The Century's Best Horror Fiction

Artist: Alan M. Clark

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

John selected one story published during each year of the 20th Century (1901-2000) as the most notable story of that year — all 100 stories were then collected in this amazing two volume set to be published as The Century's Best Horror Fiction.

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

Two huge volumes, one hundred authors, one hundred classic stories, more than 700,000 words of fiction — history in the making!

Featuring Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Shirley Jackson, Robert Bloch, Charles Beaumont, Jack Ketchum, Gary Brandner, Dennis Etchison, Michael Bishop, Ramsey Campbell, David Schow, Joe R. Lansdale, Elizabeth Massie, Thomas Ligotti, Robert Aickman, Poppy Z. Brite, Lucy Taylor, Stephen Laws, Brian Hodge, Glen Hirshberg, Tim Lebbon, W.W. Jacobs, H.G. Wells, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, Manly Wade Wellman, Theodore Sturgeon, and nearly six dozen others!

Table of Contents

• 1901: Barry Pain — The Undying Thing
• 1902: W.W. Jacobs — The Monkey's Paw
• 1903: H.G.Wells — The Valley of the Spiders
• 1904: Arthur Machen — The White People
• 1905: R. Murray Gilchrist — The Lover's Ordeal
• 1906: Edward Lucas White — House of the Nightmare
• 1907: Algernon Blackwood — The Willows
• 1908: Perceval Landon — Thurnley Abbey
• 1909: Violet Hunt — The Coach
• 1910: Wm Hope Hodgson — The Whistling Room
• 1911: M.R. James — Casting the Runes
• 1912: E.F. Benson — Caterpillars
• 1913: Aleister Crowley — The Testament of Magdelan Blair
• 1914: M. P. Shiel — The Place of Pain
• 1915: Hanns Heinz Ewers — The Spider
• 1916: Lord Dunsany — Thirteen at Table
• 1917: Frederick Stuart Greene — The Black Pool
• 1918: H. De Vere Stacpoole — The Middle Bedroom
• 1919: Ulric Daubeny — The Sumach
• 1920: Maurice Level — In the Light of the Red Lamp
• 1921: Vincent O'Sullivan — Master of Fallen Years
• 1922: Walter de la Mare — Seaton's Aunt
• 1923: George Allen England — The Thing From—"Outside"
• 1924: C.M. Eddy, Jr. — The Loved Dead
• 1925: John Metcalfe — The Smoking Leg
• 1926: H.P. Lovecraft — The Outsider
• 1927: Donald Wandrei — The Red Brain
• 1928: H.R. Wakefield — The Red Lodge
• 1929: Eleanor Scott — Celui-La
• 1930: Rosalie Muspratt — Spirit of Stonhenge
• 1931: Henry S. Whitehead — Cassius
• 1932: David H. Keller — The Thing in the Cellar
• 1933: C.L. Moore — Shambleau
• 1934: L.A. Lewis — The Tower of Moab
• 1935: Clark Ashton Smith — The Dark Eidolon
• 1936: Thorp McCluskey — The Crawling Horror
• 1937: Howard Wandrei — The Eerie Mr Murphy
• 1938: Robert E. Howard — Pigeons from Hell
• 1939: Robert Barbour Johnson — Far Below
• 1940: John Collier — Evening Primrose
• 1941: C.M. Kornbluth — The Words of Guru
• 1942: Jane Rice — The Idol of the Flies
• 1943: Anthony Boucher — They Bite
• 1944: Ray Bradbury — The Jar
• 1945: August Derleth — Carousel
• 1946: Manly Wade Wellman — Shonokin Town
• 1947: Theodore Sturgeon — Bianca's Hands
• 1948: Shirley Jackson — The Lottery
• 1949: Nigel Kneale — The Pond
• 1950: Richard Matheson — Born of Man & Woman
• 1951: Russell Kirk — Uncle Isiah
• 1952: Eric Frank Russell — I Am Nothing
• 1953: Robert Sheckley — The Altar
• 1954: Everil Worrell — Call Not Their Names
• 1955: Robert Aickman — Ringing the Changes
• 1956: Richard Wilson — Lonely Road
• 1957: Clifford Simak — Founding Father
• 1958: Robert Bloch — That Hell-Bound Train
• 1959: Charles Beaumont — The Howling Man
• 1960: Fredric Brown — The House
• 1961: Ray Russell — Sardonicus
• 1962: Carl Jacobi — The Aquarium
• 1963: Robert Arthur — The Mirror of Cagliostro
• 1964: Charles Birkin — A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts
• 1965: Jean Ray — The Shadowy Street
• 1966: Arthur Porges — The Mirror
• 1967: Norman Spinrad — Carcinoma Angels
• 1968: Anna Hunger — Come
• 1969: Steffan Aletti — The Last Work of Pietro Apono
• 1970: David A. Riley — The Lurkers in the Abyss
• 1971: Dorothy K. Haynes — The Derelict Track
• 1972: Gary Brandner — The Price of a Demon
• 1973: Eddy C. Bertin — Like Two White Spiders
• 1974: Karl Edward Wagner — Sticks
• 1975: David Drake — The Barrow Troll
• 1976: Dennis Etchison — It Only Comes Out at Night
• 1977: Barry N. Malzberg — The Man Who Loved the Midnight Lady
• 1978: Michael Bishop — Within the Walls of Tyre
• 1979: Ramsey Campbell — Mackintosh Willy
• 1980: Michael Shea — The Autopsy
• 1981: Stephen King — The Reach
• 1982: Fritz Leiber — Horrible Imagings
• 1983: David Schow — One for the Horrors
• 1984: Bob Leman — The Unhappy Pilgrimage of Clifford M.
• 1985: Michael Reaves — The Night People
• 1986: Tim Powers — Night Moves
• 1987: Ian Watson — Evil Water
• 1988: Joe R. Lansdale — The Night They Missed the Horror Show
• 1989: Joel Lane — The Earth Wire
• 1990: Elizabeth Massie — Stephen
• 1991: Thomas Ligotti — The Glamour
• 1992: Poppy Z. Brite — Calcutta Lord of Nerves
• 1993: Lucy Taylor — The Family Underwater
• 1994: Jack Ketchum — The Box
• 1995: Terry Lamsley — The Toddler
• 1996: Caitlín R. Kiernan — Tears Seven Times Salt
• 1997: Stephen Laws — The Crawl
• 1998: Brian Hodge — As Above, So Below
• 1999: Glen Hirshberg — Mr. Dark's Carnival
• 2000: Tim Lebbon — Reconstructing Amy

Trade Edition hardcovers bound in full-cloth and Smyth sewn with a full color dust jacket — two deluxe volumes!

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