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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 23338 times as horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,730,675 ratings — published 1977
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 19471 times as horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,288,956 ratings — published 1986
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 18748 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,501,467 ratings — published 1897
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 16332 times as horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 404,760 ratings — published 1959
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 16285 times as horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,937,786 ratings — published 1818
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16283 times as horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 859,743 ratings — published 1974
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15915 times as horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 711,707 ratings — published 1983
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 15669 times as horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 669,490 ratings — published 1975
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 13203 times as horror)
avg rating 4.21 — 804,051 ratings — published 1987
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 12096 times as horror)
avg rating 4.35 — 845,207 ratings — published 1978
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11200 times as horror)
avg rating 3.66 — 450,909 ratings — published 2020
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 10124 times as horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 205,023 ratings — published 2000
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9771 times as horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 303,893 ratings — published 1962
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 8889 times as horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 426,233 ratings — published 2017
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 8682 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 657,151 ratings — published 1976
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8099 times as horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 319,692 ratings — published 2020
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 7956 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 301,377 ratings — published 2013
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
by (shelved 7916 times as horror)
avg rating 3.68 — 118,686 ratings — published 2020
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 7882 times as horror)
avg rating 4.21 — 275,508 ratings — published 1971
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7560 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 572,093 ratings — published 2006
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 7439 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 790,482 ratings — published 2002
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7361 times as horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 325,706 ratings — published 1981
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 7129 times as horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 147,657 ratings — published 2022
NOS4A2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7040 times as horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 147,719 ratings — published 2013
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 7021 times as horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 209,741 ratings — published 1872
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6898 times as horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 676,974 ratings — published 1886
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6746 times as horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 131,009 ratings — published 2014
Horrorstör (Paperback)
by (shelved 6712 times as horror)
avg rating 3.65 — 128,300 ratings — published 2014
My Best Friend's Exorcism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6712 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 155,189 ratings — published 2016
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 6595 times as horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 212,975 ratings — published 2014
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6584 times as horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 156,115 ratings — published 2007
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 6550 times as horror)
avg rating 3.45 — 345,147 ratings — published 2019
The Outsider (Holly Gibney #1)
by (shelved 6503 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 388,480 ratings — published 2018
Needful Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 6233 times as horror)
avg rating 3.98 — 282,279 ratings — published 1991
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6144 times as horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 108,175 ratings — published 2015
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6140 times as horror)
avg rating 3.50 — 191,029 ratings — published 2021
Christine (Paperback)
by (shelved 6104 times as horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 266,236 ratings — published 1983
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6084 times as horror)
avg rating 3.63 — 173,057 ratings — published 2023
Let the Right One In (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5982 times as horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 122,037 ratings — published 2004
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5897 times as horror)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,924,423 ratings — published 1890
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 5888 times as horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 161,840 ratings — published 1967
Night Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 5884 times as horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 200,471 ratings — published 1978
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 5440 times as horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 183,054 ratings — published 1898
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5219 times as horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 155,968 ratings — published 1962
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 5203 times as horror)
avg rating 4.26 — 592,948 ratings — published 1988
Firestarter (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5133 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 249,230 ratings — published 1980
The Dead Zone (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5122 times as horror)
avg rating 3.97 — 249,158 ratings — published 1979
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5108 times as horror)
avg rating 3.60 — 283,817 ratings — published 2024
The Institute (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5104 times as horror)
avg rating 4.19 — 348,978 ratings — published 2019
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
by (shelved 4978 times as horror)
avg rating 3.95 — 247,044 ratings — published 2014
“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
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“I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”
― The Outsider
― The Outsider
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