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Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,555,564 ratings — published 1897
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,018,143 ratings — published 1818
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.15 — 572,346 ratings — published 2008
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.90 — 324,320 ratings — published 1962
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.06 — 249,998 ratings — published 2003
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.21 — 113,575 ratings — published 2014
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.40 — 301,774 ratings — published 1849
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.81 — 431,837 ratings — published 1959
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.04 — 589,434 ratings — published 1985
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.83 — 703,530 ratings — published 1886
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.02 — 673,549 ratings — published 1976
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.77 — 488,291 ratings — published 2017
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.99 — 892,555 ratings — published 1974
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,327,415 ratings — published 1986
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.29 — 48,722 ratings — published 2017
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.13 — 808,519 ratings — published 2002
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,018,658 ratings — published 1890
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 12 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.35 — 866,390 ratings — published 1978
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.66 — 471,622 ratings — published 2020
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.86 — 233,956 ratings — published 1872
The Gashlycrumb Tinies (The Vinegar Works, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.08 — 85,024 ratings — published 1963
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.19 — 245,945 ratings — published 1843
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.09 — 735,098 ratings — published 1983
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.03 — 112,255 ratings — published 1928
The Cask of Amontillado (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.07 — 91,112 ratings — published 1846
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.10 — 689,245 ratings — published 1975
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.90 — 683,654 ratings — published 1982
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,328,070 ratings — published 1954
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.89 — 161,034 ratings — published 1962
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.12 — 49,813 ratings — published 2019
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (Johannes Cabal, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.92 — 22,543 ratings — published 2009
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.80 — 384,191 ratings — published 1991
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.32 — 143,398 ratings — published 2009
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.83 — 163,468 ratings — published 2022
All the Living and the Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,652 ratings — published 2022
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.49 — 201,728 ratings — published 2021
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 8 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.24 — 132,740 ratings — published 1843
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.11 — 43,946 ratings — published 1997
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.38 — 189,552 ratings — published 1898
Don't Let the Forest In (Don't Let The Forest In, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.04 — 70,101 ratings — published 2024
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.25 — 25,081 ratings — published 1981
Ninth House (Ninth House Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.00 — 429,302 ratings — published 2019
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 — 785,621 ratings — published 2003
Beyond the Dark Veil: Post Mortem & Mourning Photography from The Thanatos Archive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.63 — 809 ratings — published 2014
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.26 — 604,155 ratings — published 1988
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.17 — 75,247 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 — 1,383,535 ratings — published 2011
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.81 — 333,476 ratings — published 1981
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,777,484 ratings — published 1977
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.09 — 759,193 ratings — published 1966
“Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them”
― Hogfather
― Hogfather
“When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live.”
― The Call of Cthulhu
― The Call of Cthulhu
