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Scary Books
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 278 times as scary)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,714,072 ratings — published 1977
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as scary)
avg rating 4.13 — 784,598 ratings — published 2002
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as scary)
avg rating 3.81 — 397,284 ratings — published 1959
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 153 times as scary)
avg rating 4.08 — 703,058 ratings — published 1983
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as scary)
avg rating 4.10 — 662,973 ratings — published 1975
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as scary)
avg rating 3.99 — 850,270 ratings — published 1974
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as scary)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,483,008 ratings — published 1897
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Scary Stories, #1)
by (shelved 136 times as scary)
avg rating 4.06 — 73,042 ratings — published 1981
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as scary)
avg rating 4.23 — 853,849 ratings — published 1987
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as scary)
avg rating 4.09 — 201,619 ratings — published 2000
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 111 times as scary)
avg rating 4.35 — 837,917 ratings — published 1978
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,359,877 ratings — published 2011
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as scary)
avg rating 4.21 — 272,688 ratings — published 1971
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as scary)
avg rating 4.15 — 566,625 ratings — published 2008
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 211,085 ratings — published 2014
Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as scary)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,941 ratings — published 2018
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as scary)
avg rating 3.66 — 444,484 ratings — published 2020
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,902,560 ratings — published 1818
The Night Gardener (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,135 ratings — published 2014
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 297,807 ratings — published 1962
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 70 times as scary)
avg rating 4.13 — 298,045 ratings — published 2013
Home Before Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as scary)
avg rating 4.04 — 316,397 ratings — published 2020
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as scary)
avg rating 4.14 — 601,501 ratings — published 2022
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as scary)
avg rating 3.78 — 313,201 ratings — published 2020
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as scary)
avg rating 3.78 — 106,483 ratings — published 2015
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
by (shelved 61 times as scary)
avg rating 4.25 — 75,654 ratings — published 2013
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as scary)
avg rating 3.83 — 127,388 ratings — published 2014
The Only Good Indians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 3.68 — 115,656 ratings — published 2020
Doll Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 3.68 — 30,269 ratings — published 2013
NOS4A2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 4.07 — 145,962 ratings — published 2013
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,624,959 ratings — published 1939
The Outsider (Holly Gibney #1)
by (shelved 57 times as scary)
avg rating 4.01 — 383,049 ratings — published 2018
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as scary)
avg rating 4.02 — 568,536 ratings — published 2006
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as scary)
avg rating 3.84 — 154,413 ratings — published 2007
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 57 times as scary)
avg rating 4.26 — 589,516 ratings — published 1988
The Winter People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as scary)
avg rating 3.82 — 98,575 ratings — published 2014
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as scary)
avg rating 3.76 — 82,600 ratings — published 1983
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as scary)
avg rating 3.80 — 322,415 ratings — published 1981
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 159,967 ratings — published 1967
Wait Till Helen Comes (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.11 — 26,194 ratings — published 1986
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Library Binding)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.10 — 20,693 ratings — published 1984
Needful Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 3.98 — 279,786 ratings — published 1991
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 3.89 — 154,437 ratings — published 1962
Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 107,673 ratings — published 2011
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 83,333 ratings — published 1979
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as scary)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,493,564 ratings — published 1948
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as scary)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,229,222 ratings — published 2006
Bag of Bones (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 211,763 ratings — published 1998
“If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there. We become like mushrooms, living in the dark, with poop up to our chins. If you want to know only what you already know, you're dying. You're saying: Leave me alone; I don't mind this little rathole. It's warm and dry. Really, it's fine.
When nothing new can get in, that's death. When oxygen can't find a way in, you die. But new is scary, and new can be disappointing, and confusing - we had this all figured out, and now we don't.
New is life.”
― Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
When nothing new can get in, that's death. When oxygen can't find a way in, you die. But new is scary, and new can be disappointing, and confusing - we had this all figured out, and now we don't.
New is life.”
― Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
“But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place.”
― Burned
― Burned
