your favorite weird tales?

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Your favorite or the best-written or the most-influential on you, it's all the same. What are they?

At first thought, my list includes three by Lovecraft. I'll post my list shortly. Meanwhile, what are yours'?

Richard
 
See my second posting to the thread on "The Colour Out of Space" as the finest 20th-century weird tale by an American.

What I post there is not my "definitive" list but a list of outstanding and/or favorite stories.

I will be interested in seeing others' lists.
 
The Death of Malygris Clark Ashton Smith
The Color of Space H P LoveCraft
A Voice In the Night by William Hope Hodgson
Pigeons From Hell Robert E Howard
FishHead by Irving Cobb
Shambleau C L Moore
 
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I'm surprised there were so few answers to this when originally posted. Nice lists so far, though.

I can't propose a definitive list, but off the top of my head I'd be choosing from,
William Hope Hodgson: "The Voice in the Night"
Fritz Lieber: "Smoke Ghost"; "The Sunken Land"
Karl Edward Wagner: "Undertow"; "River of Night's Dreaming"
Poppy Z. Brite: "His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood"
Caitlin Kiernan: "Le Peau Verte"
C. A. Smith: "The Empire of the Necromancers"; "Xeethra"
Thomas Ligotti: "The Frolic"; "Les Fleurs"; "Teattro Grotesco"
Fred Chappell: "Lineus Forgets"
Walter de la Mare: "Seaton's Aunt"
Guy de Maupassant: "The Horla"
Ambrose Bierce: "The Damned Thing"
Kathe Koja: "The Neglected Garden"; "Angels in Love"
John Langan: "On Skua Island"
Jonathan Carroll: "The Panic Hand"; "The Sadness of Detail"
Robert Aickman: "The Inner Room"; "The Hospice"; "Ringing the Changes"
Algernon Blackwood: "The Willows"; "The Wendigo"; "Ancient Sorceries"
Arthur Machen: "The Great God Pan"; "The White People"
M. John Harrison: "The Great God Pan"

I'm pretty sure I could add as many more if I consulted my books at home -- I think I'd find something by Gerald Kersh, for instance.

Afterthought: Sheesh. A Lovecraft forum and I forgot to add Lovecraft:
"The Colour Out of Space"
"The Rats in the Walls"
"The Dreams in the Witch-House"


Randy M.
 
The Vaults of Yor Vombus Clark Aston Smith

Richard Corben did a pretty good Graphic novel adaptation of this story.:)
 
Sing a Song of Lost Valdis by Karl Edward Wagner
 
Can't help it but I'm going to have to say "The Horror At Martin's Beach" by H.P. Lovecraft and Sonia H. Greene. I know it's not highly regarded in weird fiction circles but it stayed with me in a creepy way long after I read it.
 
The Vaults of Yoh Vombus Clark Ashton Smith .One of the inspiration for the movie Alien. :)
 

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