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Classic Horror Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,523
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,449,981 ratings — published 1897
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,832,298 ratings — published 1818
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 384,658 ratings — published 1959
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 655,602 ratings — published 1886
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 185,748 ratings — published 1872
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 177,169 ratings — published 1898
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,836,128 ratings — published 1890
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 153,353 ratings — published 1820
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,679,873 ratings — published 1977
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.21 — 267,733 ratings — published 1971
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 116,619 ratings — published 1928
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 287,553 ratings — published 1962
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.40 — 294,002 ratings — published 1849
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 832,524 ratings — published 1974
The Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,942 ratings — published 1907
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,248,802 ratings — published 1986
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 151,516 ratings — published 1962
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 157,302 ratings — published 1967
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 650,793 ratings — published 1975
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 349,305 ratings — published 1892
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,303 ratings — published 1890
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.96 — 273,152 ratings — published 1910
At the Mountains of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 62,890 ratings — published 1936
The Wendigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 8,089 ratings — published 1910
The House on the Borderland (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.58 — 10,722 ratings — published 1908
Hell House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.69 — 62,250 ratings — published 1971
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.08 — 687,572 ratings — published 1983
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.73 — 133,770 ratings — published 1896
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 32,926 ratings — published 1796
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.75 — 80,697 ratings — published 1983
Psycho (Psycho, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 76,371 ratings — published 1959
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 86,793 ratings — published 1839
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.19 — 41,611 ratings — published 1764
The Amityville Horror (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 137,465 ratings — published 1977
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 142,496 ratings — published 1886
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 150,928 ratings — published 1954
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.19 — 244,229 ratings — published 1843
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.26 — 584,260 ratings — published 1988
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 121,105 ratings — published 1843
The Vampyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.32 — 15,881 ratings — published 1819
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 643,266 ratings — published 1976
The Masque of the Red Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 46,732 ratings — published 1842
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.34 — 36,742 ratings — published 1936
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.23 — 834,520 ratings — published 1987
The Jewel of Seven Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.43 — 4,673 ratings — published 1903
The Canterville Ghost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.88 — 69,945 ratings — published 1887
The Pit and the Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.14 — 71,877 ratings — published 1842
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 107,422 ratings — published 1948
The King in Yellow (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.54 — 28,284 ratings — published 1895
The Beetle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.50 — 4,004 ratings — published 1897
“The difficulty with Poe is not figuring out which of his stories rise to the level required of this collection, but rather which of his stories to exclude from it.”
― The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Horror Anthology
― The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Horror Anthology
“Old incompetence is incompetence still.”
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
