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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 24020 times as horror)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,776,926 ratings — published 1977
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 20019 times as horror)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,327,079 ratings — published 1986
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 19797 times as horror)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,554,521 ratings — published 1897
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 17146 times as horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 431,214 ratings — published 1959
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 16910 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,017,173 ratings — published 1818
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16841 times as horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 891,811 ratings — published 1974
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16307 times as horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 734,694 ratings — published 1983
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 16115 times as horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 688,959 ratings — published 1975
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 13662 times as horror)
avg rating 4.22 — 865,360 ratings — published 1987
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 12409 times as horror)
avg rating 4.35 — 866,209 ratings — published 1978
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11662 times as horror)
avg rating 3.66 — 471,319 ratings — published 2020
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 10700 times as horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 214,945 ratings — published 2000
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 10316 times as horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 323,960 ratings — published 1962
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 9651 times as horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 487,563 ratings — published 2017
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 8967 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 673,368 ratings — published 1976
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8486 times as horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 343,540 ratings — published 2020
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
by (shelved 8291 times as horror)
avg rating 3.68 — 127,926 ratings — published 2020
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 8253 times as horror)
avg rating 4.21 — 285,485 ratings — published 1971
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 8151 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 309,717 ratings — published 2013
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 7763 times as horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 163,262 ratings — published 2022
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7710 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 582,944 ratings — published 2006
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 7618 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 808,309 ratings — published 2002
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 7561 times as horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 233,582 ratings — published 1872
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7530 times as horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 333,404 ratings — published 1981
NOS4A2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7201 times as horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 151,957 ratings — published 2013
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7177 times as horror)
avg rating 3.82 — 143,652 ratings — published 2014
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7133 times as horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 703,201 ratings — published 1886
Horrorstör (Paperback)
by (shelved 6997 times as horror)
avg rating 3.64 — 136,763 ratings — published 2014
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 6957 times as horror)
avg rating 3.44 — 376,007 ratings — published 2019
My Best Friend's Exorcism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6937 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 164,580 ratings — published 2016
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6765 times as horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 160,943 ratings — published 2007
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 6732 times as horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 218,229 ratings — published 2014
The Outsider (Holly Gibney, #1)
by (shelved 6701 times as horror)
avg rating 4.01 — 403,023 ratings — published 2018
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6417 times as horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 113,995 ratings — published 2015
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6406 times as horror)
avg rating 3.63 — 184,206 ratings — published 2023
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6393 times as horror)
avg rating 3.49 — 201,602 ratings — published 2021
Needful Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 6363 times as horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 288,802 ratings — published 1991
Christine (Paperback)
by (shelved 6242 times as horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 271,257 ratings — published 1983
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 6185 times as horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 168,693 ratings — published 1967
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 6171 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,017,903 ratings — published 1890
Let the Right One In (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6104 times as horror)
avg rating 4.03 — 124,407 ratings — published 2004
Night Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 6044 times as horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 204,599 ratings — published 1978
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5930 times as horror)
avg rating 3.58 — 341,854 ratings — published 2024
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 5628 times as horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 189,451 ratings — published 1898
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5422 times as horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 160,891 ratings — published 1962
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 5364 times as horror)
avg rating 4.26 — 604,038 ratings — published 1988
The Institute (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5282 times as horror)
avg rating 4.19 — 362,707 ratings — published 2019
The Dead Zone (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5252 times as horror)
avg rating 3.97 — 255,388 ratings — published 1979
The Last House on Needless Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5230 times as horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 168,047 ratings — published 2021
Firestarter (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5225 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 253,891 ratings — published 1980
“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”
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“The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.”
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We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.”
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classic-horror, horror-classics, horror-fiction, and horror-literature