334 books
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189 voters
Spooky Books
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The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 529 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.81 — 412,577 ratings — published 1959
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 427 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.91 — 310,222 ratings — published 1962
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 411 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.66 — 456,979 ratings — published 2020
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 406 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,518,151 ratings — published 1897
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 382 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,965,760 ratings — published 1818
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 376 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,746,733 ratings — published 1977
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 366 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.13 — 796,440 ratings — published 2002
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.86 — 217,514 ratings — published 1872
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.09 — 208,674 ratings — published 2000
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 239 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.15 — 569,701 ratings — published 2008
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 238 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.84 — 153,023 ratings — published 2022
Home Before Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 236 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.04 — 333,008 ratings — published 2020
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 230 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.78 — 326,263 ratings — published 2020
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,301,981 ratings — published 1986
My Best Friend's Exorcism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 211 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.92 — 158,184 ratings — published 2016
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.20 — 118,548 ratings — published 2021
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 206 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.09 — 720,531 ratings — published 1983
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 206 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.63 — 176,783 ratings — published 2023
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.77 — 446,781 ratings — published 2017
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 200 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.45 — 356,656 ratings — published 2019
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.89 — 157,382 ratings — published 1962
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 196 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.59 — 305,998 ratings — published 2024
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.99 — 869,848 ratings — published 1974
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.10 — 675,900 ratings — published 1975
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.38 — 185,177 ratings — published 1898
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 189 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.25 — 749,095 ratings — published 1938
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
by (shelved 188 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.68 — 121,829 ratings — published 2020
Horrorstör (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.64 — 131,382 ratings — published 2014
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.14 — 654,977 ratings — published 2022
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.22 — 844,054 ratings — published 1987
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 173 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.00 — 414,968 ratings — published 2019
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.83 — 685,632 ratings — published 1886
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.50 — 194,701 ratings — published 2021
The Silent Companions (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.86 — 47,953 ratings — published 2017
The September House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.85 — 103,964 ratings — published 2023
The Last House on Needless Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.80 — 158,314 ratings — published 2021
The Sun Down Motel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.99 — 199,188 ratings — published 2020
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,956,083 ratings — published 1890
Starling House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.78 — 174,395 ratings — published 2023
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,487,165 ratings — published 2019
A Dowry of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.92 — 109,092 ratings — published 2021
Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)
by (shelved 145 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.01 — 30,504 ratings — published 2018
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 145 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,372,658 ratings — published 2011
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.06 — 377,725 ratings — published 1892
A House with Good Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.67 — 72,509 ratings — published 2023
The Hollow Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.78 — 58,927 ratings — published 2020
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 136 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.02 — 662,577 ratings — published 1976
The Only One Left (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.12 — 685,058 ratings — published 2023
The Hacienda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.84 — 61,654 ratings — published 2022
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.78 — 110,147 ratings — published 2015
“Certainly, the terror of a deserted house swells in geometrical rather than arithmetical progression as houses multiply to form a city of stark desolation. The sight of such endless avenues of fishy-eyed vacancy and death, and the thought of such linked infinities of black, brooding compartments given over to cob-webs and memories and the conqueror worm, start up vestigial fears and aversions that not even the stoutest philosophy can disperse.”
― The Shadow over Innsmouth
― The Shadow over Innsmouth
“The riverbank was thick with wings. Black feathers overshadowed the summer-green leaves and turned the trees into ragged Halloween specters in flapping obsidian.”
― River of Crows
― River of Crows











