Horror: The 100 Best Books

by Stephen Jones, Kim Newman · 1988

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The editors have paired horror's leading authors with the genre's milestones, featuring Peter Straub and Stephen King, Joe R. Lansdale and Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Clive Barker and Christopher Marlowe, and many equally inspired matches.

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