Classic Horror: Recommended Authors and Editions

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  • @Rimzaka
    @Rimzaka Місяць тому +15

    I totally agree about the shorter fiction of Bram Stoker. I came across a collection of his short stories last year and gave it a shot not expecting too much, but it was really good and fresh. 👍

    • @stretmediq
      @stretmediq Місяць тому +1

      Dracula's Guest is one of my favorite horror short stories I first read it in a Scholastic paperback called Dracula's Guest and Other Stories edited by Victor Ghidalia that I ordered through Weekly Reader in the 5th grade in 1970 and I still have it 😊

  • @cesarcarlos75
    @cesarcarlos75 Місяць тому +9

    “You don’t hear enough about… (what’s his name?)… William Sloane” 😂

  • @abookhug
    @abookhug Місяць тому +9

    This was excellent, I was just looking for Algernon Blackwood's editions the other day. I love Sheridan Le Fanu :)

  • @chefeddie6164
    @chefeddie6164 Місяць тому +9

    One great collection I lucked into when I was a kid called: The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Stories edited by Leslie Shepard. It might be hard to find now, but not very expensive, from 1977, despite the horrible name, it is a great collection of almost all of the classic vampire stories including F.G. Loring's "The Tomb of Sarah" which is an obscure vampire story first published in a Pall Mall magazine in 1900. The only thing He ever wrote that I could find. It has many of the authors you just mentioned like Stoker, Le Fanu and Blackwood, it was my first introduction to them as a kid. Still have it to this day. Great vid, I will be on a lookout for William Slone. 😀

  • @Tolstoy111
    @Tolstoy111 Місяць тому +31

    To the curious…the music at the start is Beethoven’s “Egmont” Overture.

    • @scp240
      @scp240 Місяць тому +3

      Sounds like a recording from Roger’s youth.

    • @Yesica1993
      @Yesica1993 Місяць тому

      @@scp240 Ha!

    • @n815e
      @n815e Місяць тому +3

      Michael Vaughn is classing up the joint.

    • @Tolstoy111
      @Tolstoy111 Місяць тому +2

      @@n815e it was already classy! (thanks mostly to Roger)

  • @dmoo2498
    @dmoo2498 9 днів тому

    I love that a new Bram Stoker short story has just been discovered in Dublin

  • @freelivefree7221
    @freelivefree7221 Місяць тому +10

    I'd recommend the Bernie Wrightson illustrated edition of Frankenstein. It's probably the 1830s text but it has great illustrations since as any comic fan knows Bernie Wrightson could really draw. It would probably appeal to non-comic fans too since Wrightson was in many ways in the old classic illustrators vein.

  • @katiecook6006
    @katiecook6006 Місяць тому +4

    I read Poe's Berenice and was really freaked out... that was some tummy turning sh!t😂

  • @GypsyRoSesx
    @GypsyRoSesx Місяць тому +1

    I like your choices Michael. You have great taste!

  • @jeroenadmiraal8714
    @jeroenadmiraal8714 Місяць тому +4

    I got the Penguin edition of Arthur Machen despite your advice because I liked the cover, and then read Great God Pan separately. I knew what I was getting into.

  • @LivingDeadEnby
    @LivingDeadEnby Місяць тому +6

    You always have the best Horror Classics recommendations!
    William Sloane ended up on my list straight away.

  • @bookchaser1103
    @bookchaser1103 Місяць тому +6

    Yep, I'm about to get started on Poe. My ERB library program I mentioned back in July was a lot of fun for the adventure summer reading theme, though I predictably only had a few people show up. However, I did send them in the direction of your channel and showed a clip or two of you and Roger, which was cool. Saturday October 5th I'm doing a Poe program to commemorate the 175th anniversary of his death on the seventh. My library display is quite nifty, complete with ravens and all. 👍

  • @lindseyreads5450
    @lindseyreads5450 Місяць тому +6

    Thank you for all of the great recommendations! I’ve read most of the novels but I need to pick up a lot of the short story collections.

  • @kimesch9698
    @kimesch9698 14 днів тому

    Fab content! Big help. Thanks for pointing me to these editions.

