The Century's Best Horror Fiction: Volume Two (1951-2000)
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:
- 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
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John Pelan
John C. Pelan, 1957 - 2021, was an American author, editor and publisher in the small press science-fiction, weird and horror fiction genres.
He first founded Axolotl Press in 1986 and published several volumes by authors such as Tim Powers, Charles de Lint, Michael Shea and James P. Blaylock. Following this, he founded Darkside Press, Silver Salamander Press and co-founded Midnight House. Darkside Press printed classics of Science Fiction, Midnight House published classic horror fiction (including Charles Birkin, Jane Rice and R. R. Ryan) and Silver Salamander Press was devoted to new works of modern horror, but all three have been inactive since 2006.
The Century's Best Horror Fiction
The Century's Best Horror Fiction consists of two books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
