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This is very rare as most horror is terrifying! But some of it is just gory and not scary!
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The Canterville Ghost
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3.88 avg rating — 69,946 ratings
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The Shining (The Shining #1)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 1,679,907 ratings
score: 191,
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The Outsider
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 373,387 ratings
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The Turn of the Screw
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3.38 avg rating — 177,178 ratings
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'Salem's Lot
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 650,812 ratings
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Nightshade
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2.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Witches of Lychford (Lychford, #1)
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Paul Cornell (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 5,119 ratings
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The Banished
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2.96 avg rating — 24 ratings
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House
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3.55 avg rating — 28,312 ratings
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The Night Sister
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Jennifer McMahon (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 25,735 ratings
score: 97,
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Bishop's Landing
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3.72 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
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3.73 avg rating — 10,447 ratings
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The Mandrake Scream
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1.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice, Library Edition
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3.43 avg rating — 8,217 ratings
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The Terror
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4.09 avg rating — 72,413 ratings
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Help for the Haunted
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John Searles (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 14,152 ratings
score: 94,
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Home Before Dark
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Riley Sager (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 302,686 ratings
score: 94,
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Haunted Ground (Nora Gavin, #1)
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Erin Hart (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 7,527 ratings
score: 93,
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The Punishment
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3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Blood Heritage (Ettison, #1)
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3.51 avg rating — 199 ratings
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The Owlsfane Horror
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2.96 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Thanks because I am often terrified. Some books give me nightmares.