The Book of Lists · Horror · an All-New Collection Featuring Stephen King, Eli Roth, Ray Bradbury, and More, With an Introduction by Gahan Wilson by Wallace, Amy -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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THE BOOK OF LISTS HORROR DEDICATION EPIGRAPH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION THE BOOK OF LISTS: HORROR WRITING STAFF ABBREVIATIONS A NOTE ON SPOILERS CHAPTER 1: “Keep Repeating . . . ‘It’s Only a Movie . . . !’” FEAR ON THE SILVER SCREEN

THE TOP SIX GROSSING HORROR FILMS OF ALL TIME IN THE UNITED STATES (ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION*) SIX STARS WHO TURNED DOWN FAMOUS HORROR MOVIE ROLES RAY BRADBURY’S FIVE HORROR FILMSTHAT MOST INFLUENCED HIM AS A YOUTH MATCH THE HORROR FILM WITH ITS TAGLINE JOHNNY RAMONE’S TOP TEN FAVORITE HORROR MOVIES PROFESSOR LEO BRAUDY’S ELEVEN FAVORITE MOMENTS OF HORROR VS. TERROR IN FILM ANTHONY TIMPONE’S TEN MOVIES I WISH I NEVER PUT ON THE COVER OF FANGORIA BARRY GIFFORD’S FIFTEEN FAVORITE LATE-NIGHT TINGLERS (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER) ALAN BEATTS’S FIVE COMMON TACTICAL ERRORS IN HORROR FILMS EDGAR WRIGHT’S TOP TEN “ OUCH! I’M SORRY, BUT THAT HAS GOT TO HURT!” MOMENTS IN HORROR FILMS (PLUS ONE VERY HONORABLE MENTION) ELI ROTH’S TOP TEN NASTIEST HORROR MOVIE GENITAL MUTILATIONS JAMES GUNN’S NINETEEN FAVORITE REASONS GOD MADE HUMANS SO SQUISHY TIM SULLIVAN’S THIRTEEN FAVORITE “SPLATSTICK” MOMENTS STEPHEN VOLK’S TEN MOVIE FATES WORSE THAN DEATH REAL OR REEL? THE FACTS BEHIND FIVE HORROR FILMS THAT CLAIM TO BE BASED ON A TRUE STORY MARK GOODALL’S TEN REAL MONDO MOVIE DEATHS NANCY HOLDER’S THIRTEEN MOVIES SHE WISHES SHE’D NEVER SEEN BECAUSE THEY’RE TOO SCARY (YET CONTINUES TO WATCH REPEATEDLY. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH HER?) CERINA VINCENT’S TOP TEN HORROR MOVIES TOO SCARY FOR LITTLE GIRLS JOE LYNCH’S TEN MOVIES MY MOTHER SHOULD HAVE NEVER LET ME WATCH (BUT THANKFULLY DID!) F. X. FEENEY’S TEN ESSENTIAL “CHILDREN OF HORROR” FILMS DOUGLAS BUCK’S TEN FAVORITE FAMILIAL HORROR MOVIES MICK FARREN’S TEN BEST OF HAMMER HORROR LISA MORTON’S TOP TEN ASIAN HORROR MOVIES JÖRG BUTTGEREIT’S TOP TEN JAPANESE MONSTER MOVIES RICHARD STANLEY’S TEN FAVORITE ITALIAN HORROR MOVIES (PLUS THREE BORDERLINE CASES) ALTERNATE INTERNATIONAL TITLES FOR EIGHT ITALIAN HORROR MOVIES MARK SAVAGE’S TEN FAVORITE AUSTRALIAN HORROR FILMS DAN MADIGAN’S TEN MOST INSANE, OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD MEXICAN HORROR MOVIES (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER OF NUTTINESS) MATTEO MOLINARI’S TEN FAVORITE HORROR MOVIE BLOOPERS BOB MURAWSKI’S TWELVE GREATEST GRINDHOUSE HORROR ONE-SHEETS TIM LUCAS’S TEN HORROR FILMS THAT AREN’T HORROR FILMS ANDRE DUZA’S TOP TEN HORRIFIC MOMENTS IN NON-HORROR FILMS MITCH BRIAN’S TEN FAVORITE DISGUISED HORROR FILMS ERIC SHAPIRO’S FIVE FAVORITE SCARY GENERATION X/Y–ERA MOVIES THAT AREN’T HORROR MOVIES RICHARD HARLAND SMITH’S TEN HORROR MOVIES THAT SUGGEST LIFE IS UNLIVABLE TOMMY O’HAVER’S TOP TEN WOMEN-IN-PERIL HORROR FILMS EDWARD LEE’S TEN BEST HORROR MOVIES WITH GRATUITOUS NUDITY ADAM GREEN’S TOP TEN HORROR MOVIE ACTRESSES WHO SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN NAKED . . . BUT DIDN’T JOSH OLSON’S TEN BEST HORROR MOVIE SEX SCENES SCOTT BRADLEY’S TEN ULTIMATE HORROR FILM CRUSHES ANN MAGNUSON’S TWENTY-TWO SEXIEST MOVIE MONSTERS (HUMAN AND OTHERWISE) C. COURTNEY JOYNER’S TOP TEN HORROR MOVIE SURGICAL BLUNDERS MIKITA BROTTMAN’S TEN FAVORITE HORROR MOVIE PSYCHOANALYSTS NEIL MARSHALL’S TEN BEST MOVIE BOVINE FATALITIES STACI LAYNE WILSON’S TOP TEN “KILLED BY KITTY” MOMENTS IN HORROR FILMS CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN’S THIRTEEN OF THE TOP TEN LOVECRAFTIAN FILMS NOT ACTUALLY BASED (OR ONLY LOOSELY BASED) ON THE WORKS OF H. P. LOVECRAFT ROBERT KURTZMAN’S TEN FAVORITE CREATURE FEATURES BOB BURNS’S EIGHT WORST MONSTER MOVIE COSTUMES PROFESSOR PAUL M. JENSEN’S TEN FAVORITE TWO-CHARACTER SCENES FEATURING BORIS KARLOFF (PLUS ONE BONUS) DAVID WALLECHINSKY’S SIX OVERLOOKED HORROR FILMS FRANZ RODENKIRCHEN’S TEN PERSONAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE HORROR GENRE (PLUS A CODA) VINCE CHURCHILL’S TOP TEN LIST OF FILMS IN WHICH, WOW, THE BLACK GUY LIVED! JOHN SKIPP’S FIVE FAVORITE BENIGN “FACE OF GOD” MOMENTS IN HORROR FILMS (PLUS TEN HONORABLE MENTIONS) VICTOR SALVA’S TEN THINGS WE HAVE LEARNED FROM HORROR MOVIES THE ORIGINAL TITLES OF FIFTEEN HORROR FILMS NACHO CERDÁ’S TEN MOST PROFOUND CINEMATIC HORROR EXPERIENCES SARAH LANGAN’S TOP TEN STUPIDEST HORROR MOVIE DECISIONS QUIZ FOUR HORROR WRITERS ON THE FILM ADAPTATIONS OF THEIR WORK

