12 books
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6 voters
Existential Horror Books
Showing 1-50 of 307
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.15 — 74,736 ratings — published 2011
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 313,383 ratings — published 2014
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 204,775 ratings — published 2000
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 424,944 ratings — published 2017
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,334 ratings — published 1967
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,571,089 ratings — published 1948
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,498,168 ratings — published 1969
Teatro Grottesco (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,998 ratings — published 2006
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.55 — 109,118 ratings — published 2014
Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.67 — 82,485 ratings — published 2014
The Tenant (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,353 ratings — published 1964
The Jaunt (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,320 ratings — published 1981
The Divine Farce (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,556 ratings — published 2009
The Darkness Outside Us (The Darkness Outside Us, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.31 — 32,974 ratings — published 2021
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.20 — 785,807 ratings — published 1962
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 320,984 ratings — published 1947
We Spread (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.75 — 24,067 ratings — published 2022
Cursed Bunny (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.74 — 43,573 ratings — published 2017
This Thing Between Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.68 — 41,234 ratings — published 2021
Our Share of Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.25 — 65,160 ratings — published 2019
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 77,193 ratings — published 1926
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.17 — 99,115 ratings — published 1942
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 282,185 ratings — published 1973
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,468,990 ratings — published 1915
No Longer Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 21,838 ratings — published 2019
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,597 ratings — published 2020
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.50 — 207,167 ratings — published 2016
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.93 — 265,597 ratings — published 1948
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 752,945 ratings — published 2016
Welcome to Night Vale (Welcome to Night Vale, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.82 — 44,002 ratings — published 2015
Exiles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.63 — 7,520 ratings — published 2025
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.00 — 38,230 ratings — published 1963
North American Lake Monsters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,623 ratings — published 2013
Biomega, Vol. 6 (Biomega, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 707 ratings — published 2009
Biomega, Tome 4 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 774 ratings — published 2010
Lucky Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.82 — 10,296 ratings — published 2025
The Midnight Knock (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.37 — 1,332 ratings — published 2025
The Colour Out of Space (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 21,660 ratings — published 1927
You Weren't Meant to Be Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,727 ratings — published 2025
#DRCL midnight children 5 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.14 — 277 ratings — published 2024
The Grip of It (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.15 — 15,352 ratings — published 2017
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 17,586 ratings — published 1999
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.97 — 73,367 ratings — published 1965
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.15 — 441,271 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 4.16 — 91 ratings — published 2022
After God - Tome 05 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 209 ratings — published
After God - Tome 04 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 274 ratings — published
After God - Tome 03 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.22 — 347 ratings — published
Heart of Darkness & Tales of Unrest (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.17 — 397 ratings — published 1996
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.63 — 32,469 ratings — published 1973
“I have no hopes, only a searing curiosity to riddle the corpse of my dead sou”
― Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
― Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
“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









