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It (Paperback)
by (shelved 730 times as terror)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,330,324 ratings — published 1986
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 725 times as terror)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,563,172 ratings — published 1897
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 715 times as terror)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,781,697 ratings — published 1977
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 641 times as terror)
avg rating 3.99 — 896,243 ratings — published 1974
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 544 times as terror)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,025,933 ratings — published 1818
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 533 times as terror)
avg rating 4.22 — 868,943 ratings — published 1987
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 529 times as terror)
avg rating 4.09 — 738,214 ratings — published 1983
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 490 times as terror)
avg rating 4.10 — 691,426 ratings — published 1975
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 370 times as terror)
avg rating 3.80 — 436,981 ratings — published 1959
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 351 times as terror)
avg rating 4.21 — 287,935 ratings — published 1971
Our Share of Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 340 times as terror)
avg rating 4.24 — 72,767 ratings — published 2019
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as terror)
avg rating 3.83 — 706,234 ratings — published 1886
Things We Lost in the Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 294 times as terror)
avg rating 4.02 — 70,962 ratings — published 2016
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 289 times as terror)
avg rating 3.86 — 237,156 ratings — published 1872
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 273 times as terror)
avg rating 3.38 — 190,375 ratings — published 1898
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as terror)
avg rating 3.90 — 327,401 ratings — published 1962
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 229 times as terror)
avg rating 4.13 — 310,377 ratings — published 2013
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as terror)
avg rating 3.77 — 493,659 ratings — published 2017
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 222 times as terror)
avg rating 3.79 — 71,676 ratings — published 2009
Carcoma (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as terror)
avg rating 4.06 — 40,017 ratings — published 2021
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 204 times as terror)
avg rating 3.78 — 357,413 ratings — published 2020
Hell House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as terror)
avg rating 3.67 — 67,657 ratings — published 1971
The Outsider (Holly Gibney, #1)
by (shelved 191 times as terror)
avg rating 4.01 — 404,131 ratings — published 2018
The Long Walk (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as terror)
avg rating 3.98 — 316,500 ratings — published 1979
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 189 times as terror)
avg rating 4.35 — 867,711 ratings — published 1978
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 186 times as terror)
avg rating 3.66 — 474,137 ratings — published 2020
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 182 times as terror)
avg rating 4.02 — 674,890 ratings — published 1976
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 179 times as terror)
avg rating 4.05 — 162,131 ratings — published 1954
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as terror)
avg rating 3.63 — 185,951 ratings — published 2023
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as terror)
avg rating 3.81 — 334,019 ratings — published 1981
The Flood (Blackwater, #1)
by (shelved 172 times as terror)
avg rating 3.68 — 91,940 ratings — published 1983
At the Mountains of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as terror)
avg rating 3.77 — 68,850 ratings — published 1936
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 162 times as terror)
avg rating 4.06 — 169,740 ratings — published 1967
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as terror)
avg rating 4.09 — 215,795 ratings — published 2000
The Mist (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as terror)
avg rating 3.92 — 192,246 ratings — published 1980
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as terror)
avg rating 4.13 — 810,274 ratings — published 2002
The Hellbound Heart (Hellraiser #1)
by (shelved 155 times as terror)
avg rating 4.08 — 74,454 ratings — published 1986
A Sunny Place for Shady People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as terror)
avg rating 3.76 — 29,448 ratings — published 2024
Night Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as terror)
avg rating 4.04 — 205,016 ratings — published 1978
The Last House on Needless Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as terror)
avg rating 3.79 — 169,784 ratings — published 2021
Come Closer (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as terror)
avg rating 3.64 — 59,312 ratings — published 2003
The Institute (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as terror)
avg rating 4.19 — 364,063 ratings — published 2019
My Best Friend's Exorcism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 138 times as terror)
avg rating 3.92 — 165,737 ratings — published 2016
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as terror)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,024,675 ratings — published 1890
Uzumaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as terror)
avg rating 4.45 — 96,186 ratings — published 1998
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as terror)
avg rating 3.77 — 114,775 ratings — published 2015
Horrorstör (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as terror)
avg rating 3.64 — 137,671 ratings — published 2014
The Levee (Blackwater, #2)
by (shelved 127 times as terror)
avg rating 3.76 — 65,073 ratings — published 1983
The Dunwich Horror (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as terror)
avg rating 3.81 — 17,070 ratings — published 1928
“The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight allows us a full grasp of the world, all things considered, just as a frigid melancholy grants us full possession of ourselves. We may hide from horror only in the heart of horror. (“The Medusa”)”
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“...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his lower jaw jutting out, giving him the look of a wounded, vengeful boxer, grinding his teeth so loud you could hear it across the room ... I'm sure he told himself: 'I never hit her'. I'm sure because of this technicality he never saw himself as an abuser. But he turned our family life into an endless road trip with bad directions and a rage-clenched driver, a vacation that never got a chance to be fun.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
