HIT: Alternatives to Stine & Pike

[Melissa Davis <mbdavis@TENET.EDU>]

Many, many thanks to those of you who contributed suggestions of titles to
offer in place of Stine and Pike. As Helen Seagraves wrote, "books with
that edge of fear to give them spice".  Libraries in very conservative
communities may have problems with some of these titles because of their
subject matter (ie., witchcraft, the occult) but then that may be true of
the entire horror genre. I make no distinction between those suitable for
middle school/junior high and those for more mature readers.

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                            Sources

Many of you on LMNET
Compuserve LitForum's Writers group
Mary Jo Godwin, Director of Marketing Services, The Oryx Press
_Genreflecting: A Guide to Reading Interests in Genre Fiction_, 2nd ed. By
   Betty Rosenberg. (Libraries Unlimited, 1986) ISBN 0-87287-530-X
---   NOTE: I think there is a newer edition of _Genreflecting_ now available
      This has an extensive list of horror books, many of which are not
      included here.  ---
_Tales of Love and Terror_, by Hazel Rochman (ALA, 1987)
   ISBN 0-8389-0463-7


* marks entries from _Genreflecting_
# marks entries from _Tales of Love & Terror_
(?) indicates how many LM_NETers suggested that author

              Good Alternatives to Stine and Pike

_Beowulf_
Aiken, Joan (3) * -      _Touch of Chill_
                         _The Windcreep Weepers_
                         _The Green Flash_
Andrews, V. C. *
Avi (2)
Barker, Clive (2) * -    _The Thief of Always_
                         _Books of Blood_
Beckett - _World's Wierdest "True" Ghost Stories_
Bedanis, David # -       _The Secret House_
Bellairs, John (6) -     _House With A Clock In It's Walls_
                         _Dark Secret of Weatherend_
                         _Mansion in the Mist_
Bennett, Jay (3)
Berglund, Edward P, ed * - _The Disciples of Cthulhu_
Bess, Clayton # -        _Story for a Black Night_
Bierce, Ambrose * -      _Ghost and Horror Stories_
Bloch, Robert * -        _Chills_
                         _Out of the Mouths of Graves_
                         _Psycho_
                         _Strange Eons_
Boucher, Anthony * -     _The Compleat Werewolf_
Bradbury, Ray * -        _October Country_
                         _Something Wicked This Way Comes_
Bradley, Marion Zimmer * - _The Inheritor_
Britain, Bill -          _Wish Giver_
Burroughs, Edgar Rice -  _Island of Dr. Moreau_
Bursell -                _Haunted Houses_ (Exploring the Unknown series)
Christie, Agatha (2)
Clark, Mary Higgens
Cohen, Daniel -          _Railway Ghosts and Highway Horrors_
                         _Phantom Animals_
                         _Great Ghosts_
                         _Phone Call From a Ghost_
                         _Ghosts of War_
                         _In Search of Ghosts_
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - _Rime of the Ancient Mariner_
Colville, Bruce -        _My Teacher is an Alien_ as well as his other books
Cooney, Caroline (5)
Cormier, Robert -        _Fade_
Cross, Gillian #      -  _On the Edge_
Dahl, Roald - short stories popular with average readers
Daniels, Mark -          _Jack the Ripper_
De La Mare, Walter * -   _The Wind Blows Over_
Demetz, Hana # -         _The House on Prague Street_
Derleth, August * -      _Dwellers in Darkness_
Dickens, Charles *
Dickinson, Peter
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan # - _Hound of the Baskervilles_
                         _The Best Supernatural Tales_, ed. by E. F. Bleiler
DuMarier, Daphne * -     _Echoes From the Macabre: Selected Stories_
                         _The Birds_
Duncan, Lois (11) -      _The Third Eye_
                         _Don't Look Behind You_
                         _Down a Dark Hall_
                         _Stranger With My Face_
Garner, Alan # -         _The Weirdstone of Brisingamen_
Golding, William -       _Lord of the Flies_
Grant, Cynthia
Hahn -                   _Wait til Helen comes_
Hawthorne, Nathaniel *
Herbert, James * -       _The Dark_
                         _The Spear_
Hitchcock, Alfred
Hoke -                   _Fear! Fear! Fear_
                         _Haunts, Haunts, Haunts_
                         _Terrors, Terrors, Terrors_
                         _More Ghosts, Ghosts, Ghosts_
Irving, Washington *
Jackson, Shirley * -     _We Have Always Lived in the Castle_
