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Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 715 times as terror)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,528,266 ratings — published 1897
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 700 times as terror)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,310,230 ratings — published 1986
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 698 times as terror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,756,270 ratings — published 1977
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 613 times as terror)
avg rating 3.99 — 875,752 ratings — published 1974
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 537 times as terror)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,982,213 ratings — published 1818
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 518 times as terror)
avg rating 4.22 — 850,940 ratings — published 1987
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 508 times as terror)
avg rating 4.09 — 726,129 ratings — published 1983
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 481 times as terror)
avg rating 4.10 — 679,945 ratings — published 1975
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 352 times as terror)
avg rating 3.81 — 417,466 ratings — published 1959
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 334 times as terror)
avg rating 4.21 — 280,400 ratings — published 1971
Our Share of Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 316 times as terror)
avg rating 4.24 — 69,200 ratings — published 2019
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as terror)
avg rating 3.83 — 690,704 ratings — published 1886
Things We Lost in the Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 279 times as terror)
avg rating 4.02 — 68,392 ratings — published 2016
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 277 times as terror)
avg rating 3.86 — 222,152 ratings — published 1872
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as terror)
avg rating 3.38 — 186,379 ratings — published 1898
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as terror)
avg rating 3.90 — 313,896 ratings — published 1962
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 223 times as terror)
avg rating 4.13 — 306,150 ratings — published 2013
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as terror)
avg rating 3.77 — 459,859 ratings — published 2017
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as terror)
avg rating 3.79 — 69,003 ratings — published 2009
Carcoma (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as terror)
avg rating 4.06 — 36,354 ratings — published 2021
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 194 times as terror)
avg rating 3.78 — 331,594 ratings — published 2020
Hell House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as terror)
avg rating 3.68 — 66,053 ratings — published 1971
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 187 times as terror)
avg rating 4.35 — 857,770 ratings — published 1978
The Long Walk (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as terror)
avg rating 3.98 — 305,385 ratings — published 1979
The Outsider (Holly Gibney #1)
by (shelved 182 times as terror)
avg rating 4.01 — 396,846 ratings — published 2018
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 179 times as terror)
avg rating 3.66 — 461,058 ratings — published 2020
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 176 times as terror)
avg rating 4.02 — 666,100 ratings — published 1976
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 175 times as terror)
avg rating 4.05 — 159,181 ratings — published 1954
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as terror)
avg rating 3.63 — 179,004 ratings — published 2023
The Flood (Blackwater, #1)
by (shelved 169 times as terror)
avg rating 3.68 — 88,599 ratings — published 1983
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as terror)
avg rating 3.81 — 329,977 ratings — published 1981
At the Mountains of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as terror)
avg rating 3.78 — 67,279 ratings — published 1936
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 156 times as terror)
avg rating 4.06 — 165,426 ratings — published 1967
The Hellbound Heart (Hellraiser #1)
by (shelved 155 times as terror)
avg rating 4.08 — 71,783 ratings — published 1986
The Mist (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as terror)
avg rating 3.93 — 188,169 ratings — published 1980
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as terror)
avg rating 4.13 — 800,171 ratings — published 2002
Night Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as terror)
avg rating 4.04 — 202,721 ratings — published 1978
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as terror)
avg rating 4.09 — 210,672 ratings — published 2000
A Sunny Place for Shady People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as terror)
avg rating 3.76 — 27,595 ratings — published 2024
My Best Friend's Exorcism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 134 times as terror)
avg rating 3.92 — 160,329 ratings — published 2016
The Last House on Needless Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as terror)
avg rating 3.80 — 161,369 ratings — published 2021
The Institute (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as terror)
avg rating 4.19 — 356,497 ratings — published 2019
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as terror)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,976,186 ratings — published 1890
Uzumaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as terror)
avg rating 4.45 — 93,647 ratings — published 1998
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as terror)
avg rating 3.77 — 111,316 ratings — published 2015
Come Closer (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as terror)
avg rating 3.65 — 55,565 ratings — published 2003
Horrorstör (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as terror)
avg rating 3.64 — 133,126 ratings — published 2014
The Levee (Blackwater, #2)
by (shelved 125 times as terror)
avg rating 3.76 — 62,711 ratings — published 1983
The Dunwich Horror (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as terror)
avg rating 3.81 — 16,485 ratings — published 1928
“And it was not merely tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of millions of people who were the obedient witnesses of this slaughter of the innocent. Nor were they merely obedient witnesses: when ordered to, they gave their support to this slaughter, voting in favour of it amid a hubbub of voices. There was something unexpected in their degree of obedience... The extreme violence of the totalitarian social systems proved able to paralyse the human spirit throughout whole continents.”
― Life and Fate
― Life and Fate
“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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