo boy!!! Lately, we've been looking at other people's lists of another 100 best horror books and find them lacking the horror master of our age, Stephen King! Perhaps this all goes back to when King was just getting started and getting noticed. Literary "experts" (read: turds) and we use that term loosely, didn't like this new young upstart novelist from Maine. So, in looking at other lists, we see one book, ONE, from King which is Salem's Lot! Faster then you can say, MOO! HOO! HA! HAHHAH!, we decided to make our own list of another 100 best horror books! (So there, we thought, take that!) Without further ado :

Another 100 Best Horror Books-Stephen King



Carrie A tormented, abused, shunned girl with the power of telekinesis is surrounded by insufferable fools.

Carrie


Salem's Lot Taking out the vampires in a small town in Maine.

Salem's Lot


The Shining The Overlook Hotel needs a caretaker for the winter. Driving him mad is its game.

The Shining


A student goes on a mad killing spree at school. *Taken off the market by King for obvious reasons.

Rage


The Stand Mother Abigail vs. The Walking Dude Randy Flagg for the control of a post flu epidemic world.

The Stand


Night Shift A collection of 19 excellent horror tales. King's best shorts in our opinion.

Night Shift


Johnny Smith can tell the future by touching people. He's seen something evil in a local politician. Can he stop him?

The Dead Zone


The Long Walk In the bleak future, reality games take a twist with a long walk. The prize is anything you may want. To fall, get tired, or stumble means being shot where you crumble!

The Long Walk


Firestarter A little girl who's got pyrokinetic powers is sought by a secret agency of the US Government.

Firestarter


Cujo A tale of a rabid dog on the rampage, sometimes told from the dog point of view.

Cujo


Roadwork A man facing the razing of his beloved home by a major highway deals with it with violence.

Roadwork


Different Seasons Another smaller collection of tales that you will notice were made into successful movies.

Different Seasons


The Running Man A bloody game show set in the future where the lives of the contestants are cheap and the game is all that matters to the public.

The Running Man


Pet Sematary Beware the burial ground back in the woods! Anything dead has a way of coming back to life.

Pet Sematary


Christine Romance, teenagers, and friendships bitterly destroyed by a possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury bent on destroying them all.

Christine


The Talisman Jack Sawyer needs to find the Talisman to save his dying mother. A trip through an alternative America should do it!

The Talisman


Thinner Messing with the Gypsies will only get you cursed, especially after running one over. The punishment? Getting thinner!

Thinner


Misery Ultimate fan Annie Wilkes captures author Sheldon and compels him to keep one of his characters alive, or else! A great addition to another 100 best horror books.

Misery


Black House Follow up to The Talisman, Retired cop Jack Sawyer takes on the territories again when strange murders start happening.

Black House


It Pennywise The Clown is killing again in Derry, Maine. The kids that faced "It" once, will face it again and hopefully destroy it.

It


Another 100 Best Horror Books-Lovecraft, Stoker, Blackwood, Bierce

Another 100 Best Horror Books certainly can use some classic horror like:

Frankenstein The madness of creating life, taking God's place, and the folly of trying to control what you bring to life.

Frankenstein


Dracula An old world blood drinking vampire taking people out one by one.

Dracula


The Lurking Fear And Other Stories 12 horror gems from the master.

The Lurking Fear And Other Stories


Divina Commedia aka The Divine Comedy This translation on Dante's book tells about Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise with equal enthusiasm. The classic tale.

Divina Commedia aka The Divine Comedy


The Turn Of The Screw A governess with the ability to see ghosts suspect that her two young charges are being used for evil.

The Turn Of The Screw


The Willows Two campers, dark woods, and another dimension.

The Willows


The Damned Blackwood's best....a haunted house story.

The Damned


The Insanity Of Jones A tale of reincarnation.

The Insanity Of Jones


The Complete Short Stories Of Ambrose Bierce An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is just one of the many horror lovelies in this collection.

The Complete Short Stories Of Ambrose Bierce


Another 100 best horror books presents more classics:

The Island Of Dr. Moreau A mad doctor creates monstrosities on a island in the South Seas.

The Island Of Dr. Moreau


Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde A physician experimenting with a drug exposes his dual nature, one good, one evil.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde


I Am Legend A survivor of a modern apocalypse kills vampire like creatures during the day and barricades himself in at night for protection.

