[Doc Faustus]

I suggested this soon after getting named HDC president, and although March is looking hectic, my schedule's gonna get worse before it gets better, so I might as well get on this quickly. HDC is not just a site for horror movies. This is not horror movies. com. This is horror.com, and the word means a lot of things. It's a concept that predates cinema. And horror predating cinema means drama, visual arts, poetry and fiction. It's been awhile since HDC has had one of these lists to get excited about and been awhile since HDC has truly been excited about horror fiction. So we're going to change that with a list of the Top 100 Works of Horror in Literature.
To start with, I'd like folks to post 10 books, plays, poems or books of poetry containing horror elements or influencing the genre. Plath's Ariel (the book, not the poem), Shakespeare's Macbeth, Joyce's Ulysses have as much horror to be found in them as Salem's Lot or American Psycho and should not be ignored just because they do not meet some arbitrary standard for the genre. Unlike real politicians, this HDC President is going to hear out your arguments in favor of works that you think might be controversial. Arguments against things are for later in the process. No eyerolls, no "Kafka isn't horror", "The Invisible Man isn't horror", "Haunting of Hill House isn't horror", "The Joy of Sex isn't horror" yet. I will assemble a panel for the purpose of cutting the list down to 100 when we have a substantial amount of entries. I'll start with ten:

1.) The Inferno- Dante Alighieri
2.) Macbeth- William Shakespeare
3.)Salem's Lot-Stephen King
4.) Ariel-Sylvia Plath
5.) Haunting of Hill House- Shirley Jackson
6.) Naked Lunch-William Burroughs
7.) Howl-Allen Ginsberg
8.) Ulysses-James Joyce
9.) Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque- Edgar Allan Poe
10.)Dracula- Bram Stoker