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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 277 times as scary)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,765,519 ratings — published 1977
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as scary)
avg rating 4.13 — 803,370 ratings — published 2002
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as scary)
avg rating 3.81 — 422,064 ratings — published 1959
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 154 times as scary)
avg rating 4.09 — 731,243 ratings — published 1983
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as scary)
avg rating 4.10 — 683,683 ratings — published 1975
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as scary)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,537,852 ratings — published 1897
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as scary)
avg rating 3.99 — 881,600 ratings — published 1974
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Scary Stories, #1)
by (shelved 138 times as scary)
avg rating 4.06 — 74,108 ratings — published 1981
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as scary)
avg rating 4.22 — 857,246 ratings — published 1987
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as scary)
avg rating 4.09 — 212,540 ratings — published 2000
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 113 times as scary)
avg rating 4.35 — 861,621 ratings — published 1978
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as scary)
avg rating 4.21 — 282,106 ratings — published 1971
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as scary)
avg rating 4.15 — 571,191 ratings — published 2008
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,379,796 ratings — published 2011
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 216,898 ratings — published 2014
Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as scary)
avg rating 4.00 — 30,853 ratings — published 2018
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as scary)
avg rating 3.66 — 465,079 ratings — published 2020
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,996,897 ratings — published 1818
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 72 times as scary)
avg rating 4.13 — 307,694 ratings — published 2013
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as scary)
avg rating 3.90 — 317,472 ratings — published 1962
The Night Gardener (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,517 ratings — published 2014
Home Before Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as scary)
avg rating 4.04 — 342,690 ratings — published 2020
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as scary)
avg rating 3.77 — 112,299 ratings — published 2015
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as scary)
avg rating 3.78 — 336,360 ratings — published 2020
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
by (shelved 64 times as scary)
avg rating 4.25 — 78,334 ratings — published 2013
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as scary)
avg rating 4.14 — 687,279 ratings — published 2022
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as scary)
avg rating 3.82 — 140,038 ratings — published 2014
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 3.68 — 125,390 ratings — published 2020
Doll Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 3.68 — 30,599 ratings — published 2013
NOS4A2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 4.07 — 150,871 ratings — published 2013
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 3.84 — 159,694 ratings — published 2007
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,706,150 ratings — published 1939
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as scary)
avg rating 3.76 — 85,830 ratings — published 1983
The Outsider (Holly Gibney, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as scary)
avg rating 4.01 — 399,677 ratings — published 2018
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as scary)
avg rating 4.02 — 580,396 ratings — published 2006
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 57 times as scary)
avg rating 4.26 — 601,005 ratings — published 1988
Incidents Around the House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as scary)
avg rating 3.55 — 116,224 ratings — published 2024
The Winter People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as scary)
avg rating 3.81 — 104,272 ratings — published 2014
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as scary)
avg rating 4.06 — 166,631 ratings — published 1967
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 84,683 ratings — published 1979
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as scary)
avg rating 3.81 — 331,533 ratings — published 1981
Needful Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as scary)
avg rating 3.99 — 287,332 ratings — published 1991
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 3.89 — 158,966 ratings — published 1962
Wait Till Helen Comes (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.12 — 26,690 ratings — published 1986
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Library Binding)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,058 ratings — published 1984
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,278,470 ratings — published 2006
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 3.58 — 328,014 ratings — published 2024
“The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“Just remember,” he told her. “If you run from me, I will pursue.”
― Fearscape
― Fearscape
