49 books
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4 voters
Horrors Books
Showing 1-50 of 3,760
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as horrors)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,733,019 ratings — published 1977
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as horrors)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,290,811 ratings — published 1986
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.81 — 405,978 ratings — published 1959
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as horrors)
avg rating 4.10 — 670,487 ratings — published 1975
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as horrors)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,504,116 ratings — published 1897
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as horrors)
avg rating 4.22 — 834,624 ratings — published 1987
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.99 — 861,144 ratings — published 1974
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as horrors)
avg rating 4.21 — 275,976 ratings — published 1971
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.78 — 108,500 ratings — published 2015
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as horrors)
avg rating 4.09 — 713,050 ratings — published 1983
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as horrors)
avg rating 4.09 — 205,601 ratings — published 2000
NOS4A2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as horrors)
avg rating 4.07 — 147,967 ratings — published 2013
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as horrors)
avg rating 4.06 — 162,157 ratings — published 1967
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.66 — 451,863 ratings — published 2020
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as horrors)
avg rating 4.13 — 301,843 ratings — published 2013
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.91 — 304,910 ratings — published 1962
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.91 — 83,822 ratings — published 1979
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 11 times as horrors)
avg rating 4.35 — 846,445 ratings — published 1978
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.84 — 156,398 ratings — published 2007
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.83 — 131,605 ratings — published 2014
The Outsider (Holly Gibney #1)
by (shelved 10 times as horrors)
avg rating 4.02 — 389,321 ratings — published 2018
The Amityville Horror (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.82 — 138,776 ratings — published 1977
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.76 — 112,421 ratings — published 1984
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as horrors)
avg rating 4.14 — 632,980 ratings — published 2022
The Last House on Needless Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.80 — 154,391 ratings — published 2021
My Best Friend's Exorcism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.92 — 155,622 ratings — published 2016
The Girl Next Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.91 — 57,346 ratings — published 1989
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,942,211 ratings — published 1818
Needful Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.98 — 282,619 ratings — published 1991
The Tommyknockers (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.61 — 166,825 ratings — published 1987
Christine (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.86 — 266,511 ratings — published 1983
Horror Movie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.25 — 50,078 ratings — published 2024
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.84 — 148,466 ratings — published 2022
The Reformatory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as horrors)
avg rating 4.43 — 81,416 ratings — published 2023
Stolen Tongues (Stolen Tongues, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.75 — 64,473 ratings — published 2017
My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.50 — 54,516 ratings — published 2021
Ring Shout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.93 — 62,467 ratings — published 2020
The Cabin at the End of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.32 — 93,991 ratings — published 2018
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.78 — 320,741 ratings — published 2020
The Institute (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as horrors)
avg rating 4.19 — 349,731 ratings — published 2019
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as horrors)
avg rating 4.01 — 120,999 ratings — published 1928
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as horrors)
avg rating 4.05 — 213,267 ratings — published 2014
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.86 — 210,845 ratings — published 1872
The Omen (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as horrors)
avg rating 4.04 — 70,205 ratings — published 1976
Thinner (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.78 — 229,478 ratings — published 1984
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.80 — 326,096 ratings — published 1981
Hell House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.68 — 64,673 ratings — published 1971
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as horrors)
avg rating 4.13 — 791,386 ratings — published 2002
Full Dark, No Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as horrors)
avg rating 4.09 — 118,977 ratings — published 2011
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as horrors)
avg rating 3.60 — 287,365 ratings — published 2024
“Kafka's long nightmares were but a preparation for the actual horrors we were to experience even to a greater degree.”
― Sextet: Six essays
― Sextet: Six essays
“The horror of that image has never diminished, but it has long ceased to be a morbid matter; as with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things.”
― A Pale View of Hills
― A Pale View of Hills







