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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 — 1,693,377 ratings — published 1977
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as scary)
avg rating 4.13 — 778,010 ratings — published 2002
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as scary)
avg rating 3.81 — 390,160 ratings — published 1959
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 153 times as scary)
avg rating 4.08 — 693,392 ratings — published 1983
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as scary)
avg rating 4.10 — 655,416 ratings — published 1975
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as scary)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,463,794 ratings — published 1897
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as scary)
avg rating 3.99 — 838,870 ratings — published 1974
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 72,698 ratings — published 1981
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as scary)
avg rating 4.23 — 841,098 ratings — published 1987
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as scary)
avg rating 4.09 — 198,536 ratings — published 2000
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 109 times as scary)
avg rating 4.35 — 830,511 ratings — published 1978
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 209,328 ratings — published 2014
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as scary)
avg rating 4.21 — 269,839 ratings — published 1971
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as scary)
avg rating 4.15 — 565,302 ratings — published 2008
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,352,261 ratings — published 2011
Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as scary)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,645 ratings — published 2018
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as scary)
avg rating 3.66 — 438,282 ratings — published 2020
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 292,091 ratings — published 1962
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as scary)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,861,936 ratings — published 1818
The Night Gardener (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,026 ratings — published 2014
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 71 times as scary)
avg rating 4.13 — 294,532 ratings — published 2013
Home Before Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as scary)
avg rating 4.04 — 308,499 ratings — published 2020
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 66 times as scary)
avg rating 3.79 — 306,406 ratings — published 2020
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as scary)
avg rating 3.78 — 105,087 ratings — published 2015
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as scary)
avg rating 4.15 — 574,542 ratings — published 2022
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as scary)
avg rating 3.83 — 124,139 ratings — published 2014
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
by (shelved 61 times as scary)
avg rating 4.25 — 74,872 ratings — published 2013
The Only Good Indians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as scary)
avg rating 3.68 — 112,727 ratings — published 2020
NOS4A2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as scary)
avg rating 4.07 — 143,712 ratings — published 2013
Doll Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 3.68 — 30,178 ratings — published 2013
The Outsider (Holly Gibney #1)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.01 — 377,104 ratings — published 2018
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,597,219 ratings — published 1939
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.02 — 564,902 ratings — published 2006
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as scary)
avg rating 3.84 — 152,816 ratings — published 2007
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 56 times as scary)
avg rating 4.26 — 586,342 ratings — published 1988
The Winter People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as scary)
avg rating 3.82 — 94,680 ratings — published 2014
Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 107,599 ratings — published 2011
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as scary)
avg rating 3.80 — 319,944 ratings — published 1981
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 3.90 — 152,986 ratings — published 1962
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 3.75 — 81,584 ratings — published 1983
Wait Till Helen Comes (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.11 — 26,062 ratings — published 1986
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Library Binding)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.10 — 20,589 ratings — published 1984
Needful Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 3.98 — 277,345 ratings — published 1991
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 158,377 ratings — published 1967
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as scary)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,400,032 ratings — published 1949
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 82,937 ratings — published 1979
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as scary)
avg rating 3.64 — 165,082 ratings — published 2023
Bag of Bones (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 210,772 ratings — published 1998
“It was always the pretty streets that hid the ugliest
stories. She’d learned that the hard way. ”
― The Dog Walker: Secrets
stories. She’d learned that the hard way. ”
― The Dog Walker: Secrets
“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.”
― To Kiss a King
― To Kiss a King
