Of course I read more than
horror fiction, and of course there’s been many other books/novels
of higher and lower quality that have been more important and
influential to me.  But this blog being what it is, I had to come up
with the list below of the horror books that influenced me the most. 
And you can be sure that this is just a spur of the moment top ten
list.  There’s no order here (maybe chronological by when I read them,
but even that’s uncertain).  I don’t really have much use for these
kinds of lists – ask me tomorrow and the list will be completely
different.
So here we go: