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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 21828 times as horror)
avg rating 4.28 � 1,620,008 ratings � published 1977
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 18256 times as horror)
avg rating 4.24 � 1,205,428 ratings � published 1986
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 17360 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 � 1,385,820 ratings � published 1897
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15177 times as horror)
avg rating 3.99 � 795,932 ratings � published 1974
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 14825 times as horror)
avg rating 3.82 � 352,469 ratings � published 1959
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14713 times as horror)
avg rating 4.08 � 653,364 ratings � published 1983
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 14422 times as horror)
avg rating 3.89 � 1,733,662 ratings � published 1818
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 14003 times as horror)
avg rating 4.10 � 624,541 ratings � published 1975
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 12777 times as horror)
avg rating 4.23 � 798,340 ratings � published 1987
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 11512 times as horror)
avg rating 4.35 � 802,440 ratings � published 1978
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10276 times as horror)
avg rating 3.67 � 404,926 ratings � published 2020
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 9142 times as horror)
avg rating 4.09 � 186,657 ratings � published 2000
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 8797 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 � 264,392 ratings � published 1962
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 8116 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 � 625,368 ratings � published 1976
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 7499 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 � 281,445 ratings � published 2013
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7241 times as horror)
avg rating 3.79 � 266,266 ratings � published 2020
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7234 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 � 549,715 ratings � published 2006
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 7212 times as horror)
avg rating 3.78 � 305,006 ratings � published 2017
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 7145 times as horror)
avg rating 4.21 � 253,833 ratings � published 1971
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 7034 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 � 748,409 ratings � published 2002
The Only Good Indians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7007 times as horror)
avg rating 3.69 � 97,302 ratings � published 2020
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 6936 times as horror)
avg rating 3.87 � 108,229 ratings � published 2022
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6933 times as horror)
avg rating 3.80 � 307,103 ratings � published 1981
NOS4A2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6665 times as horror)
avg rating 4.08 � 137,806 ratings � published 2013
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 6325 times as horror)
avg rating 4.05 � 201,999 ratings � published 2014
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6269 times as horror)
avg rating 3.83 � 629,635 ratings � published 1886
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6242 times as horror)
avg rating 3.84 � 146,411 ratings � published 2007
My Best Friend's Exorcism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6147 times as horror)
avg rating 3.93 � 133,945 ratings � published 2016
Horrorstör (Paperback)
by (shelved 6103 times as horror)
avg rating 3.65 � 110,411 ratings � published 2014
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6033 times as horror)
avg rating 3.84 � 106,690 ratings � published 2014
The Outsider (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5945 times as horror)
avg rating 4.01 � 348,922 ratings � published 2018
Needful Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 5891 times as horror)
avg rating 3.98 � 266,554 ratings � published 1991
Christine (Paperback)
by (shelved 5777 times as horror)
avg rating 3.85 � 254,801 ratings � published 1983
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 5739 times as horror)
avg rating 3.87 � 153,850 ratings � published 1872
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5721 times as horror)
avg rating 3.79 � 97,452 ratings � published 2015
Let the Right One In (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5622 times as horror)
avg rating 4.04 � 116,993 ratings � published 2004
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5587 times as horror)
avg rating 3.51 � 163,949 ratings � published 2021
Night Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 5573 times as horror)
avg rating 4.04 � 191,497 ratings � published 1978
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 5436 times as horror)
avg rating 4.05 � 151,007 ratings � published 1967
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 5400 times as horror)
avg rating 3.48 � 267,257 ratings � published 2019
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5331 times as horror)
avg rating 3.65 � 139,702 ratings � published 2023
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5287 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 � 1,727,588 ratings � published 1890
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 4991 times as horror)
avg rating 3.39 � 169,271 ratings � published 1898
Firestarter (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4883 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 � 239,281 ratings � published 1980
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 4876 times as horror)
avg rating 4.25 � 572,274 ratings � published 1988
The Dead Zone (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4841 times as horror)
avg rating 3.97 � 235,980 ratings � published 1979
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
by (shelved 4768 times as horror)
avg rating 3.95 � 237,945 ratings � published 2014
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4739 times as horror)
avg rating 3.90 � 143,763 ratings � published 1962
The Institute (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4691 times as horror)
avg rating 4.20 � 312,210 ratings � published 2019
Cell (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4576 times as horror)
avg rating 3.66 � 230,983 ratings � published 2006
“[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.”
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“The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.”
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We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.”
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classic-horror, fiction_speculative_horror, horror-classics, horror-fiction, and horror-literature
