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Scary Books
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 276 times as scary)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,737,598 ratings — published 1977
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as scary)
avg rating 4.13 — 792,993 ratings — published 2002
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as scary)
avg rating 3.81 — 408,215 ratings — published 1959
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 151 times as scary)
avg rating 4.09 — 715,534 ratings — published 1983
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as scary)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,508,933 ratings — published 1897
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as scary)
avg rating 4.10 — 672,318 ratings — published 1975
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as scary)
avg rating 3.99 — 863,893 ratings — published 1974
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Scary Stories, #1)
by (shelved 137 times as scary)
avg rating 4.06 — 73,538 ratings — published 1981
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as scary)
avg rating 4.22 — 837,600 ratings — published 1987
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as scary)
avg rating 4.09 — 206,580 ratings — published 2000
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 112 times as scary)
avg rating 4.35 — 848,928 ratings — published 1978
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as scary)
avg rating 4.21 — 276,796 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 — 1,368,911 ratings — published 2011
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as scary)
avg rating 4.15 — 568,799 ratings — published 2008
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 213,768 ratings — published 2014
Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as scary)
avg rating 4.01 — 30,345 ratings — published 2018
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as scary)
avg rating 3.66 — 453,643 ratings — published 2020
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as scary)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,950,395 ratings — published 1818
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 72 times as scary)
avg rating 4.13 — 302,721 ratings — published 2013
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 306,650 ratings — published 1962
Home Before Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as scary)
avg rating 4.04 — 328,150 ratings — published 2020
The Night Gardener (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as scary)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,297 ratings — published 2014
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as scary)
avg rating 3.78 — 322,643 ratings — published 2020
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as scary)
avg rating 3.78 — 109,080 ratings — published 2015
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as scary)
avg rating 3.83 — 132,725 ratings — published 2014
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as scary)
avg rating 4.14 — 640,348 ratings — published 2022
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
by (shelved 62 times as scary)
avg rating 4.25 — 76,943 ratings — published 2013
Doll Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as scary)
avg rating 3.68 — 30,417 ratings — published 2013
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 3.68 — 120,074 ratings — published 2020
The Outsider (Holly Gibney #1)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.01 — 390,853 ratings — published 2018
NOS4A2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.07 — 148,422 ratings — published 2013
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,661,796 ratings — published 1939
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 3.84 — 156,903 ratings — published 2007
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 58 times as scary)
avg rating 4.26 — 594,500 ratings — published 1988
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as scary)
avg rating 4.02 — 573,889 ratings — published 2006
The Winter People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as scary)
avg rating 3.81 — 101,868 ratings — published 2014
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as scary)
avg rating 4.06 — 162,752 ratings — published 1967
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as scary)
avg rating 3.76 — 83,998 ratings — published 1983
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as scary)
avg rating 3.80 — 326,838 ratings — published 1981
Needful Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as scary)
avg rating 3.98 — 283,285 ratings — published 1991
Wait Till Helen Comes (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.11 — 26,400 ratings — published 1986
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Library Binding)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 4.10 — 20,838 ratings — published 1984
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 83,943 ratings — published 1979
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 3.89 — 156,565 ratings — published 1962
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,610,847 ratings — published 1948
Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as scary)
avg rating 3.91 — 107,870 ratings — published 2011
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as scary)
avg rating 3.59 — 293,865 ratings — published 2024
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as scary)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,252,244 ratings — published 2006
“Within its gates I heard the sound
Of winds in cypress caverns caught
Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought
To whisper what their roots had found.
(“A Dream of Fear”)”
― The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror
Of winds in cypress caverns caught
Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought
To whisper what their roots had found.
(“A Dream of Fear”)”
― The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror
“Routine had become rhythm. Rhythm had become identity.”
― The Dog Walker: The Prequel
― The Dog Walker: The Prequel
