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October 2006
Compiled by Steven A. Roman, of DeKalb Public Library, IL from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

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Aickman, Robert.  "The Hospice."
---. "The Houses of the Russians."

Andrews, V.C.  My Sweet Audrina.

Anson, Jay.  The Amityville Horror.

Atwood, Margaret.  The Handmaid's Tale.

Aycliffe, Jonathan.  Naomi's Room.

Banks, Iain.  The Wasp Factory.

Barker, Clive.  Books of Blood trilogy.
---. Weaveworld.

Bierce, Ambrose.  "Oil of Dog."

Blackwood, Algernon.  "Running Wolf."
---. "The Wendigo."
---. "The Willows."

Blatty, William Peter.  The Exorcist.

Bloch, Robert.  Psycho.
---. "Sweets to the Sweet."
---. "The Weird Tailor."

Bradbury, Ray.  Fahrenheit 451.

Brennan, Joseph Payne.  Nine Horrors and a Dream.

Brite, Poppy Z.  Drawing Blood.
---. Lost Souls.

Bugliosi, Vincent and Curt Gentry.  Helter Skelter.

Cadnum, Michael.  Nightlight.

Cady, Jack.  "By Reason of Darkness."

Campton, David.  "At the Bottom of the Garden."

Cantor, Hal.  Ghosts and Things. (Anthology)

Clark, Mary Higgins.  Love Music, Loves to Dance.

Collins, Nancy A.   Midnight Blue: The Sonja Blue Collection.

Connolly, John.  (All his books)

Danielewski, Mark Z.  House of Leaves.

Davidson, Avram.  "Naples."

Deaver, Jeffery.  The Bone Collector.

Delaney, Matthew B.J.  Jinn.

Dick, Philip K.  "Upon the Dull Earth."

Donaldson, Stephen.  Gap series.
---. Thomas Covenant series.

Ellison, Harlan.  "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream."

Etchison, Dennis.  "The Pitch."

Farris, John.  All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By.

Gaiman, Neil.  Neverwhere.

Garton, Ray.  Crucifax Autumn.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.  "The Yellow Wallpaper."

Godey, John.  The Snake.

Golding, William.  Lord of the Flies.

Grant, Charles.  Shadows series.

Harris, Thomas.  Hannibal.
---. Red Dragon.
---. Silence of the Lambs.

Hartwell, David G. (Editor)  Dark Descent.

Harvey, William Fryer.  "August Heat."
---. "The Clock."

Herbert, Frank.  The White Plague.

Hindle, Lee J.  Dragon Fall.

Household, Geoffrey.  Dance of the Dwarfs.

Jackson, Shirley.  The Haunting of Hill House.
---. "The Lottery."

James, M.R.  "An Episode of Cathedral History."
---. "Rats."
---. "Room 13."

Keel, John. A.  The Mothman Prophecies.

King, Stephen.  Bag of Bones.
---. Carrie.
---. Desperation.
---. Four Past Midnight.
---. It.
---. "The Library Policeman."
---. The Long Walk.
---. Misery.
---. "The Mist."
---. Pet Sematary.
---. 'Salem's Lot.
---. The Shining.
---. The Tommyknockers. Klainer, Albert and Jo-Ann Klainer.  The Judas Gene.

Koja, Kathe.  The Cipher.
---. Skin.

Koontz, Dean.  False Memory.
---. Intensity.
---. Trapped.

Kostova, Elizabeth.  The Historian.

Lafferty, R.A.  "Fog in My Throat."

Lansdale, Joe R.  The Drive-In.
---. "The God of the Razor."
---. "The Night They Missed the Horror Show."

Le Fanu, J. Sheridan.  "Schalken the Painter."

Lebbon, Tim.  "White."

Leiber, Fritz.  Conjure Wife.
---. "Horrible Imaginings."
---. Our Lady of Darkness. (a.k.a. The Pale Brown Thing.)
---. "Smoke Ghost."
---. You're All Alone. (a.k.a. The Sinful Ones.)

Little, Bentley.  "The Theater."

Lovecraft, H.P.  "The Call of Cthulhu."
---. "The Music of Erich Zann."
---. "Pickman's Model."

Matheson, Richard.  "Duel."
---. "I Am Legend."

McCabe, Patrick.  The Butcher Boy.

Miller, Rex.  Slob.

Miller, Walter M.  A Canticle for Leibowitz.

Morris, J.M.  The Lonely Places.

Onions, Oliver.  "The Beckoning Fair One."

Palahniuk, Chuck.  Diary.
---. Lullaby.

Pelzer, David.  A Child Called It.

Peretti, Frank.  House.

Poe, Edgar Allen.  "The Cask of Amontillado."
---. "The Fall of the House of Usher."

Preston, Richard.  Hot Zone.

Pyper, Andrew.  The Trade Mission.

Rule, Ann.  The Stranger Beside Me.

Russ, Joanna.  "Come Closer."

Saul, John.  Perfect Nightmare.

Schiff, David.  Whispers series.

Schreiber, Flora Rheta.  Sybil.

Shea, Michael.  "The Autopsy."

Shirley, John.  Wetbones.

Shute, Nevil.  On the Beach.

Simmons, Dan.  Carrion Comfort.
---. Song of Kali.

Sinclair, May.  "Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched."

Skipp, John and Craig Spector.  Book of the Dead.
---. Still Dead.

Sleator, William.  House of Stairs.

Smith, Scott.  The Ruins.

Sokoloff, Alexandra.  The Harrowing.

Stevens, Shane.  By Reason of Insanity.

Straub, Peter.  Ghost Story.

Strieber, Whitley.  Communion.
---. Wolfen.

Wellman, Manly Wade.  John the Balladeer.
---. "The Valley Was Still."
---. Who Fears the Devil.

White, Edward Lucas.  "The Snout."

MAGAZINES

Creepy
Eerie
Night Cry
Twilight Zone

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