February 21st, 2012
Today’s horror anthology post is the first of a two volume set which I would love to own: The Century’s Best Horror Fiction: Volume 1 edited by John Pelan.
Of course, this set falls in nicely with horror author Brian Keene’s call to “Know your genre. Know your history. Read a book.” (From Roots — Keynote Speech, Anthocon 2011)
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The Century’s Best Horror Fiction: Volume 1
Editor: Pelan, John
Art: Alan M. Clark
Format: Hardcover
Type: Horror Anthology
Page Count: 706pp.
Pub. Date: January 31, 2012
Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications
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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!
Table of Contents:
- 1901: The Undying Thing by Barry Pain
- 1902: The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs
- 1903: The Valley of the Spiders by H.G.Wells
- 1904: The White People by Arthur Machen
- 1905: The Lover’s Ordeal by R. Murray Gilchrist
- 1906: House of the Nightmare by Edward Lucas White
- 1907: The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
- 1908: Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon
- 1909: The Coach by Violet Hunt
- 1910: The Whistling Room by Wm Hope Hodgson
- 1911: Casting the Runes by M.R. James
- 1912: Caterpillars by E.F. Benson
- 1913: The Testament of Magdelan Blair by Aleister Crowley
- 1914: The Place of Pain by M. P. Shiel
- 1915: The Spider by Hanns Heinz Ewers
- 1916: Thirteen at Table by Lord Dunsany
- 1917: The Black Pool by Frederick Stuart Greene
- 1918: The Middle Bedroom by H. De Vere Stacpoole
- 1919: The Sumach by Ulric Daubeny
- 1920: In the Light of the Red Lamp by Maurice Level
- 1921: Master of Fallen Years by Vincent O’Sullivan
- 1922: Seaton’s Aunt by Walter de la Mare
- 1923: The Thing From — “Outside” by George Allen England
- 1924: The Loved Dead by C.M. Eddy, Jr.
- 1925: The Smoking Leg by John Metcalfe
- 1926: The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft
- 1927: The Red Brain by Donald Wandrei
- 1928: The Red Lodge by H.R. Wakefield
- 1929: Celui-La by Eleanor Scott
- 1930: Spirit of Stonhenge by Rosalie Muspratt
- 1931: Cassius by Henry S. Whitehead
- 1932: The Thing in the Cellar by David H. Keller
- 1933: Shambleau by C.L. Moore
- 1934: The Tower of Moab by L.A. Lewis
- 1935: The Dark Eidolon by Clark Ashton Smith
- 1936: The Crawling Horror by Thorp McCluskey
- 1937: The Eerie Mr Murphy by Howard Wandrei
- 1938: Pigeons from Hell by Robert E. Howard
- 1939: Far Below by Robert Barbour Johnson
- 1940: Evening Primrose by John Collier
- 1941: The Words of Guru by C.M. Kornbluth
- 1942: The Idol of the Flies by Jane Rice
- 1943: They Bite by Anthony Boucher
- 1944: The Jar by Ray Bradbury
- 1945: Carousel by August Derleth
- 1946: Shonokin Town by Manly Wade Wellman
- 1947: Bianca’s Hands by Theodore Sturgeon
- 1948: The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
- 1949: The Pond by Nigel Kneale
- 1950: Born of Man and Woman by Richard Matheson
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January 2012 (Hardcover — Cemetery Dance)
January 2012 (Hardcover — Cemetery Dance)
January 2012 (Hardcover — Cemetery Dance)