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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 1,675,287 ratings
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The Lottery and Other Stories
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
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Young Goodman Brown
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Dracula
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The Monkey's Paw
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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Coraline
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 771,824 ratings
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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Max Brooks (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 562,005 ratings
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The Cipher
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Kathe Koja (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 7,483 ratings
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Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
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Josh Malerman (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 207,911 ratings
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The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
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M.R. Carey (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 243,046 ratings
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John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
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David Wong (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 82,912 ratings
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Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 1
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4.44 avg rating — 39,733 ratings
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The Haunting of Hill House
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The Woman in Black
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Rebecca
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Swan Song
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Infidel
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
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Carmen Maria Machado (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 104,481 ratings
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Through the Woods
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3.94 avg rating — 87,198 ratings
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The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 272,767 ratings
score: 127,
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,371,139 ratings
score: 126,
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Goblin Market and Other Poems
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4.04 avg rating — 5,529 ratings
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Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
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Damian Duffy (Adapted by)
4.19 avg rating — 11,449 ratings
score: 112,
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The October Country
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4.10 avg rating — 21,160 ratings
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A Head Full of Ghosts
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Paul Tremblay (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 103,690 ratings
score: 106,
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The Other
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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
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Carmilla
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3.87 avg rating — 182,454 ratings
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The Turn of the Screw
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3.38 avg rating — 176,299 ratings
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The Great God Pan
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3.67 avg rating — 16,212 ratings
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The House with a Clock in Its Walls (Lewis Barnavelt, #1)
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3.73 avg rating — 20,645 ratings
score: 93,
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The Willows
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4.05 avg rating — 16,808 ratings
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Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad
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3.65 avg rating — 2,161 ratings
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The Werewolf of Paris
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3.62 avg rating — 1,417 ratings
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I Am Legend
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4.05 avg rating — 150,454 ratings
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Let the Right One In
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4.04 avg rating — 119,648 ratings
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 641,761 ratings
score: 86,
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Minion (Vampire Huntress Legend, #1)
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3.50 avg rating — 6,631 ratings
score: 85,
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The Hunger
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Alma Katsu (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 34,496 ratings
score: 84,
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Those Across the River
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Christopher Buehlman (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 15,988 ratings
score: 83,
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Feed (Newsflesh, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 61,245 ratings
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The Shadow over Innsmouth
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4.10 avg rating — 27,041 ratings
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The Ballad of Black Tom
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3.83 avg rating — 33,917 ratings
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The Fisherman
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3.85 avg rating — 42,611 ratings
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The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)
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Charles Stross (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 27,088 ratings
score: 75,
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At the Mountains of Madness
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3.79 avg rating — 62,710 ratings
score: 72,
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Forget the Sleepless Shores
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Communion: A True Story
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Whitley Strieber (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 7,867 ratings
score: 69,
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The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories
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3.69 avg rating — 8,760 ratings
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The House Next Door
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3.89 avg rating — 13,644 ratings
score: 66,
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Burnt Offerings
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3.79 avg rating — 9,581 ratings
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House of Leaves
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Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 195,975 ratings
score: 63,
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The Elementals
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3.98 avg rating — 22,601 ratings
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Lunar Park
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3.65 avg rating — 30,608 ratings
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The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
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Sarah Monette (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 1,644 ratings
score: 59,
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Wylding Hall
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3.78 avg rating — 8,762 ratings
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The Ruins
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3.69 avg rating — 65,318 ratings
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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
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4.12 avg rating — 2,001 ratings
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The Red Tree
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Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
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Falling in Love with Hominids
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3.92 avg rating — 1,462 ratings
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Come Closer
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Sara Gran (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 47,959 ratings
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Furnace
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
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White Is for Witching
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Helen Oyeyemi (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 13,078 ratings
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Experimental Film
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Gemma Files (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 3,814 ratings
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The Collector
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3.97 avg rating — 91,474 ratings
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The Terror
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Intensity
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Dean Koontz (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 92,451 ratings
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The Girl Next Door
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Exquisite Corpse
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Poppy Z. Brite (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 25,066 ratings
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The Best of Joe R. Lansdale
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Joe R. Lansdale (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 1,040 ratings
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Penpal
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Dathan Auerbach (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 58,386 ratings
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NOS4A2
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Joe Hill (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 141,755 ratings
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Bloodchild and Other Stories
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4.34 avg rating — 26,686 ratings
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Lord of the Flies
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3.70 avg rating — 3,155,771 ratings
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The Devil in America
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I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
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Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three (Books of Blood, #1-3)
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Clive Barker (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 29,708 ratings
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The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
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Ann VanderMeer (Editor)
4.27 avg rating — 2,505 ratings
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The Imago Sequence
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Laird Barron (Goodreads Author)
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Alone With the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction, 1961-1991
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Things We Lost in the Fire
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Shadowland
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Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 156,690 ratings
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The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
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4.21 avg rating — 266,227 ratings
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The Body
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Robin Waterfield (Adapter)
4.30 avg rating — 45,245 ratings
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Mirror, Mirror: Classic SF Stories by the Star Trek and Fantastic Voyage Author
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The Troop
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Nick Cutter (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 120,974 ratings
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Elizabeth
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Jessica Hamilton (Pseudonym)
3.47 avg rating — 2,268 ratings
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
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Night of the Living Dummy (Goosebumps, #7)
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R.L. Stine (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 33,976 ratings
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Rotters
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Daniel Kraus (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 3,863 ratings
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The Jumbies (The Jumbies, #1)
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Tracey Baptiste (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 5,684 ratings
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Spirit Hunters
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Ellen Oh (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 3,885 ratings
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Down a Dark Hall
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