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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 22677 times as horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,685,845 ratings — published 1977
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 19098 times as horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,251,614 ratings — published 1986
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 18243 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,454,566 ratings — published 1897
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15970 times as horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 834,564 ratings — published 1974
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 15897 times as horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 386,704 ratings — published 1959
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 15713 times as horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,844,218 ratings — published 1818
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15567 times as horror)
avg rating 4.08 — 689,598 ratings — published 1983
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 15411 times as horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 652,476 ratings — published 1975
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 13417 times as horror)
avg rating 4.23 — 836,657 ratings — published 1987
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 11885 times as horror)
avg rating 4.35 — 827,678 ratings — published 1978
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10938 times as horror)
avg rating 3.67 — 435,078 ratings — published 2020
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 9782 times as horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 197,316 ratings — published 2000
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9471 times as horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 289,208 ratings — published 1962
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 8517 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 644,441 ratings — published 1976
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 8344 times as horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 376,868 ratings — published 2017
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7867 times as horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 303,090 ratings — published 2020
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 7784 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 293,122 ratings — published 2013
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 7685 times as horror)
avg rating 4.21 — 268,532 ratings — published 1971
The Only Good Indians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7673 times as horror)
avg rating 3.68 — 111,184 ratings — published 2020
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7473 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 563,520 ratings — published 2006
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 7334 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 775,236 ratings — published 2002
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7258 times as horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 318,948 ratings — published 1981
NOS4A2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6918 times as horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 142,587 ratings — published 2013
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6690 times as horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 657,540 ratings — published 1886
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 6679 times as horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 132,900 ratings — published 2022
My Best Friend's Exorcism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6569 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 148,817 ratings — published 2016
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6547 times as horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 122,705 ratings — published 2014
Horrorstör (Paperback)
by (shelved 6524 times as horror)
avg rating 3.65 — 122,027 ratings — published 2014
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 6515 times as horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 187,876 ratings — published 1872
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6499 times as horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 152,110 ratings — published 2007
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 6493 times as horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 208,681 ratings — published 2014
The Outsider (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6386 times as horror)
avg rating 4.01 — 374,674 ratings — published 2018
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 6192 times as horror)
avg rating 3.47 — 314,640 ratings — published 2019
Needful Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 6117 times as horror)
avg rating 3.98 — 275,229 ratings — published 1991
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6018 times as horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 104,499 ratings — published 2015
Christine (Paperback)
by (shelved 6009 times as horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 262,058 ratings — published 1983
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6003 times as horror)
avg rating 3.50 — 181,195 ratings — published 2021
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5875 times as horror)
avg rating 3.64 — 162,851 ratings — published 2023
Let the Right One In (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5846 times as horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 120,112 ratings — published 2004
Night Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 5810 times as horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 197,102 ratings — published 1978
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 5762 times as horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 157,705 ratings — published 1967
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5699 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,842,291 ratings — published 1890
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 5330 times as horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 177,785 ratings — published 1898
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 5098 times as horror)
avg rating 4.26 — 585,020 ratings — published 1988
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5098 times as horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 152,117 ratings — published 1962
Firestarter (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5055 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 245,382 ratings — published 1980
The Dead Zone (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5031 times as horror)
avg rating 3.97 — 243,974 ratings — published 1979
The Institute (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4988 times as horror)
avg rating 4.20 — 335,172 ratings — published 2019
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
by (shelved 4918 times as horror)
avg rating 3.95 — 243,705 ratings — published 2014
The Last House on Needless Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4768 times as horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 143,007 ratings — published 2021
“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
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“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...”
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classic-horror, horror-classics, horror-fiction, and horror-literature
