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• 5 • Foreword (Horror: 100 Best Books) • (1988) • essay by Ramsey Campbell
• 13 • Introduction: It seemed like a simple idea at the time ... • (1988) • essay by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
• 17 •   Review: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe • (1988) • review by Clive Barker
• 21 •   Review: The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare • (1988) • review by John Blackburn
• 23 •   Review: The White Devil by John Webster • (1988) • review by Diana Wynne Jones
• 25 •   Review: Things As They Are; or: The Adventures of Caleb Williams by William Godwin • (1988) • review by Scott Bradfield
• 27 •   Review: The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis • (1988) • review by Les Daniels
• 30 •   Review: The Best Tales of Hoffmann by E. T. A. Hoffmann • (1988) • review by John Sladek
• 33 •   Review: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen • (1988) • review by David Pirie
• 35 •   Review: Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley • (1988) • review by Jane Yolen
• 37 •   Review: Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin • (1988) • review by Peter Tremayne
• 40 •   Review: The Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg • (1988) • review by Garry Kilworth
• 42 •   Review: Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe • (1988) • review by John M. Ford
• 45 •   Review: Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne • (1850) • review by Edgar Allan Poe
• 47 •   Review: The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf • (1988) • review by Thomas Tessier
• 49 •   Review: The Wandering Jew by
  Eugène Sue^?Eugene Sue
  • (1988) • review by Thomas M. Disch
• 53 •   Review: The Confidence Man by Herman Melville • (1988) • review by Michael McDowell
• 56 •   Review: Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu • (1988) • review by M. R. James
• 60 •   Review: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson • (1988) • review by Jack Williamson
• 62 •   Review: She by H. Rider Haggard • (1988) • review by Tim Stout
• 65 •   Review: The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers • (1988) • review by H. P. Lovecraft
• 68 •   Review: The Island of Dr Moreau by H. G. Wells • (1988) • review by Gene Wolfe
• 71 •   Review: Dracula by Bram Stoker • (1988) • review by Colin Wilson
• 74 •   Review: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James • (1988) • review by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• 77 • Review of the nongenre novella "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad • (1988) • essay by Douglas E. Winter (variant of Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness)
• 81 •   Review: The Jewel of the Seven Stars by Bram Stoker • (1988) • review by Richard Dalby
• 85 •   Review: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James • (1988) • review by Geoff Ryman
• 88 •   Review: The House of Souls by Arthur Machen • (1988) • review by T. E. D. Klein
• 93 •   Review: John Silence by Algernon Blackwood • (1988) • review by Hilaire Belloc
• 96 •   Review: The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton • (1988) • review by David Langford
• 98 •   Review: The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson • (1988) • review by Terry Pratchett
• 101 •   Review: The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce • (1988) • review by Milton Subotsky
• 103 •   Review: Widdershins by Oliver Onions • (1988) • review by Mike Ashley
• 105 •   Review: The Horror Horn by E. F. Benson • (1988) • review by Basil Copper
• 108 •   Review: A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay • (1988) • review by George Hay
• 111 •   Review: The Trial by Franz Kafka • (1988) • review by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 114 •   Review: Something about Eve by James Branch Cabell • (1930) • review by Robert E. Howard
• 116 •   Review: Medusa by E. H. Visiak • (1988) • review by Karl Edward Wagner
• 118 •   Review: The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore • (1988) • review by Marvin Kaye
• 120 •   Review: The Last Bouquet by Marjorie Bowen • (1988) • review by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• 123 •   Review: The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck by Alexander Laing • (1988) • review by Robert Bloch
• 125 •   Review: A Second Century of Creepy Stories by Hugh Walpole • (1988) • review by Hugh Lamb
• 127 •   Review: The Dark Tower by C. S. Lewis • (1988) • review by R. L. Fanthorpe [as by Lionel Fanthorpe]
• 130 •   Review: Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo • (1988) • review by Dennis Etchison
• 132 •   Review: The Outsider and Others by H. P. Lovecraft • (1988) • review by Donald A. Wollheim
• 135 •   Review: Out of Space and Time by Clark Ashton Smith • (1988) • review by Harlan Ellison
• 139 •   Review: Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber • (1988) • review by Gerald W. Page
• 142 •   Review: Night Has a Thousand Eyes by Cornell Woolrich • (1988) • review by Maxim Jakubowski
