Top Ten Horror Novels YOU MUST READ: 1. Salem's Lot -Stephen King 2. Ghost Story - Peter Straub 3. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson 4. They Thirst - Robert McCammon 5. The Scream - John Skipp/Craig Spector 6. The Last Werewolf - Glen Duncan 7. The Stand - Stephen King 8. Ghoul - Michael Slade 9. Carrion Comfort - Dan Simmons 10. The Damnation Game - Clive Barker

I haven't read a lot of horror, but want to make sure The Shining is nominated. I'm assuming Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon fall under something else.

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (for the movie by William Friedkin) I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (for the movie Night of the Living Dead by George A. Romero) Hellraiser by Clive Barker (for the movie by same) Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist (for the movie by Tomas Alfredson) The Shining by Stephen King (for the movie by Stanley Kubrick)

Dracula - Bram Stoker. Completely inhuman demon, multiple human character POVs. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley. Humanizing the demon. The Shining - Stephen King. When "everyday" people encounter horror. POV from both child protagonist (the hunted) and going-mad father (who is becoming the monster). "The Mist" - Stephen King. It's a novella, not book-length. Straight-ahead humans-versus-alien-monsters fare with great tension and a modernist downer ending. Ghost Story - Peter Straub. Multiple POVs, inter-generational haunting (a "legacy" horror story) The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson. Disembodied evil, a tale of possession. Books of Blood - Clive Barker. The first great splatterpunk (lots of blood, extreme violence, erasing boundaries between sex, death and grossout).

"I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson.

1. The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson 2. The Lottery and Other Stories - Shirley Jackson 3. The Shining - Stephen King 4. Dracula - Brahm Stoker 5. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley 6. The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty 7. Drood - Dan Simmons 8. The Stand - Stephen King 9. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson 10. Thinner - Stephen King 11. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski 12.Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill 13. 20th Century Ghosts - Joe Hill 14. Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin

Here is a compilation of the suggestions so far. We clearly have some GITS readers who know their way around this genre! When I format, compile, alphabetize and de-duplicate the list, sometimes a suggestion can get eaten in the process, so please feel encouraged to double check and make sure all of your suggestions are represented in the list to date. 1. 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill 2. Books of Blood by Clive Barker. The first great splatterpunk (lots of blood, extreme violence, erasing boundaries between sex, death and grossout). 3. Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons 4. Dracula by Bram Stoker. Completely inhuman demon, multiple human character POVs. 5. Drood by Dan Simmons 6. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Humanizing the demon. 7. Ghost Story by Peter Straub. Multiple POVs, inter-generational haunting (a “legacy” horror story) 8. Ghoul by Michael Slade 9. Heart-Shaped by Joe Hill 10. Hellraiser by Clive Barker (for the movie by same) 11. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 12. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (for the movie Night of the Living Dead by George A. Romero) 13. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist (for the movie by Tomas Alfredson) 14. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin 15. Salem’s Lot by Stephen King 16. The Damnation Game by Clive Barker 17. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (for the movie by William Friedkin) 18. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Disembodied evil, a tale of possession. 19. The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan 20. The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson 21. The Mist by Stephen King. It’s a novella, not book-length. Straight-ahead humans-versus-alien-monsters fare with great tension and a modernist downer ending. 22. The Scream by John Skipp and Craig Spector 23. The Shining by Stephen King (for the movie by Stanley Kubrick). When “everyday” people encounter horror. POV from both child protagonist (the hunted) and going-mad father (who is becoming the monster). 24. The Stand by Stephen King 25. They Thirst by Robert McCammon 26. Thinner by Stephen King