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Classic Horror Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,663
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,517,773 ratings — published 1897
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,965,059 ratings — published 1818
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 412,398 ratings — published 1959
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 685,436 ratings — published 1886
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 217,325 ratings — published 1872
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,955,388 ratings — published 1890
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 185,133 ratings — published 1898
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,746,311 ratings — published 1977
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.21 — 278,503 ratings — published 1971
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 310,066 ratings — published 1962
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 157,060 ratings — published 1820
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 869,589 ratings — published 1974
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 157,347 ratings — published 1962
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.40 — 299,296 ratings — published 1849
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 163,975 ratings — published 1967
The Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 18,768 ratings — published 1907
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,301,657 ratings — published 1986
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 377,521 ratings — published 1892
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.03 — 109,454 ratings — published 1928
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 675,743 ratings — published 1975
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.66 — 17,399 ratings — published 1890
The Wendigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 8,815 ratings — published 1910
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.96 — 285,094 ratings — published 1910
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.76 — 84,556 ratings — published 1983
The House on the Borderland (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.58 — 11,719 ratings — published 1908
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 720,272 ratings — published 1983
At the Mountains of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 66,652 ratings — published 1936
Psycho (Psycho, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 79,729 ratings — published 1959
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.19 — 44,570 ratings — published 1764
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 662,458 ratings — published 1976
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.73 — 138,310 ratings — published 1896
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 35,408 ratings — published 1796
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 157,933 ratings — published 1954
Hell House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.68 — 65,425 ratings — published 1971
The Amityville Horror (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.82 — 139,195 ratings — published 1977
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 149,122 ratings — published 1886
The Vampyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.32 — 17,877 ratings — published 1819
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 92,019 ratings — published 1839
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.34 — 37,587 ratings — published
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.22 — 843,677 ratings — published 1987
The King in Yellow (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.51 — 30,343 ratings — published 1895
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.26 — 596,503 ratings — published 1988
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 129,174 ratings — published 1843
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.19 — 245,323 ratings — published 1843
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.03 — 116,921 ratings — published 1948
The Masque of the Red Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 48,707 ratings — published 1842
The Canterville Ghost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.88 — 72,670 ratings — published 1887
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 84,170 ratings — published 1979
The Jewel of Seven Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.43 — 4,875 ratings — published 1903
The Colour Out of Space (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,244 ratings — published 1927
“Asking why the creature had chosen to give me its bone was pointless. My foolish and unwilling foray into necromancy had made me attractive to such things, as a magnetic is attractive to iron.”
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
“An odd sensation rushed through her body. Her head grew light, and a peculiar pleasure imbued her mind. In the demon’s eyes a promise was held. Her days had been filled with misfortune; enduring adversity had made her tired. The lure was too enticing, and she followed. - Ch 2 The Darkness of Judith”
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