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Macabre Books
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Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,464,638 ratings — published 1897
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,863,846 ratings — published 1818
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.15 — 565,361 ratings — published 2008
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.06 — 239,059 ratings — published 2003
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.91 — 292,333 ratings — published 1962
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.22 — 107,908 ratings — published 2014
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.40 — 295,104 ratings — published 1849
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.02 — 646,846 ratings — published 1976
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.81 — 390,432 ratings — published 1959
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.83 — 661,374 ratings — published 1886
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.77 — 385,602 ratings — published 2017
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.30 — 46,408 ratings — published 2017
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.13 — 778,325 ratings — published 2002
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.04 — 548,556 ratings — published 1985
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,857,066 ratings — published 1890
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,258,303 ratings — published 1986
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 11 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.35 — 830,822 ratings — published 1978
The Gashlycrumb Tinies (The Vinegar Works, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.08 — 83,490 ratings — published 1963
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.19 — 244,516 ratings — published 1843
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.87 — 192,360 ratings — published 1872
The Cask of Amontillado (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.07 — 87,751 ratings — published 1846
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.99 — 839,311 ratings — published 1974
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.91 — 661,009 ratings — published 1982
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.90 — 153,050 ratings — published 1962
All the Living and the Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.25 — 12,347 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 — 47,547 ratings — published 2019
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (Johannes Cabal, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.92 — 21,951 ratings — published 2009
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.02 — 117,713 ratings — published 1928
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.10 — 655,703 ratings — published 1975
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.80 — 359,653 ratings — published 1991
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.32 — 142,098 ratings — published 2009
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,178,871 ratings — published 1954
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.85 — 135,896 ratings — published 2022
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 8 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.24 — 122,842 ratings — published 1843
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.12 — 42,966 ratings — published 1997
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.38 — 178,984 ratings — published 1898
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.08 — 693,774 ratings — published 1983
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.09 — 725,214 ratings — published 1966
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.66 — 438,548 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 — 24,834 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 — 754,500 ratings — published 2003
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.26 — 586,469 ratings — published 1988
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.29 — 169,088 ratings — published 1845
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.17 — 74,846 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 — 1,352,552 ratings — published 2011
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.09 — 198,656 ratings — published 2000
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,694,226 ratings — published 1977
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.02 — 565,041 ratings — published 2006
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as macabre)
avg rating 4.23 — 220,873 ratings — published 1812
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as macabre)
avg rating 3.50 — 183,030 ratings — published 2021
“Oh, Lilias,” Uncle James groaned. “For heaven’s sake, why couldn’t you have drawn a flower or something?” He glanced at me and said, “I’m sorry – she’s going through a bit of a macabre phase at the moment. I suppose all children do at some point, don’t they?”
I nodded, but couldn’t remember a time when I’d ever gone around drawing grisly murder scenes and presenting them to people as gifts.”
― Frozen Charlotte
I nodded, but couldn’t remember a time when I’d ever gone around drawing grisly murder scenes and presenting them to people as gifts.”
― Frozen Charlotte










