15 books
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5 voters
Dark Horror Books
Showing 1-50 of 3,573
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 295,782 ratings — published 1962
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 398,152 ratings — published 2017
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 200,510 ratings — published 2000
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.66 — 442,413 ratings — published 2020
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 782,572 ratings — published 2002
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.51 — 202,160 ratings — published 2016
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 650,336 ratings — published 1976
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 4.00 — 401,070 ratings — published 2019
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 126,172 ratings — published 2014
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.46 — 328,195 ratings — published 2019
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 198,031 ratings — published 1872
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,269,794 ratings — published 1986
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 394,906 ratings — published 1959
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 660,505 ratings — published 1975
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,707,522 ratings — published 1977
House of Hollow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 4.01 — 101,062 ratings — published 2021
Her Soul to Take (Souls Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 4.03 — 150,690 ratings — published 2021
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 4.15 — 566,190 ratings — published 2008
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,476,658 ratings — published 1897
Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.94 — 882,474 ratings — published 2021
Intercepts (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 39,150 ratings — published 2019
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.69 — 129,505 ratings — published 2022
Gone to See the River Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.65 — 24,243 ratings — published 2020
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 139,281 ratings — published 2022
Hell House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.69 — 63,327 ratings — published 1971
Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 52,274 ratings — published 2015
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 553,614 ratings — published 1985
The Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.69 — 66,877 ratings — published 2006
A Certain Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.71 — 67,225 ratings — published 2019
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 425,654 ratings — published 2020
Wilder Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.45 — 100,147 ratings — published 2019
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 846,582 ratings — published 1974
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.59 — 111,273 ratings — published 2005
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 665,388 ratings — published 1886
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 296,883 ratings — published 2013
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 4.21 — 271,676 ratings — published 1971
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 373,315 ratings — published 1981
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 4.08 — 699,850 ratings — published 1983
The Passage (The Passage, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 223,153 ratings — published 2010
The Lamb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 31,271 ratings — published 2025
American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 362,435 ratings — published 1991
Starling House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 161,916 ratings — published 2023
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.60 — 100,094 ratings — published 2018
The Long Walk (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 4.01 — 276,455 ratings — published 1978
The Slob (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.33 — 12,221 ratings — published 2019
A Dowry of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.93 — 103,168 ratings — published 2021
The Hacienda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 58,310 ratings — published 2022
The Hellbound Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 4.08 — 68,648 ratings — published 1986
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as dark-horror)
avg rating 2.93 — 57,387 ratings — published 2021
“Over the years, the rough edges of torture hardened her soft face and dimmed the brilliance of her eyes. In her trials of fighting to have his father regain the Light, she had in turn lost her own.”
― Arising Son: Part One
― Arising Son: Part One
“Sand rose into the air, spinning a maelstrom of protection against bullets. She looked up at him: his face contorted with concentration while the wind played with his dark hair. His arms tightened around her until she felt every contour of his body against hers. Her heart raced faster than the churning sand, and her breath was lost as if the vortex siphoned it.”
― Arising Son: Part Two
― Arising Son: Part Two