  • @maestro7058
    @maestro7058 Місяць тому +1

    This is the GREATEST list on the internet! Okay maybe hill house or something eg turn of the screw etc. But robert e howard horror too for eg?

  • @mikebrough3434
    @mikebrough3434 Місяць тому +4

    Excellent video, Mr V. One of your best to date.

  • @arockinsamsara
    @arockinsamsara Місяць тому +4

    A great list! Thanks, especially for being specific about translations/publications. I just read a collection of classic folk horror short stories called "Tales Accursed: A Folk Horror Anthology") and it had some Algernon Blackwood and M. R. James in it. I have read short stories by them and pretty much all of the authors you mentioned, so it is nice to have recommendations for good omnibuses/collections to seek out, since there are sometimes numerous such things available, of varying quality, especially for authors whose work is in the public domain.

  • @ExtraT82
    @ExtraT82 Місяць тому +3

    Thank you for the rundown of editions, as well as the some of the lesser known authors mentioned. 🎉

  • @BookishChas
    @BookishChas Місяць тому +1

    Wow Michael, thank you! I needed this video to expand my horizons.

  • @MagusMarquillin
    @MagusMarquillin Місяць тому +2

    Sorry Ambrose, maybe you'll make the super-scarry-friends next year.

  • @rondemkiw4492
    @rondemkiw4492 Місяць тому +1

    ANCIENT SORCERIES was an inspiration for the Val Lewton CAT PEOPLE movies.

  • @MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn
    @MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn Місяць тому +1

    Great recommendations, Michael! Some beautiful looking books there.

  • @Lake-Reads
    @Lake-Reads Місяць тому +2

    gotta check out Sloane now, thanks Mike.

  • @jf8559
    @jf8559 Місяць тому +1

    Thank you, Michael! Your recommendations are always on point and I’ll definitely be reading some Poe this Fall. I also have a Spine Chillers anthology that features a lot of these authors that I’ll dip into. Very tempting to seek out all your recommended volumes!

  • @steveoh9285
    @steveoh9285 Місяць тому

    Terrific video Michael, I appreciate your efforts.
    HPL is my personal favorite, too.

  • @anotherbibliophilereads
    @anotherbibliophilereads Місяць тому +1

    I’m also a fan of The Monk. Most of these titles are available digitally which are has become my preferred format.

  • @BookBlather
    @BookBlather Місяць тому +1

    Great overview. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of that last one. I really need to get to Macken. I loved Carmilla… need to read more by Le Fanu.

  • @NotMyGumDropButtons.444
    @NotMyGumDropButtons.444 Місяць тому

    such a great list 🌲 I cant wait to read ... all of them

  • @adriennelee26
    @adriennelee26 Місяць тому

    The Judge's House by Bram Stoker is a favorite of mine. Excellent video! I'm always impressed by your knowledge of the various editions of books.

  • @GentleReader01
    @GentleReader01 Місяць тому

    I have two favorite editions of Dracula. Leslie Klinger’s Annotated Dracula is a delight, full of useful info and fun side trips, and is beautiful. And Audible’s full-cast version with Alan Cummings and Tim Curry, is simply superb.

  • @bigaldoesbooktube1097
    @bigaldoesbooktube1097 Місяць тому

    Can’t argue with this list 👌

  • @Blufox30
    @Blufox30 Місяць тому +1

    Thanks 💯

  • @vesch5083
    @vesch5083 12 днів тому +1

    I found Edgar Allen Poe Complete Tales and Poems published by Fall River for free at a little free library. In brand new condition!

  • @dadandRiy
    @dadandRiy Місяць тому +2

    I was trying to remeber The Rim Of Morning by Sloane this past Saturday. My buddy and I had just gone on a used book store road trip and he had picked up a collection of H.P. Lovecraft. We got talking about cosmic horror and I had read The Rim Of Morning a couple years ago but couldn't remember the title or author. I was trying to recommend the book to him but couldn't until this very timely video! Cosmic coincidence?

  • @troytradup
    @troytradup Місяць тому +2

    Oxford does have both versions of Frankenstein. Team 1818!

