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The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 424,594 ratings — published 1959
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 435 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.90 — 319,279 ratings — published 1962
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 419 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,542,524 ratings — published 1897
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 418 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.66 — 467,250 ratings — published 2020
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 392 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,003,969 ratings — published 1818
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 376 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,769,693 ratings — published 1977
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 371 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.13 — 805,074 ratings — published 2002
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.86 — 228,558 ratings — published 1872
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.09 — 213,380 ratings — published 2000
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 249 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.83 — 160,112 ratings — published 2022
Home Before Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 242 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.03 — 345,081 ratings — published 2020
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 241 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.15 — 571,617 ratings — published 2008
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 234 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.78 — 338,638 ratings — published 2020
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,321,398 ratings — published 1986
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.20 — 127,582 ratings — published 2021
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 215 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.09 — 733,713 ratings — published 1983
My Best Friend's Exorcism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 214 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.92 — 162,952 ratings — published 2016
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 211 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.63 — 181,883 ratings — published 2023
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.77 — 477,655 ratings — published 2017
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 209 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.58 — 332,492 ratings — published 2024
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.89 — 159,464 ratings — published 1962
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 206 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.44 — 371,852 ratings — published 2019
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.10 — 685,528 ratings — published 1975
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.99 — 884,463 ratings — published 1974
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.38 — 188,133 ratings — published 1898
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 196 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.25 — 766,349 ratings — published 1938
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.13 — 693,934 ratings — published 2022
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
by (shelved 194 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.68 — 126,269 ratings — published 2020
Ninth House (Ninth House Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 193 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.00 — 423,978 ratings — published 2019
Horrorstör (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.64 — 135,301 ratings — published 2014
The Silent Companions (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.86 — 49,608 ratings — published 2017
The September House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.85 — 110,187 ratings — published 2023
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.49 — 199,847 ratings — published 2021
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.22 — 860,065 ratings — published 1987
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.84 — 698,328 ratings — published 1886
The Last House on Needless Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.80 — 165,564 ratings — published 2021
The Sun Down Motel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.99 — 203,832 ratings — published 2020
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
by (shelved 156 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,637 ratings — published
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,004,764 ratings — published 1890
Starling House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.77 — 181,191 ratings — published 2023
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,618,951 ratings — published 2019
A House with Good Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.66 — 76,142 ratings — published 2023
A Dowry of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.91 — 112,047 ratings — published 2021
Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)
by (shelved 146 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.01 — 30,956 ratings — published 2018
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.06 — 387,567 ratings — published 1892
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.77 — 112,828 ratings — published 2015
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 143 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,381,312 ratings — published 2011
The Only One Left (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.12 — 737,824 ratings — published 2023
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 139 times as spooky)
avg rating 4.02 — 670,757 ratings — published 1976
Incidents Around the House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as spooky)
avg rating 3.55 — 120,580 ratings — published 2024
“Certainly, the terror of a deserted house swells in geometrical rather than arithmetical progression as houses multiply to form a city of stark desolation. The sight of such endless avenues of fishy-eyed vacancy and death, and the thought of such linked infinities of black, brooding compartments given over to cob-webs and memories and the conqueror worm, start up vestigial fears and aversions that not even the stoutest philosophy can disperse.”
― The Shadow over Innsmouth
― The Shadow over Innsmouth
“He stepped fully into the house. The air inside was cool on his skin. He turned, expecting the front door to close on its own. But it stayed open, as it was supposed to. He shook his head, chiding himself for letting an old house spook him. He walked into the kitchen. Behind him, the front door slammed shut.”
― House of Dark Shadows
― House of Dark Shadows
