12 books
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6 voters
Existential Horror Books
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A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.14 — 89,616 ratings — published 2011
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 322,042 ratings — published 2014
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 208,404 ratings — published 2000
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 445,221 ratings — published 2017
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 59,988 ratings — published 1967
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,649,300 ratings — published 1948
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,510,419 ratings — published 1969
Teatro Grottesco (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,083 ratings — published 2006
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.55 — 111,545 ratings — published 2014
Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.67 — 84,159 ratings — published 2014
The Tenant (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,446 ratings — published 1964
The Jaunt (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,531 ratings — published 1981
The Divine Farce (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,390 ratings — published 2009
The Darkness Outside Us (The Darkness Outside Us, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.31 — 33,786 ratings — published 2021
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.20 — 790,259 ratings — published 1962
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 325,565 ratings — published 1947
We Spread (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.75 — 24,533 ratings — published 2022
Cursed Bunny (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.73 — 44,931 ratings — published 2017
This Thing Between Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.68 — 42,937 ratings — published 2021
Our Share of Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 67,655 ratings — published 2019
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 78,436 ratings — published 1926
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.16 — 102,985 ratings — published 1942
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 283,953 ratings — published 1973
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,502,710 ratings — published 1915
No Longer Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 22,338 ratings — published 2019
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,626 ratings — published 2020
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.50 — 211,076 ratings — published 2016
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.93 — 274,700 ratings — published 1948
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 776,984 ratings — published 2016
The Saw Mouth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.67 — 70 ratings — published 2026
光が死んだ夏 7 [Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu 7] (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.62 — 1,863 ratings — published 2025
You Weren't Meant to Be Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,103 ratings — published 2025
The House That Keeps You: A Novel of Time, Loss, and the People Inside a Haunted House (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published
Howling Dark (The Sun Eater, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.33 — 32,896 ratings — published 2019
Welcome to Night Vale (Welcome to Night Vale, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.82 — 44,229 ratings — published 2015
Exiles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.61 — 9,036 ratings — published 2025
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 41,523 ratings — published 1963
North American Lake Monsters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,744 ratings — published 2013
Biomega, Vol. 6 (Biomega, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 717 ratings — published 2009
Biomega, Tome 4 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 783 ratings — published 2010
Lucky Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 12,000 ratings — published 2025
The Midnight Knock (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.35 — 1,495 ratings — published 2025
The Colour Out of Space (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,216 ratings — published 1927
#DRCL midnight children 5 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 302 ratings — published 2024
The Grip of It (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.15 — 15,546 ratings — published 2017
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 17,675 ratings — published 1999
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.97 — 73,912 ratings — published 1965
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.15 — 444,730 ratings — published 1963
ダークギャザリング 11 [Dark Gathering 11] (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.19 — 95 ratings — published 2022
After God - Tome 05 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.15 — 240 ratings — published
“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity”
― [Classic Lovecraft : The Call of Cthulu and Other Stories] (By (author) H. P. Lovecraft) [published: March, 2016]
― [Classic Lovecraft : The Call of Cthulu and Other Stories] (By (author) H. P. Lovecraft) [published: March, 2016]
“It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having getting along with himself.”
― The Crust on its Uppers
― The Crust on its Uppers









