Lost me at Rohmer, Dinesen, Rendel, and Highsmith. Lovecraft's "House on the Borderland", I believe, is the first book that I had ever read of that genre and catapaulted me into science fiction, as it turns out. Though Shakespeare is "forced" upon HS students, I don't think anyone can ever have an appreciation of him till in their twenties. And if one can't "read" it the way it must be done, then it helps to have it done for you by fine actors. BTW, how could you read Bradbury and not Heinlein? (smile)