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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 23778 times as horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,764,310 ratings — published 1977
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 19847 times as horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,316,985 ratings — published 1986
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 19511 times as horror)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,536,590 ratings — published 1897
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 16841 times as horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 421,447 ratings — published 1959
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 16697 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,995,000 ratings — published 1818
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16624 times as horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 880,835 ratings — published 1974
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16256 times as horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 730,547 ratings — published 1983
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 15970 times as horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 683,156 ratings — published 1975
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 13510 times as horror)
avg rating 4.22 — 856,387 ratings — published 1987
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 12320 times as horror)
avg rating 4.35 — 861,110 ratings — published 1978
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11514 times as horror)
avg rating 3.66 — 464,569 ratings — published 2020
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 10553 times as horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 212,300 ratings — published 2000
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 10096 times as horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 316,996 ratings — published 1962
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 9413 times as horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 470,425 ratings — published 2017
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 8872 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 668,935 ratings — published 1976
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8354 times as horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 335,706 ratings — published 2020
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
by (shelved 8150 times as horror)
avg rating 3.68 — 125,143 ratings — published 2020
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 8099 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 307,482 ratings — published 2013
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 8092 times as horror)
avg rating 4.21 — 281,891 ratings — published 1971
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7640 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 580,117 ratings — published 2006
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 7576 times as horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 158,374 ratings — published 2022
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 7555 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 802,932 ratings — published 2002
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7477 times as horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 331,334 ratings — published 1981
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 7397 times as horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 225,774 ratings — published 1872
NOS4A2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7150 times as horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 150,792 ratings — published 2013
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7048 times as horror)
avg rating 3.82 — 139,727 ratings — published 2014
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7046 times as horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 695,230 ratings — published 1886
Horrorstör (Paperback)
by (shelved 6902 times as horror)
avg rating 3.64 — 134,381 ratings — published 2014
My Best Friend's Exorcism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6877 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 161,877 ratings — published 2016
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 6868 times as horror)
avg rating 3.44 — 368,311 ratings — published 2019
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6708 times as horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 159,593 ratings — published 2007
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 6682 times as horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 216,758 ratings — published 2014
The Outsider (Holly Gibney, #1)
by (shelved 6638 times as horror)
avg rating 4.01 — 399,335 ratings — published 2018
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6331 times as horror)
avg rating 3.49 — 198,622 ratings — published 2021
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6328 times as horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 112,167 ratings — published 2015
Needful Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 6323 times as horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 287,181 ratings — published 1991
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6287 times as horror)
avg rating 3.63 — 180,637 ratings — published 2023
Christine (Paperback)
by (shelved 6200 times as horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 269,974 ratings — published 1983
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 6087 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,993,432 ratings — published 1890
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 6082 times as horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 166,466 ratings — published 1967
Let the Right One In (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6063 times as horror)
avg rating 4.03 — 123,719 ratings — published 2004
Night Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 6003 times as horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 203,416 ratings — published 1978
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5711 times as horror)
avg rating 3.58 — 326,786 ratings — published 2024
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 5565 times as horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 187,341 ratings — published 1898
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5338 times as horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 158,859 ratings — published 1962
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 5302 times as horror)
avg rating 4.26 — 600,741 ratings — published 1988
The Institute (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5235 times as horror)
avg rating 4.19 — 358,966 ratings — published 2019
The Dead Zone (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5209 times as horror)
avg rating 3.97 — 253,809 ratings — published 1979
Firestarter (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5193 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 252,620 ratings — published 1980
The Last House on Needless Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5109 times as horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 163,831 ratings — published 2021
“[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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“Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.”
― Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three
― Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three
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classic-horror, horror-classics, horror-fiction, and horror-literature