Ramsey Campbell's 1987 Top Ten Lists
How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction (1987) edited by J.N. Williamson
Excerpt from the chapter "The Top Ten
"Favorites" List in Horror, Fantasy, and SF (Novels and Short Stories)" in: How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction (1987) edited by J.N. Williamson
Ramsey Campbell:
Ten Best Postwar Horror Novels
Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
James Herbert, The Fog
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
Stephen King, ITÂ
T E. D. Klein, The Ceremonies
Fritz Leiber, Conjure Wife
Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
David Morrell, Testament
Peter Straub, Ghost Story
Thomas Tessier, Phantom
Ten Best Postwar Horror Stories
Robert Aickman, "The Hospice"
Clive Barker, "In the Hills, the Cities"
Jerome Bixby, "It's a Good Life"
David Case, "Among the Wolves"
Philip K. Dick, "Upon the Dull Earth"
Dennis Etchison, "It Only Comes Out at Night"
M. John Harrison, "Running Down"
Fritz Leiber, "A Bit of the Dark World"
Thomas Ligotti, "Dream of a Mannikin, or the Third Person"
John Metcalfe, "The Feasting Dead"
Ten Best Postwar Fantasy Novels
Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
John Crowley, Little, Big
Alan Garner, Elidor
Alan Garner, Red ShiftÂ
M. John Harrison, In Viriconium
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Earthsea trilogy
Mervyn Peake, The Gormenghast trilogy
Jack Vance, The Dying Earth
Karl Edward Wagner, Bloodstone
Manly Wade Wellman, Who Fears the Devil?
Ten Best Postwar Science Fiction Novels
Brian Aldiss, Hothouse
Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
J. G. Ballard, The Drowned World
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Algis Budrys, Rogue Moon
Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
Bob Shaw, The Palace of Eternity
John Sladek, The Muller-Fokker Effect
Theodore Sturgeon, More than Human
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