The Century’s Best Horror Fiction: Volume One, 1901-1950

In celebration of the new millennium, Cemetery Dance Publications has commissioned a spectacular two-volume anthology project under the editorship of noted author and historian of the horror genre, John Pelan. John will be selecting one story published during each year of the 20th Century (1901-2000) as the most notable story of that year — all 100 stories will then be collected in The Century’s Best Horror Fiction. The ground rules are simple: Only one selection per author. Only one selection per year. Two huge volumes, one hundred authors, one hundred classic stories, over 700,000 words of fiction — history in the making!

One hundred years of horror [introduction] / John Pelan — The undying thing / Barry Pain — The monkey’s paw / W. W. Jacobs — The valley of spiders / H. G. Wells — The white people / Arthur Machen — The lover’s ordeal / R. Murray Gilchrist — The house of the nightmare / Edward Lucas White — The willows / Algernon Blackwood — Thurnley Abbey / Perceval Landon — The coach / Violet Hunt — The whistling room / William Hope Hodgson — Casting the runes / M. R. [Montague Rhodes] James — Caterpillars / E. F. Benson — The testament of Magdalen Blair / Aleister Crowley.
The place of pain / M. P. Shiel — The spider / Hanns Heinz Ewers — Thirteen at table / Lord Dunsany — The black pool / Frederick Stuart Greene — The middle bedroom / H. de Vere Stacpoole — The sumach / Ulric Daubeny — In the light of the red lamp / Maurice Level — Master of fallen years / Vincent O’Sullivan — Seaton’s aunt — Walter de la Mare — The thing from “Outside” / George Allan England — The loved dead / C. M. Eddy, Jr. — The smoking leg / John Metcalf — The outsider / H. P. Lovecraft — The red brain / Donald Wandrei — The red lodge / H. Russell Wakefield.
Celui-lá / Eleanor Scott — The spirit of Stonehenge / Rosalie Muspratt — Cassius / Henry S. Whitehead — The thing in the cellar / David H. Keller — Shambleau / C. L. [Catherine Lucile] Moore — The tower of Moab / L. A. Lewis — The dark eidolon / Clark Ashton Smith — The crawling horror / Thorp McClusky — The eerie Mr. Murphy / Howard Wandrei — Pigeons from Hell / Robert E. [Ervin] Howard — Far below / Robert Barbour Johnson — Evening primrose / John Collier — The words of Guru / C. [Cyril] M. Kornbluth — The idol of the flies / Jane Rice — They bite / Anthony Boucher.
The jar / Ray Bradbury — Carousel / August Derleth — Shonokin Town / Manly Wade Wellman — Bianca’s hands / Theodore Sturgeon — The lottery / Shirley Jackson — The pond / Nigel Kneale — Born of man and woman / Richard Matheson.