Five of my favorite horror stories

[ellen_datlow]

For Halloween!

I Have No Mouth and I must Scream Harlan Ellison --available in The Essential Ellison

More Tomorrow by Michael Marshal Smith --available in More Tomorrow and Other Stories and in YBFH#9

Men without Bones by Gerald Kersh--available in Men Without Bones from Blackmask.com

They Bite by Anthony Boucher--available in The Compleat Boucher from NESFA

A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts by Charles Birkin--available in The Harlem Horror from Midnight House


Please comment and add your own.

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[nballingrud.livejournal.com]

"Children of the Corn" by Stephen King
"October in the Chair" by Neil Gaiman
"The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs
"Old Virginia" by Laird Barron
"A Little Place of Edgware Road" by Graham Greene

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Neil is the one who recommended the Greene and it is indeed very creepy. I also love "Old Virginia."

[nballingrud.livejournal.com]

That's the first story I ever read by Laird, and may still be my favorite. The Greene was awesome -- I love him anyway, but I remember being so excited when I found a bona fide supernatural horror story in his collection. And while I'm at it, I think Gaiman's story is one of the loveliest, spookiest ghost stories I've read. Easily my favorite of his short stories.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

"Old Virginia" is the first I noticed by Laird.