Twilight Zone Magazine's Five-Foot Bookshelf
Ten short lists of recommended reading appeared in the May/June and July/August 1983 issues of Twilight Zone Magazine, two by the magazine's book editor, Thomas Disch, three by Karl Edward Wagner and four by R. S. Hadji (i.e. Robert Knowlton). Those who encountered these small treasure chests at the time have kept alive an affectionate respect for their display of idiosyncratic but learned taste. Four of the lists are reprinted below. (Note: Disch's "contemporary classics" list has 16 entries because he grouped three separately published books by Moorcock together as a trilogy, and we have added the three separate titles),
Thomas M. Disch: Thirteen All-Time Classics of Fantasy
- 1794 CALEB WILLIAMS, OR THINGS AS THEY ARE by William Godwin
- 1796 THE MONK by Matthew Gregory Lewis
- 1818 UNDINE (first edition in English) by Baron de la Motte Fouque
- 1820 MELMOTH THE WANDERER by Charles Maturin
- 1824 CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER by James Hogg
- 1898 THE TURN OF THE SCREW (in THE TWO MAGICS) by Henry James
- 1899 THE YELLOW WALL PAPER by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- 1911 "The Beckoning Fair One" (in WIDDERSHINS) by Oliver Onions
- 1922 LADY INTO FOX by David Garnett
- 1933 THE WEREWOLF OF PARIS by Guy Endore
- 1952 THE SOUND OF HIS HORN by Sarban (John W. Wall)
- 1953 CONJURE WIFE (first separate edition*) by Fritz Leiber
- 1967 SNOW WHITE by Donald Barthelme
Thomas M. Disch: Thirteen Great Works of Fantasy from the Last Thirteen Years
- 1970 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 1971 THE PAGAN RABBI AND OTHER STORIES by Cynthia Ozick
- 1972 THE DANCERS AT THE END OF TIME (trilogy) by Michael Moorcock
- 1972 AN ALIEN HEAT by Michael Moorcock
- 1974 INVISIBLE CITIES by Italo Calvino
- 1974 SHAMP OF THE CITY-SOLO by Jaimy Gordon
- 1974 THE HOLLOW LANDS by Michael Moorcock
- 1975 THE GREAT VICTORIA COLLECTION by Brian Moore
- 1975 THE SINKING OF THE ODRADEK STADIUM AND OTHER NOVELS by Harry Matthews
- 1975 THE AUCTIONEER by Joan Samson
- 1976 THE END OF ALL SONGS by Michael Moorcock
- 1976 ALYX by Joanna Russ
- 1977 THE KINGDOMS OF ELFIN by Sylvia Townsend Warner
- 1977 LOVERS LIVING, LOVERS DEAD by Richard Lortz
- 1980 CHILDHOOD AND OTHER NEIGHBORHOOD by Stuart Dybek
- 1981 LITTLE, BIG by John Crowley
R. S. Hadji (Robert Knowlton): Thirteen Neglected Masterpieces of the Macabre
- 1896 A BOOK OF BARGAINS by Vincent O'Sullivan
- 1911 TALES OF THE UNEASY by Violet Hunt
- 1914 THE HOLE OF THE PIT by Adrian Ross (Arthur Ropes)
- 1926 BASIL NETHERBY by A.C. Benson
- 1927 DARK CHAMBER by Leonard Cline
- 1927 THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE by Hanns Heinz Ewers
- 1929 RANDALL'S ROUND by Eleanor Scott
- 1929 MEDUSA by E. H. Visiak
- 1964 THE SHINY NARROW GRIN by Jane Gaskell
- 1967 THE ACCURSED by Claude Seignolle
- 1969 BURY HIM DARKLY by John Blackburn
- 1969 NEITHER THE SEA NOR THE SAND by Gordon Honeycombe
- 1977 CHILDREN OF THE BLACK SABBATH by Anne Hebert
Karl Edward Wagner: The Thirteen Best Non-Supernatural Horror Novels
- 1927 THE SORCEROR'S APPRENTICE by Hanns Heinz Ewers
- 1929 THE FIRE-SPIRITS by Paul Busson
- 1929 THE MASTER OF THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT by Leo Perutz
- 1931 TORTURE GARDEN by Octave Mirbeau
- 1934 VAMPIRE by Hanns Heinz Ewers
- 1934 THE SHADOW ON THE HOUSE by Mark Hansom
- 1935 FULLY DRESSED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND by Michael Fessier
- 1938 THE CROOKED HINGE by John Dickson Carr
- 1938 THE SUBJUGATED BEAST by R. R. Ryan
- 1946 THE DEADLY PERCHERON by John Franklin Bardin
- 1949 THE SCREAMING MIMI by Fredric Brown
- 1950 HERE COMES A CANDLE by Fredric Brown
- 1959 PSYCHO by Robert Bloch
* Leiber's CONJURE WIFE first book appearance was in the three-novel anthology WITCHES THREE (1952)