219 books
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162 voters
Spooky Books
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The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 527 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.81 — 406,996 ratings — published 1959
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 428 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.91 — 305,740 ratings — published 1962
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 415 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.66 — 452,720 ratings — published 2020
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 401 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,506,406 ratings — published 1897
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 378 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,946,175 ratings — published 1818
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 371 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,735,251 ratings — published 1977
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 364 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.13 — 792,171 ratings — published 2002
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 262 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.86 — 212,221 ratings — published 1872
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.09 — 206,070 ratings — published 2000
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 239 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.15 — 568,570 ratings — published 2008
Home Before Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 237 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.04 — 326,824 ratings — published 2020
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 236 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.84 — 149,266 ratings — published 2022
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 235 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.78 — 321,671 ratings — published 2020
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,292,588 ratings — published 1986
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.20 — 114,518 ratings — published 2021
My Best Friend's Exorcism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 215 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.92 — 156,012 ratings — published 2016
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 207 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.09 — 714,204 ratings — published 1983
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 206 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.63 — 174,223 ratings — published 2023
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.77 — 432,084 ratings — published 2017
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 203 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.45 — 348,545 ratings — published 2019
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.10 — 671,370 ratings — published 1975
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.99 — 862,449 ratings — published 1974
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.89 — 156,375 ratings — published 1962
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.59 — 290,504 ratings — published 2024
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 190 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.25 — 740,524 ratings — published 1938
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.38 — 183,624 ratings — published 1898
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
by (shelved 189 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.68 — 119,606 ratings — published 2020
Horrorstör (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.65 — 129,218 ratings — published 2014
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.14 — 636,574 ratings — published 2022
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 173 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.00 — 411,230 ratings — published 2019
The Silent Companions (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.87 — 47,045 ratings — published 2017
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.83 — 679,597 ratings — published 1886
The September House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.85 — 101,934 ratings — published 2023
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.50 — 192,180 ratings — published 2021
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.22 — 836,052 ratings — published 1987
The Last House on Needless Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.80 — 155,019 ratings — published 2021
The Sun Down Motel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.99 — 196,554 ratings — published 2020
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,933,787 ratings — published 1890
Starling House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.78 — 171,539 ratings — published 2023
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,420,827 ratings — published 2019
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 146 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,367,959 ratings — published 2011
A Dowry of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.92 — 107,299 ratings — published 2021
Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)
by (shelved 144 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.01 — 30,310 ratings — published 2018
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.07 — 372,123 ratings — published 1892
The Only One Left (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.13 — 660,859 ratings — published 2023
A House with Good Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.67 — 70,576 ratings — published 2023
The Hollow Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.78 — 57,755 ratings — published 2020
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.78 — 108,794 ratings — published 2015
The Hacienda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.84 — 60,502 ratings — published 2022
Through the Woods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.94 — 88,625 ratings — published 2014
“I thought that there could be no revolt against nature. I accepted the landscape without dreaming that, behind, there still prowled large skeletons without fur. With just one sign, I thought I was able to make them rise up outside their refuges...”
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“Adelaide Darke hated funerals, but probably not for the same reason other people did. For most, it was because of the grief, raw and twisting in their bellies. For others, it was the fact that attending one was a stark reminder of one’s own unpredictable mortality.
In Adelaide’s case, it was much simpler. She disliked funerals because they made her see things no one was supposed to see. Dead people, specifically.”
― Darke Homecoming
In Adelaide’s case, it was much simpler. She disliked funerals because they made her see things no one was supposed to see. Dead people, specifically.”
― Darke Homecoming












