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Classic Horror Books
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Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,491,799 ratings — published 1897
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,920,148 ratings — published 1818
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 400,698 ratings — published 1959
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 672,263 ratings — published 1886
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 205,431 ratings — published 1872
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 181,970 ratings — published 1898
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,907,019 ratings — published 1890
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,722,204 ratings — published 1977
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.21 — 273,982 ratings — published 1971
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 300,665 ratings — published 1962
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 155,839 ratings — published 1820
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 854,760 ratings — published 1974
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.40 — 297,245 ratings — published 1849
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.01 — 119,930 ratings — published 1928
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,281,786 ratings — published 1986
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 155,128 ratings — published 1962
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 160,855 ratings — published 1967
The Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,873 ratings — published 1907
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 666,046 ratings — published 1975
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 365,421 ratings — published 1892
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,901 ratings — published 1890
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.76 — 83,056 ratings — published 1983
The Wendigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,471 ratings — published 1910
The House on the Borderland (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.58 — 11,278 ratings — published 1908
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.96 — 280,295 ratings — published 1910
At the Mountains of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 65,115 ratings — published 1936
Psycho (Psycho, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 78,359 ratings — published 1959
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.08 — 707,059 ratings — published 1983
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.73 — 136,307 ratings — published 1896
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.19 — 43,459 ratings — published 1764
Hell House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.69 — 64,043 ratings — published 1971
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 34,405 ratings — published 1796
The Amityville Horror (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 138,408 ratings — published 1977
The Vampyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.32 — 17,242 ratings — published 1819
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 90,037 ratings — published 1839
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 146,627 ratings — published 1886
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 154,659 ratings — published 1954
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 654,396 ratings — published 1976
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.26 — 591,162 ratings — published 1988
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 126,151 ratings — published 1843
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.23 — 859,005 ratings — published 1987
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.19 — 244,872 ratings — published 1843
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.34 — 37,266 ratings — published 1936
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 111,279 ratings — published 1948
The Masque of the Red Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 47,962 ratings — published 1842
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 83,540 ratings — published 1979
The Jewel of Seven Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.43 — 4,781 ratings — published 1903
The Colour Out of Space (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 21,380 ratings — published 1927
The Canterville Ghost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.88 — 71,654 ratings — published 1887
The King in Yellow (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.54 — 30,684 ratings — published 1895
“Old incompetence is incompetence still.”
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
“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












