Miskatonic Books :: Books :: THE CENTURY'S BEST HORROR FICTION (2 Volume Set Hardcover) Edited by John Pelan

The Century's Best Horror Fiction edited by John Pelan About the Books: Cemetery Dance Publications commissioned a spectacular two-volume anthology project under the editorship of noted author and historian of the horror genre, John Pelan. John selected one story published during each year of the 20th Century (1901-2000) 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. The ground rules were simple: Only one selection per author. Only one selection per year. Two huge volumes, one hundred authors, one hundred classic stories, more than 700,000 words of fiction — history in the making! Trade Edition hardcovers bound in full-cloth and Smyth sewn with a full color dust jacket — two deluxe volumes Table of Contents 1901: Barry Pain — The Undying Thing 1902: W.W. Jacobs — The Monkey's Paw 1903: H.G.Wells — The Valley of the Spiders 1904: Arthur Machen — The White People 1905: R. Murray Gilchrist — The Lover's Ordeal 1906: Edward Lucas White — House of the Nightmare 1907: Algernon Blackwood — The Willows 1908: Perceval Landon — Thurnley Abbey 1909: Violet Hunt — The Coach 1910: Wm Hope Hodgson — The Whistling Room 1911: M.R. James — Casting the Runes 1912: E.F. Benson — Caterpillars 1913: Aleister Crowley — The Testament of Magdelan Blair 1914: M. P. Shiel — The Place of Pain 1915: Hanns Heinz Ewers — The Spider 1916: Lord Dunsany — Thirteen at Table 1917: Frederick Stuart Greene — The Black Pool 1918: H. De Vere Stacpoole — The Middle Bedroom 1919: Ulric Daubeny — The Sumach 1920: Maurice Level — In the Light of the Red Lamp 1921: Vincent O'Sullivan — Master of Fallen Years 1922: Walter de la Mare — Seaton's Aunt 1923: George Allen England — The Thing From—"Outside" 1924: C.M. Eddy, Jr. — The Loved Dead 1925: John Metcalfe — The Smoking Leg 1926: H.P. Lovecraft — The Outsider 1927: Donald Wandrei — The Red Brain 1928: H.R. Wakefield — The Red Lodge 1929: Eleanor Scott — Celui-La 1930: Rosalie Muspratt — Spirit of Stonhenge 1931: Henry S. Whitehead — Cassius 1932: David H. Keller — The Thing in the Cellar 1933: C.L. Moore — Shambleau 1934: L.A. Lewis — The Tower of Moab 1935: Clark Ashton Smith — The Dark Eidolon 1936: Thorp McCluskey — The Crawling Horror 1937: Howard Wandrei — The Eerie Mr Murphy 1938: Robert E. Howard — Pigeons from Hell 1939: Robert Barbour Johnson — Far Below 1940: John Collier — Evening Primrose 1941: C.M. Kornbluth — The Words of Guru 1942: Jane Rice — The Idol of the Flies 1943: Anthony Boucher — They Bite 1944: Ray Bradbury — The Jar 1945: August Derleth — Carousel 1946: Manly Wade Wellman — Shonokin Town 1947: Theodore Sturgeon — Bianca's Hands 1948: Shirley Jackson — The Lottery 1949: Nigel Kneale — The Pond 1950: Richard Matheson — Born of Man & Woman 1951: Russell Kirk — Uncle Isiah 1952: Eric Frank Russell — I Am Nothing 1953: Robert Sheckley — The Altar 1954: Everil Worrell — Call Not Their Names 1955: Robert Aickman — Ringing the Changes 1956: Richard Wilson — Lonely Road 1957: Clifford Simak — Founding Father 1958: Robert Bloch — That Hell-Bound Train 1959: Charles Beaumont — The Howling Man 1960: Fredric Brown — The House 1961: Ray Russell — Sardonicus 1962: Carl Jacobi — The Aquarium 1963: Robert Arthur — The Mirror of Cagliostro 1964: Charles Birkin — A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts 1965: Jean Ray — The Shadowy Street 1966: Arthur Porges — The Mirror 1967: Norman Spinrad — Carcinoma Angels 1968: Anna Hunger — Come 1969: Steffan Aletti — The Last Work of Pietro Apono 1970: David A. Riley — The Lurkers in the Abyss 1971: Dorothy K. Haynes — The Derelict Track 1972: Gary Brandner — The Price of a Demon 1973: Eddy C. Bertin — Like Two White Spiders 1974: Karl Edward Wagner — Sticks 1975: David Drake — The Barrow Troll 1976: Dennis Etchison — It Only Comes Out at Night 1977: Barry N. Malzberg — The Man Who Loved the Midnight Lady 1978: Michael Bishop — Within the Walls of Tyre 1979: Ramsey Campbell — Mackintosh Willy 1980: Michael Shea — The Autopsy 1981: Stephen King — The Reach 1982: Fritz Leiber — Horrible Imagings 1983: David Schow — One for the Horrors 1984: Bob Leman — The Unhappy Pilgrimage of Clifford M. 1985: Michael Reaves — The Night People 1986: Tim Powers — Night Moves 1987: Ian Watson — Evil Water 1988: Joe R. Lansdale — The Night They Missed the Horror Show 1989: Joel Lane — The Earth Wire 1990: Elizabeth Massie — Stephen 1991: Thomas Ligotti — The Glamour 1992: Poppy Z. Brite — Calcutta Lord of Nerves 1993: Lucy Taylor — The Family Underwater 1994: Jack Ketchum — The Box 1995: Terry Lamsley — The Toddler 1996: Caitlín R. Kiernan — Tears Seven Times Salt 1997: Stephen Laws — The Crawl 1998: Brian Hodge — As Above, So Below 1999: Glen Hirshberg — Mr. Dark's Carnival 2000: Tim Lebbon — Reconstructing Amy