To celebrate the season, I decided to put together a list of my fifty favorite horror stories as well as my fifty favorite horror films. The lists are ranked alphabetically by author or director’s last name. Each list only has one per author/director. I’ll disagree with these tomorrow. Happy Halloween!
STORIES:
Angerhuber, Monika – The Anankastic Syndrome
Barker, Clive – The Book of Blood
Basso, Eric – The Beak Doctor
Blackwood, Algernon – The Man Whom the Trees Loved
Bloch, Robert – The Man Who Collected Poe
Borges, Jorge Luis – The Book of Sand
Brennen, Joseph Payne – Levitation
Brion, Marcel – The Glass Organ
Brite, Poppy Z. – His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood
Buzzati, Dino – The 7th Floor
Chambers, Robert W. – In the Court of the Dragon
Crisp, Quentin S. – Yns-y-Plag
Csáth, Géza – The Magician’s Garden
Cobb, Irvin S. – Fishhead
Conway, David – Manta Red
De Ghelderode, Michel – The Sick Garden
Ellison, Harlan – I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Evenson, Brian – Windeye
Ewers, Hanns Heinz – The Spider
Ferry, Jean – The Fashionable Tiger
Gavin, Richard – Chapel in the Reeds
Grabinski, Stefan – The Area
Grudova, Camilla – Agata’s Machine
Hedayat, Sadeq – Three Drops of Blood
Heym, Georg – The Thief
Hoffman, ETA – The Sandman
Ito, Junji – The Town Without Roads
Jahnn, Hans Henny – Night of Lead
James, M.R. – Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance
Kafka, Franz – A Country Doctor
Landolfi, Tommaso – Pastoral
Lewis, L.A. – The Tower of Moab
Ligotti, Thomas – The Bungalow House
Lovecraft, Howard Phillips – The Music of Erich Zann
Machen, Arthur – The White People
Motojiro, Kajii – Picture Scroll of Darkness
Noyes, Alfred – Midnight Express
Padgett, Jon – Origami Dreams
Peak, David – Strange Signals from the Center of the Earth
Poe, Edgar A – The Fall of the House of Usher
Rampo, Edogawa – The Mysterious Crimes of Doctor Mera
Reamy, Tom – Under the Hollywood Sign
Samuels, Mark – The Vanishing Point
Slatsky, Christopher – The Figurine
Smith, Clark Ashton – The Gardens of Adompha
Tanizaki, Jun’ichiro – The Face
Tuttle, Lisa – Closet Dreams
Veres, Attila – The Time Remaining
Wagner, Karl Edward – Sticks
Wiloch, Thomas – Mr. Templeton’s Toyshop
FILMS:
Argento, Dario – Deep Red
Avati, Pupi – The House with Laughing Windows
Barker, Clive – Hellraiser
Bergman, Ingmar – Hour of the Wolf
Browning, Tod – The Unknown
Carpenter, John – In the Mouth of Madness
Cassini, Alexander – Star Time
Cronenberg, David – Videodrome
Deodato, Ruggero – Cannibal Holocaust
Dreyer, Carl Theodor – Vampyr
Florey, Robert – Murders in the Rue Morgue
Franju, George – Eyes Without a Face
Frankenheimer, John – Seconds
Friedkin, William – Bug
Fuest, Robert – The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Fulci, Lucio – The House by the Cemetery
Giovinazzo, Buddy – Combat Shock
Guy – Difficulty Breathing
Halperin, Victor – White Zombie
Harada, Hiroshi – Midori
Harrington, Curtis – Night Tide
Harron, Mary – American Psycho
Harvey, Herk – Carnival of Souls
Hino, Hideshi – Guinea Pig: Mermaid in a Manhole
Hooper, Tobe – The Texas Chain Saw MassacreIto, Takashi – Grim
Kargl, Gerald – Angst
Kinugasa, Teinosuke – A Page of Madness
Kurosaka, Keita – Sea Roar
Kurosawa, Kiyoshi – Pulse
Lustig, William – Maniac
Mann, Michael – Manhunter
Matsumura, Katsuya – All Night Long 2: Atrocity
Merhige, E. Elias – Begotten
Miike, Takashi – Audition
Mizoguchi, Kenji – Ugetsu
Murnau, F.W. – Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
PiroPito – My house walk-through
Robson, Mark – The Seventh Victim
Rollin, Jean – The Iron Rose
Satô, Hisayasu – Secret Garden
Shindō, Kaneto – Onibaba
Shiraishi, Koji – Noroi
Tourneur, Jacques – I Walked With a Zombie
Tsukamoto, Shin’ya – Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Ulmer, Edgar G. – The Black Cat
Watkins, Roger – The Last House on Dead End Street
Wiene, Robert – The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Williams, Rozz – Pig
Wisbar, Frank – Strangler of the Swamp
The Butterfly Pavilion 