35 books
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Macabre Books
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Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,483,731 ratings — published 1897
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,904,192 ratings — published 1818
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.15 — 566,679 ratings — published 2008
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.06 — 241,145 ratings — published 2003
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.91 — 298,049 ratings — published 1962
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.21 — 109,065 ratings — published 2014
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.40 — 296,717 ratings — published 1849
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.02 — 652,270 ratings — published 1976
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.30 — 46,861 ratings — published 2017
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.81 — 397,585 ratings — published 1959
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.83 — 668,259 ratings — published 1886
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.77 — 406,222 ratings — published 2017
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.13 — 784,783 ratings — published 2002
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.04 — 557,009 ratings — published 1985
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,892,676 ratings — published 1890
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,275,759 ratings — published 1986
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 11 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.35 — 838,217 ratings — published 1978
The Gashlycrumb Tinies (The Vinegar Works, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.08 — 83,745 ratings — published 1963
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.19 — 244,780 ratings — published 1843
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.87 — 201,505 ratings — published 1872
The Cask of Amontillado (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.07 — 88,521 ratings — published 1846
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.99 — 850,699 ratings — published 1974
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.91 — 666,232 ratings — published 1982
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.89 — 154,492 ratings — published 1962
All the Living and the Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.25 — 12,598 ratings — published 2022
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.12 — 48,034 ratings — published 2019
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (Johannes Cabal, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.92 — 22,073 ratings — published 2009
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.01 — 119,240 ratings — published 1999
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.10 — 663,264 ratings — published 1975
American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.80 — 364,398 ratings — published 1991
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.32 — 142,357 ratings — published 2009
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,212,381 ratings — published 1954
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.84 — 141,797 ratings — published 2022
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 8 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.24 — 125,232 ratings — published 1843
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.11 — 43,139 ratings — published 1997
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.38 — 181,015 ratings — published 1898
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.08 — 703,410 ratings — published 1983
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.09 — 732,365 ratings — published 1966
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.66 — 444,754 ratings — published 2020
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.25 — 24,880 ratings — published 1981
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.00 — 761,517 ratings — published 2003
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.26 — 589,670 ratings — published 1988
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.29 — 171,003 ratings — published 1845
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.17 — 74,928 ratings — published 1960
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,360,099 ratings — published 2011
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.09 — 201,761 ratings — published 2000
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,714,819 ratings — published 1977
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.02 — 568,666 ratings — published 2006
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,091,004 ratings — published 1847
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.23 — 221,547 ratings — published 1812
“The skeleton key unlocks the mind and swings open the door of imagination. A far better place than here A much safer place than there The quintessential somewhere The mystical nowhere The enigmatic anywhere My gift to you - the key to everywhere.
The mortal will find itself lost while the soul always knows the way it is grateful for the darkness and celebrates the day
I can give you peace my peace I give you... but I cannot be your savior or your god - I cannot be the light along your path - I can only give you the lamp and point the way.
The blind will see... the deaf will hear... but those who choose reason will never understand.
Woe to the ones who think they know the answers they will cease to ask the questions that may be their own salvation.
We possess the knowledge of the Universe from conception. Once born we are taught to forget.
If we cannot look out at our world and see our children's vision then we are truly blind we are unable to lead them to paradise.
"Even people who are in the dark search for their shadows. Shadows exist only if there is light. We will never find total darkness - not even in death... ...and we always cast a shadow no matter how overcast our skies become. You are never alone."
Do not listen to the voice that shouts to you from behind desks behind podiums behind altars. Do not pay attention to the orators and the opportunists. Do not be distracted by the promises made behind masks. Listen to the quiet. Listen to the whispers as they gently guide you through the assaults of man's absurdities. Listen to the gentle breathing of your mother and lay your head to rest in her peace and in her warm embrace and understand that truth and power lie within you. Breathe silence.
The free bird will always return to the cage sooner or later to seek food and water and the loving hand of it's caretaker.”
―
The mortal will find itself lost while the soul always knows the way it is grateful for the darkness and celebrates the day
I can give you peace my peace I give you... but I cannot be your savior or your god - I cannot be the light along your path - I can only give you the lamp and point the way.
The blind will see... the deaf will hear... but those who choose reason will never understand.
Woe to the ones who think they know the answers they will cease to ask the questions that may be their own salvation.
We possess the knowledge of the Universe from conception. Once born we are taught to forget.
If we cannot look out at our world and see our children's vision then we are truly blind we are unable to lead them to paradise.
"Even people who are in the dark search for their shadows. Shadows exist only if there is light. We will never find total darkness - not even in death... ...and we always cast a shadow no matter how overcast our skies become. You are never alone."
Do not listen to the voice that shouts to you from behind desks behind podiums behind altars. Do not pay attention to the orators and the opportunists. Do not be distracted by the promises made behind masks. Listen to the quiet. Listen to the whispers as they gently guide you through the assaults of man's absurdities. Listen to the gentle breathing of your mother and lay your head to rest in her peace and in her warm embrace and understand that truth and power lie within you. Breathe silence.
The free bird will always return to the cage sooner or later to seek food and water and the loving hand of it's caretaker.”
―
“The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination,
made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain,
danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain,
danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray












