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hammerfan 01-20-2012 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by _____V_____ (Post 917072)
Question for Hammerfan - Are the lists you submitted your ranked lists (from #1 to #10)? Please go through your submitted entries and if you need to rank them, do so in a subsequent post.
If they are already ranked, post your confirmation.

Yes, mine are in correct rank.

_____V_____ 01-20-2012 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Bob Gray (Post 916180)
My Top 100 in no order

That's a pretty list but I need a ranked Top 10 from you, Bob.


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Originally Posted by hammerfan (Post 917073)
Yes, mine are in correct rank.

In that case you need to name your #10, dear. Your list has 9 nominations. :p

Bob Gray 01-20-2012 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by _____V_____ (Post 917090)
That's a pretty list but I need a ranked Top 10 from you, Bob.


In that case

1. H.P. Lovecraft
2. Stephen King
3. Dan Simmons
(this is where it starts getting hard)
4. Peter Straub
5. Brian Keene
6. Richard Laymon
7. John Skipp
8. Joe R. Lansdale
9. Clive Barker
10. Ramsey Campbell

_____V_____ 01-20-2012 05:35 PM

Thanks, Bob. :)

Keep the entries coming, folks.

I am headed out in 30 minutes, to a conference for a week. Will be back on the 27th.

_____V_____ 01-25-2012 08:20 AM

17 entries so far, the latest ranked list by Bob Gray joining the ranks.

Still waiting for confirmation on rankings from Roshiq, horror4ever & Ellie.

And I need more entries!

Come on, all you avid readers of HDC! Let's show some love for our genre!

hammerfan 01-25-2012 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by _____V_____ (Post 917090)
In that case you need to name your #10, dear. Your list has 9 nominations. :p

:p

Ray Bradbury

_____V_____ 01-27-2012 06:04 AM

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Originally Posted by hammerfan (Post 917366)
:p

Ray Bradbury

Thanks, darling.

Let's move, people! I need to reach 30 before we start the countdown! :mad:

:D

_____V_____ 02-03-2012 08:40 PM

The deadline for submitting your entries is February 19th, 2012.

So, all those of you who have started a list, or thinking of writing one but haven't done so, complete your lists by the next 2 weeks.

Compilation work will start by this weekend.

fortunato 02-04-2012 06:51 AM

1. Poe
2. Kafka
3. Roald Dahl
4. Stephen King
5. Lovecraft
6. Richard Matheson
7. Joyce Carol Oates
8. Ambrose Bierce
9. Lafacadio Hearn
10. William Burroughs

Zero 02-04-2012 11:04 AM

1. Edgar Allen Poe
2. HP Lovecraft
3 Bram Stoker
4. Mary Shelley
5. Stephen King
6. Clive Barker
7. Brian Keene
8. William Peter Blatty
9. Richard Matheson
10 Jonathan Mayberry

_____V_____ 02-15-2012 10:34 AM

Anyone else wish to share their ranked Top 10 for this project?

I have some free time (finally!) from tomorrow so I will be starting initial work on the compilation. Hoping to have the Top 100 up by February-end, so the next 2 weeks are the only time you have, to send in your ranked top 10 entry.

Let's see some more by then!

Angra 02-15-2012 11:13 AM

Henry James

_____V_____ 02-19-2012 09:12 AM

First round of compilation work is complete, and the first horrifying news I have for all of you is - we don't have 100 Horror Writers yet! :eek:

Surprised? Yes, that's the truth.

Here are some numbers for you folks -


Number of entries = 18.

Number of nominated writers = 60. (See? We are 40 short!)

Most nominated writer = No, it's not Stephen King. Not Edgar Allan Poe either.
It's a certain gentleman who brought you the dreaded Cthulhu!
Yep, him.

Maximum points scored by a single author (and so, the leader) = 135˝.

Minimum points scored by a single author = ˝ (but of course).

Leading the maximum number of lists = 2 writers, both #1 in 4 lists.


I am skeptical about receiving any more entries (maybe 2-3 more by the 29th), so I will call to arms all members who have already submitted their entries, and ask them to ponder some more and send me TEN more selections of their choice after their Top 10s, who they would want to rank from #11 to #20 in their top lists.

Members are -

myself - need at least 10 more.
TheWickerFan - need at least 10 more.
Angra - need at least 6 more.
The Villain - need at least 8 more.
sfear - need at least 10 more.
Karl Kopfrkingl - need at least 10 more.
Fearonsarms - need at least 10 more.
Elvis Christ - need at least 10 more.
Neverending - already submitted 21 nominations, feel free for some more.
Doc Faustus - need at least 3 more.
Weapon X - need at least 10 more.
Hammerfan - need at least 10 more.
Ellie - need at least 13 more.
Zero - need at least 10 more.
Bob Gray - need at least 10 more.
Fortunato - need at least 10 more.
Roshiq - need at least 10 more.
horror4ever - need at least 10 more.


In addition, if anybody is still mulling over a Top 10 list, I ask you to extend it to include your Top 20 writers instead before sending it to me.

Thank you. I wait in anticipation for your extended entries.

The Villain 02-19-2012 09:29 AM

Here's 10:

1. Richard Bachman (Whoever has a problem with this since it's Stephen King, i feel like i can include him since King wrote differently when he wrote as Bachman. If this doesn't count though i'll find someone else.)
2. Dean Koontz
3. Mary San Giovanni
4. Kelli Owen
5. Robert Ford
6. Dan Simmons
7. James Herbert
8. Scott Smith
9. Tim Lebbon
10. Ray Garton

_____V_____ 02-19-2012 09:30 AM

Thanks for the prompt response, my friend.

Sending PMs to everyone else.

