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188 books
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443 voters
Popular Horror Books
Popular Horror Books
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The Shining (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 4818 times as horror)
avg rating 4.00 — 481,684 ratings — published 1977
It (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 3984 times as horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 226,150 ratings — published 1986
Dracula (Paperback)
by Bram Stoker (shelved 3870 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 348,190 ratings — published 1897
The Stand (Hardcover)
by Stephen King (shelved 3585 times as horror)
avg rating 4.30 — 257,957 ratings — published 1978
Carrie (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 3463 times as horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 170,782 ratings — published 1974
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by Mary Shelley (shelved 2983 times as horror)
avg rating 3.66 — 578,539 ratings — published 1818
Misery (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 2825 times as horror)
avg rating 3.98 — 177,783 ratings — published 1987
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by Max Brooks (Goodreads Author) (shelved 2234 times as horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 181,493 ratings — published 2006
Cujo (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 2134 times as horror)
avg rating 3.53 — 103,776 ratings — published 1981
Needful Things (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 2025 times as horror)
avg rating 3.76 — 99,720 ratings — published 1991
Christine (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 1997 times as horror)
avg rating 3.60 — 94,685 ratings — published 1983
Cell (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 1786 times as horror)
avg rating 3.55 — 88,337 ratings — published 2006
Firestarter (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 1708 times as horror)
avg rating 3.73 — 89,579 ratings — published 1980
The Dead Zone (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 1671 times as horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 89,747 ratings — published 1979
Night Shift (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 1669 times as horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 65,760 ratings — published 1978
Thinner (Mass Market Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 1614 times as horror)
avg rating 3.51 — 81,911 ratings — published 1984
I am Legend and Other Stories (Paperback)
by Richard Matheson (shelved 1562 times as horror)
avg rating 3.93 — 90,714 ratings — published 1954
The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)
by Anne Rice (shelved 1552 times as horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 106,400 ratings — published 1985
The Dark Half (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 1538 times as horror)
avg rating 3.65 — 63,776 ratings — published 1989
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by Joe Hill (shelved 1526 times as horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 39,895 ratings — published 2007
Bag of Bones (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 1479 times as horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 84,582 ratings — published 1996
Insomnia (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 1464 times as horror)
avg rating 3.72 — 72,681 ratings — published 1994
Skeleton Crew
by Stephen King (shelved 1463 times as horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 58,083 ratings — published 1985
Desperation (Mass Market Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 1359 times as horror)
avg rating 3.71 — 64,786 ratings — published 1996
Let the Right One In (Hardcover)
by John Ajvide Lindqvist (shelved 1338 times as horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 44,238 ratings — published 2004
Four Past Midnight (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 1336 times as horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 57,193 ratings — published 1990
Under the Dome (Hardcover)
by Stephen King (shelved 1287 times as horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 113,567 ratings — published 2009
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by Shirley Jackson (shelved 1274 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 42,880 ratings — published 1959
The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)
by Anne Rice (shelved 1271 times as horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 85,901 ratings — published 1988
Gerald's Game (Hardcover)
by Stephen King (shelved 1251 times as horror)
avg rating 3.35 — 66,506 ratings — published 1992
The Exorcist (Paperback)
by William Peter Blatty (shelved 1228 times as horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 65,854 ratings — published 1971
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
by Stephen King (shelved 1211 times as horror)
avg rating 4.00 — 192,572 ratings — published 1982
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1210 times as horror)
avg rating 4.15 — 77,064 ratings — published 2000
The Strain (The Strain Trilogy, #1)
by Guillermo del Toro (shelved 1195 times as horror)
avg rating 3.73 — 41,068 ratings — published 2009
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by Thomas Harris (shelved 1165 times as horror)
avg rating 3.97 — 280,615 ratings — published 1988
Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 1149 times as horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 37,168 ratings — published 2002
The Shawshank Redemption (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 1137 times as horror)
avg rating 4.41 — 71,581 ratings — published 1981
Rose Madder (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 1083 times as horror)
avg rating 3.54 — 46,672 ratings — published 1995
Dolores Claiborne (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 1075 times as horror)
avg rating 3.68 — 59,626 ratings — published 1992
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 1043 times as horror)
avg rating 3.47 — 65,033 ratings — published 1999
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Paperback)
by Robert Louis Stevenson (shelved 1039 times as horror)
avg rating 3.72 — 114,933 ratings — published 1886
Duma Key (Hardcover)
by Stephen King (shelved 1009 times as horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 52,198 ratings — published 2007
The Green Mile (Boxed Set)
by Stephen King (shelved 1003 times as horror)
avg rating 4.36 — 105,756 ratings — published 1996
Full Dark, No Stars (Hardcover)
by Stephen King (shelved 982 times as horror)
avg rating 3.96 — 44,347 ratings — published 2010
Coraline (Paperback)
by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (shelved 979 times as horror)
avg rating 3.96 — 206,765 ratings — published 2002
The Mist (Paperback)
by Stephen King (shelved 940 times as horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 47,973 ratings — published 1980
Rosemary's Baby (Paperback)
by Ira Levin (shelved 931 times as horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 43,120 ratings — published 1967
Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by Edgar Allan Poe (shelved 928 times as horror)
avg rating 4.35 — 128,873 ratings — published 2006
Horns (Hardcover)
by Joe Hill (shelved 923 times as horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 25,753 ratings — published 2010
The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)
by Anne Rice (shelved 863 times as horror)
avg rating 3.64 — 56,957 ratings — published 1992
“Invitation to Dance-
It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom.
But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the Dark. Especially in the Dark.
May I have the pleasure?”
― Stephen King
It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom.
But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the Dark. Especially in the Dark.
May I have the pleasure?”
― Stephen King
“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”
― R.L. Stine
― R.L. Stine
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classic-horror, fiction_speculative_horror, horror-classics, horror-fiction, and horror-literature
