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Classic Horror Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,519
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,431,294 ratings — published 1897
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,794,514 ratings — published 1818
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 372,508 ratings — published 1959
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 649,120 ratings — published 1886
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 174,584 ratings — published 1872
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 174,249 ratings — published 1898
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,813,347 ratings — published 1890
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,665,937 ratings — published 1977
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 115,303 ratings — published 1928
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 149,892 ratings — published 1820
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.21 — 262,476 ratings — published 1971
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.40 — 292,929 ratings — published 1849
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 279,475 ratings — published 1962
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 823,225 ratings — published 1974
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 155,216 ratings — published 1967
The Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,468 ratings — published 1907
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 147,524 ratings — published 1962
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,239,470 ratings — published 1986
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,010 ratings — published 1890
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 344,649 ratings — published 1892
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.96 — 270,419 ratings — published 1910
At the Mountains of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 62,108 ratings — published 1931
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 643,525 ratings — published 1975
The Wendigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 7,859 ratings — published 1910
Hell House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.70 — 60,889 ratings — published 1971
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.73 — 132,807 ratings — published 1896
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 32,226 ratings — published 1796
The House on the Borderland (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.58 — 10,472 ratings — published 1908
Psycho (Psycho, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 74,968 ratings — published 1959
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.08 — 678,274 ratings — published 1983
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 84,973 ratings — published 1839
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.75 — 79,071 ratings — published 1983
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.19 — 40,592 ratings — published 1764
The Amityville Horror (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 136,741 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 — 140,566 ratings — published 1886
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 149,335 ratings — published 1954
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.19 — 243,952 ratings — published 1843
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.26 — 581,506 ratings — published 1988
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 119,181 ratings — published 1843
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.34 — 36,568 ratings — published 1936
The Vampyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.31 — 15,186 ratings — published 1819
The Jewel of Seven Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.43 — 4,622 ratings — published 1903
The Canterville Ghost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.88 — 69,167 ratings — published 1887
The Pit and the Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.14 — 71,448 ratings — published 1842
The Masque of the Red Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,295 ratings — published 1842
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.23 — 825,513 ratings — published 1987
The King in Yellow (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.54 — 27,400 ratings — published 1895
The Beetle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.50 — 3,943 ratings — published 1897
The Omen (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 69,339 ratings — published 1976
The Cask of Amontillado (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 86,511 ratings — published 1846
“I felt as if I walked inside a cold shadow, a shadow cast by bricks and mortar.”
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
“The museum may lose things,” I said, “but it never throws them away.”
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