The Villain 02-19-2012 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by _____V_____ (Post 919965)
Thanks for the prompt response, my friend.

Sending PMs to everyone else.

You're welcome

Doc Faustus 02-19-2012 07:28 PM

I'll add Fritz Leiber, Thomas Ligotti, Ira Levin and William Peter Blatty if they're not there. Theodore Sturgeon and Henry James who wrote some very relevant ghost stories.

Elvis_Christ 02-20-2012 10:01 AM

Embarrassingly enough... my list is about all I've got. I honestly don't read a lot of horror.

Karl Kopfrkingl 02-20-2012 12:36 PM

if you need ten more then last time I gave 10 that I felt were important - this time I'll give you 10 I just enjoy reading:

11 - Tom Tryon
12 - John Saul
13 - Graham Masterson
14 - Robert McCammon
15 - Tananarive Due
16 - Bentley Little
17 - James Herbert
18 - Mira Grant
19 - John Wyndham
20 - Joe Hill

neverending 02-20-2012 01:23 PM

Karl has listed some I intended to put on my third list, but I'll mention them anyway:

Kealan Patrick Burke
Alan M. Clark
August Derleth
Neil Gaiman
Nikolai Gogol
Nathaniel Hawthorne
William Hope Hodgson
T. E. D. Klein
Henry Kuttner
Tanith Lee
Graham Masterton
Ann Radcliffe
Tom Tryon
Rod Serling (though he wrote exclusively for the screen - both small and big - I think the quality of his work and his influence on horror writers merits his inclusion)
Horace Walpole

Angra 02-20-2012 01:53 PM

I got nothing. Sorry.

_____V_____ 02-24-2012 08:35 AM

Still 4 more days to go.

I need more.

fortunato 02-24-2012 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Elvis_Christ (Post 920037)
Embarrassingly enough... my list is about all I've got. I honestly don't read a lot of horror.

Gah, yeah same here. Sorry V, I racked my brain trying to think of ones no one else had, but I just couldn't :/

Weapon X 02-25-2012 09:11 AM

10 more:

11 - Graham Masterson
12 - John Shirley
13 - TED Klein
14 - Dennis Wheatley
15 - Shirley Jackson
16 - James Herbert
17 - John Saul
18 - Joe R. Lansdale
19 - F. Paul Wilson
20 - Joe Hill

_____V_____ 02-25-2012 07:28 PM

Thanks, buddy.

I wrap up in 3 days. Let's see some more, folks!

Weapon X 02-26-2012 08:09 PM

I can give you 10 more if you want me to.

_____V_____ 02-27-2012 07:34 AM

Please do. I need all the help I can get.

sfear 02-27-2012 09:35 AM

Okay, I checked some of my old anthologies I've read over the years and came up with a few more I remember enjoying a lot:

J. Sheridan LeFanu
Henry James
Algernon Blackwood
Lord Dunsany
Henry Kuttner
Ambrose Bierce
Theodore Sturgeon
Philip M. Fisher
John Beynon Harris
Max Brand
W.C. Morrow
Dorothy Baker
Richard Middleton
André Maurois
Rod Serling (In one of my earlier lists I was going to include Rod Serling but wasn't sure he'd count but since someone else had the courage to do it I'm going to follow in his wake and include him too.)

_____V_____ 02-27-2012 09:39 AM

Thanks, my friend.

Let's see some more in the next 24 hours, folks. The Sticky will be up in the first week of March.

Weapon X 02-28-2012 05:30 AM

Some more:

Sax Rohmer
Brian Lumley
M.R. James
Walter de la Mare
R.L. Stevenson
Arthur Machen
Darren Shan
John R. Little
H. Russell Wakefield
Harlan Ellison

ofekbmi 02-28-2012 08:03 AM

Nice idea thanks dude ... : p

fortunato 03-07-2012 06:08 AM

Hey all, this project will be delayed a couple weeks while it gets some finishing touches. Is anyone interested in writing blurbs for particular authors?

sfear 03-07-2012 08:55 AM

H.P. Lovecraft: the standard by which all other writers of the horror and terror tale are eventually measured.

Not very original, I know, but the best I can do --- and most probably true.

fortunato 03-07-2012 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by sfear (Post 920934)
H.P. Lovecraft: the standard by which all other writers of the horror and terror tale are eventually measured.

Not very original, I know, but the best I can do --- and most probably true.

No, haha you're right. Either him or Poe, generally. Usually the blurbs are a bit longer (you can look at some of the film lists for examples), but we'll worry about that once I get the whole thing posted.

Elvis_Christ 03-07-2012 07:24 PM

Yeah man I'll be up for doing some (well the authors I know anyway :D )

fortunato 03-07-2012 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Elvis_Christ (Post 920989)
Yeah man I'll be up for doing some (well the authors I know anyway :D )

Awesome, thanks Elvis! I should have the list up within the next couple of weeks. Then, people can go through and choose which authors they'd like to write about. I guess I'll take requests now if anyone has any.

fortunato 03-21-2012 11:16 AM

Hey, just a little update.
This list is done and ready to be posted. As soon as all the new mod stuff is squared away, it will be posted. Still need people to write blurbs for the authors! PM me if you'd like to request certain author(s).

_____V_____ 04-23-2012 08:29 AM

Sticky will be up in a few.

fortunato 04-23-2012 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by _____V_____ (Post 923474)
Sticky will be up in a few.

Yeah, I've been waiting on mod status to post the list, but ElGato is not responding, as usual.

_____V_____ 04-23-2012 09:27 AM

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Originally Posted by fortunato (Post 923482)
Yeah, I've been waiting on mod status to post the list, but ElGato is not responding, as usual.

Post it.


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