Horror Bucket List

Young scavengers board a derelict station between the first two films, and find what is on it.

Macbeth relocated to feudal Japan, ending in a storm of arrows.

Jordan Peele's horror film about a weekend at the white girlfriend's parents.

Coppola's operatic, entirely in-camera vampire film.

The film that invented the summer blockbuster, mostly by hiding the shark.

A village gathers on a June morning for the annual draw; the New Yorker lost subscribers over what the draw is for.

An officer demonstrates the machine that writes a condemned man's sentence into his back over twelve hours.

Three wishes on a mummified paw, and the knocking at the door after the second one.

A boy with a chainsaw devil for a heart hunts devils for the government; Fujimoto's chaos.

A town cursed by spirals; Junji Ito's horror masterpiece.

Ichabod Crane rides home past the churchyard and meets the Headless Horseman; the first American ghost story.

Rick Grimes wakes in a hospital to the zombie apocalypse; 193 issues in black and white.

A woman shut in a nursery for a rest cure starts reading the wallpaper and finds a figure creeping behind the pattern.

A murderer insists on his own sanity while the old man's heartbeat gets louder under the floorboards.

A demon raised by the army fights Rasputin and frog monsters; Mignola's shadows.

A sexually transmitted plague mutates 1970s Seattle teenagers; Charles Burns in ink black.

A murderer with a perfect nose in 18th-century France distils the scent of girls.

Seven children in Derry, Maine against a clown that eats fear, twice, twenty-seven years apart.

The Torrances winter at the Overlook Hotel; King's haunted house, different from Kubrick's.

A novelist held captive by his number-one fan; the hobbling scene.

A superflu kills 99% of humanity and the survivors gather in Boulder and Las Vegas; King's epic.

A respectable doctor and his other self, in sixty pages of fog.

A portrait ages while its subject sins; Wilde's only novel.

Diaries, letters and ship's logs assemble the Count; Stoker invented the vampire we have.

Percentile rolls, 1920s investigators and a sanity score that only goes down; the oldest RPG still in print after D&D.

A colony survives a zombie winter while one player quietly works against it.

Semi-co-operative survival horror aboard a ship with a secret objective each.

Great Old Ones fight over the ruins of Earth in an asymmetric area-control brawl.

Vampires in a modern city hiding from mortals and from each other; the game that put clan politics ahead of dungeons.

A global campaign against an Ancient One, one doomed expedition at a time.