• 145 •   Review: The Lurker at the Threshold by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft • (1988) • review by Graham Masterton
• 147 •   Review: Deliver Me from Eva by Paul Bailey • (1988) • review by Forrest J. Ackerman
• 149 •   Review: And the Darkness Falls by Boris Karloff • (1988) • review by David G. Hartwell
• 151 •   Review: The Sleeping and the Dead by August Derleth • (1988) • review by Peter Haining
• 154 •   Review: Track of the Cat by Walter Van Tilburg Clark • (1988) • review by Robert R. McCammon
• 156 •   Review: The Sound of His Horn by Sarban • (1988) • review by Suzy McKee Charnas
• 159 •   Review: Lord of the Flies by William Golding • (1988) • review by Joe Haldeman
• 164 •   Review: The October Country by Ray Bradbury • (1988) • review by Joe R. Lansdale
• 167 •   Review: Nine Horrors and a Dream by Joseph Payne Brennan • (1988) • review by Stephen Gallagher
• 171 •   Review: Psycho by Robert Bloch • (1988) • review by Hugh B. Cave
• 173 •   Review: Quatermass and the Pit by Nigel Kneale • (1988) • review by Stephen Laws
• 176 •   Review: Cry Horror! by H. P. Lovecraft • (1988) • review by Michel Parry
• 178 •   Review: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson • (1988) • review by Lisa Tuttle
• 181 •   Review: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick • (1988) • review by Tad Williams
• 185 •   Review: The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski • (1988) • review by Jack Dann
• 190 •   Review: The Crystal World by J. G. Ballard • (1988) • review by Craig Shaw Gardner
• 192 •   Review: Sub Rosa by Robert Aickman • (1988) • review by Colin Greenland
• 195 •   Review: The Green Man by Kingsley Amis • (1988) • review by Brian W. Aldiss
• 198 •   Review: The Compleat Werewolf by Anthony Boucher • (1988) • review by Neil Gaiman
• 202 •   Review: Grendel by John Gardner • (1988) • review by Dan Simmons
• 205 •   Review: The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty • (1988) • review by F. Paul Wilson
• 209 •   Review: The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner • (1988) • review by John Skipp
• 214 •   Review: Worse Things Waiting by Manly Wade Wellman • (1988) • review by Frances Garfield
• 216 •   Review: Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco • (1988) • review by Stephen King
• 219 •   Review: Salem's Lot by Stephen King • (1988) • review by Al Sarrantonio
• 221 •   Review: Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison • (1988) • review by Craig Spector
• 221 •   Review: Murgunstrumm and Others by Hugh B. Cave • (1988) • review by Brian Lumley
• 227 •   Review: Sweetheart, Sweetheart by Bernard Taylor • (1988) • review by Charles L. Grant
• 229 •   Review: All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By by John Farris • (1988) • review by David J. Schow
• 232 •   Review: The Shining by Stephen King • (1988) • review by Peter Straub
• 234 •   Review: Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg • (1988) • review by William F. Nolan
• 237 •   Review: The Wolfen by Whitley Strieber • (1988) • review by Charles de Lint
• 239 •   Review: The Totem by David Morrell • (1988) • review by Shaun Hutson
• 242 •   Review: Ghost Story by Peter Straub • (1988) • review by Peter Nicholls
• 245 •   Review: The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll • (1988) • review by Christopher Evans
• 247 •   Review: The Cellar by Richard Laymon • (1988) • review by David Garnett
• 250 • Thomas Harris: Red Dragon • (1988) • essay by Chet Williamson
• 253 •   Review: The Keep by F. Paul Wilson • (1988) • review by J. N. Williamson
• 256 •   Review: The Dark Country by Dennis Etchison • (1988) • review by Samatha Lee
• 258 •   Review: In a Lonely Place by Karl Edward Wagner • (1988) • review by Ramsey Campbell
• 261 •   Review: The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers • (1988) • review by John Clute
• 265 •   Review: The Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin • (1984) • review by Brian Stableford
• 267 •   Review: The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks • (1988) • review by Malcolm Edwards
• 270 •   Review: The Ceremonies by T. E. D. Klein • (1988) • review by Thomas F. Monteleone
• 272 •   Review: Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock • (1988) • review by Michael Moorcock
• 275 •   Review: Who Made Stevie Crye? by Michael Bishop • (1988) • review by Ian Watson
• 277 •   Review: Song of Kali by Dan Simmons • (1988) • review by Edward Bryant
• 280 •   Review: The Damnation Game by Clive Barker • (1988) • review by Adrian Cole
• 282 •   Review: Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd • (1988) • review by R. S. Hadji
• 285 •   Review: A Nest of Nightmares by Lisa Tuttle • (1988) • review by Robert Holdstock
• 287 •   Review: The Pet by Charles L. Grant • (1988) • review by Guy N. Smith
• 290 •   Review: Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon • (1988) • review by Eddy C. Bertin
• 292 •   Review: Dark Feasts by Ramsey Campbell • (1988) • review by Jack Sullivan
• 296 • List of Recommended Reading • (1992) • essay by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
• 305 • Notes on the Contributors (Horror: 100 Best Books) • (1992) • essay by uncredited