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Classic Horror Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,610
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,475,399 ratings — published 1897
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,885,383 ratings — published 1818
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 394,121 ratings — published 1959
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 664,699 ratings — published 1886
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 197,079 ratings — published 1872
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 179,984 ratings — published 1898
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,876,032 ratings — published 1890
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,705,569 ratings — published 1977
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 155,014 ratings — published 1820
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.21 — 271,381 ratings — published 1971
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 295,205 ratings — published 1962
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 845,473 ratings — published 1974
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.40 — 296,001 ratings — published 1849
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.01 — 118,488 ratings — published 1999
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 159,209 ratings — published 1967
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,268,162 ratings — published 1986
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 153,791 ratings — published 1962
The Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,444 ratings — published 1907
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 357,917 ratings — published 1892
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 659,697 ratings — published 1975
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,624 ratings — published 1890
The Wendigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,317 ratings — published 1910
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.96 — 277,146 ratings — published 1910
At the Mountains of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 64,091 ratings — published 1936
The House on the Borderland (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.58 — 11,041 ratings — published 1908
Psycho (Psycho, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 77,482 ratings — published 1959
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.08 — 698,890 ratings — published 1983
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.73 — 135,108 ratings — published 1896
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 33,701 ratings — published 1796
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.76 — 82,144 ratings — published 1983
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.19 — 42,592 ratings — published 1764
Hell House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.69 — 63,260 ratings — published 1971
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 88,723 ratings — published 1839
The Amityville Horror (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 138,039 ratings — published 1977
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 152,919 ratings — published 1954
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.26 — 588,027 ratings — published 1988
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 124,155 ratings — published 1843
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 144,983 ratings — published 1886
The Vampyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.32 — 16,611 ratings — published 1819
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.23 — 848,198 ratings — published 1987
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 649,813 ratings — published 1976
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.19 — 244,649 ratings — published 1843
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.34 — 37,057 ratings — published 1936
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 109,732 ratings — published 1948
The Masque of the Red Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 47,451 ratings — published 1842
The King in Yellow (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.54 — 29,984 ratings — published 1895
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 83,146 ratings — published 1979
The Jewel of Seven Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.43 — 4,738 ratings — published 1903
The Colour Out of Space (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 20,885 ratings — published 1927
The Canterville Ghost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.88 — 70,918 ratings — published 1887
“I felt as if I walked inside a cold shadow, a shadow cast by bricks and mortar.”
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
“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
