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Scary Books
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 276 times as scary)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,674,365 ratings — published 1977
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as scary)
avg rating 4.13 — 771,373 ratings — published 2002
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as scary)
avg rating 3.81 — 379,849 ratings — published 1959
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 150 times as scary)
avg rating 4.08 — 683,844 ratings — published 1983
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as scary)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,441,653 ratings — published 1897
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as scary)
avg rating 3.99 — 829,010 ratings — published 1974
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as scary)
avg rating 4.10 — 647,877 ratings — published 1975
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as scary)
avg rating 4.06 — 72,241 ratings — published 1981
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as scary)
avg rating 4.23 — 830,976 ratings — published 1987
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 109 times as scary)
avg rating 4.35 — 824,241 ratings — published 1978
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as scary)
avg rating 4.09 — 195,817 ratings — published 2000
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as scary)
avg rating 4.15 — 563,664 ratings — published 2008
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,346,701 ratings — published 2011
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 207,832 ratings — published 2014
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as scary)
avg rating 4.21 — 265,774 ratings — published 1971
Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as scary)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,234 ratings — published 2018
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as scary)
avg rating 3.67 — 429,480 ratings — published 2020
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as scary)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,811,507 ratings — published 1818
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 71 times as scary)
avg rating 4.13 — 291,339 ratings — published 2013
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 284,481 ratings — published 1962
The Night Gardener (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 21,896 ratings — published 2014
Home Before Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 297,857 ratings — published 2020
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as scary)
avg rating 3.78 — 103,573 ratings — published 2015
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as scary)
avg rating 3.79 — 296,540 ratings — published 2020
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as scary)
avg rating 3.83 — 120,703 ratings — published 2014
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as scary)
avg rating 4.15 — 549,217 ratings — published 2022
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
by (shelved 61 times as scary)
avg rating 4.25 — 74,051 ratings — published 2013
Doll Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 3.67 — 30,048 ratings — published 2013
The Only Good Indians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 3.68 — 108,935 ratings — published 2020
The Outsider (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.01 — 371,222 ratings — published 2018
NOS4A2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.07 — 141,675 ratings — published 2013
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,577,149 ratings — published 1939
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as scary)
avg rating 4.02 — 561,860 ratings — published 2006
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as scary)
avg rating 3.84 — 151,190 ratings — published 2007
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 56 times as scary)
avg rating 4.26 — 583,251 ratings — published 1988
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as scary)
avg rating 3.90 — 149,891 ratings — published 1962
The Winter People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as scary)
avg rating 3.82 — 92,234 ratings — published 2014
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as scary)
avg rating 3.80 — 317,409 ratings — published 1981
Wait Till Helen Comes (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.12 — 25,916 ratings — published 1986
Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 107,474 ratings — published 2011
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Library Binding)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.11 — 20,406 ratings — published 1984
Needful Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 3.98 — 274,043 ratings — published 1991
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 156,521 ratings — published 1967
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 3.75 — 80,110 ratings — published 1983
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,334,938 ratings — published 1949
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 82,378 ratings — published 1979
Bag of Bones (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 209,847 ratings — published 1998
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as scary)
avg rating 3.64 — 158,132 ratings — published 2023
“Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time...
But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once.”
― Through the Woods
But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once.”
― Through the Woods
“Within its gates I heard the sound
Of winds in cypress caverns caught
Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought
To whisper what their roots had found.
(“A Dream of Fear”)”
― The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror
Of winds in cypress caverns caught
Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought
To whisper what their roots had found.
(“A Dream of Fear”)”
― The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror
