Ok I'll back up Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte
and add:-
James Herbert-The Spear

Melmoth the Wanderer- Charles Robert Maturin
The Mysteries of Udolpho- Ann Radcliffe
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde- Robert Louis Stevenson
Vathek- William Beckford
Inferno- Dante
The Hound of the Baskervilles- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Monk- Matthew Lewis
Dracula- Bram Stoker
Frankenstein- Mary Shelly
The Vampyre- John Polidori
The Old Testament- Various

Not sure how to quantify Poe, but The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat & The Fall of the House of Usher are amongst my favourite short stories.

I'll back up The Monk by Matthew Lewis that's one weird book.

Gotta get ahold of that sometime. And Melmoth. And Vathek. And bury myself under ground for a couple days.

Sorry it's taken a while to get back to you, been busy all week.

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll get round to watching it fairly soon.

Thanks for letting me pick your brains on the book and the movie. I wasn't being argumentative, I just wanted to hear your opinion on both.:)

That's okay. I don't know what you're going to think of the film though.:eek:

I have a 3 year old and a one year old and you know how it is when you have kids. It makes it that much harder to watch people being horrible to eachother but, I'm sure I'll persevere in the name of art. :D

I felt the same way when my children were that age. Now my children are 19 and 16 so I don't feel that insular, protective feeling as much, so hardcore horror bothers me much less than it used to.

P.S. My daughter took that Marquis De Sade book with her to college.:o

Just say it, I've turned into a bit of a pussy!:D

I'm still at the stage of trying to convince the kids that eating their greens is a good idea. I have no idea how I'm gonna deal with my daughter reading de Sade. I guess I'll just pass the buck to mum:)

They grow up. One day you're reading Dr. Seuss to them; the next they're teaching you what tentacle hentai is.:eek: