American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisHaunted by Chuck PalahniukThe Girl Next Door by Jack KetchumOff Season by Jack KetchumExquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
The Goriest Books Ever
411 books — 638 voters
Dark Forces by Kirby McCauleyThe Dark Descent by David G. Hartwell999 by Al SarrantonioSNAFU by Geoff BrownRead Us or Die by Jason Gehlert
Best Horror Anthologies
477 books — 561 voters

The Halloween Tree by Ray BradburyDracula by Bram StokerSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Best Halloween Books
722 books — 757 voters

The Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorRunning with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  HoughGirl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Unsettling Memoirs & Biographies
580 books — 519 voters
The Shining by Stephen  KingIt by Stephen  KingPet Sematary by Stephen  King’Salem’s Lot by Stephen  KingThe Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Scariest books of all time
626 books — 737 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteHelter Skelter by Vincent BugliosiThe Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonColumbine by Dave Cullen
Best True Crime
1,535 books — 2,223 voters
Perfume by Patrick SüskindFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggThe Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate SummerscaleCries Unheard by Gitta SerenyThe Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Bizarre Murders
233 books — 93 voters

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleThe Night Stalker by Philip CarloGreen River, Running Red by Ann RuleThe Serial Killer Files by Harold SchechterMind Hunter by John E. Douglas
Non-fiction books about Serial Killers
157 books — 168 voters
American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyTrainspotting by Irvine WelshFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Most Messed Up
877 books — 563 voters

The Girl Next Door by Jack KetchumHuman Cruelty by Wade H. GarrettThe Angel of Death by Wade H. GarrettSplatterpunk by Wade H. GarrettThe Angel of Vengeance - The Most Gruesome Series on the Market by Wade H. Garrett
Extreme Horror Books
84 books — 63 voters
It by Stephen  King'Salem's Lot by Stephen  KingDark Harvest by Norman PartridgeSummer of Night by Dan SimmonsTommyknockers by Stephen  King
Small Town Horror
208 books — 99 voters


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