Reddit reviews Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Modern Library)

I like my anthologies to contain multiple authors across multiple eras, and to provide an overview of the field from some particular perspective.

The classic anthology is Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural a massive 1000+ page stunner that is a great primer for the genre, focusing on earlier work.

Ellen Datlow's Darkness is a great anthology for the 80s - 2000s.

Joyce Carol Oates edited a fantastic history of American gothic fiction, called, not surprisingly American Gothic Tales starting with Washington Irving and ending with Stephen King.

And for a taste of horror from a more modern perspective (while including a lot of classic stories) The Weird is a really terrific overview.

The famous Random House collection, compiled in the 1940s I believe. Of course one should consider all the more contemporary suggestions, but if I were teaching a class this would be my "textbook". It's already considered the terror tale Bible by many.

The Weird is likely the most comprehensive, though I'd also suggest Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural.

I would recommend The Weird, edited by Jeff and Ann Vandermeer. It's a huge anthology, worth every single penny! You can not go wrong there.

Here is a link to one of my favorite shorts, which can also be found in The Weird by the way. It's called The Night Wire by H.F. Arnold. Very weird & eerie!

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Night_Wire

You could also check out The Dark Descent edited by David Hartwell, as it is also a huge anthology with quite a few "weird" pieces included. I have an anthology called American Gothic Tales, edited by Joyce Carol Oates, which looks pretty cool. Not sure if any of the shorts are southern gothic though. I just recently bought that anthology you mentioned and I love it!

Here is another anthology which is pretty well loved by everyone it seems, especially Peter Straub. It's called Great Tales Of Terror And The Supernatural, edited by Phyllis Cerf Wagner and Herbert Wise. It's an old one, but amazon has new copies of the reprint which is where I bought mine. Kind of a smaller hardback, a bit smaller than a book club edition, but really thick & awesome! I'll leave a link so you can check it out! My favorite story out of the bunch was Taboo by Geoffrey Household.

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Terror-Supernatural-Modern-Library/dp/0679601287/ref=sr_1_1?crid=12OX4FJQZ21IK&keywords=great+tales+of+terror+and+the+supernatural&qid=1560355185&s=books&sprefix=great+tales+of+ter%2Cstripbooks%2C213&sr=1-1

I've seen quite a few weird fiction readers in /r/printsf. I'll ask if I can advertise there.

I just finished Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural and it was excellent. Last week I also read Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer which I thoroughly enjoyed.

I haven't decided what to read next. I was looking at Dark Descent or a collection of Kafka stories which includes one of my favorite weird stories, In the Penal Colony.