Top Sites for Reading Horror Fiction

Regardless of what you like to read, every reader knows that for every great book they read there are another five books for which they would like to be refunded. Not in dollars, but in the hours - or even minutes - they spent reading a horrible book.

True, many of these books started out poorly and perhaps time and aggravation could have been saved by simply refusing to finish. However, out of respect, boredom, or a masochistic desire to see just how bad a book is - people like me generally finish most if not all of the books and short stories we start. In the horror field, the unfortunate fact is that large publishers often have such a low view of horror readers that they'll put any drivel out there and we find ourselves generally confronted with offensively moronic series, stories boasting ridiculous plots, and books with sub-par proofreading. 

Apologies for the long intro; on to my point. This general disregard (not only for horror readers, but for horror writers) means that those of us who love horror are justified in performing some grade "A", top-notch, OCD, research in order to hunt down quality horror fiction.

To help your search, here are some sites that I've found very useful in finding great horror books and short stories:

http://www.horror.org/readlist.htm

http://www.horrormasters.com/

http://www.horror-suspense.com/

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/horrorindex.html

http://www.shortnscarystories.com/

http://www.short-story.me/horror-stories.html
http://www.everythingscary.com/dir/Horror_Fiction
http://www.buried.com/features/novels.shtml
http://www.horrorbound.com/articles.php?cat_id=1
http://www.horror.net/Horror_Fiction/