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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 23786 times as horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,764,390 ratings — published 1977
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 19847 times as horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,317,054 ratings — published 1986
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 19518 times as horror)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,536,672 ratings — published 1897
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 16844 times as horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 421,494 ratings — published 1959
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 16704 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,995,126 ratings — published 1818
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16626 times as horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 880,881 ratings — published 1974
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16264 times as horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 730,603 ratings — published 1983
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 15980 times as horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 683,192 ratings — published 1975
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 13513 times as horror)
avg rating 4.22 — 856,457 ratings — published 1987
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 12322 times as horror)
avg rating 4.35 — 861,144 ratings — published 1978
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11516 times as horror)
avg rating 3.66 — 464,608 ratings — published 2020
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 10560 times as horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 212,314 ratings — published 2000
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 10100 times as horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 317,040 ratings — published 1962
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 9423 times as horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 470,533 ratings — published 2017
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 8873 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 668,967 ratings — published 1976
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8357 times as horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 335,742 ratings — published 2020
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
by (shelved 8151 times as horror)
avg rating 3.68 — 125,157 ratings — published 2020
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 8099 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 307,494 ratings — published 2013
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 8093 times as horror)
avg rating 4.21 — 281,906 ratings — published 1971
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7642 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 580,140 ratings — published 2006
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 7579 times as horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 158,395 ratings — published 2022
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 7557 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 802,955 ratings — published 2002
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7481 times as horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 331,351 ratings — published 1981
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 7404 times as horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 225,821 ratings — published 1872
NOS4A2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7150 times as horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 150,798 ratings — published 2013
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7050 times as horror)
avg rating 3.82 — 139,746 ratings — published 2014
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7048 times as horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 695,286 ratings — published 1886
Horrorstör (Paperback)
by (shelved 6900 times as horror)
avg rating 3.64 — 134,392 ratings — published 2014
My Best Friend's Exorcism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6879 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 161,883 ratings — published 2016
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 6871 times as horror)
avg rating 3.44 — 368,366 ratings — published 2019
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6707 times as horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 159,604 ratings — published 2007
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 6685 times as horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 216,763 ratings — published 2014
The Outsider (Holly Gibney, #1)
by (shelved 6640 times as horror)
avg rating 4.01 — 399,367 ratings — published 2018
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6330 times as horror)
avg rating 3.49 — 198,646 ratings — published 2021
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6330 times as horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 112,175 ratings — published 2015
Needful Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 6326 times as horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 287,193 ratings — published 1991
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6285 times as horror)
avg rating 3.63 — 180,653 ratings — published 2023
Christine (Paperback)
by (shelved 6200 times as horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 269,981 ratings — published 1983
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 6090 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,993,634 ratings — published 1890
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 6083 times as horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 166,484 ratings — published 1967
Let the Right One In (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6064 times as horror)
avg rating 4.03 — 123,719 ratings — published 2004
Night Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 6004 times as horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 203,420 ratings — published 1978
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5715 times as horror)
avg rating 3.58 — 326,874 ratings — published 2024
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 5569 times as horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 187,350 ratings — published 1898
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5336 times as horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 158,864 ratings — published 1962
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 5304 times as horror)
avg rating 4.26 — 600,758 ratings — published 1988
The Institute (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5235 times as horror)
avg rating 4.19 — 358,987 ratings — published 2019
The Dead Zone (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5216 times as horror)
avg rating 3.97 — 253,816 ratings — published 1979
Firestarter (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5194 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 252,629 ratings — published 1980
The Last House on Needless Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5110 times as horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 163,853 ratings — published 2021
“We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.”
― The 5th Wave
― The 5th Wave
“Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.”
― Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three
― Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three
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classic-horror, horror-classics, horror-fiction, and horror-literature