4.05 avg rating — 159,616 ratings

"Gradually-increasing sense of dread, off-stage violence, page-turning premise"

4.41 avg rating — 41,938 ratings

"touching story, and as unlike horror as you can get while still remaining in the genre"

3.88 avg rating — 12,753 ratings

"Personal favourite: touching, moving, exciting, with a dreamlike tone"

3.81 avg rating — 395,744 ratings

"mid-century classic, great writing"

3.89 avg rating — 13,962 ratings

"an unusual foray into the genre, well-written, spooky"

3.88 avg rating — 55,691 ratings

"slightly sci-fi-ish, but the general effect is the slow ramping-up of unsettling horror"

3.79 avg rating — 2,810 ratings

"extremely fun premise, carried out expertly
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3.91 avg rating — 296,504 ratings

"disturbing, great writing"

3.88 avg rating — 6,774 ratings

"unlike anything else, extremely creepy, outrageous premise"

4.04 avg rating — 967 ratings

"a collection of short stories many of who fit, others are just odd and likely to appeal to the same audience"

4.02 avg rating — 1,478,983 ratings

"Victorian genre-defining novel with lots of Horror! but very little actual gore"

3.92 avg rating — 83,248 ratings

3.89 avg rating — 21,832 ratings

3.58 avg rating — 11,092 ratings

"a pre-Lovecraftian horror, weird and intense"

3.78 avg rating — 95,838 ratings

3.47 avg rating — 1,916 ratings

"lengthy, dense, unforgettable early horror/sci-fi post-apocalyptic fantasy"

3.70 avg rating — 1,347 ratings

4.14 avg rating — 226,261 ratings

3.63 avg rating — 7,745 ratings

3.83 avg rating — 138,125 ratings

"not a true story, but a riveting imitation of one"

4.05 avg rating — 40,801 ratings

4.13 avg rating — 1,883,972 ratings

"Oscar Wilde elegantly assays the genre"

3.58 avg rating — 1,754 ratings

"claustrophobic horror"

3.59 avg rating — 2,428 ratings

"atmophere for days"

3.38 avg rating — 180,464 ratings

"Classic genre novel, unreliable narrator (or is she?)"

3.64 avg rating — 179,298 ratings

3.65 avg rating — 124,942 ratings

3.09 avg rating — 14,585 ratings

3.74 avg rating — 5,817 ratings

4.09 avg rating — 78,606 ratings

3.78 avg rating — 162,748 ratings

3.87 avg rating — 199,169 ratings