The Century's Best Horror Fiction: Volume One (1901-1950)
- Publication
- 2011
About the Book
Edited by 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!
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: William 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 - 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
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