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Classic Horror Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,637
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,495,261 ratings — published 1897
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,926,651 ratings — published 1818
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 402,148 ratings — published 1959
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 673,913 ratings — published 1886
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 207,076 ratings — published 1872
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 182,345 ratings — published 1898
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,913,140 ratings — published 1890
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,725,241 ratings — published 1977
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.21 — 274,543 ratings — published 1971
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 155,991 ratings — published 1820
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 301,788 ratings — published 1962
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 856,488 ratings — published 1974
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.40 — 297,503 ratings — published 1849
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.01 — 120,219 ratings — published 1928
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,284,365 ratings — published 1986
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 155,431 ratings — published 1962
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 161,196 ratings — published 1967
The Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,958 ratings — published 1907
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 667,291 ratings — published 1975
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 367,057 ratings — published 1892
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,964 ratings — published 1890
The Wendigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,513 ratings — published 1910
The House on the Borderland (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.58 — 11,340 ratings — published 1908
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.96 — 280,909 ratings — published 1910
At the Mountains of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 65,310 ratings — published 1936
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.76 — 83,239 ratings — published 1983
Psycho (Psycho, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 78,526 ratings — published 1959
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.08 — 708,689 ratings — published 1983
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.73 — 136,548 ratings — published 1896
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 34,529 ratings — published 1796
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.19 — 43,594 ratings — published 1764
Hell House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.69 — 64,206 ratings — published 1971
The Amityville Horror (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 138,508 ratings — published 1977
The Vampyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.32 — 17,329 ratings — published 1819
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 90,329 ratings — published 1839
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 146,958 ratings — published 1886
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 155,062 ratings — published 1954
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 655,407 ratings — published 1976
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.26 — 591,801 ratings — published 1988
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 126,564 ratings — published 1843
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.23 — 812,941 ratings — published 1987
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.19 — 244,937 ratings — published 1843
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.34 — 37,300 ratings — published 1936
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 111,647 ratings — published 1948
The Masque of the Red Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 48,039 ratings — published 1842
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 83,596 ratings — published 1979
The Jewel of Seven Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.43 — 4,796 ratings — published 1903
The Colour Out of Space (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 21,491 ratings — published 1927
The Canterville Ghost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.88 — 71,819 ratings — published 1887
The King in Yellow (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.54 — 30,976 ratings — published 1895
“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
“I thought of the boy I had been, his murderous, pent-up hatred, of his strange, silent green glass maelstorm of wrath.”
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
