12 books
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6 voters
Existential Horror Books
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A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.17 — 51,853 ratings — published 2011
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 291,533 ratings — published 2014
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 366,725 ratings — published 2017
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,847 ratings — published 1967
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,333,104 ratings — published 1949
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,466,197 ratings — published 1969
Teatro Grottesco (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,777 ratings — published 2006
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.55 — 103,057 ratings — published 2014
Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.66 — 78,308 ratings — published 2014
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 195,731 ratings — published 2000
The Tenant (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,045 ratings — published 1964
The Divine Farce (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,930 ratings — published 2009
The Darkness Outside Us (The Darkness Outside Us, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.32 — 30,766 ratings — published 2021
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.20 — 773,667 ratings — published 1962
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 307,394 ratings — published 1947
We Spread (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.76 — 22,828 ratings — published 2022
Cursed Bunny (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.75 — 39,619 ratings — published 2017
This Thing Between Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.70 — 36,410 ratings — published 2021
Our Share of Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.26 — 57,492 ratings — published 2019
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 73,758 ratings — published 1926
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.17 — 88,534 ratings — published 1942
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 277,426 ratings — published 1973
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,378,210 ratings — published 1915
No Longer Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 20,349 ratings — published 2019
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,500 ratings — published 2020
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.51 — 194,981 ratings — published 2016
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.95 — 240,185 ratings — published 1948
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 691,269 ratings — published 2016
You Weren't Meant to Be Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,039 ratings — published 2025
#DRCL midnight children 5 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.11 — 151 ratings — published 2024
The Grip of It (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.16 — 14,811 ratings — published 2017
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 17,391 ratings — published 1999
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.97 — 71,909 ratings — published 1965
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.15 — 432,548 ratings — published 1963
ダークギャザリング 11 [Dark Gathering 11] (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.22 — 81 ratings — published 2022
After God - Tome 05 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.11 — 122 ratings — published
After God - Tome 04 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.15 — 183 ratings — published
After God - Tome 03 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.22 — 246 ratings — published
Heart of Darkness & Tales of Unrest (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.17 — 380 ratings — published 1996
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.60 — 29,352 ratings — published 1973
The Saint of Bright Doors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.65 — 6,690 ratings — published 2023
I Want to Die, I Hate My Life: Three Essays on Tragedy and One on Beckett (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.57 — 7 ratings — published
The Starving Saints (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.66 — 8,453 ratings — published 2025
The Lamb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 21,900 ratings — published 2025
Ajin: Demi-Human Complete 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.15 — 46 ratings — published
In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,853 ratings — published 2011
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.12 — 25,014 ratings — published 2025
Audition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 3.34 — 19,854 ratings — published 2025
Homunculus (Omnibus) Vol. 9-10
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.08 — 264 ratings — published
The Walking Cat: A Cat's-Eye-View of the Zombie Apocalypse Vols. 1-3 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-horror)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,007 ratings — published
“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity”
― [Classic Lovecraft : The Call of Cthulu and Other Stories] (By (author) H. P. Lovecraft) [published: March, 2016]
― [Classic Lovecraft : The Call of Cthulu and Other Stories] (By (author) H. P. Lovecraft) [published: March, 2016]
“Quand l'immanence surplombant sur nous, ciel, gouffre, vie, tombeau, éternité, apparaît patente, c'est alors que nous sentons tout inaccessible, tout défendu, tout muré. Quand l'infini s'ouvre, pas de fermeture plus formidable.”
― The Man Who Laughs
― The Man Who Laughs









