Sign in with Facebook
1,184 books
—
1,254 voters
Scary Books
Showing 1-50 of 14,618
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 279 times as scary)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,721,445 ratings — published 1977
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as scary)
avg rating 4.13 — 787,019 ratings — published 2002
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as scary)
avg rating 3.81 — 400,412 ratings — published 1959
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 153 times as scary)
avg rating 4.08 — 706,700 ratings — published 1983
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as scary)
avg rating 4.10 — 665,755 ratings — published 1975
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as scary)
avg rating 3.99 — 854,338 ratings — published 1974
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as scary)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,490,944 ratings — published 1897
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Scary Stories, #1)
by (shelved 137 times as scary)
avg rating 4.06 — 73,186 ratings — published 1981
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as scary)
avg rating 4.23 — 858,576 ratings — published 1987
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as scary)
avg rating 4.09 — 203,054 ratings — published 2000
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 112 times as scary)
avg rating 4.35 — 840,985 ratings — published 1978
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as scary)
avg rating 4.21 — 273,861 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 — 1,362,501 ratings — published 2011
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as scary)
avg rating 4.15 — 567,237 ratings — published 2008
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 211,927 ratings — published 2014
Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as scary)
avg rating 4.01 — 30,059 ratings — published 2018
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as scary)
avg rating 3.66 — 447,247 ratings — published 2020
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,918,505 ratings — published 1818
The Night Gardener (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,181 ratings — published 2014
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 71 times as scary)
avg rating 4.13 — 299,499 ratings — published 2013
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 300,380 ratings — published 1962
Home Before Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as scary)
avg rating 4.04 — 319,721 ratings — published 2020
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as scary)
avg rating 4.14 — 613,541 ratings — published 2022
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as scary)
avg rating 3.78 — 315,961 ratings — published 2020
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as scary)
avg rating 3.78 — 107,178 ratings — published 2015
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
by (shelved 61 times as scary)
avg rating 4.25 — 76,081 ratings — published 2013
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as scary)
avg rating 3.83 — 128,928 ratings — published 2014
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 3.68 — 116,897 ratings — published 2020
Doll Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 3.68 — 30,305 ratings — published 2013
NOS4A2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 4.07 — 146,745 ratings — published 2013
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,635,847 ratings — published 1939
The Outsider (Holly Gibney #1)
by (shelved 57 times as scary)
avg rating 4.01 — 385,392 ratings — published 2018
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as scary)
avg rating 4.02 — 570,070 ratings — published 2006
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as scary)
avg rating 3.84 — 155,158 ratings — published 2007
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 57 times as scary)
avg rating 4.26 — 591,016 ratings — published 1988
The Winter People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as scary)
avg rating 3.81 — 99,900 ratings — published 2014
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as scary)
avg rating 3.76 — 83,025 ratings — published 1983
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as scary)
avg rating 3.80 — 324,290 ratings — published 1981
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as scary)
avg rating 4.06 — 160,768 ratings — published 1967
Wait Till Helen Comes (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.11 — 26,250 ratings — published 1986
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Library Binding)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.10 — 20,728 ratings — published 1984
Needful Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 3.98 — 280,847 ratings — published 1991
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 3.89 — 155,063 ratings — published 1962
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,529,709 ratings — published 1948
Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 107,723 ratings — published 2011
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 83,519 ratings — published 1979
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as scary)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,236,091 ratings — published 2006
Bag of Bones (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 212,220 ratings — published 1998
“It was always the pretty streets that hid the ugliest
stories. She’d learned that the hard way. ”
― Secrets
stories. She’d learned that the hard way. ”
― Secrets
“Just remember,” he told her. “If you run from me, I will pursue.”
― Fearscape
― Fearscape
