7 Pillars of Horror
7 Horror Writers of the Early 20th Century
Story Collections
Chambers, Machen, Blackwood, M.R. James, Benson, Smith, Lovecraft
7 Horror Writers of the Early 20th Century
Story Collections
Chambers, Machen, Blackwood, M.R. James, Benson, Smith, Lovecraft
Let’s take a fresh look at some of these classic tales and authors. I will try to provide a balanced review considering both reader enjoyment and artistic merit. You are heartily invited to join the discussion!
[*** WARNING SPOILERS!! ***]
You may want to read the stories first!
Responses so far:
The Man Whom the Trees Loved, Blackwood
Is the Ux Extinct?, Chambers
At the Mountains of Madness, Lovecraft
The Man Who Went Too Far, Benson
The Last Incantation, Smith
The Man Who Found Out, Blackwood
Ancient Sorceries, Blackwood
The Glamour of the Snow, Blackwood
Between the Lights, Benson
The Harbor-Master, Chambers
A Pleasant Evening, Chambers
The Key to Grief, Chambers
To review soon:Lost Hearts, James
The Ash Tree, James
The Rose Garden, James
Casting the Runes, James
The Man Whom the Trees Loved, Blackwood
Caterpillars, Benson
The Dead Spake, Benson
At the Court of the Dragon, Chambers
Beyond the Walls of Sleep, Lovecraft
The Devotee of Evil, Smith
Writers, Collections and Responses
- M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories
(Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2007, M.R. James ed.)
Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book, Lost Hearts, The Mezzotint, The Ash Tree, Number 13, Count Magnus, 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad', The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, A School Story, The Rose Garden, The Tractate Middoth, Casting the Runes, The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral, Martin's Close, Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance, The Residence at Whitminster, The Diary of Mr Poynter, An Episode of Cathedral History, The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance, Two Doctors, The Haunted Dolls' House, The Uncommon Prayer-Book, A Neighbor's Landmark, A View from a Hill, A Warning to the Curious, An Evening's Entertainment, Wailing Well, There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard, Rats, After Dark in the Playing Fields, Post-response Research
- Arthur Machen, The White People and Other Weird Stories
(Penguin Classics, 2011, Joshi ed.)
The Inmost Light, Novel of the Black Seal, Novel of the White Powder, The White People, A Fragment of Life, The Bowman, The Soldier’s Rest, The Great Return, Out of the Earth, The Terror, Post-response Research
- Robert Chambers, The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories
(Dover, 1970, Bleiler ed.)
The Yellow Sign, The Repairer of Reputations, The Demoiselle d’Ys, The Mask, In the Court of the Dragon, The Maker of Moons, A Pleasant Evening, The Messenger, The Key to Grief, The Harbor-Master, In Quest of the Dingue, Is the Ux Extinct?, Post-response Research
- E.F. Benson, Collected Stories
(White Press, 2015, Unknown ed.)
How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery, At Abdul Ali’s Grave, Mrs. Amworth, Between the Lights, The House with the Brick-Kiln, The Man Who Went Too Far, The Bus Conductor, Caterpillars, And the Dead Spake, The Dust Cloud, The Cat, The Gardener, The China Bowl, Gavon’s Eve, The Horror Horn, In the Tube, The Confessions of Charles Linkworth, Negotium Perambulans, The Other Bed, Outside the Door, The Room in the Tower, The Shootings of Achnaleish, The Terror by Night, Mr. Tilly's Seance, Post-response Research
- Algernon Blackwood, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories
(Penguin Classics, 2002, Joshi ed.)
Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House, The Willows, The Insanity of Jones, Ancient Sorceries, The Man Who Found Out, The Wendigo, The Glamour of the Snow, The Man Whom the Trees Loved, Sand, Post-response Research
- H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu: And Other Stories
(independent, 2019, Scheiderman/Morgado ed.)
The Alchemist, At the Mountains of Madness, Azathoth, The Beast in the Cave, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Call of Cthulhu, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Post-response Research
- Clarke Ashton Smith, The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
(Penguin Classics, 2004, Joshi ed.)
The Tale of Satampra Zeiros, The Last Incantation, The Devotee of Evil, The Uncharted Isle, The Face By the River, The City of the Singing Flame, The Holiness of Azedarac, The Vaults of Yoh Vombis, Ubbo-Sathla, The Double Shadow, The Maze of the Enchanter, Genius Loci, The Dark Eidolon, The Weaver in the Vault, Xeethra, The Treader of the Dust, Mother of Toads, Phoenix, Post-response Research
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