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Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,538,949 ratings — published 1897
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 422,623 ratings — published 1959
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,998,420 ratings — published 1818
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.83 — 696,436 ratings — published 1886
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.21 — 282,288 ratings — published 1971
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 317,849 ratings — published 1962
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.86 — 226,840 ratings — published 1872
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,997,927 ratings — published 1890
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,766,496 ratings — published 1977
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 166,764 ratings — published 1967
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.38 — 187,637 ratings — published 1898
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 111,363 ratings — published 1928
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 159,060 ratings — published 1962
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.02 — 669,632 ratings — published 1976
The Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 19,587 ratings — published 1907
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 882,205 ratings — published 1974
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.66 — 17,816 ratings — published 1890
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 212,705 ratings — published 2000
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.05 — 160,385 ratings — published 1954
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.76 — 85,895 ratings — published 1983
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.26 — 601,252 ratings — published 1988
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 386,141 ratings — published 1892
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.96 — 288,895 ratings — published 1910
The Amityville Horror (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.82 — 139,791 ratings — published 1977
The House on the Borderland (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.57 — 12,070 ratings — published 1908
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 684,089 ratings — published 1975
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.77 — 157,640 ratings — published 1820
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.84 — 93,415 ratings — published 1839
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,318,794 ratings — published 1986
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.40 — 300,853 ratings — published 1849
The Wendigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.77 — 9,107 ratings — published 1910
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.25 — 763,434 ratings — published 1938
The October Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 22,222 ratings — published 1955
At the Mountains of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.77 — 67,936 ratings — published 1936
Hell House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.67 — 66,645 ratings — published 1971
The Hellbound Heart (Hellraiser #1)
by (shelved 5 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.08 — 72,532 ratings — published 1986
Burnt Offerings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,383 ratings — published 1973
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,436 ratings — published 1979
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 5 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.24 — 131,425 ratings — published 1843
The Other (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 23,221 ratings — published 1971
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.91 — 84,709 ratings — published 1979
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.22 — 857,908 ratings — published 1987
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.34 — 37,853 ratings — published 2020
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 731,820 ratings — published 1983
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.19 — 45,537 ratings — published 1764
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,906 ratings — published 1904
I Am Legend and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 138,020 ratings — published 1954
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.87 — 36,254 ratings — published 1796
Jaws (Jaws, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.94 — 185,245 ratings — published 1974
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as horror-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 332,283 ratings — published 2014