Create your own short story collection!

[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

[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.

[JBC]

One of the Missing - Ambrose Bierce (everyone should read this!)
Intimacy - Jean Paul Sartre
The Fall - Albert Camus (well, it's a novella...)
Our Temporary Supervisor - Thomas Ligotti (my favourite of his)
The Fall of the House of Usher - E. A. Poe
Dread - Clive Barker (A bit pulpy, but highly effective)
A Country Doctor - Franz Kafka (His best story)
The Book of Sand - Jorge Luis Borges
The Outsider - H.P. Lovecraft
Pickman's Model - H.P. Lovecraft (Probably cheating, but both of these are simply great)


I'm not a big reader of short stories, but I will make sure to
check out some of your entries.

[Nemonymous]

Quote Originally Posted by Nemonymous

An anthology designed for TLO members (who will have already read and owned all Thomas Ligotti stories), featuring some favourite stories most of which I discovered while real-time reviewing. The Hound - HP Lovecraft Flowers of the Sea - Reggie Oliver The Bellman - Colin Insole Nights at the Regal - Jason Gould Dying In The Arms of Jean Harlow - Paul Meloy The Flying Worm - Simon The Sleep Mask - Joel Lane Cuntlock - Rhys Hughes Cyprian's Room - Frances Oliver People on the Island - T.M.Wright A House by the Ocean - Steve Rasnic Tem The Hareton K-12 County School and Adult Extension – James Van Pelt Sleepers - Christopher Harman Sado-ga-Shima - Quentin S Crisp The Vanishing Life and Films of Emmanuel Escobada - Anonymous

I have two to add to my list above - one I forgot: The Tower of Moab by L.A. Lewis - and one I have just read: 'The Shallows' by John Langan.

	TLO THOMAS LIGOTTI ONLINE

[ramonoski]

Quote Originally Posted by Nemonymous

The Vanishing Life and Films of Emmanuel Escobada - Anonymous

Just read this. Fantastic little story.

[Nemonymous]

Quote Originally Posted by ramonoski

Quote Originally Posted by Nemonymous The Vanishing Life and Films of Emmanuel Escobada - Anonymous Just read this. Fantastic little story.

Joel Lane formally acknowledged its influence upon his novella "The Witnesses Are Gone" as his printed footnote within the book of the novella itself.

[ChildofOldLeech]

- Since I posted my list of essential weird british fiction, I realized that two stories I read since compiling the list years earlier, Quentin S. Crisp's 'Ynys-y-Plag' and Stephen Laws' 'The Crawl' are both very deserving of a place therein.

[ramonoski]

Quote Originally Posted by Nemonymous

Joel Lane formally acknowledged its influence upon his novella "The Witnesses Are Gone" as his printed footnote within the book of the novella itself.

I have not read that! Another item onto the list, I guess

[luciferfell]

My second pass at this. This time more thought out and with the flow of reading a collection takin into account. The Festival- Lovecraft, The Fall of the House of Usher- Poe, Bianca's Hands- Sturgeon, Bloodchild- Butler, The Spider- Ewers, Fumes- Grabinski, The Metamorphosis- Kafka, The Forrest- Barron, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream- Ellison, The Bungalow House- Ligotti, Orpheus at Mount Pangeum- Kiernan, Madame Edwarda- Bataille, Ghorla- Samuels, The Trains- Aickman, The Scar- Campbell.

I want to represent with small samples my main interests in literature.. Early gothic, cosmic, east European pessimistic, weird gloomy scifi, French perverted surrealism, quiet English horror, body horror, and the points where they intersect.

[luciferfell]

And once again I must lament the almost utter lack of Asian literature in these lists... I want to be more read in that field but there seems to be not much in the way of translated books available.