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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,779,670 ratings — published 1977
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 736,754 ratings — published 1983
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,328,928 ratings — published 1986
Mondo Perverso: Welcome to the Grindhouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.48 — 73 ratings — published 2022
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.44 — 377,254 ratings — published 2019
Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,835 ratings — published 2019
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 690,369 ratings — published 1975
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.88 — 157,431 ratings — published 2025
Sour Candy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.58 — 28,791 ratings — published 2015
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.63 — 185,240 ratings — published 2023
Horrorstör (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.64 — 137,305 ratings — published 2014
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.49 — 202,321 ratings — published 2021
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 345,825 ratings — published 2020
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 215,464 ratings — published 2000
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 583,509 ratings — published 2006
The Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.69 — 73,374 ratings — published 2006
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 893,421 ratings — published 1974
Bury Your Gays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 35,482 ratings — published 2024
Trad Wife (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 20,686 ratings — published 2026
Craven's Freaks: Director's Cut (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.42 — 168 ratings — published 2024
Tent Revival: Book One of the Rebecca Mythos (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.37 — 780 ratings — published
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.66 — 472,962 ratings — published 2020
What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 54,015 ratings — published 2024
The September House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 117,359 ratings — published 2023
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 164,435 ratings — published 2022
Drive: An Old Castle Novel (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.19 — 73 ratings — published 2024
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.66 — 148,028 ratings — published 2022
The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,161 ratings — published 2024
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 161,237 ratings — published 2007
Full Dark, No Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 120,815 ratings — published 2011
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 712,932 ratings — published 2022
Crazy Daisy: An Old Castle Novel (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.11 — 247 ratings — published 2022
My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.50 — 57,341 ratings — published 2021
Motherthing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.57 — 41,034 ratings — published 2022
The Hunger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.59 — 37,723 ratings — published 2018
North American Lake Monsters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,921 ratings — published 2013
The Cabin at the End of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.32 — 97,060 ratings — published 2018
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 114,449 ratings — published 2015
The Outsider (Holly Gibney, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.01 — 403,670 ratings — published 2018
Hex (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.70 — 54,715 ratings — published 2013
Brother (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 86,566 ratings — published 2015
The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,233 ratings — published 2013
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.22 — 867,454 ratings — published 1987
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 674,289 ratings — published 1976
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.35 — 867,112 ratings — published 1978
We Shouldn't Have Let It Out (Creature Feature Book 2)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 3.50 — 17 ratings — published
The Goo (Grody to the Max Presents)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.29 — 14 ratings — published
Murder in the Monashee Mountains (Travis Daniels Investigations #2)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.17 — 46 ratings — published 2025
Bizarre Splatter Patterns Slasher (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.79 — 14 ratings — published
Carnival of Horror: An Undertaker Books Anthology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-horror)
avg rating 4.29 — 12 ratings — published
“If buildings had memories, perhaps it would be best if they never changed into something else. There was a lot to be said, it now seemed, for the Racetrack pub and its permanent "Joe's not in" sign in the window. The Racetrack didn't have to have a memory - it lived its history endlessly. This place though... this place was schizophrenic, and I'd seen inside its mind.”
― An Evening with Nicholas and Martin
― An Evening with Nicholas and Martin