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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 23338 times as horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,730,607 ratings — published 1977
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 19471 times as horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,288,896 ratings — published 1986
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 18748 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,501,385 ratings — published 1897
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 16332 times as horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 404,731 ratings — published 1959
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 16285 times as horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,937,647 ratings — published 1818
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16283 times as horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 859,697 ratings — published 1974
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15915 times as horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 711,671 ratings — published 1983
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 15669 times as horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 669,455 ratings — published 1975
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 13203 times as horror)
avg rating 4.21 — 803,991 ratings — published 1987
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 12096 times as horror)
avg rating 4.35 — 845,167 ratings — published 1978
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11200 times as horror)
avg rating 3.66 — 450,881 ratings — published 2020
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 10124 times as horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 205,002 ratings — published 2000
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9771 times as horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 303,863 ratings — published 1962
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 8889 times as horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 426,145 ratings — published 2017
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 8682 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 657,122 ratings — published 1976
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8099 times as horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 319,665 ratings — published 2020
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 7956 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 301,361 ratings — published 2013
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
by (shelved 7916 times as horror)
avg rating 3.68 — 118,674 ratings — published 2020
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 7882 times as horror)
avg rating 4.21 — 275,488 ratings — published 1971
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7560 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 572,076 ratings — published 2006
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 7439 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 790,448 ratings — published 2002
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7361 times as horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 325,696 ratings — published 1981
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 7129 times as horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 147,637 ratings — published 2022
NOS4A2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7040 times as horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 147,713 ratings — published 2013
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 7021 times as horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 209,700 ratings — published 1872
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6898 times as horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 676,935 ratings — published 1886
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6746 times as horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 130,995 ratings — published 2014
Horrorstör (Paperback)
by (shelved 6712 times as horror)
avg rating 3.65 — 128,283 ratings — published 2014
My Best Friend's Exorcism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6712 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 155,185 ratings — published 2016
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 6595 times as horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 212,973 ratings — published 2014
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6584 times as horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 156,112 ratings — published 2007
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 6550 times as horror)
avg rating 3.45 — 345,100 ratings — published 2019
The Outsider (Holly Gibney #1)
by (shelved 6503 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 388,454 ratings — published 2018
Needful Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 6233 times as horror)
avg rating 3.98 — 282,264 ratings — published 1991
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6144 times as horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 108,169 ratings — published 2015
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6140 times as horror)
avg rating 3.50 — 191,008 ratings — published 2021
Christine (Paperback)
by (shelved 6104 times as horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 266,232 ratings — published 1983
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6084 times as horror)
avg rating 3.63 — 173,047 ratings — published 2023
Let the Right One In (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5982 times as horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 122,032 ratings — published 2004
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5897 times as horror)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,924,270 ratings — published 1890
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 5888 times as horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 161,837 ratings — published 1967
Night Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 5884 times as horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 200,463 ratings — published 1978
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 5440 times as horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 183,048 ratings — published 1898
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5219 times as horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 155,964 ratings — published 1962
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 5203 times as horror)
avg rating 4.26 — 592,939 ratings — published 1988
Firestarter (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5133 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 249,215 ratings — published 1980
The Dead Zone (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5122 times as horror)
avg rating 3.97 — 249,148 ratings — published 1979
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5108 times as horror)
avg rating 3.60 — 283,740 ratings — published 2024
The Institute (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5104 times as horror)
avg rating 4.19 — 348,950 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 — 247,037 ratings — published 2014
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous creature. I think that one of the things that male patriarchal figure has done is, allowed under it's, his church, his wing, all kinds of corruptions and villainies to grow and fester. In the name of that God terrible wars have been waged, in the name of that God terrible sexism has been allowed to spread. There are children being born all across this world that don't have enough food to eat because that God, at least his church, tells the mothers and fathers that they must procreate at all costs, and to prevent procreation with a condom is in contravention with his laws. Now, I don't believe that God exists. I think that God is creation of men, by men, and for men. What has happened over the many centuries now, the better part of two thousand in fact, is that that God has been slowly and steadily accruing power. His church has been accruing power, and the men who run that church, and they are all men, are not about to give it up. If they give it up, they give up luxury, they give up comfort.”
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