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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as scare)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,783,774 ratings — published 1977
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as scare)
avg rating 4.00 — 60,144 ratings — published 2006
Gone to See the River Man (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.63 — 27,545 ratings — published 2020
Maeve Fly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scare)
avg rating 3.64 — 32,361 ratings — published 2023
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 496,388 ratings — published 2017
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scare)
avg rating 3.82 — 145,842 ratings — published 2014
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scare)
avg rating 4.13 — 720,436 ratings — published 2022
Frankenstein (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 2,029,956 ratings — published 1818
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 899,174 ratings — published 1974
Skeleton Crew (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 142,286 ratings — published 1985
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 692,580 ratings — published 1975
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 27,612 ratings — published 2010
House of Leaves (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 216,180 ratings — published 2000
Haunted (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 113,734 ratings — published 2005
Bag of Bones (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 216,387 ratings — published 1998
Everything's Eventual (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 111,789 ratings — published 2002
The House Across the Lake (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as scare)
avg rating 3.57 — 501,124 ratings — published 2022
Road of Bones (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.36 — 12,645 ratings — published 2022
This Wretched Valley (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.24 — 13,510 ratings — published 2024
Come & Play: A Ghostly Horror Novella (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as scare)
avg rating 3.60 — 57 ratings — published
Mother May I (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 25,581 ratings — published 2021
Seven Years of Darkness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 4,010 ratings — published 2011
The Dancing Girls (Detective Jo Fournier, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as scare)
avg rating 3.60 — 18,273 ratings — published 2019
Near the Bone (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 23,085 ratings — published 2021
Chrysalis (Jeremy Logan, #6)
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avg rating 3.87 — 7,769 ratings — published 2022
The Best Friend (Hardcover)
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avg rating 2.65 — 1,847 ratings — published 2022
Behind Every Lie (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scare)
avg rating 3.84 — 7,885 ratings — published 2020
Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 50,083 ratings — published 2017
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
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avg rating 4.21 — 289,191 ratings — published 1971
A Certain Hunger (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 74,873 ratings — published 2019
The Girl in the Locked Room: A Ghost Story ― A Ghost Story About a Girl Imprisoned for a Century, for Kids (Ages 10-12)
by (shelved 1 time as scare)
avg rating 3.78 — 8,149 ratings — published 2018
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as scare)
avg rating 3.40 — 498 ratings — published 2011
Not So Perfect Strangers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scare)
avg rating 3.59 — 11,523 ratings — published 2023
A Clean Kill (Garrett Mann, #1)
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avg rating 4.10 — 11,812 ratings — published 2024
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as scare)
avg rating 4.26 — 605,662 ratings — published 1988
A Botanical Daughter (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.58 — 7,517 ratings — published 2024
Stolen Tongues (Stolen Tongues, #1)
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avg rating 3.73 — 71,610 ratings — published 2017
Dead Silence (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 41,772 ratings — published 2022
Something is Out There: A Collection of Dark Fiction (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Japanese Gothic (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 32,411 ratings — published 2026
“Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.”
― Fool's Assassin
― Fool's Assassin
“He's seen all the worst parts of me, and it hasn't scared him off yet." Those words hit something deep inside of me, and I knew they were going to linger. "That...must be nice." "Sure makes the world seem less scary." he said.”
― Here Lies Daniel Tate
― Here Lies Daniel Tate
