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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 — 1,702,411 ratings — published 1977
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as scary)
avg rating 4.13 — 780,934 ratings — published 2002
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as scary)
avg rating 3.81 — 393,070 ratings — published 1959
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 153 times as scary)
avg rating 4.08 — 697,398 ratings — published 1983
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as scary)
avg rating 4.10 — 658,495 ratings — published 1975
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as scary)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,472,246 ratings — published 1897
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as scary)
avg rating 3.99 — 843,683 ratings — published 1974
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as scary)
avg rating 4.06 — 72,851 ratings — published 1981
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as scary)
avg rating 4.23 — 846,257 ratings — published 1987
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as scary)
avg rating 4.09 — 199,701 ratings — published 2000
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 110 times as scary)
avg rating 4.35 — 833,484 ratings — published 1978
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,355,861 ratings — published 2011
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 209,889 ratings — published 2014
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as scary)
avg rating 4.21 — 270,947 ratings — published 1971
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as scary)
avg rating 4.15 — 565,845 ratings — published 2008
Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as scary)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,746 ratings — published 2018
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as scary)
avg rating 3.66 — 440,772 ratings — published 2020
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 294,317 ratings — published 1962
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,879,405 ratings — published 1818
The Night Gardener (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,066 ratings — published 2014
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 70 times as scary)
avg rating 4.13 — 295,975 ratings — published 2013
Home Before Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as scary)
avg rating 4.04 — 311,640 ratings — published 2020
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as scary)
avg rating 3.79 — 309,002 ratings — published 2020
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as scary)
avg rating 3.78 — 105,642 ratings — published 2015
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as scary)
avg rating 4.15 — 584,999 ratings — published 2022
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as scary)
avg rating 3.83 — 125,328 ratings — published 2014
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
by (shelved 61 times as scary)
avg rating 4.25 — 75,174 ratings — published 2013
The Only Good Indians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as scary)
avg rating 3.68 — 113,845 ratings — published 2020
NOS4A2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as scary)
avg rating 4.07 — 144,680 ratings — published 2013
Doll Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 3.68 — 30,208 ratings — published 2013
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,609,141 ratings — published 1939
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.02 — 566,358 ratings — published 2006
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 3.84 — 153,405 ratings — published 2007
The Outsider (Holly Gibney #1)
by (shelved 57 times as scary)
avg rating 4.01 — 379,611 ratings — published 2018
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 56 times as scary)
avg rating 4.26 — 587,512 ratings — published 1988
The Winter People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as scary)
avg rating 3.82 — 96,078 ratings — published 2014
Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 107,623 ratings — published 2011
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as scary)
avg rating 3.80 — 320,952 ratings — published 1981
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 3.76 — 82,012 ratings — published 1983
Wait Till Helen Comes (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.11 — 26,110 ratings — published 1986
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Library Binding)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.10 — 20,632 ratings — published 1984
Needful Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 3.98 — 278,322 ratings — published 1991
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 158,935 ratings — published 1967
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 3.89 — 153,572 ratings — published 1962
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 83,087 ratings — published 1979
Bag of Bones (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 211,180 ratings — published 1998
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as scary)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,440,373 ratings — published 1949
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as scary)
avg rating 3.64 — 166,700 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
“Routine had become rhythm. Rhythm had become identity.”
― The Dog Walker: The Prequel
― The Dog Walker: The Prequel