CHAPTER 2 “For the Love of God, Montresor!” THE LITERATURE OF DREAD

TWENTY GREAT OPENINGS IN HORROR FICTION THE FIFTY-SIX BESTSELLING HORROR BOOKS SINCE 1900 STEPHEN KING’S TEN FAVORITE HORROR NOVELS OR SHORT STORIES DON D’AURIA’S TEN BOOKS THAT CHANGED THE HORROR GENRE BENTLEY LITTLE’S TEN HORROR ONE-HIT WONDERS THAT EVERYONE SHOULD READ KIRBY MCCAULEY’S TEN BEST HORROR ANTHOLOGIES REVEALED! THE PSEUDONYMS OF SEVENTEEN HORROR WRITERS MICHAEL SLADE’S HORRIFIC INSPIRATIONS FOR HIS THIRTEEN NOVELS GEORGE CLAYTON JOHNSON’S TEN HORROR, SCIENCE FICTION, AND FANTASY WRITERS WHO INSPIRE HIM THIRTEEN SURPRISING HORROR WRITERS JACK KETCHUM’S TEN BEST HORROR NOVELS THAT DON’T CALL THEMSELVES HORROR NOVELS RAMSEY CAMPBELL’S THIRTEEN NOVELS ON THE EDGE OF HORROR MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH’S TEN BEST HORROR BOOKS THAT YOU WON’T FIND ON THE HORROR SHELVES DEL HOWISON’S TEN FAVORITE BOOKS THAT SOUND LIKE THEY’RE HORROR BUT AREN’T (IN NO PARTICULARORDER) ROBERT BLOCH’S TEN FAVORITE HORROR-FANTASY NOVELS POPPY Z. BRITE’S TOP TEN “DINE ’N’ DIE” STORIES IN HORROR FICTION THOMAS LIGOTTI’S TEN CLASSICS OF HORROR POETRY JAMES D. JENKINS’S TEN WEIRDEST GOTHIC NOVELS MARK VALENTINE’S TOP TEN WORKS OF DECADENT HORROR FICTION KARL EDWARD WAGNER’S THREE LISTS OF THE THIRTEEN BEST HORROR NOVELS MARK JUSTICE’S SEVEN FAVORITE HORROR STORIES FROM THE BLOODY PULPS J. F. GONZALEZ’S TOP THIRTEEN OBSCURE SHOCKERS FROM THE PULPS AND BEYOND SARAH PINBOROUGH’S “ROUGH GUIDE” TO HORROR TRAVEL LIST JOEL LANE’S TOP TEN WEIRD LANDSCAPES IN HORROR FICTION FIVE MEMORABLE HORROR WORKS SET IN VENICE “YOU CAN’T GET THERE FROM HERE”: THIRTY MEMORABLE BUT NON-EXISTENT TOWNS AND CITIES IN HORROR AND HORRIFIC FICTION STEVE RASNIC TEM’S THIRTY MOST MEMORABLE HORROR SHORT-STORY READS THE ORIGINAL TITLES OF TWENTY HORROR NOVELS GARY BRANDNER’S TEN FAVORITE HORROR NOVELS (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER) NINE HORROR WRITERS WHO HAVE WRITTEN CHILDREN’S OR YOUNG ADULT BOOKS TIM LEBBON’S TOP TEN APOCALYPSES IN HORROR FICTION A TRIFFID BY ANY OTHER NAME WILL STILL KILL YOU: TWELVE ALTERNATE NAMES FOR TRIFFIDS LISA TUTTLE’S TEN FAVORITE SCARY SHORT STORIES AMY WALLACE’S THIRTEEN MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS READING HORROR FICTION EIGHT MEMORABLE QUOTES FROM HORROR AUTHORS THE HORROR WRITERS ASSOCIATION BRAM STOKER LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS, 1987–2007 T. E. D. KLEIN’S TWENTY-FIVE MOST FAMILIAR HORROR PLOTS TWENTY GREAT ENDINGS IN HORROR FICTION

