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Scary Books
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 278 times as scary)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,732,513 ratings — published 1977
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as scary)
avg rating 4.13 — 791,183 ratings — published 2002
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as scary)
avg rating 3.81 — 405,699 ratings — published 1959
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 152 times as scary)
avg rating 4.09 — 712,758 ratings — published 1983
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as scary)
avg rating 4.10 — 670,257 ratings — published 1975
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as scary)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,503,578 ratings — published 1897
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as scary)
avg rating 3.99 — 860,830 ratings — published 1974
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Scary Stories, #1)
by (shelved 137 times as scary)
avg rating 4.06 — 73,411 ratings — published 1981
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as scary)
avg rating 4.22 — 834,325 ratings — published 1987
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as scary)
avg rating 4.09 — 205,475 ratings — published 2000
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 112 times as scary)
avg rating 4.35 — 846,176 ratings — published 1978
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as scary)
avg rating 4.21 — 275,869 ratings — published 1971
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,366,872 ratings — published 2011
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as scary)
avg rating 4.15 — 568,305 ratings — published 2008
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 213,209 ratings — published 2014
Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as scary)
avg rating 4.01 — 30,254 ratings — published 2018
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as scary)
avg rating 3.66 — 451,676 ratings — published 2020
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,941,312 ratings — published 1818
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 72 times as scary)
avg rating 4.13 — 301,740 ratings — published 2013
The Night Gardener (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,261 ratings — published 2014
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 304,720 ratings — published 1962
Home Before Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as scary)
avg rating 4.04 — 325,406 ratings — published 2020
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as scary)
avg rating 3.78 — 320,520 ratings — published 2020
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as scary)
avg rating 3.78 — 108,429 ratings — published 2015
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as scary)
avg rating 4.14 — 632,108 ratings — published 2022
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
by (shelved 62 times as scary)
avg rating 4.25 — 76,667 ratings — published 2013
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as scary)
avg rating 3.83 — 131,490 ratings — published 2014
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 3.68 — 119,071 ratings — published 2020
Doll Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 3.68 — 30,378 ratings — published 2013
NOS4A2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 4.07 — 147,914 ratings — published 2013
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,653,792 ratings — published 1939
The Outsider (Holly Gibney #1)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.02 — 389,154 ratings — published 2018
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 3.84 — 156,332 ratings — published 2007
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.26 — 593,358 ratings — published 1988
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as scary)
avg rating 4.02 — 572,561 ratings — published 2006
The Winter People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as scary)
avg rating 3.81 — 101,358 ratings — published 2014
Needful Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as scary)
avg rating 3.98 — 282,554 ratings — published 1991
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as scary)
avg rating 3.80 — 326,015 ratings — published 1981
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as scary)
avg rating 4.06 — 162,079 ratings — published 1967
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as scary)
avg rating 3.76 — 83,665 ratings — published 1983
Wait Till Helen Comes (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.11 — 26,361 ratings — published 1986
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Library Binding)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.10 — 20,799 ratings — published 1984
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 83,804 ratings — published 1979
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 3.89 — 156,143 ratings — published 1962
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,585,790 ratings — published 1948
Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 107,807 ratings — published 2011
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as scary)
avg rating 3.60 — 286,582 ratings — published 2024
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as scary)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,247,150 ratings — published 2006
“t felt like stepping into a spa, or a dream, or a memory she hadn’t known she missed.”
― The Dog Walker: The Prequel
― The Dog Walker: The Prequel
“Look around! Look what we’ve done to the world. We fucked everything up. In a few years it’s going to be unlivable. We don’t deserve to be stewards of this planet. And that pales to the things we do to each other. We’re monsters, Sander, and someone needs to end it.”
― The Sixth Borough
― The Sixth Borough
