Endurance by Alfred LansingThe Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-GarrardThe Ice Master by Jennifer NivenIn the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton SidesThe Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford
To the Poles
118 books — 81 voters

The Terror by Dan SimmonsAt the Mountains of Madness by H.P. LovecraftFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyDark Matter by Michelle PaverWho Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr.
Polar Horror
61 books — 103 voters
Weird New England by Joseph A. CitroPoseidon’s Children by Michael  WestHigh Strangeness by Eric BickernicksPassing Strange by Joseph A. CitroThe Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
Weird New England
59 books — 39 voters

The Woman in Black by Susan         HillThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Little Stranger by Sarah WatersThe Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. JamesThis House Is Haunted by John Boyne
Historical Ghost Fiction
250 books — 367 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Tales of New York City
1,719 books — 1,290 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferSarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
WWII Historic Fiction
1,495 books — 1,580 voters

The Terror by Dan SimmonsLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Ruins by Scott        SmithThe Willows by Algernon BlackwoodJurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Best Wilderness Horror Stories
122 books — 129 voters
Harvest Home by Thomas TryonCollected Ghost Stories by M.R. JamesThe Willows by Algernon BlackwoodThe White People and Other Weird Stories by Arthur MachenWylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
Folk Horror
372 books — 165 voters


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