![]() ![]() Yes, OK, so this isn't a horror novel as such. They're all good, but Ghost Story is more straight-down-the-line horror, a wonderfully subtle and complex tale of the impact of a visitor on a small community. Many of Straub's novels are hard to categorise, skating somewhere along the literature/crime/horror boundary. Lean, sombre and veined with dread, this is horror, pure and simple. But Pet Sematary wins the nomination by being the one that disturbed me the most on first reading. ![]() I could fill half this list with King novels, of course, and there are others like The Shining, The Stand and It which perhaps deserve to be here more on individual merit. Elegiac, disturbing and very memorable, this collection of beautifully crafted tales is modern British horror at its very best. ![]() Campbell is one of the field's true giants and a master of the short form. Any list of top horror books must contain a sprinkling of short story collections because that's where so much of the genre's very best work is done. ![]()
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