From: chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien)
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: Repost of Horror Poll
Date: 8 Jan 1993 09:19:49 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: avalanche.berkeley.edu

I was digging around through my old files, and found this old
thing lying around. Reposting it for your pleasure....
>>>>
I asked readers of the newsgroups alt.horror, rec.arts.books, 
rec.arts.sf.misc and rec.arts.sf.written for what they considered
to be the three best horror novels and short stories. The votes
ranged from Hardy's _Jude_The_Obscure_ to the Alan Moore issues of 
_The_Swamp_Thing_.
There were 65 voters, and some voted for only 1 or 2 from each category.

For the Lovecraft story, "At The Mountains Of Madness", 4 people voted for it 
as the best short, and 3 voted it as best novel. Going with the majority, I 
placed it in the best short story category. Your mileage may vary.

Below are the final tallies:-

Novels ( Out of 179 votes )
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1. _The_Stand_, Stephen King				[17]
2. _It_, Stephen King					[14]
3. _The_Shining_, Stephen King  			[12]
4. _Dracula_, Bram Stoker       			[10]
5. _The_Haunting_Of_Hill_House_, Shirley Jackson 	 [8]
6. ( Tie ) _Interview_With_The_Vampire_, Anne Rice	 [7]
           _The_Silence_Of_The_Lambs_, Thomas Harris    
7. _Frankenstein_, Mary Shelley				 [6]
8. _Swan_Song_, Robert R. McCammon			 [5]

2 votes or more 
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_Carrion_Comfort_, Dan Simmons
_Conjure_Wife_, Fritz Leiber
_The_Damnation_Game_, Clive Barker
_The_Doll_Who_Ate_His_Mother_, Ramsey Campbell
_The_Exorcist_, William Peter Blatty
_Ghost_Story_, Peter Straub
_The_Great_And_Secret_Show_, Clive Barker
_Hell_House_, Richard Matheson
_I_Am_Legend_, Richard Matheson
_Midnight_Sun_, Ramsey Campbell
_Necroscope_, Brian Lumley
_Salem's_Lot_, Stephen King
_Something_Wicked_This_Way_Comes_, Ray Bradbury
_The_Strange_Case_Of_Charles_Dexter_Ward_, HP Lovecraft
_The_Pet_, Charles L. Grant
_The_Vampire_Lestat_, Anne Rice
_Watchers_, Dean Koontz
_WeaveWorld_, Clive Barker

Short Story ( Out of 139 votes )
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1. ( Tie ) "At The Mountains Of Madness", HP Lovecraft   [7]
           "The Midnight Meat Train", Clive Barker       
           "The Tell Tale Heart", Edgar Allan Poe      
2. ( Tie ) "The Call of Cthulhu", HP Lovecraft           [5]
           "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson
           "The Monkey's Paw", WW Jacobs
3. ( Tie ) "The Pit And The Pendulum", Edgar Allan Poe   [4]
           "The Rats In The Walls", HP Lovecraft
           "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", HP Lovecraft

2 Votes Or More
===============
"The Boogeyman", Stephen King
"Tha Black Cat", Edgar Allan Poe
"The Colour Out Of Space", HP Lovecraft
"Dread", Clive Barker
"The Dunwich Horror", HP Lovecraft
"I Am The Doorway", Stephen King
"In The Hills, The Cities", Clive Barker
"In The Penal Colony", Franz Kafka
"The Masque Of The Red Death", Edgar Allan Poe
"The Night They Missed The Horror Show", Joe R Landsdale
"Pickman's Model", HP Lovecraft
"The Outsider", HP Lovecraft
"The Raft", Stephen King
"Rage", Stephen King
"Scars", Richard Matheson
"The Whimper Of Whipped Dogs", Harlan Ellison
"Who Goes There", John Campbell

Thank you all for voting. 

Chua
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"Is Death that woman's mate?
 /Her/ lips were red, /her/ looks were free,
 Her locks were yellow as gold:
 Her skin was white as leprosy,
 The Night-Mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she,
 Who thicks man's blood with cold." 
				- The Ancient Mariner, Samuel Coleridge
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