I Am Legend


Hell House Four strangers investigate Belasco House, the focal point for murder, suicide and insanity.

Hell House


The Haunting Of Hill House Hill House is a New England estate with a gothic creepiness and an underlying evil, manifesting itself through Eleanor Vance.

The Haunting Of Hill House


Another 100 Best Horror Books-Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe owns another 100 best horror books (or, he should own it!).

The Masque of the Red Death: *Selected Works These six are chilling tales of despair, grief, and madness as only Poe could create.

The Masque of the Red Death: *Selected Works


The Murders In The Rue Morgue: *Selected Works These six are chilling tales of despair, grief, and madness as only Poe could create.

The Murders In The Rue Morgue: *Selected Works


The Raven: *Selected Works These six are chilling tales of despair, grief, and madness as only Poe could create.

The Raven: *Selected Works


The Tell-Tale Heart: *Selected Works These six are chilling tales of despair, grief, and madness as only Poe could create.

The Tell-Tale Heart: *Selected Works


The Fall Of The House Of Usher: *Selected Works These six are chilling tales of despair, grief, and madness as only Poe could create.

The Fall Of The House Of Usher: *Selected Works


The Pit and the Pendulum: *Selected Works These six are chilling tales of despair, grief, and madness as only Poe could create.

The Pit and the Pendulum: *Selected Works


Another 100 Best Horror Books-Straub, Levin, Blatty, Anson, John Saul

Ghost Story Four old men are haunted by a ghost of a young woman from the past.

Ghost Story


Psycho Norman Bates is a man totally dominated by his mother. Unbalanced by murders, and his mother's unfavorable view of Norman's personal life send him over the edge.

Psycho


Watseka Astonishing tale of a girl possessed by a dead girl in the town of Watseka, IL. Townspeople swear it's true to this day!

Watseka


The Exorcist The Devil possesses little Regan and two brave priests must drive it out.

The Exorcist


Rosemary's Baby Rosemary's next door neighbors are friendly, but strange. They seem to be just a little too helpful in helping her prepare for her new baby.

Rosemary's Baby


The Amityville Horror A family gets run out of their house by demons.

The Amityville Horror


Audrey Rose A man loses his daughter in a car accident only to find out she's been reincarnated into Ivy Templeton.

Audrey Rose


Suffer The Children One hundred years ago in Port Arbello a pretty little girl began to scream. And struggle. And die. No one heard. No one saw. Just one man whose guilty heart burst in pain as he dashed himself to death in the sea. Now something peculiar is happening in Port Arbello. The children are disappearing, one by one. An evil history is repeating itself. And one strange, terrified child has ended her silence with a scream that began a hundred years ago.

Suffer The Children


Cry For The Strangers Clark's Harbor was the perfect coastal haven, jealously guarded against outsiders. But now strangers have come to settle there. And a small boy is suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him since birth... His sister is haunted by fearful visions... And one by one, in violent, mysterious ways the strangers are dying. Never the townspeople. Only the strangers. Has a dark bargain been struck between the people of Clark's Harbor and some supernatural force? Or is it the sea itself calling out for a human sacrifice? A howling, deadly... Cry For The Strangers.

Cry For The Strangers


Punish The Sinners Italy 1252. Inquisition. Accusation. Fear. Torture. The guilty and the innocent dying for sins real and imagined in the flames of the burning stake. Neilsville, 1978. Peter Blasam has come to this sleepy desert town to teach its youth, and finds a mystery of mounting horror. Something is happening to the young girls of St. Francis Xavier High School -- something evil. In bloodlet and terror a suicide contagion has swept the two... while a dark order of its holy men enacts a secret medieval ritual. Is hysteria manipulating these innocent children into violent self-destruction? Or has supernatural force, a thirteenth-century madness, returned to... Punish The Sinners.

Punish The Sinners


Another 100 Best Horror Books-Harris, Herbert, Wilson, DeFelitta

Another 100 best horror books blend of old and newer fiction:

Beowulf Original poem Written sometime before the tenth century, this book translation is about the great warrior Beowulf who battles the monster Grendel and rips his ever-lovin' arm off at the roots.

Beowulf


The Howling On vacation in Drago, a woman and her husband experience secrets that the town is hiding in the form of werewolves!

