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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 — 1,674,589 ratings — published 1977
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as scary)
avg rating 4.13 — 771,487 ratings — published 2002
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as scary)
avg rating 3.81 — 380,064 ratings — published 1959
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 150 times as scary)
avg rating 4.08 — 683,982 ratings — published 1983
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as scary)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,441,963 ratings — published 1897
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as scary)
avg rating 3.99 — 829,156 ratings — published 1974
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as scary)
avg rating 4.10 — 647,978 ratings — published 1975
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as scary)
avg rating 4.06 — 72,253 ratings — published 1981
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as scary)
avg rating 4.23 — 831,123 ratings — published 1987
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 109 times as scary)
avg rating 4.35 — 824,323 ratings — published 1978
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as scary)
avg rating 4.09 — 195,849 ratings — published 2000
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as scary)
avg rating 4.15 — 563,684 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 — 1,346,782 ratings — published 2011
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 207,851 ratings — published 2014
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as scary)
avg rating 4.21 — 265,864 ratings — published 1971
Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as scary)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,244 ratings — published 2018
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as scary)
avg rating 3.67 — 429,617 ratings — published 2020
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as scary)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,812,023 ratings — published 1818
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 71 times as scary)
avg rating 4.13 — 291,381 ratings — published 2013
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 284,600 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 — 298,058 ratings — published 2020
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as scary)
avg rating 3.78 — 103,596 ratings — published 2015
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as scary)
avg rating 3.79 — 296,727 ratings — published 2020
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as scary)
avg rating 3.83 — 120,756 ratings — published 2014
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as scary)
avg rating 4.15 — 549,607 ratings — published 2022
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
by (shelved 61 times as scary)
avg rating 4.25 — 74,064 ratings — published 2013
Doll Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 3.67 — 30,049 ratings — published 2013
The Only Good Indians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 3.68 — 109,009 ratings — published 2020
The Outsider (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.01 — 371,306 ratings — published 2018
NOS4A2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.07 — 141,695 ratings — published 2013
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,577,387 ratings — published 1939
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as scary)
avg rating 4.02 — 561,892 ratings — published 2006
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as scary)
avg rating 3.84 — 151,211 ratings — published 2007
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 56 times as scary)
avg rating 4.26 — 583,285 ratings — published 1988
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as scary)
avg rating 3.90 — 149,959 ratings — published 1962
The Winter People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as scary)
avg rating 3.82 — 92,249 ratings — published 2014
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as scary)
avg rating 3.80 — 317,455 ratings — published 1981
Wait Till Helen Comes (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.12 — 25,918 ratings — published 1986
Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 107,472 ratings — published 2011
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Library Binding)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.11 — 20,407 ratings — published 1984
Needful Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 3.98 — 274,066 ratings — published 1991
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 156,547 ratings — published 1967
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 3.75 — 80,144 ratings — published 1983
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,335,628 ratings — published 1949
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 82,384 ratings — published 1979
Bag of Bones (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 209,854 ratings — published 1998
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as scary)
avg rating 3.64 — 158,273 ratings — published 2023
“She put all of her weight against the sill of the balcony, her lovesick heart ready and willing to join the man she loved. She closed her eyes and pushed herself forward. From three stories high, she plummeted to the earth. Before hitting the ground, she swore she saw him, racing down from the heavens and lifting her up towards God’s domain where lovers never ceased to rule.”
― The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction
― The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction
“You're like a half-tamed creature, still shy of the bridle. 'Except you enthrall me, never shall be free.' But freedom is an illusion, anyway.”
― Fearscape
― Fearscape
