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


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Comments

[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.