  • @nedmerrill5705
    @nedmerrill5705 25 днів тому

    Poe:
    _The Gold Bug_
    _The City in the Sea_ (poem)

  • @CliffsDarkGems
    @CliffsDarkGems Місяць тому

    Awesome video Michael! Unfortunately, as a citizen of South Africa, I am severely limited both in terms of price and availability. Still you showcase some awesome editions. I discovered Algernon Blackwood last year, wonderful. Oh wow, I have that Dracula edition, bit faded but awesome! I did not like The Lair Of The White Worm, terrible novel on so many levels. The Monk is on my tbr, I am seriously intrigued. Thanks for the final 2 recs, I will keep them in mind.

  • @LiterateTexan
    @LiterateTexan Місяць тому

    Great overview. I have an edition of Carmilla bound in goatskin. I've probably shown it in a video before, but it's a prized possession for multiple reasons. Thomas Ligotti belongs on this list even though he's contemporary. He's definitely a man who should have been born earlier than he was.

    • @michaelk.vaughan8617
      @michaelk.vaughan8617  Місяць тому +1

      @@LiterateTexan didn’t Ligotti write most of his stuff in the 80s? That might be pushing the whole “classic” thing! 😅

    • @LiterateTexan
      @LiterateTexan Місяць тому

      @michaelk.vaughan8617 True, his career started in 1981, but he is one of the rare contemporary authors to have a Penguin Classics edition. He's so great, though, even if we need to wait some more before calling him "classic".

    • @michaelk.vaughan8617
      @michaelk.vaughan8617  Місяць тому +1

      @@LiterateTexan Yes…him and Morrissey!

    • @LiterateTexan
      @LiterateTexan Місяць тому

      @@michaelk.vaughan8617 Who's Morrissey?

  • @vilstef6988
    @vilstef6988 Місяць тому +1

    I would recommend The Potable Edgar Allan Poe which comes with tips on what to get blasted on while reading Poe!

  • @glockensig
    @glockensig Місяць тому +2

    Hello my friend!! Hello!!

  • @cesarcarlos75
    @cesarcarlos75 Місяць тому +1

    Funny thing, one or two months ago I would have known next to nothing about these authors. Been getting a lot into Lovecraft and fell into the rabbit hole, discovering all of these writers. I would also add William Hope Hodgson and WW Jacobs. I just got several Flame Tree Publishing anthologies, pretty to look at, not the best layout, but a LOT of stories. I also got collections by Blackwood, Machen and WHH and there is one by Sheridan Le Fanu coming out at the beginning of next year. I’m also waiting for a Dracula edition to arrive (I’ve never read it!). Everyone keeps talking wonders about The Monk. I need to pick that up!

  • @nunyabizness6595
    @nunyabizness6595 Місяць тому +2

    Classic horror? Isn't that life?😂😂😂😮

  • @Yesica1993
    @Yesica1993 Місяць тому

    Oh, wow, I had forgotten there were two versions of Frankenstein. I read the 1818 on the Kindle. LOVED it! Then I wanted a print edition but... I think the one I got was the 1831.

  • @jeroenadmiraal8714
    @jeroenadmiraal8714 Місяць тому +2

    Maybe also add William Hope Hodgson? I don't know. I read one of his books but I found it hard going.

  • @MichaelRBrown-lh6kn
    @MichaelRBrown-lh6kn Місяць тому +1

    Per Wikipedia, the William Sloane novel, The Edge of Running Water, was adapted as the Boris Karloff movie The Devil Commands (1941).

    • @michaelk.vaughan8617
      @michaelk.vaughan8617  Місяць тому +1

      @@MichaelRBrown-lh6kn well, now I need to watch that movie! I don’t think I’ve seen that one.

  • @rondemkiw4492
    @rondemkiw4492 Місяць тому

    THE EDGE OF RUNNING WATER was adapted into a Boris Karloff movie THE DEVIL COMMANDS.

  • @Holabirdsupercluster
    @Holabirdsupercluster Місяць тому +3

    There is also a very decent Dover Le Fanu Ghost Stories if the bland Oxford book design does not appeal to you (as it doesn't appeal to me)

  • @vilstef6988
    @vilstef6988 Місяць тому +4

    How about a video of Roger's top five or top ten horror books?

