150 Exquisite Horror Books

A guide to some of the best horror and supernatural books, as recommended by several of the biggest names in the industry.

Compiled and edited by the Bram Stoker Award-winning author Alessandro Manzetti, this is a guide to the best 150 books of modern horror, weird, and dark fantasy fiction (single author novels, novellas, and collections of short stories) published between 1986 and 2020.

This captivating book includes publication details, reading notes and ratings for each work, as well as top-ten lists contributed by well-known writers, editors, critics, and essayists, including Joe R. Lansdale, Ramsey Campbell, John Skipp, Ellen Datlow, Stephen Jones, Linda D. Addison, Jack Bantry, David Barnett, Mort Castle, Randy Chandler, Brian Evenson, Owl Goingback, Eric J. Guignard, Paula Guran, Grady Hendrix, Kate Jonez, S.T. Joshi, Edward Lee, RC Matheson, Lisa Morton, Steve Rasnic Tem, David J. Schow, Craig Spector, Angela Yuriko Smith, Dacre Stoker, and Lucy Taylor.

This guide is an essential resource for readers and fans of 20th century horror and supernatural books, in a modern and easy-to-read format, to discover the best books of the horror genre.

Come dive into 150 books of must-read horror.

About the author

ALESSANDRO MANZETTI Alessandro Manzetti is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author, editor, scriptwriter and essayist of horror fiction and dark poetry. His work has been published extensively (more than 40 books) in Italian and English, including novels, short and long fiction, poetry, essays, graphic novels and collections. English publications include his novels Shanti - The Sadist Heaven (2019) and Naraka - The Ultimate Human Breeding (2018), the novella The Keeper of Chernobyl (2019), the collections The Radioactive Bride (2020) and The Garden of Delight (2017) the poetry collections Whitechapel Rhapsody (2020), The Place of Broken Things (2019, with Linda D. Addison), War (2018, with Marge Simon), No Mercy (2017), Sacrificial Nights (2016, with Bruce Boston) Eden Underground (2015), Venus Intervention (2014, with Corrine de Winter), and the graphic novels Calcutta Horror (2019), Her Life Matters (2020) and The Horror at Red Hook (2021) He edited the anthologies The Beauty of Death (2016), The Beauty of Death Vol. 2 - Death by Water (2017, with Jodi Renee Lester), Monsters of Any Kind (2018, with Daniele Bonfanti) and 2021 Rhysling Anthology (2021) His stories and poems have appeared in Italian, USA, UK, Australian, Russian and Polish magazines such as Weird Tales Magazine, Dark Moon Digest, Splatterpunk Zine, Disturbed Digest, Space and Time Magazine, Darker Magazine, The Horror Zine, Dark Moon Digest, Illumen, Devolution Z, Hinnom, Recompose, Polu Texni, Nothing's Sacred, Okolica Strachu, and anthologies such as The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 13, Splatterpunk Forever, Best Hardcore Horror of the Year Vol. 2, 4, 5, 6, The Big Book of Blasphemy, Midnight Under the Big Top, Rhysling Anthology (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. 3 and 4, The Beauty of Death Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, World of Light and Darkness, One of Us and many others. In addition to the Bram Stoker Award (which he has won twice, and been nominated for 12 times), he is a winner of the SFPA Elgin Award (along with eight nominations), and a winner of the HWA Specialty press Award which he received as the owner and editor-in-chief of Independent Legions Press. He has been nominated multiple times for the Splatterpunk Awards, This Is Horror Awards, Rhysling Awards and Indie Horror Books Awards. He has translated works by Ramsey Campbell, Richard Laymon, Poppy Z. Brite, Edward Lee, Graham Masterton, Gary Braunbeck, Gene O'Neill, Lisa Morton, Lucy Snyder, H. P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Aleister Crowley. Manzetti is the CEO and Founder of Independent Legions Publishing, editor of Molotov Magazine (in Italian), an HWA Active member and a former HWA Board of Trustees member. He has twice served on the Bram Stoker Award Lifetime Achievement Award Jury, and in 2021 he served the Science Fiction Poetry Association as the Rhysling Award Chair.

Product details

• Authors: Alessandro Manzetti
• Publisher: Crystal Lake Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.11.2021
• EAN: 9781737721871
• ISBN: 978-1-73772-187-1
• No. of pages: 210
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 271 g
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