Russell Kirk is widely regarded as one of the principal architects of the postwar conservative intellectual movement. A columnist, essayist, novelist, historian, and critic, Kirk's best-known work is The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot. He edited The Portable Conservative Reader (1982), and also wrote several fantasy novels and story collections.
Novels
Collections
The Surly Sullen Bell (1962)
The Princess of All Lands (1979)
Watchers at the Strait Gate (1984)
Off the Sand Road (2002)
What Shadows We Pursue (2003)
The Princess of All Lands (1979)
Watchers at the Strait Gate (1984)
Off the Sand Road (2002)
What Shadows We Pursue (2003)
Non fiction
John Randolph of Roanoke (1951)
The Conservative Mind (1953)
Prospects for Conservatives (1954)
The American Cause (1957)
The Sword of Imagination (1995)
The Conservative Mind (1953)
Prospects for Conservatives (1954)
The American Cause (1957)
The Sword of Imagination (1995)
Anthologies containing stories by Russell Kirk
The 6th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1970)
Frights (1976)
Frights 1 (1979)
Dark Forces (1980)
New Terrors 1 (1980)
Fantasy Annual III (1981)
The Colour of Evil (1987)
Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader (1987)
The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels (1988)
Horror Story Volume 3 (1991)
Uncanny Banquet (1992)
The Best of Whispers (1994)
Frights (1976)
Frights 1 (1979)
Dark Forces (1980)
New Terrors 1 (1980)
Fantasy Annual III (1981)
The Colour of Evil (1987)
Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader (1987)
The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels (1988)
Horror Story Volume 3 (1991)
Uncanny Banquet (1992)
The Best of Whispers (1994)
Short stories
Sorworth Place (1952) | |||
There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding (1976) | World Fantasy | ||
Behind the Stumps (1979) | |||
Fate's Purse (1979) | |||
Lex Talionis (1979) | |||
The Peculiar Demesne (1980) | |||
Watchers at the Strait Gate [short story] (1980) |
Awards
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Russell Kirk recommends

Cold Hand in Mine (1975)
Robert Aickman
"Of all the authors of uncanny tales, Aickman is the best ever... His tales literally haunt me; his plots and his turns of phrase run through my head at the most unlikely moments."
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