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  1. Night Shade Books reprinted ALL of Hodgson a few years back. You can still get 3 of the five volumes for about $30. Check eBay and you might get lucky and find all of them...
  2. Good heavens! Has no one read Scott Lynch?
  3. Well, for short fiction a good place to start is The Century's Best Horror from Cemetery Dance Publishers... You got one story per year from 1901-2000, so all the greats are represented as well as some real surprises. For something obscure, the novels of R.R. Ryan are sick, sick, sick... The fact that they were written in the 1930s and 1940s makes them even more disturbing. Freak Museum and The Subjugated Beast have just been reprinted www.ramblehouse.com with the rest soon to follow. For modern authors Bently Little definitely delivers at novel length as does Simon Clark. For shorter fiction Caitlin R. Kiernan, Laird Barron, Brian Hodge, Tim Lebbon and the aforementioned Mr. Clark are as good as it gets. And of course, still the best is Ramsey Campbell, forty-five years writing and he just keeps getting better... For the classics, everyone's read Lovecraft, but one of his favorites (with good reason) was Edward Lucas White, a comprehensive collection of White's fiction has just been published. Someone mentioned Robert E. Howard, and if he's written nothing but "Pigeons from Hell", he'd belong in this discussion, but there's a lot more... Before King came along, the previous decade (1960s) belonged to Sir Charles Birkin, some of the nastiest stuff ever written... Actually, there was quite a bit of good stuff being published in the UK that didn't make it over here... Birkin, Glasby, Blackburn, Wheatley... All worth checking out. Matter of fact, Blackburn's novels are being reprinted by Valancourt Books as inexpensive trade paperbacks, something that's been long overdue as many of his books sell for big bucks with no cheap edition available...
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