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Literary Horror Books
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Monstrilio (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 43,413 ratings — published 2023
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.69 — 129,920 ratings — published 2022
The Fisherman (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 45,251 ratings — published 2016
The Only Good Indians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.68 — 114,959 ratings — published 2020
Natural Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 25,201 ratings — published 2023
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 400,217 ratings — published 2017
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 200,845 ratings — published 2000
The Grip of It (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.15 — 15,132 ratings — published 2017
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 106,133 ratings — published 2015
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,863 ratings — published 2009
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 296,348 ratings — published 1962
Houdini Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 5,452 ratings — published 2011
Cursed Bunny (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.74 — 42,080 ratings — published 2017
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.60 — 100,357 ratings — published 2018
Fever Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.72 — 52,542 ratings — published 2014
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 395,538 ratings — published 1959
The Lamb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 31,907 ratings — published 2025
Chlorine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.65 — 23,118 ratings — published 2023
Our Share of Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 4.25 — 62,106 ratings — published 2019
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.65 — 383,801 ratings — published 2007
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.46 — 329,436 ratings — published 2019
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.98 — 491,158 ratings — published 1987
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,478,436 ratings — published 1897
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 198,913 ratings — published 1872
Let the Right One In (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 120,935 ratings — published 2004
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 4.01 — 41,421 ratings — published 2025
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 154,081 ratings — published 1962
Woman, Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.43 — 21,803 ratings — published 2022
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.51 — 202,533 ratings — published 2016
The Need (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.15 — 17,503 ratings — published 2019
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 106,288 ratings — published 2017
The Changeling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.76 — 28,082 ratings — published 2017
Piercing (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.68 — 19,701 ratings — published 1994
Zone One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.24 — 27,324 ratings — published 2011
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 359,543 ratings — published 1892
Old Soul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,224 ratings — published 2025
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.66 — 443,004 ratings — published 2020
Model Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.68 — 11,770 ratings — published 2024
The Eyes Are the Best Part (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 51,430 ratings — published 2024
Thirst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.45 — 8,635 ratings — published 2020
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.54 — 100,101 ratings — published 2022
My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.50 — 53,254 ratings — published 2021
Jawbone (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.68 — 13,970 ratings — published 2018
The Doloriad (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.10 — 3,572 ratings — published 2022
Nightbitch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.42 — 86,557 ratings — published 2021
You Should Have Left (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.40 — 15,693 ratings — published 2016
The Silent Companions (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 44,773 ratings — published 2017
The Hunger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.59 — 35,476 ratings — published 2018
The Library at Mount Char (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 79,949 ratings — published 2015
The Little Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-horror)
avg rating 3.57 — 59,766 ratings — published 2009
“Together then. Together, and sealed it with a kiss that tasted of copper and starlight.”
― Krelløy: A Lovecraftian Horror Novel of Arctic Isolation and Cosmic Annihilation
― Krelløy: A Lovecraftian Horror Novel of Arctic Isolation and Cosmic Annihilation
“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
