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Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,538,949 ratings — published 1897
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,998,406 ratings — published 1818
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 422,620 ratings — published 1959
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 696,436 ratings — published 1886
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 226,834 ratings — published 1872
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,997,913 ratings — published 1890
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 187,635 ratings — published 1898
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 157,640 ratings — published 1820
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.21 — 282,288 ratings — published 1971
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,766,494 ratings — published 1977
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 317,847 ratings — published 1962
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.40 — 300,853 ratings — published 1849
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 159,059 ratings — published 1962
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.03 — 111,363 ratings — published 1928
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 882,202 ratings — published 1974
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 166,763 ratings — published 1967
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 386,140 ratings — published 1892
The Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.03 — 19,587 ratings — published 1907
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,318,790 ratings — published 1986
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 684,087 ratings — published 1975
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.96 — 288,894 ratings — published 1910
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.66 — 17,816 ratings — published 1890
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.76 — 85,896 ratings — published 1983
The Wendigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 9,107 ratings — published 1910
The House on the Borderland (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.57 — 12,069 ratings — published 1908
At the Mountains of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 67,936 ratings — published 1936
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 731,816 ratings — published 1983
Psycho (Psycho, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 80,947 ratings — published 1959
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.19 — 45,537 ratings — published 1764
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 18 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.73 — 139,910 ratings — published 1896
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 36,255 ratings — published 1796
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 160,383 ratings — published 1954
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 669,629 ratings — published 1976
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 151,092 ratings — published 1886
Hell House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.67 — 66,645 ratings — published 1971
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 93,415 ratings — published 1839
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.34 — 37,853 ratings — published 2020
The Amityville Horror (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.82 — 139,791 ratings — published 1977
The Vampyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.33 — 18,414 ratings — published 1819
The King in Yellow (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.51 — 32,656 ratings — published 1895
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.26 — 601,250 ratings — published 1988
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.22 — 857,906 ratings — published 1987
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 131,425 ratings — published 1843
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.19 — 245,683 ratings — published 1843
The Canterville Ghost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.88 — 73,513 ratings — published 1887
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 84,709 ratings — published 1979
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.03 — 119,318 ratings — published 1948
The Colour Out of Space (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,880 ratings — published 1927
The Masque of the Red Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 49,306 ratings — published 1842
The Jewel of Seven Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.43 — 5,002 ratings — published 1903
“I do not like children. I do not know how to speak to them. They frightened and confused me when I was a child myself, and they frighten and confuse me now that I am an adult.”
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
“The museum may lose things,” I said, “but it never throws them away.”
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
