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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 23823 times as horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,766,475 ratings — published 1977
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 19875 times as horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,318,779 ratings — published 1986
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 19561 times as horror)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,538,928 ratings — published 1897
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 16877 times as horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 422,609 ratings — published 1959
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 16720 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,998,373 ratings — published 1818
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16665 times as horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 882,182 ratings — published 1974
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16287 times as horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 731,797 ratings — published 1983
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 16002 times as horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 684,073 ratings — published 1975
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 13540 times as horror)
avg rating 4.22 — 857,893 ratings — published 1987
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 12330 times as horror)
avg rating 4.35 — 862,031 ratings — published 1978
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11531 times as horror)
avg rating 3.66 — 465,490 ratings — published 2020
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 10578 times as horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 212,701 ratings — published 2000
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 10129 times as horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 317,835 ratings — published 1962
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 9444 times as horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 473,234 ratings — published 2017
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 8882 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 669,629 ratings — published 1976
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8369 times as horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 336,805 ratings — published 2020
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
by (shelved 8174 times as horror)
avg rating 3.68 — 125,553 ratings — published 2020
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 8118 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 307,871 ratings — published 2013
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 8107 times as horror)
avg rating 4.21 — 282,284 ratings — published 1971
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7654 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 580,606 ratings — published 2006
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 7596 times as horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 158,975 ratings — published 2022
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 7565 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 803,708 ratings — published 2002
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7492 times as horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 331,704 ratings — published 1981
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 7425 times as horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 226,824 ratings — published 1872
NOS4A2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7157 times as horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 150,937 ratings — published 2013
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7063 times as horror)
avg rating 3.82 — 140,321 ratings — published 2014
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7056 times as horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 696,422 ratings — published 1886
Horrorstör (Paperback)
by (shelved 6909 times as horror)
avg rating 3.64 — 134,735 ratings — published 2014
My Best Friend's Exorcism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6891 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 162,297 ratings — published 2016
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 6885 times as horror)
avg rating 3.44 — 369,637 ratings — published 2019
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6713 times as horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 159,787 ratings — published 2007
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 6691 times as horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 216,990 ratings — published 2014
The Outsider (Holly Gibney, #1)
by (shelved 6646 times as horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 399,974 ratings — published 2018
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6344 times as horror)
avg rating 3.49 — 199,108 ratings — published 2021
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6337 times as horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 112,418 ratings — published 2015
Needful Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 6334 times as horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 287,469 ratings — published 1991
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6295 times as horror)
avg rating 3.63 — 181,095 ratings — published 2023
Christine (Paperback)
by (shelved 6210 times as horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 270,203 ratings — published 1983
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 6105 times as horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,997,869 ratings — published 1890
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 6101 times as horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 166,761 ratings — published 1967
Let the Right One In (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6068 times as horror)
avg rating 4.03 — 123,818 ratings — published 2004
Night Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 6010 times as horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 203,608 ratings — published 1978
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5742 times as horror)
avg rating 3.58 — 328,983 ratings — published 2024
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 5575 times as horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 187,631 ratings — published 1898
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5354 times as horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 159,058 ratings — published 1962
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 5309 times as horror)
avg rating 4.26 — 601,246 ratings — published 1988
The Institute (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5233 times as horror)
avg rating 4.19 — 359,570 ratings — published 2019
The Dead Zone (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5225 times as horror)
avg rating 3.97 — 254,076 ratings — published 1979
Firestarter (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5201 times as horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 252,852 ratings — published 1980
The Last House on Needless Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5124 times as horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 164,509 ratings — published 2021
“[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.”
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“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
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classic-horror, horror-classics, horror-fiction, and horror-literature