《被谋杀前必读的101本恐怖小说/101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered》出版于2023年,去年拿到了布莱姆·斯托克奖的最佳非虚构类图书奖项,作者萨迪·哈特曼在社交媒体上被称作“恐怖妈妈”,她创办了自己的恐怖小说出版社和订阅网站,是布莱姆·斯托克奖提名编辑。
用作者的话来说,这本书是当代流行恐怖小说阅读指南,尤其适合此前较少接触恐怖小说的新人读者,能通过这本书明确自己喜好的恐怖小说类型。
我的想法是,对当代欧美恐怖小说感兴趣的读者,还可以通过这本书扩充书单,我就找到了几本感兴趣的,打算过后慢慢看。
书中提到的恐怖小说有些推出了中文版,有些我之前读过并写了感想,这都会在下面列出——
在列出书单之前,作者首先声明,斯蒂芬·金对当代恐怖小说有巨大影响,对她人生有巨大影响,所以这本书刻意排除了斯蒂芬金的所有作品;她不喜欢《叶之屋》,所以没有收录;她没有读过洛夫克拉夫特的作品,且不太喜欢恐怖电影。
书单中绝大多数都是近二十年来在美国出版的恐怖小说,尤以近几年的作品居多,作者为每本书都写了推荐文字,包括无泄底内容简介、对小说的主题和风格的简要说明和评价。
此外,书中还特别介绍了十位恐怖小说作家及其作品,额外收录了五位恐怖小说作家的随笔文章。
就我的阅读感受而言,这本书比格雷迪·亨德里克斯的《地狱书单》逊色不少,书中收录的小说及相关分类没什么理论依据,完全取决于作者的个人喜好,非常主观,换句话说,这就是她的个人阅读书单。
有些人(比如我)很可能与她口味不合,那些被她用溢美之词大夸特夸的小说,会给出截然相反的评价。
但这本书确实有助于了解更多恐怖小说作家及其作品,丰富个人阅读书单,以及它的最大优点是介绍的书都比较新。在这方面有需要的读者还是可以一看的。
下面是作者给这101本恐怖小说分的五大类,我把有中文版的和写过感想的书都列了出来。
1,恶魔与附身:安德鲁·派柏的《恶魔大师》(简中)
2, 神秘学与巫术:托马斯·奥尔德·赫维尔特的《欢迎来到黑泉镇》(简中)
3,宇宙恐怖:约翰·兰根的《渔夫/The Fisherman》(写过感想);《繁茂沸腾的地狱/A Lush and Seething Hell》(写过感想)
1、儿童成长:罗伯特·麦卡蒙的《听者有心》(简中);《笔友/Penpal》(写过感想)
2,悲伤、失落与死亡:伊恩·里德的《我想结束这一切》(简中)
3, 邪教:T.金费雪的《扭曲者》(繁中,写过感想);西尔维娅·莫雷诺-加西亚的《墨西哥哥特》(简中);司各特·霍金斯的《上帝的图书馆》(简中)
4,杀人狂与连环杀手: 乙一的《GOTH断掌事件》(简中);尼古拉斯·戴的《将你挫骨成灰/Grind Your Bones to Dust》(写过感想)
7,犯罪调查:罗伦·布克斯的《破碎的怪物》(繁中)
1, 末日、反乌托邦和科幻:奧古斯蒂娜‧巴斯特里卡的《食人挽歌》(繁中)
2, 生态恐怖:尼克·卡特的《深渊》(简中);杰夫·范德米尔的《湮灭》(简中)
宝拉·D.阿什的《我们在此互相伤害/We Are Here to Hurt Each Other》(写过感想);
伊藤润二的短篇精选集《寒气》,收录了《中古唱片》《寒气》《时装模特》《人头气球》《木偶之家》《画家》《长梦》《祖先大人》《三酸甘油酯》等短篇作品。
1,克里斯托弗·布埃尔曼Christopher Buehlman
4,格雷迪·亨德里克斯:《我最好朋友的驱魔/My Best Friend's Exorcism》(写过感想);《地狱书单》(简中);《深夜疑家家居》(简中,写过感想);
5,阿尼亚·阿尔伯恩Ania Ahlborn:《种子/Seed》(写过感想)
6,乔什·玛勒曼:《鸟盒》(简中);《湖底的房子/A House at the Bottom of a Lake》(写过感想);《黑疯轮/Black Mad Wheel》(写过感想)
7,保罗·特伦布莱:《满脑游魂/A Head Full of Ghosts》(写过感想);《世界尽头的小屋/The Cabin at the End of the World》(写过感想)
9,斯蒂芬·格雷厄姆·琼斯:《唯一的好印第安人/The Only Good Indians》(写过感想)
1. A Lush and Seething Hell by John Hornor Jacobs
2. A Place for Sinners by Aaron Dries
3. The Ancestor by Danielle Trussoni
4. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
5. Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
6. The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
7. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron
8. Beneath by Kristi DeMeester
9. The Bone Weaver’s Orchard by Sarah Read
10. The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
11. The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
12. Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi
13. Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
14. Camp Slaughter by Sergio Gomez
15. Children of Chicago by Cynthia Pelayo
16. The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon
17. Come Closer by Sara Gran
18. Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias
19. Cry Your Way Home by Damien Anjelica Walters
20. December Park by Ronald Malfi
21. The Deep by Nick Cutter
22. The Deer Kings by Wendy Wagner
23. The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper
24. Devil’s Creek by Todd Keisling
25. Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson
26. The Fearing by John F. D. Taff
27. The Fisherman by John Langan
28. Full Immersion by Gemma Amor
29. The Ghost Sequences by A.C. Wise
30. The Ghost Tree by Christina Henry
32. Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana
33. Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan
35. Greener Pastures by Michael Wehunt
36. Grind Your Bones to Dust by Nicholas Day
37. The Grip of It by Jac Jemc
38. The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
39. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
40. Hearts Strange and Dreadful by Tim McGregor
41. Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
42. I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
43. In the Valley of the Sun by Andy Davidson
44. Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
45. Kill Creek by Scott Thomas
46. Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke
47. Knock Knock by S. P. Miskowski
48. Last Days by Brian Evenson
49. The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp
50. The Laws of the Skies by Grégoire Courtois
51. The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
52. The Listener by Robert McCammon
53. Little Eve by Catriona Ward
54. The Loop by Jeremy Robert Johnson
55. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
56. The Nightmare Girl by Jonathan Janz
57. North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud
58. Number One Fan by Meg Elison
59. Of Foster Homes and Flies by Chad Lutzke
60. PenPal by Dathan Auerbach
62. Red Hands by Christopher Golden
63. Red X by David Demchuk
64. The Return by Rachel Harrison
65. Revelator by Daryl Gregory
66. Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
67. Rites of Extinction by Matt Serafini
68. The Ruins by Scott Smith
69. She Said Destroy by Nadia Bulkin
70. Shiver: Selected Stories by Junji Ito
71. The Silence by Tim Lebbon
72. Stranded by Bracken MacLeod
73. Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie
74. The Switch House by Tim Meyer
75. Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica
76. Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez
77. Transmuted by Eve Harms
78. The Trees Grew Because I Bled There by Eric LaRocca
79. Tribal Screams by Owl Goingback
80. True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik
81. The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
82. Walk the Darkness Down by John Boden
83. We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe
84. We Need to Do Something by Max Booth III
85. When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen
86. White Horse by Erika T. Wurth
87. The Wicked by James Newman
88. The Wingspan of Severed Hands by Joe Koch
89. The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper
90. The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
91. Zone One by Colson Whitehead
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