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Favorite Horror Novels, 20th century

  • The Haunting of Hill House (1959), by Shirley Jackson
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), by Ray Bradbury
  • Rosemary’s Baby (1967), by Ira Levin
  • Hell House (1971), by Richard Matheson
  • The Mist (1980), by Stephen King
  • The Cellar (1980), by Richard Laymon

Favorite Horror Novels, 18th/19th century

  • History of the Caliph Vathek (1786), by William Beckford
  • The Monk (1796), by Matthew Gregory Lewis
  • Frankenstein (1818), by Mary Shelley
  • Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), by Charles Maturin
  • Varney, the Vampire (1847), by Thomas Prest
  • Carmilla (1872), by Sheridan Le Fanu
  • Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), by Oscar Wilde
  • Dracula (1897), by Bram Stoker
  • The Turn of the Screw (1898), by Henry James

Favorite Non Giant Movie Monsters

  • Count Graf Orlok (Nosferatu, 1922)
  • Frankenstein’s creature (Frankenstein, 1931)
  • Gillman (Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1954)
  • Alien (Alien, 1979)
  • The Thing (The Thing, 1982)
  • Brundlefly (The Fly, 1986)
  • Pinhead (Hellraiser, 1987)
  • Pale Man (Pan’s Labyrinth, 2007)

In chronological order.

Favorite Movies About Apes

  • King Kong (Merian C. Cooper, 1933)
  • Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968)
  • Gorillas in the Mist (Michael Apted, 1988)
  • Congo (Frank Marshall, 1995)

In chronological order.
Only one movie per franchise.

Favorite Movies About Dragons

  • Dragonslayer (Matthew Robbins, 1981)
  • Dragonheart (Rob Cohen, 1996)
  • Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
  • Reign of Fire (Rob Bowman, 2002)
  • How to Train your Dragon (Sanders & DeBlois, 2010)
  • Age of the Dragons (Ryan Little, 2011)

In chronological order.

Favorite 1900-1950 Visual Art

  • Montagne Sainte-Victoire, Paul Cézanne, 1904
  • The Kiss, Gustav Klimt, 1908
  • The Dance, Henri Matisse, 1910
  • Black Square and Red Square, Kazimir Malevich, 1915
  • Woman with Blue Eyes, Amedeo Modigliani, 1918
  • The Elephant Celebes, Max Ernst, 1921
  • Composition with Red Blue and Yellow, Piet Mondrian, 1929
  • House by the Railroad, Edward Hopper, 1925
  • The Great Machine, Giorgio de Chirico, 1925
  • Autoportrait (Tamara in a Green Bugatti), Tamara de Lempicka, 1929
  • Guernica, Pablo Picasso, 1937
  • Time Transfixed, René Magritte, 1938
  • The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers, Joan Miró, 1941
  • Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening, Salvador Dalí, 1944
  • Christina’s World, Andrew Wyeth, 1948

In chronological order.

Favorite 1850-1900 Visual Art

  • Sudden Shower Over Shin-Ohashi Bridge, Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857
  • The Heart of the Andes, Frederic Edwin Church, 1859
  • Lady Lilith, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1873
  • Woman with a Parasol, Claude Monet, 1875
  • Young Man at His Window, Gustave Caillebotte, 1876
  • Rising Moon over Mount Nanping, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1885
  • A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat, 1886
  • The Lady of Shalott, John William Waterhouse, 1888
  • Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1889
  • The Scream, Edvard Munch, 1893

In chronological order.

Favorite 1800-1850 Visual Art

  • The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun, William Blake, 1803
  • La Grande Baigneuse, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1808
  • Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, Caspar David Friedrich, 1818
  • El Perro, Francisco Goya, 1823
  • The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai, 1831
  • The Course of the Empire: The Consummation, Thomas Cole, 1836
  • Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1844
  • Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway, J.M.W. Turner, 1844

In chronological order.

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