    • @michaelk.vaughan8617
      @michaelk.vaughan8617  Місяць тому +7

      @@vilstef6988 he would have to unbury his dusty scrolls.

    • @vilstef6988
      @vilstef6988 Місяць тому +3

      That would produce some movement from his mystic zombie bum! A mummy is all about horror. It would be edifying to know his favorites!

    • @grantross2609
      @grantross2609 Місяць тому +3

      ........shudder to think what Roger would come up with tho !

  • @philmenard8927
    @philmenard8927 Місяць тому

    Great group! Off the top of my head I'd add E.F. Benson and Ray Russell. Not sure how far back an author has to be to become "classic".

  • @ulsteredz
    @ulsteredz Місяць тому

    For M.R. James, I would recommend 'A Pleasing Terror' from Ash Tree Press. While the hard copy edition is now scarce and prohibitively expensive, the Kindle is of great value. And for his aficionados, it's the definitive source for his collected works.

  • @waltera13
    @waltera13 Місяць тому +2

    It's not surprising that the 1818 text feels like it was written by a completely different person, since a big chunk of it was written by Percy Bysshe Shelley. The later text used to be favoured because it's a more pure expression of Mary's voice, and her preferred text, but the kids today do love the 1818. . .
    Of course I'm sure Mary might have had a little bit of aversion or PTSD when she sat down to rewrite and edit later, as losing him was such a tragedy for her to endure.
    Not that you didn't know that, it must be said. . .

    • @michaelk.vaughan8617
      @michaelk.vaughan8617  Місяць тому +3

      @@waltera13 Percy contributed between 4,000 and 5,000 words to the 72,000 word novel. The later text is certainly an expression of her voice as an older person.

    • @waltera13
      @waltera13 Місяць тому

      @@michaelk.vaughan8617 Wow, thank you for the clarification - you rock!
      I had thought it was more like a third, but I have not yet combed through the edition that marks which bits are Shelly's and which are her's.
      Where as you have already done the research, and have word counts!
      Amazing.
      I am SO behind.

  • @WillWargo
    @WillWargo Місяць тому +2

    Fantastic video! Will be getting all of these and make them a reading project. I have a friend who is an editor at Oxford, so I will be sharing this video with him. Have you done something similar for classic science fiction?

  • @SomeNativeOfficial
    @SomeNativeOfficial Місяць тому +1

    Oxford does now have an 1818 edition of Frankenstein. I recently picked it up.

  • @beck769
    @beck769 Місяць тому

    Another index for some good reading, even though you cover some of them, is Lovecraft`s supernatural horror in fiction.

  • @PaulSaether
    @PaulSaether 9 днів тому

    Howdy Mick.
    What do you think of the (two, not three) Gormanghast books?
    You think they're the best books ever written?
    I agree.

  • @Addwrite
    @Addwrite Місяць тому +1

    There is a much neglected writer, R Chetwyn Haynes. His books are very difficult to find.

  • @williamerickson520
    @williamerickson520 Місяць тому

    Walpole influential? He only created the gothic genre, though modern scholars try to dispute that but no alternatives are given.
    I have a collection of Wordsworth Editions’ Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural series which has several of the authors mentioned in this video, including Le Fanu, Lovecraft and even an edition of The Monk. Any thoughts on those?
    Also, I have the Penguin edition of Machen and I could have sworn Great God Pan was in it, but you are correct on that. Thought it might be in a different anthology in my library but no dice there, either.
    I do have some vintage paperback copies of some of C.A.S’ books as well as August Derleth and Hodgson’s Night Lands and a copy of Stoker’s Lair of the White Worm retitled as a gothic romance called The Garden of Evil.
    I will be looking for Sloane’s book and I am still looking for a copy of Blackwood’s Best Ghost Stories.

  • @stephennootens916
    @stephennootens916 Місяць тому

    I am going to come back and watch this video again there are so many interesting sounding authors and I want to make sure I get the right H P Lovecraft books. I habe enjoyed a few of his stories but I don't own any of his collections.

    • @stephenwalker2924
      @stephenwalker2924 Місяць тому

      The three volumes of H.P Lovecraft by Penguin are now in the white-spine Modern Classics range.

