2001 Editors' Choice: HorrorLots of great horror titles were published in 2001, but here are our
favorites, more or less in order. Find more great reading in our
Best of 2001 Store or in
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Black House
Stephen King
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Random House
September 15, 2001
Hardcover
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In the seemingly paradisal Wisconsin town of French Landing, small distortions disturb the beauty: a talking crow, an old man obeying strange internal marching orders, a house that is both there and not quite there. And roaming the town is a terrible...
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror : Fourteenth Annual Collection
Ellen Datlow
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St. Martin's Griffin
August 31, 2001
Paperback
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The 14th volume of the critically acclaimed Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology series is a 556-page behemoth combining 44 of the best stories and eight of the best poems from 2000. Editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling provide long, thorough, and i...
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Dreamcatcher
Stephen King
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Scribner
March 20, 2001
Hardcover
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Stephen King fans, rejoice! The bodysnatching-aliens tale ...
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Blood and Gold (Vampire Chronicles)
Anne Rice
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Knopf
October 16, 2001
Hardcover
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Time heals all wounds, unless, of course, you're a vampire. Cuts may heal, burns vanish, limbs reattach, but for the "blood god," the wounds of the heart sometimes stay open and raw for centuries. So it is for Marius, Anne Rice's oft-mentioned and be...
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The Hauntings of Hood Canal
Jack Cady
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St. Martin's Press
October 12, 2001
Hardcover
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The Off Season and Street, Cady's last two novels, were wry fables on life in contemporary America, slyly disguised as dark fantasy fiction. This diffusely plotted novel mines the same vein of magic realism that laced those tales, but it doesn't quite achi...
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Coldheart Canyon: A Hollywood Ghost Story
Clive Barker
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HarperCollins
October 2, 2001
Hardcover
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From Publishers Weekly
HBarker fans may breathe a sigh of relief. That the Walt Disney Company is paying $8 million for ancillary rights to the author's forthcoming for-all-ages novel series, The Arabat Quartet (first volume due out in 2002), doesn't mean the British master of d...
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The Last Vampire : A Novel
Whitley Strieber
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Atria
August 1, 2001
Hardcover
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Most readers know Strieber for his bestselling books about his alleged contacts with aliens (Communion, etc.). Yet before he met the saucerians, Strieber wrote immensely popular horror novels, some of them filmed (as was Communion which, nonfiction or not,...
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LT's Theory of Pets
Stephen King
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Simon & Schuster Audio
August 1, 2001
Audio Cassette
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From Publishers Weekly
King's fans will likely snap up this audio-only recording of King reading an unpublished short story to an audience at London's Royal Festival Hall. King warms up the audience, humorously warning them to beware of possible murderers lurking in the back sea...
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The Living Blood
Tananarive Due
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Atria
April 3, 2001
Hardcover
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The pantheon of modern horror gods is a small and frighteningly talented group: Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Dean Koontz--and Tananarive Due. If there is any justice, Due's exciting, powerful, ambitious, scary, and beautifully w...
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The Manhattan Hunt Club
John Saul
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Ballantine Books
July 31, 2001
Hardcover
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In Manhattan Hunt Club John Saul plumbs the depths of the Manhattan underground--the network of subway tunnels and secret caverns and chambers where the homeless denizens of the city have created their own society. It's a world Jeff Converse, a young college ...
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