3.81 avg rating — 393,079 ratings

"The ur modern haunted-house story, written in masterful prose."

3.89 avg rating — 49,051 ratings

"Still Hill's best writing -- and that's saying something. Every story glows."

3.71 avg rating — 6,354 ratings

"Barron is probably my favorite contemporary horror writer. Look out for Old Leech - his children are watching you."

4.34 avg rating — 37,011 ratings

"HPL pretty much invented cosmic horror. If read at a young age, this stuff might taint your worldview. ;-)"

4.28 avg rating — 1,702,460 ratings

"Because Kubrick made a gorgeous film, but ruined the story."

3.99 avg rating — 4,618 ratings

"See #3"

3.81 avg rating — 11,321 ratings

"Merely looking at the cover scarred me as a child. Pagan rites gone terribly wrong."

3.61 avg rating — 15,752 ratings

"Terrifying, even subtracting the supernatural elements."

3.93 avg rating — 120,206 ratings

"Because the protagonist is literally demonized. And it's still a love story."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,033,514 ratings

"Because I'm afraid McCarthy has seen our future."

3.98 avg rating — 75,281 ratings

"It might not get shelved as horror, but Mieville's meticulously built world is plenty disturbing."

4.07 avg rating — 144,685 ratings

"You may never feel the same about Christmas again."

3.80 avg rating — 361,219 ratings

"Pitch-black satire of manners, flavored with torture-porn. A modern classic, if you can stomach it."

4.04 avg rating — 120,666 ratings

"A shocking (and new!) twist on the vampire story. "My Bodyguard" with teeth."

3.89 avg rating — 13,891 ratings

"A criminally overlooked modern take on the haunted house. Sometimes they're just made bad."

4.05 avg rating — 158,940 ratings

"Because the Jewish Levin invented the Satanic classic on a lark. And Polanski didn't ruin the story."

3.92 avg rating — 55,294 ratings

""Lord of the Flies" for a less gentle age. Simpy gut-wrenching."

4.21 avg rating — 270,956 ratings

"Possibly the first scary grown-up book I read. Fascinated with demonic possession ever since."

4.09 avg rating — 199,702 ratings

"Postmodern horror in a house that's (much) bigger on the inside. Totally uncanny."

3.84 avg rating — 5,453 ratings

"This is what madness must feel like."

3.38 avg rating — 179,702 ratings

"Did Miss Jessel and Peter Quint taint the children? Or is their new governess simply overheated? Classic Freudian/psychological horror. "

4.02 avg rating — 566,364 ratings

"Best zombie book out there. No frills, reads like a Holocaust narrative. Almost too realistic."

4.05 avg rating — 17,390 ratings

"Antithetical nature at its finest. Even the trees are out to get you."

4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings

"The title story alone is mind-blowing. Haines was gone way too soon."

3.17 avg rating — 4,352 ratings

"Novak (Scott Spencer) delivers a wild gross-out of a critique on the (in)fertility industry. Timely and disturbing."

4.15 avg rating — 219,102 ratings

"Even if it's shelved as literature, trust me, it's horror. Bloody and deeply amoral and wholly epic. And based on actual history."

3.92 avg rating — 2,388 ratings

"Bonus nonfiction read: an actual Catholic exorcist reports back from the field. It's almost enough to make a believer out of me."