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Classic Horror Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,521
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,434,368 ratings — published 1897
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,799,090 ratings — published 1818
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 374,456 ratings — published 1959
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 650,235 ratings — published 1886
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 176,650 ratings — published 1872
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,817,859 ratings — published 1890
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 174,809 ratings — published 1898
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,668,703 ratings — published 1977
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 150,431 ratings — published 1820
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.21 — 263,402 ratings — published 1971
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 115,565 ratings — published 1928
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 280,993 ratings — published 1962
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.40 — 293,179 ratings — published 1849
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 825,059 ratings — published 1974
The Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,553 ratings — published 1907
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 148,093 ratings — published 1962
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 155,587 ratings — published 1967
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,241,365 ratings — published 1986
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 644,852 ratings — published 1975
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 345,670 ratings — published 1892
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,053 ratings — published 1890
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.96 — 270,955 ratings — published 1910
At the Mountains of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 62,276 ratings — published 1931
The Wendigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 7,900 ratings — published 1910
Hell House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.70 — 61,136 ratings — published 1971
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.08 — 679,957 ratings — published 1983
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.73 — 133,012 ratings — published 1896
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 32,364 ratings — published 1796
The House on the Borderland (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.58 — 10,500 ratings — published 1908
Psycho (Psycho, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 75,207 ratings — published 1959
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 85,332 ratings — published 1839
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.75 — 79,381 ratings — published 1983
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.19 — 40,823 ratings — published 1764
The Amityville Horror (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 136,895 ratings — published 1977
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 — 140,927 ratings — published 1886
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 149,641 ratings — published 1954
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.19 — 244,006 ratings — published 1843
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.26 — 582,056 ratings — published 1988
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 119,550 ratings — published 1843
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.34 — 36,607 ratings — published 1936
The Vampyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.31 — 15,305 ratings — published 1819
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.23 — 827,287 ratings — published 1987
The Jewel of Seven Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.43 — 4,631 ratings — published 1903
The Canterville Ghost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.88 — 69,321 ratings — published 1887
The Pit and the Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.14 — 71,533 ratings — published 1842
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 106,226 ratings — published 1948
The Masque of the Red Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,388 ratings — published 1842
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 639,511 ratings — published 1976
The King in Yellow (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.54 — 27,546 ratings — published 1895
The Beetle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.50 — 3,953 ratings — published 1897
“The room looked exactly as it had looked when I left the Siddons house for good at the age of eighteen, as if the intervening years had never happened, as if my escape had been nothing but a dream.”
― 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
