Looking for Horror novels and short story collections and anthologies.

For purposes of this list, only include books with over 50,000 ratings and shelved at least 500 times as horror.

Anything with less than 50,000 ratings or shelved less than 500 times as horror will be removed and without comment.

See also:
Best Horror Novels
Best of Stephen King
Best Horror Books by People Other Than Stephen King
The Definitive Horror Book List

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message 1: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jan 17, 2017 02:12AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Always interesting to see books I personally wouldn't qualify as 'horror' on this list. But then again, I'm very down to earth :-)


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