CHAPTER 3 “They Did the Monster Mash . . .” A LITTLE NIGHTMARE MUSIC

EIGHT HORROR NOTABLES WHO HAVE DIRECTED MUSIC VIDEOS DAVID T. WILBANKS’S TEN FAVORITE DARK WORKS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC KIM NEWMAN’S TWENTY GREAT HORROR MOVIE THEME SONGS KARIM HUSSAIN’S TOP TEN HORROR MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS BRYAN SMITH’S TOP TEN HORROR-THEMED ROCK ’N’ ROLL SONGS CORALINA CATALDI-TASSONI’S TEN FAVORITE TRAGICALLY ROMANTIC HEROINE DEATHS IN OPERA S. P. SOMTOW’S TOP TEN GRUESOME OPERATIC DEATHS

CHAPTER 4: “And He Answered, ‘Legion . . .’” A MISCELLANY OF TERRORS

CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN’S TEN FAVORITE SUPERNATURAL TV SERIES SCOTT HEIM’S TEN CREEPIEST MADE-FOR-TV MOVIES (OR TV SERIES EPISODES) FIVE THINGS BANNED BY THE COMICS CODE AUTHORITY NINE AMAZING HORROR BOARD GAMES SIX WORKS OF FICTIONAL HORROR THAT FOOLED THE AUDIENCE ARMAND CONSTANTINE’S FIVE SCARIEST HORROR VIDEO GAMES MICHAEL A. ARNZEN’S TOP FIVE HORROR COLLEGES THE TRUE TALES OF FIVE LEGENDARY TV HORROR HOSTS GARY A. BRAUNBECK’S SEVEN DISPARATELY HORRIFIC TRIPLE FEATURES FIVE SCARY TRADITIONAL HALLOWEEN STORIES MELISSA MIA HALL’S TEN FAVORITE HORRIFYING ARTISTS JASON AARON’S SIX FAVORITE COMIC BOOK DEMONS AND DEVILS WARREN MARTENSE’S TEN THINGS H. P. LOVECRAFT NEVER ASKED FOR IN A BAR TEN HORROR COCKTAILS (AND HOW TO MAKE THEM) ELEVEN HORROR FOOD AND DRINK PRODUCTS AGUSTÍ VILLARONGA’S TOP FIVE WORKS OF HORROR ANDY DIGGLE’S FIVE CREEPIEST MOMENTS FROM ALAN MOORE’S SWAMP THING THE REAL NAMES OF ELEVEN HORROR LEGENDS BRIAN W. ALDISS’S EIGHT FAVORITE WORKS OF HORROR

CHAPTER 5 “I’m Your Biggest Fan.” SHRIEKS FROM THE GALLERY

ZOË BRIAN’S TOP TEN CREEPY MOVIES FOR A SEVENTH-GRADE SLUMBER PARTY LIAM VOLK’S TEN FAVORITE HORROR VENDETTAS CHARLES BLACK’S FIVE FAVORITE NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET TIE-IN PRODUCTS R. B. PAYNE’S TOP TEN BEST HORROR PULP MAGAZINE COVERS JIM GERLACH’S TOP TEN UNINTENTIONALLY HORRIFYING FILMS DAVEY JOHNSON’S ACCOUNT OF THE INVOLUNTARY REACTIONS OF TEN DATES TO TEN HORROR MOVIE MOMENTS

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