The Howling


Red Dragon Hannibal Lecter debuts in this book which The Silence Of The Lambs follows.

Red Dragon


The Silence Of The Lambs Clarice Starling of the FBI needs help solving some murders. Can she endure killer Hannibal Lecter's twisted mind long enough to solve them?

The Silence Of The Lambs


The Rats Giant rats terrorize London inside 200 pages of tight script by James Herbert.

The Rats


The Fog The fog is itself the monster here, rendering people stark raving mad and causing them to hurt, hurt, hurt others, kill even.

The Fog


The Dark The Dark finishes people off that The Fog missed. It's hard to survive as a James Herbert character!

The Dark


The Keep A delicious story set in 1941 with Nazis trying to occupy a bloody 500 year old castle. Then the fun starts.

The Keep


Who Made Stevie Crye? A repaired typewriter actually types a horror book itself, making it's twisted vision a reality in writer Stevie Crye's life.

Who Made Stevie Crye?


The Entity Based on a real life case of a woman preyed upon by a ghostly rapist.

The Entity


Another 100 Best Horror Books-Anne Rice

We can't let Anne Rice miss out on making our another 100 best horror books list! Some horror fans are critical of vampires. Perhaps they grow tired of them. There are loads of vampire movies, books, and collectibles on the market, so the critics really can't be faulted. I am curious as to why there aren't more Anne Rice Books being made into films? Oh well, while we wait, maybe Anne Rice will write another book that we can add to another 100 best horror books!

Interview With The Vampire A monument to vampire stories; exploring vampire humanity couched in immortality as set in the 18th century and beyond. Excellent read with poigent despair from the character's point of view.

Interview With The Vampire


The Vampire Lestat The vampire Lestat's answer to Louis's claim that Lestat was an uncaring lout. Another great book by Rice!

The Vampire Lestat


The Queen Of The Damned The story of Akasha, Queen of the damned, the damned being vampires, of who Lestat, Louis, and the rest spring from.

The Queen Of The Damned


The Mummy/Ramses the Damned A mummy doomed to wander forever goes to London as a society man. He finds romance, but his curse still hangs over his head.

The Mummy/Ramses the Damned


The Tale Of The Body Thief Lestat trades his immortal flesh with a mortal man. The man has no intention of trading back though. Lestat must get help from his supernatural friends to get his body back!

The Tale Of The Body Thief


Memnoch The Devil Lestat sees hell, argues with the Devil, and talks to God. A lot of theological ideas here from Rice, but excellent for deep thinkers!

Memnoch The Devil


The Vampire Armand Armand's story of how he came to be under the guide ship of his mentor/vampire Marius.

The Vampire Armand


Vittorio The Vampire Vittorio's family gets slaughtered in old world Italy; he escapes but falls into the hands of vampires.

Vittorio The Vampire


Merrick Merrick is a powerful witch who is compelled to bring back Claudia, the vampire daughter of Lestat and Louis. Louis's guilt over the way she died gives him a convincing argument about raising her up.

Merrick


Blood And Gold The tale of 2000 year old Marius, guardian of "Those Who Must Be Kept", and mentor to Lestat.

Blood And Gold


Blackwood Farm Quinn Blackwood has everything, looks, money, and a huge estate. Becoming a vampire and haunted by Goblin a sinister spirit world entity, he seeks out the vampire Lestat in New Orleans.

Blackwood Farm


Blood Canticle Written from the vampire Lestat's point of view, Quinn Blackwood and Lestat do what vampires do best...suck blood and make other vampires while dressed in the best fashions.

Blood Canticle


Pandora David Talbot, a fledgling vampire, goes to Paris, where he meets Pandora, a two-thousand-year-old vampire.

Pandora


Another 100 Best Horror Books-Bradbury, Koontz

Something Wicked This Way Comes A dark carnival, two boyhood friends, a tattooed man, a blind gypsy witch, and a killer dwarf make up this excellent novel from Ray Bradbury.

Something Wicked This Way Comes


Life Expectancy This book about Jimmy Tock and his connection with a murderous clown family will keep you twisting and turning all night wondering where the h** Koontz is going with this one......and that's what makes this gem worth it!

