The Century's Best Horror Fiction: Volume Two, 1951-2000

by John Pelan (Editor)

Cemetery Dance: The Century's Best Horror Fiction (2)

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Featuring classic horror fiction by Stephen King, Robert Bloch, Charles Beaumont, Jack Ketchum, Gary Brandner, Dennis Etchison, Michael Bishop, Ramsey Campbell, David Schow, Joe R. Lansdale, Elizabeth Massie, Thomas Ligotti, Robert Aickman, Poppy Z. Brite, Lucy Taylor, Stephen Laws, Brian Hodge, Glen Hirshberg, Tim Lebbon, and dozens of others! World Fantasy Award winning specialty press Cemetery Dance Publications has commissioned a spectacular two-volume anthology project under the show more editorship of noted author and historian of the horror genre, John Pelan. John selected one story published during each year of the 20th Century as the most notable story of that year...all 100 stories were then collected in this amazing two volume set to be published as The Century's Best Horror Fiction.--Amazon.com show less

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I choose this book to read the Bob Leman story (which I decided to skip :/ ) . I looked through the offerings and picked some more must reads before I give the book back to library. There is no way I'm reading the whole thing. It's almost 866 pages and 50 stories.

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~David A. Riley - The Lurkers in the Abyss - 1
~Gary Brandner - The Price of a Demon - 2
~Dennis Etchison - It Only Comes out at Night - 1
~Elisabeth Massie - Stephen - 4 - I liked until the end which I find unmemorable in comparison to the beginning.
~Thomas Ligotti - The Glamour - DNF
~Poppy Z. Brite - Lord of Nerves - 1
~Lucy Taylor - The Family Underwater - 5
~Jack Ketchum - The Box - 2 - Glad I read it so I can understand when it gets referenced, but I can't say I enjoyed show more it.
~Caitlin R. Kiernan - Tears Seven Times Salt - 2
~Terry Lamsley - The Toddler - 2
~Karl Edward Wagner - 5 - Sticks I read this in The Mammoth Book of Zombies

2016 Read
~Come by Anna Hunger - 1*

2018 Read
~Stephen King - The Reach (AKA Do the Dead Sing?) - 2*
~Elisabeth Massie - Stephen - 4* Read twice 2015, 2018.
~Robert Bloch - The Hell-Bound Train - 4* Life lesson weaved into a horror story. awesome.
~Michael Shea - The Autopsy DNF. I dnf'd this story in another anthology also but so many people like it so I tried again but still couldn't finish it.

2023
~Stephen Laws - The Crawl - 4* - Classic kind of horror I grew up on. No matter what you do, it keeps following.
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Aickman, Robert (Contributor)
Aletti, Steffan B. (Contributor)
Arthur, Robert (Contributor)
Beaumont, Charles (Contributor)
Bertin, Eddy C. (Contributor)
Birkin, Charles (Contributor)
Bishop, Michael (Contributor)
Bloch, Robert (Contributor)
Brandner, Gary (Contributor)
Brite, Poppy Z. (Contributor)
Brown, Fredric (Contributor)
Campbell, Ramsey (Contributor)
Drake, David (Contributor)
Etchison, Dennis (Contributor)
Haynes, Dorothy K. (Contributor)
Hirshberg, Glen (Contributor)
Hodge, Brian (Contributor)
Hunger, Anna (Contributor)
Jacobi, Carl (Contributor)
Ketchum, Jack (Contributor)
Kiernan, Caitlin R. (Contributor)
King, Stephen (Contributor)
Kirk, Russel (Contributor)
Lamsley, Terry (Contributor)
Lane, Joel (Contributor)
Lansdale, Joe R. (Contributor)
Laws, Stephen (Contributor)
Lebbon, Tim (Contributor)
Leiber, Fritz (Contributor)
Leman, Bob (Contributor)
Ligotti, Thomas (Contributor)
Malzberg, Barry N. (Contributor)
Massie, Elizabeth (Cover artist)
Porges, Arthur (Contributor)
Powers, Tim (Contributor)
Ray, Jean (Contributor)
Reaves, J. Michael (Contributor)
Riley, David A. (Contributor)
Russel, Eric Frank (Contributor)
Russell, Ray (Contributor)
Schow, David J. (Contributor)
Shea, Michael (Contributor)
Sheckley, Robert (Contributor)
Simak, Clifford D. (Contributor)
Spinrad, Norman (Contributor)
Taylor, Lucy (Contributor)
Wagner, Karl Edward (Contributor)
Watson, Ian (Contributor)
Wilson, Richard (Contributor)
Worrell, Everil (Contributor)

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Clark, Alan M. (Cover artist)

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Canonical title
The Century's Best Horror Fiction: Volume Two, 1951-2000
Alternate titles
The Century's Best Horror Fiction 1951-2000
Original publication date
2011

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Fiction and Literature, Horror
DDC/MDS
813.0873Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in EnglishBy typeGenre fictionAdventure fictionHorror fiction; Ghost fiction
LCC
PN6120.95 .H727 .C462Language and LiteratureLiterature (General)Literature (General)Collections of general literatureFiction

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