  • @AmalijaKomar
    @AmalijaKomar Місяць тому

    Have to recommend Gogol because of his horror stories based on Russian folk tales. This is not known as it deserves. There is also Gustav Mayrink, his Golem, and Angel from the West Window. I'm not sure if I wrote this correctly, but that is important stuff.

  • @bookfantastic
    @bookfantastic Місяць тому

    Great hat. Where can I get one?
    Sloane is great. I also liked To Walk the Night better. Very creepy.
    Great review overall. I have two volumes of Opera. Now I am hesitant to read either one as they do not name the translator.
    I read The Count of Monte Cristo twice. The first time was great. The second was awful.
    Same goes for Jean Ray. Ghouls in My Grave was great. More recent translations of his stories have been Dullsville.

  • @stretmediq
    @stretmediq Місяць тому

    My favorite horror and ghost story authors are in order
    Edgar A Poe
    M R James
    H P Lovecraft
    Algernon Blackwood
    Bram Stoket
    That's not to say my favorite stories follow that list. My favorite horror book is Frankenstein for instance. And as for short story anthologies Penguin has two companion volumes of great horror stories and great ghost stories that are excellent

  • @MichaelRBrown-lh6kn
    @MichaelRBrown-lh6kn Місяць тому

    Was familiar with ALL of these authors EXCEPT William Sloane. Never heard of him. Will need to check that out. Wonder if HPL read him or not.

  • @samueluddin9931
    @samueluddin9931 Місяць тому

    Can you please do something mentioning the LOA Edgar Allan Poe? I’ve watched all your Poe videos waiting for you to mention it.

  • @Yellowblam
    @Yellowblam Місяць тому +2

    You are one smartly dressed man.

  • @BrianJonson
    @BrianJonson Місяць тому

    I appreciate this video but how on earth do you have the time to go through all these books? I feel feel like I’m doing something wrong.

  • @nativevirginian8344
    @nativevirginian8344 29 днів тому

    All these authors put the Weird in my head. Who or what put it in theirs?!😬

  • @inanimatecarbongod
    @inanimatecarbongod Місяць тому +1

    The Oxford Lovecraft is... kind of perplexing? It does have most (though certainly not all) of the really good later stuff, but kicks off with Horror at Red Hook, which is, frankly, shit. And it misses all the good earlier stuff. And not using the Joshi texts is inexcusable now. Speaking of Joshi, he did that Penguin Machen with its baffling lack of The Great God Pan, and I'm damned if I know what he was thinking. I know it's available in a lot of collections, but if you're doing a purported "all in one place" best-of, leaving that out is still idiotic.
    The 1818 Frankenstein is indeed available from Oxford, indeed I think I've actually got it myself somewhere.
    Also, Lair of the White Worm having "issues" is putting it mildly. When I read it, I thought it felt like an unfinished draft that had been published posthumously, but I knew it had actually been published the year *before* his death.
    As for Otranto, I've got it in an old Penguin collection (Three Gothic Novels) that also contains Vathek and the 1831 Frankenstein, though Penguin do have it on its own.
    William Sloane? HELL YES. Apart from one or two short stories that I'm surprised weren't also added to that collection, those two novels were the sum total of his fictional output. I think I actually preferred the second book, though.

    • @michaelk.vaughan8617
      @michaelk.vaughan8617  Місяць тому +2

      I think there must be some story behind why Stoker’s White Worm is so odd. It reads like he fell asleep while writing it and it was finished by stoned children. It’s really weird.

    • @stephenwalker2924
      @stephenwalker2924 Місяць тому

      @@michaelk.vaughan8617 Stoker was not in the best of mental (or physical) health when he wrote LOTWW. Dr. Freud would have a field day, I'm sure...

  • @w.adammandelbaum1805
    @w.adammandelbaum1805 Місяць тому

    Gollancz edition for HPL

  • @alanginger282
    @alanginger282 Місяць тому

    You want to talk horror?....How about Roger's autobiograhy.? I'd love to unwrap that one...

  • @tonette6592
    @tonette6592 Місяць тому +2

    Is that a picture of the manor on the thumbnail? Please tell me yes.
    I have delved into classics, but Mary Shelley is WORDY.