Life Expectancy


Odd Thomas Odd Thomas is a man who can see and speak with ghosts which come in handy in heading off trouble in town, (or not!).

Odd Thomas


Frankenstein Dr. Frankenstein lives into the 21st century as a biotech tycoon bent on starting his "New Race".

Frankenstein


Frankenstein Book 2 Dr. Frankenstein is now in New Orleans, and his "New Race" is out of control!

Frankenstein Book 2


Another 100 Best Horror Books-Miscellaneous Horror

I Told You I Was Sick: A Grave Book of Curious Epitaphs Memorable gravestone inscriptions from around the world.

I Told You I Was Sick:  A Grave Book of Curious Epitaphs


The Complete History Of Jack The Ripper A complete and full study of the Whitechapel murders of 1888 in London.

The Complete History Of Jack The Ripper


In this last section of another 100 best horror books, we include some real life horror, hauntings, executions, Hollywood death and serial killers!

Showcase Presents: The Haunted Tank 500 pages of the classic comic about a WWII tank crew with one advantage: The ghost of General J.E.B. Stuart guiding them!

Showcase Presents: The Haunted Tank


Helter Skelter The true story of the Manson murders back in the late 60's in Los Angeles plus the following trials of the "family".

Helter Skelter


The Serial Killer Files The who, what, where, how, and why of the world's most terrifying murders.

The Serial Killer Files


Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder Right after WWII, 22 year old beauty Elizabeth Short in LA was cut on half, drained of blood, mutilated and placed in a vacant lot. Horrendous!

Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder


Jaws A great white shark terrorizes a east coast community.

Jaws


The Bell Witch A true horror story about the 1818 haunting of the Bell family by an evil spirit.

The Bell Witch


Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders Late 70's Chicago....little kids are disappearing, murdered one by one by Gacy. Read how he got found out, and hurl over the garish details of this man's sick life.

Killer Clown:  The John Wayne Gacy Murders


The Crime Of The Century Another assault on the city of Chicago back in 1966: Richard Speck broke into a house, sadistically tortured nine student nurses and raped and killed eight of them with the ninth one actually hiding from him successfully.

The Crime Of The Century


Deviant Wisconsin's own sicko, the cannibal butcher, bone furniture making, human skin lamp-shade making psycho, Ed Gein!

Deviant


Weird Hauntings America's scariest haunted places; all true.

Weird Hauntings


Human Remains: Dissection And Its Histories (Hardcover) Don't let the stuffy title fool you: The book details the sick way in which the medical community in the long ago past used cadavers!

Human Remains: Dissection And Its Histories


A Macabre Miscellany A thousand grisly and unusual facts from around the world.

A Macabre Miscellany


More Macabre Miscellany: An All New Collection of 1000 Hideous and Horrifying Acts The actual book description: "Bursting with gruesome facts - both modern and historical - about crime and punishment, imprisonment and torture, and death by a stomach-churning range of causes".

More Macabre Miscellany


The Only Living Witness An investigative team interviews the serial murderer Ted Bundy while he was on death row in Florida.

The Only Living Witness


Celebrity Death Certificates 208 pages of celeb death certificates on people like Marilyn Monroe, Belushi, Sinatra, and many, many, more!

Celebrity Death Certificates


Celebrity Death Certificates 2 "Mortician to the stars" M.F.Steen is at it again with a big collection of more morbid death certificates!

Celebrity Death Certificates 2


The Hollywood Book Of Death Sordid passings Of more than 125 American movie and TV idols.

The Hollywood Book Of Death


Shock! Horror! Astounding Artwork From The Video Nasty Era 200 banned horror video covers from the British "Video Nasty" era.

Shock! Horror! Astounding Artwork From The Video Nasty Era


Necronomicon I: The Journal Of Horror And Erotic Cinema Blood, bondage, and sex within the horror B-movies.

Necronomicon I: The Journal Of Horror And Erotic Cinema


Necronomicon II: The Journal Of Horror And Erotic Cinema More horny babes, blood, and brains!

Necronomicon II:  The Journal Of Horror And Erotic Cinema


You are now at the end of another 100 best horror books. I am going to have to build another list because there are so many great horror books out there yet. One list doesn't do the horror genre any justice. If you have some favorites that aren't on this list, jot me a line below. (Use my email in the footer below, thanks!)

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