Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Classic Sci-Fi and Horror

Classic Sci-Fi and Horror

Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift

Mistress Masham's Repose (1946) by T H White
Castaways in Lilliput (1958) by Henry Winterfeld
Last of the Gullivers (2012) by Carter Crocker

Frankenstein (1818) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Dean Koontz's Frankenstein
1. Prodigal Son (2005) (with Kevin J Anderson)
2. City of Night (2005) (with Ed Gorman)
3. Dead and Alive (2009)
4. Lost Souls (2010)
5. The Dead Town (2011)

Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein by Kenneth Oppel
1. This Dark Endeavor (2011)
2. Such Wicked Intent (2012)

E T A Hoffmann (1776 - 1822)
The Best Tales of Hoffmann (1963)
Tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann (1972)

Washington Irving
The sketch book (1820 )including
-Rip Van Winkle
-The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Edgar Allan Poe First collection of stories published (1827)
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (1938) Including
• "The Black Cat"
• "The Cask of Amontillado"
• "The Masque of the Red Death"
• "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
• "The Pit and the Pendulum"
• "The Raven" a poem
• "The Tell-Tale Heart"

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Twice-Told Tales (1837)
Grandfather's Chair (1840)
Mosses from an Old Manse (1846) including Feathertop" (1852)
The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales (1852)
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1852) including The Golden Touch
Tanglewood Tales (1853)
The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains (1889

Charles Dickens Fantasy
The Christmas Books (2010)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain: A Fancy for Christmas-Time (1848)

The Magic Fishbone (1868) The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens (1982)

Jules Verne
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863)
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864)
From the Earth to the Moon (1865)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869–1870)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)
In Search of the Castaways 1873
The Mysterious Island (1875)
Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar (1876)
Robur the Conqueror (1886)
Master of the World (1904)

Luke Challenger Adventure Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore
1. Return to the Lost World (2010)
2. Return to 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea (2011)
3. Return to King Solomon's Mines (2012)

Edwin A Abbott (1838 - 1926)
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884)
Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe (1884)
Paradosis: or In the Night in Which He was Betrayed (1904)

Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)

Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)

HG Wells
The Time Machine (1895)*
The Time Ships, (1995) by Stephen Baxter

The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)*
The Invisible Man (1897)*

The War of the Worlds (1898)
Sherlock Holmes' War of the Worlds (1975) Wade Wellman
The Space Machine (1976) Christopher Priest.


When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)*
The First Men in the Moon (1901)*
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904)
The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells (1966)

Bram Stoker
Dracula (1897)
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914), published posthumously by Florence Stoker

Alex Van Helsing Jason Henderson
1. Vampire Rising (2010)
2. Voice of the Undead (2011)
3. The Triumph of Death (2012)

Henry James
The Turn of the Screw (1898)

W. W. Jacobs
The Lady of the Barge (1902) including "The Monkey's Paw"
Odd Craft 1903) including The Money Box, basis of Laurel and Hardy film Our Relations (1935)
Sailors' Knots 1909) including “The Toll House”

Jack London January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)
•Before Adam (1906)
•The Iron Heel (1907)
•The Star Rover (1915)
•Hearts of Three (1916)

Collections
•The Faith of Men (1904)
•Moon-Face and Other Stories (1906)
•Revolution and Other Essays (1910)
•When God Laughs and Other Stories (1911)
•The Scarlet Plague and Other Stories (1915)
•The Night-Born (1916)
•The Strength of the Strong (1917)
•The Red One (1918)

The Collected Science Fiction and Fantasy of Jack London ◦
1 Before Adam & Other Stories (2005) [C]
◦ 2 The Iron Heel & Other Stories (2005) [C]
◦ 3 The Star Rover & Other Stories (2005) [C]

Gaston Leroux
Phantom of the Opera (1911)

+ a little Mystery
The Adventures of Joseph Rouletabille
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1907)
The Perfume of the Lady in Black, 1908)
The Secret of the Night, 1913)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Professor Challenger
The Lost World (1912)
The Poison Belt (1913)
The Land of Mist (1926)
"When the World Screamed" (short story, 1928)
"The Disintegration Machine" (short story, 1929)

Rudyard Kipling
The Complete Supernatural Stories of Rudyard Kipling (1987)
•John Brunner Presents Kipling's Science Fiction (1992)
•John Brunner Presents Kipling's Fantasy: Stories by Rudyard Kipling (1992)

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