    • @michaelk.vaughan8617
      @michaelk.vaughan8617  Місяць тому +3

      @@tonette6592 that modest country house is not The Manor!

    • @tonette6592
      @tonette6592 Місяць тому +1

      @@michaelk.vaughan8617 I humbly beg your pardon. Please do not send Roger
      to take me to task!

  • @kengirard9528
    @kengirard9528 Місяць тому

    Have you read or do you have an opinion of the author Oliver Onions? I was wondering if he's worth the effort to track down at used bookstores.

    • @michaelk.vaughan8617
      @michaelk.vaughan8617  Місяць тому

      @@kengirard9528 yes, definitely worth the effort.

    • @vilstef6988
      @vilstef6988 Місяць тому +2

      Project Gutenberg has Widershins which is around six of Onions's best ghost stories. It includes The Beaconing Fair One which I've heard called the best ghost story ever!

    • @Holabirdsupercluster
      @Holabirdsupercluster Місяць тому +2

      There's a Wordsworth paperback edition of Onions' ghost stories that's pretty cheap and easy to find online, and Valancourt has one of his novels in print at the moment if you're not looking for a long detective slog

    • @grantross2609
      @grantross2609 Місяць тому +1

      ​@@vilstef6988........it's usually listed in the top 10 ghost stories ever penned !
      also check out " How Love Came to Professor Guildea " by Robert Hichens which is a tour de force slow burner of a ghostly tale imo.......

    • @kengirard9528
      @kengirard9528 Місяць тому +2

      Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for the Wordsworth edition (I generally haunt used bookstores with some regularity). I prefer books to digital but Gutenberg is a good idea to sample his writing style and see how I like him.

  • @HS-hx8ti
    @HS-hx8ti Місяць тому

    Do you have any recommended editions that combine the best classic/gothic horror of multiple authors in one volume?

    • @nicholasjones3207
      @nicholasjones3207 Місяць тому

      Oxford classics do a good one. I think it’s just called horror stories

  • @lock67ca
    @lock67ca Місяць тому

    Don't really care for the cover of the Penguin edition of Phantom. It looks like he's wearing a Lone Ranger or Green Hornet mask. Just find it weird.

    • @michaelk.vaughan8617
      @michaelk.vaughan8617  Місяць тому +1

      @@lock67ca True. It is the cover from the first edition though so perhaps Green Hornet and the Lone Ranger stole his look.

    • @nicholasjones3207
      @nicholasjones3207 Місяць тому

      Have to go for it though because it’s the unexpurgated text

  • @dbitgood1
    @dbitgood1 Місяць тому

    Definitely a lack of paranormal romance in this list. And no R.L. Stine. And where's Varney the Vampire?

    • @michaelk.vaughan8617
      @michaelk.vaughan8617  Місяць тому +5

      @@dbitgood1 Varney will be returning in October.

    • @grantross2609
      @grantross2609 Місяць тому +1

      ........don't think Roger would get on with Varney somehow !

    • @waltera13
      @waltera13 Місяць тому +2

      Lack of paranormal romance? Thank the Old Gods!

    • @Kjt853
      @Kjt853 Місяць тому +1

      I found reading “Varney the Vampire” like eating Fritos: I know they’re not doing me any good, but I just can’t stop!

  • @hopep1334
    @hopep1334 Місяць тому

    Your books look brand new and never read. Did you break your 500 book challenge, or are you just keeping these books in a glass display case!?!

  • @anshulgoyal597
    @anshulgoyal597 Місяць тому

    Michael, none of these books were published after your last video 😂

    • @michaelk.vaughan8617
      @michaelk.vaughan8617  Місяць тому +3

      The Oxford Blackwood volume was! I’m not crazy!🤪

    • @glockensig
      @glockensig Місяць тому +1

      Hippocampus Press has a new set of Algernon Blackwood books coming out (Up to volume two.....I think there will be four total?)
      Michael turned me on to those but didn't mention it in this video....

  • @YetAnotherytc1234
    @YetAnotherytc1234 Місяць тому

    Is the Barnes and Noble complete collection still good? I think I remember you recommended that but at this time I don't have $30.