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

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.