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[Hideous Name]

I just added a lot of stories to my to-read list.

The facts in the case of M. Valdemar - Edgar Allan Poe
The music of Erich Zann - Howard Philips Lovecraft
The immortal - Jorge Luis Borges
The blue star - Eddie M. Angerhuber
THYXXOLQU - Mark Samuels
Chapel in the reeds - Richard Gavin
Dr. Dapertutto's Saturnalia - D. P. Watt
The Novel of the White Powder - Arthur Machen
The hounds of Tindalos - Frank Belknap Long
In a foreign town, in a foreign land - Thomas Ligotti

[luciferfell]

Im sorry but I just to remark how incredible everyone's lists are! So well thought out and discriminating choices!

[dr. locrian]

The Bungalow House - Thomas Ligotti
Silent Snow, Secret Snow - Conrad Aiken
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A Rose for Emily - William Faulkner
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Ambrose Bierce
Notes of a Mad Copyist - Matt Cardin
The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe
The Small People - Thomas Ligotti
The Willows - Algernon Blackwood
Black Man with a Horn - T.E.D. Klein
The Haunter of the Dark - H.P. Lovecraft

[luciferfell]

The Small People...? Isnt that from The Spectral Link? No fair putting on stories none of the rest of us has read... just makes the wait til June when it comes out harder. Haha its all good cant wait to get to read it.

[ramonoski]

Quote Originally Posted by luciferfell

The Small People...? Isnt that from The Spectral Link? No fair putting on stories none of the rest of us has read... just makes the wait til June when it comes out harder. Haha its all good cant wait to get to read it.

Seriously. Dr. Locrian, you meany

[dr. locrian]

[ChildofOldLeech]

-Seeing all the lists here have inspired once again, and I have presently compiled my collection of essential American weird fiction in two volumes:

1890 -1960

In the Court of the Dragon - Robert W. Chambers
The Dead Valley - Ralph Adam Cram
The House of the Nightmare - Edward Lucas White
Dreams in the Witch House - H.P. Lovecraft
Second Night Out - Frank Belknap Long
Necromancy in Naat - Clark Ashton Smith
Far Below - Robert Barbour Johnson
Shambleau - C.L. Moore
The Hill and the Hole - Fritz Leiber
The Idol of the Flies - Jane Rice
The Graveyard Rats - Henry Kuttner
Shonokin Town - Manly Wade Wellman
The Bus - Shirley Jackson
Canavan's Backyard - Joseph Payne Brennan
Notebook Found in a Deserted House - Robert Bloch

1960 - Present Day

Faith of Our Fathers - Philip K. Dick
Sticks - Karl Edward Wagner
The Autopsy - Michael Shea
Window - Bob Leman
Nadelman's God - T.E.D. Klein
Coming Soon to a Theater Near You - David J. Schow
The Fat Man - Joe R. Lansdale
Gas Station Carnivals - Thomas Ligotti
Occultation - Laird Barron
Judas of the Infinite - Matt Cardin
The Bleeding Horse - Brian J. Showers
In the Shadow of the Nodding God - Richard Gavin
The Animator's House - Adam Golaski
Technicolor - John Langan
Grottor - Brian Evenson

[rhysaurus]

* FIve Letters from an Eastern Empire -- Alasdair Gray
* The Blinding Order -- Ismail Kadare
* The Cloud Sculptors of Coral-D -- J.G. Ballard
* The Congress -- Jorge Luis Borges
* The Distance of the Moon -- Italo Calvino
* The Mask -- Stanislaw Lem
* Breaking Through the Drum -- Bohumil Hrabal
* The Communicants -- John Sladek
* The Small Stones of Tu Fu -- Brian Aldiss
* The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
* The Woman who had Two Navels -- Nick Joaquin

Some of these stories are rather long, so that would probably make a fairly sizable collection, but it would be nice to add a twelfth because twelve is a fine number. If I think of one I will return to add it in due course...

[Patrick G.P]

A Fragment of Life by Arthur Machen
The Insanity of Jones by Algernon Blackwood
Homecoming by Ray Bradbury
Meeting Mr. Millar by Robert Aickman
The Children of Monte Rosa by Reggie Oliver
The Uncertainty of All Earthly Things by Mark Valentine
The Ninth Skeleton by Clark Ashton Smith
Doom of House Duryea by Earl Peirce Jr.
In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
The Events at Poroth Farm by T.E.D Klein
Bor Urus by John Langan
Furnace by Livia Lewellyn
Frolic by Thomas Ligotti
Cold Print by Ramsey Campbell
Drebbel, Zander & Zervan by Ron Weighell
The Procession of Black Sloth by Laird Barron
The Mound by Zelia Bishop & H.P. Lovecraft
The Black Stone by Robert E. Howard

[dr. locrian]

Many of these titles I've read before, but there are still quite a few I have not. It'll be fun tracking all of them down and reading the little dollings.