 | The Quorum by Kim Newman
Buy used from: £0.01 Kim Newman's best novel, and the best riff on Faust since Thomas Mann's.
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 | House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Buy new: £16.49 / Used from: £11.99 A lot of writers have tried to imitate Lovecraft. This is the only novel I've ever read that matches his best.
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 | The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself (Oxford World's Classics) by James Hogg
Buy used from: £0.50 Will Self lifted the structure and conceit for My Idea of Fun: this novel is far better.
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 | The Island of Doctor Moreau (Modern Library) by H.G. Wells
Buy used from: £0.01 Perhaps not Wells' best novel, but by far his most unnerving.
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 | Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Popular Classics) by Mary Shelley
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 The book that invented Science Fiction.
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 | I Am Legend (S.F. Masterworks) by Richard Matheson
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.91 As a rule vampire novels are either infantile power fantasies or whining about sexual inadequecy. This novel avoids both of those failings.
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 | Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £2.58 A masterpiece. Certainly the most beautifully written novel on this list.
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 | Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Some people find Brite's faghaggery offputting. If you can get past that, you'll find the book American Psycho should have been...
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 | Our Lady of Darkness (Fontana science fiction) by Fritz Leiber
Buy used from: £1.30 Lieber is a sickeningly underrated writer, and this has been out of print for years. If you ever see a copy, buy it.
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 | From Hell by Alan Moore
Buy new: £14.91 / Used from: £11.99 A comic, but still the best novel ever written about Jack the ripper.
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