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Scary Books
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 277 times as scary)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,753,180 ratings — published 1977
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as scary)
avg rating 4.13 — 799,021 ratings — published 2002
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as scary)
avg rating 3.81 — 415,797 ratings — published 1959
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 154 times as scary)
avg rating 4.09 — 724,207 ratings — published 1983
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as scary)
avg rating 4.10 — 678,591 ratings — published 1975
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as scary)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,524,803 ratings — published 1897
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as scary)
avg rating 3.99 — 873,742 ratings — published 1974
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Scary Stories, #1)
by (shelved 137 times as scary)
avg rating 4.06 — 73,873 ratings — published 1981
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as scary)
avg rating 4.22 — 848,589 ratings — published 1987
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as scary)
avg rating 4.09 — 210,033 ratings — published 2000
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 114 times as scary)
avg rating 4.35 — 856,401 ratings — published 1978
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as scary)
avg rating 4.21 — 279,804 ratings — published 1971
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,375,327 ratings — published 2011
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as scary)
avg rating 4.15 — 570,242 ratings — published 2008
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 215,511 ratings — published 2014
Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as scary)
avg rating 4.01 — 30,616 ratings — published 2018
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as scary)
avg rating 3.66 — 459,600 ratings — published 2020
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,976,762 ratings — published 1818
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 72 times as scary)
avg rating 4.13 — 305,604 ratings — published 2013
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as scary)
avg rating 3.90 — 312,688 ratings — published 1962
The Night Gardener (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,427 ratings — published 2014
Home Before Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as scary)
avg rating 4.04 — 336,426 ratings — published 2020
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as scary)
avg rating 3.78 — 329,683 ratings — published 2020
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as scary)
avg rating 3.77 — 110,942 ratings — published 2015
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
by (shelved 63 times as scary)
avg rating 4.25 — 77,838 ratings — published 2013
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as scary)
avg rating 3.82 — 136,791 ratings — published 2014
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as scary)
avg rating 4.14 — 666,741 ratings — published 2022
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 3.68 — 123,092 ratings — published 2020
Doll Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 3.68 — 30,504 ratings — published 2013
NOS4A2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 4.07 — 149,928 ratings — published 2013
The Outsider (Holly Gibney #1)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.01 — 395,891 ratings — published 2018
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,688,138 ratings — published 1939
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 3.84 — 158,487 ratings — published 2007
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.26 — 598,257 ratings — published 1988
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as scary)
avg rating 4.02 — 577,580 ratings — published 2006
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as scary)
avg rating 3.76 — 84,982 ratings — published 1983
The Winter People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as scary)
avg rating 3.81 — 103,332 ratings — published 2014
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 84,323 ratings — published 1979
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as scary)
avg rating 4.06 — 164,948 ratings — published 1967
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as scary)
avg rating 3.81 — 329,359 ratings — published 1981
Needful Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as scary)
avg rating 3.99 — 285,562 ratings — published 1991
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 3.58 — 314,330 ratings — published 2024
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 3.89 — 157,932 ratings — published 1962
Wait Till Helen Comes (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.11 — 26,544 ratings — published 1986
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Library Binding)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.10 — 20,957 ratings — published 1984
Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 108,064 ratings — published 2011
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,266,797 ratings — published 2006
Incidents Around the House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as scary)
avg rating 3.55 — 103,499 ratings — published 2024
“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
“Through living in a space that we do not understand, everything may become meaningless, incoherent, and forcefully scary. If fear rules our lives, we lose the core of our being, since 'fear' disrupts the schedule of our existence and blocks the soothing waves of the sound vibrations. (“Because the world has corona”)”
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