TOC: ‘The Century’s Best Horror Fiction’ Edited by John Pelan
Cemetary Dance has posted the table of contents for the massive 2-volume, 1,574-page anthology The Century’s Best Horror Fiction edited by John Pelan:
The HUGE table of contents follows…
- 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”
I found one of these stories in my collection and eagerly read it.
“1997: Stephen Laws — “The Crawl” And it was God Awful Trash.
I’m a Big Horror fan and know that most of whats put out is Trash(like SF/F ETC) But this was Pathetically Dumb. If this was the best of the year(I highly doubt that) Then the field should have just closed down for a year.
This was absolutely one of the worst stories I’ve ever finished. I could not sleep for hours after reading this I was so upset. When you consider this editor left out about 5 Genre changing stories from Barkers Books of Blood. It either means he is really challenged or that he has a lot of friends who’s work is totally blind to his judgement. not good for a editor/especially in whats supposed to represent the very best.
Their is so much Trash released because editors like Pelan doesn’t have intelligence to be Insulted.