                         _Haunting of Hill House_
                         _The Lottery_
Jacques, Brian -         _Redwall_, et. al.
James, M. R. * -         _Ghost Stories of An Antiquary_
James, Henry -           _Turn of the Screw_
Jennings
Jones, Diana Wynne
Kahn, Joan * -           _Some Things Strange & Sinister_
                         _Some Things Dark & Dangerous_
                         _Some Things Fierce & Fatal_
King, Stephen (3)
Kipling, Rudyard * -     _Phantoms and Fantasies_
Knight -                 _Best True Ghost Stories of the 20th Century_
Koontz, Dean (2) * -     _Dark Fall_
                         _Phantoms_
                         _Strangers_
                         _Whispers_
Lee, Tanith * -          _Sabella; Or, the Blood Stone_
Leiber, Fritz * -        _Heroes and Horrors_
                         _Our Lady of Darkness_
Lovecraft, H. P. * -     _At the Mountains of Madness_
                         _The Case of Charles Dexter Ward_
                         _The Dunwich Horror_
                         _The Lurking Fear_
                         _The Shuttered Room_
                         _The Tomb_
Lumley, Brian
Mahy, Margaret -         _The Tricksters_, etc.
McCammon, Robert R * -   _Usher's Passing_ (descendents of Poe's Usher
family)
McKissack, Patricia (2) - _The Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural_
Melville, Herman
Michaels, Barbara # -    _Be Buried In The Rain_
Morrison, Toni -         _Beloved_
Nixon, Joan Lowery (6) - _The Seance_
                         _The Specter_
                         _Whispers From the Dead_
                         _Dark and Deadly Pool_
O'Dell, Scott -          _Island of the Blue Dolphins_
Oates, Joyce Carol * -   _Night-Side_
Paulsen -                _Woodsong_
Peck, Richard # -        _Are You In The House Alone_
Poe, Edgar Allen (2)
Point
Price, Charles Edwin -   _Haints, Witches and Boogers_
                         _Infamous Bell Witch of Tennessee_
                         _Haunted Jonesborough_
                         _Demon in the Woods_
                         _Mystery of Ghostly Vera & Other Haunting Tales of
                           Southwest Virginia_
Pruessler -              _The Satanic Mill_
Raskin, Ellen -          _The Westing Game_
Reiss, Kathryn -         _Time Windows_
                         _Dreadful Sorry_
Rice, Anne *
Roberts, Willo (3) -     _View From the Cherry Tree_
                         _Illustrated Guide to Ghosts_
                         _Haunted Houses_
                         _Nightmare_
Rom -                    _Creepy Castles_
Saberhagen, Fred * -     _The Dracula Tapes_
Saki *
San Souci, Robert -      _Short and Shivery: Thirty Chilling Tales_
Schlee, Ann # -          _Ask Me No Questions_
Schwartz, Alvin -        _More Scary Stories_
                         _Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark_
                         _Scary Stories 3_
                         _Southern Fried Rat_
                         _Headless Roommate_
                         _Vanishing Hitchhiker_
Shelley, Mary (4) -      _Frankenstein_
Sleator, William (3)
Stevenson, Robert Louis * - _Kidnapped_
                         _Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_
Stoker, Bram -           _Dracula_
Sturgeon, Theodore * -   _Some of Your Blood_
Updike, John * -         _The Witches of Eastwick_
Wakefield, H. Russell * - _The Best Ghost Stories of ....
Wellman, Manly Wade * -  _The Old Gods Waken_
                         _The School of Darkness_
                         _Who Fears the Devil_
                         _Worse Things Waiting_
Wells, H. G. -           _War of the Worlds_
Westall, Robert * -      _The Scarecrows_
Wilde, Oscar * -         _The Picture of Dorian Gray_
Windham -                _13 Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey_
Wright, Betty Wren (2)


                         Anthologies *

_Alfred Hitchcock's Supernatural Tales of Terror and Suspense_, Random, 1974
_Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century_, 
Beaufort, 1983
_Dying of Fright: Masterpieces of the Macabre_, Lee Daniels, ed., Scribner's, 1976

_The Year's Best Horror Stories_, DAW continuing series
Haining, Peter, ed. of six anthologies
Lamb, Hugh, ed. of six anthologies

                         Bibliography *

Tymn, Marshall B. _Horror Literature: A Core Collection and Reference
   Guide_. Bowker, 1981.
King, Stephen. _Dance Macabre_.