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Monstrilio (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 52,395 ratings — published 2023
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.67 — 144,959 ratings — published 2022
The Fisherman (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.82 — 51,905 ratings — published 2016
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 473,598 ratings — published 2017
Natural Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 29,044 ratings — published 2023
Our Share of Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 70,756 ratings — published 2019
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.68 — 125,587 ratings — published 2020
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 317,952 ratings — published 1962
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 212,761 ratings — published 2000
The Lamb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.74 — 56,371 ratings — published 2025
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.60 — 112,340 ratings — published 2018
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.44 — 369,799 ratings — published 2019
Fever Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.72 — 58,595 ratings — published 2014
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 112,453 ratings — published 2015
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.72 — 9,724 ratings — published 2009
Chlorine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.63 — 27,571 ratings — published 2023
The Grip of It (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.14 — 15,856 ratings — published 2017
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 422,747 ratings — published 1959
Houdini Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 5,455 ratings — published 2011
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.96 — 67,707 ratings — published 2025
Cursed Bunny (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.73 — 46,512 ratings — published 2017
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.54 — 111,192 ratings — published 2022
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 513,577 ratings — published 1987
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,539,252 ratings — published 1897
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 386,216 ratings — published 1892
Let the Right One In (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 4.03 — 123,830 ratings — published 2004
Hungerstone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 44,049 ratings — published 2025
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 159,087 ratings — published 1962
Woman, Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.42 — 22,898 ratings — published 2022
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.65 — 454,827 ratings — published 2007
My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.50 — 56,533 ratings — published 2021
The Need (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.14 — 18,544 ratings — published 2019
The Changeling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.76 — 29,293 ratings — published 2017
Piercing (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.68 — 21,942 ratings — published 1994
Come Closer (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.64 — 56,851 ratings — published 2003
Zone One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.24 — 28,204 ratings — published 2011
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 226,962 ratings — published 1872
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 187,653 ratings — published 1898
Old Soul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,629 ratings — published 2025
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.66 — 465,609 ratings — published 2020
Model Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.67 — 15,005 ratings — published 2024
The Eyes Are the Best Part (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 71,623 ratings — published 2024
Thirst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.43 — 10,091 ratings — published 2020
Hangsaman (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.76 — 13,300 ratings — published 1951
The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,182 ratings — published 2013
Jawbone (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.66 — 16,589 ratings — published 2018
The Doloriad (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.09 — 3,959 ratings — published 2022
The Hacienda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 63,281 ratings — published 2022
Nightbitch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.41 — 93,292 ratings — published 2021
You Should Have Left (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 18,232 ratings — published 2016
“It was clear that the city had none of the dignity of older capitals. It did not swagger like London, preen like Paris, or prize artistry like Vienna. Manchester was a brute. It pushed up its sleeves, and it smoked, and hammered, and grew.”
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“Despite what had been visited on her body, she had looked more thoughtful than tortured, even melancholy. "Pitying," someone had told Mr. Carpenter who wished immediately he had not been told such; it unsettled him to think of a corpse despairing over the fortunes of the living. (98)”
― When Things Get Dark
― When Things Get Dark
