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Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 720 times as terror)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,539,779 ratings — published 1897
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 708 times as terror)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,319,349 ratings — published 1986
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 705 times as terror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,767,174 ratings — published 1977
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 623 times as terror)
avg rating 3.99 — 882,634 ratings — published 1974
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 545 times as terror)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,999,508 ratings — published 1818
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 523 times as terror)
avg rating 4.22 — 858,377 ratings — published 1987
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 515 times as terror)
avg rating 4.09 — 732,218 ratings — published 1983
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 486 times as terror)
avg rating 4.10 — 684,379 ratings — published 1975
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as terror)
avg rating 3.81 — 423,024 ratings — published 1959
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 341 times as terror)
avg rating 4.21 — 282,452 ratings — published 1971
Our Share of Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 329 times as terror)
avg rating 4.24 — 70,832 ratings — published 2019
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 290 times as terror)
avg rating 3.83 — 696,828 ratings — published 1886
Things We Lost in the Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 286 times as terror)
avg rating 4.02 — 69,588 ratings — published 2016
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as terror)
avg rating 3.86 — 227,182 ratings — published 1872
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 272 times as terror)
avg rating 3.38 — 187,720 ratings — published 1898
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 233 times as terror)
avg rating 3.90 — 318,137 ratings — published 1962
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
by (shelved 223 times as terror)
avg rating 4.13 — 308,000 ratings — published 2013
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as terror)
avg rating 3.77 — 474,146 ratings — published 2017
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as terror)
avg rating 3.79 — 70,253 ratings — published 2009
Carcoma (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as terror)
avg rating 4.06 — 38,168 ratings — published 2021
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 195 times as terror)
avg rating 3.78 — 337,176 ratings — published 2020
Hell House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as terror)
avg rating 3.67 — 66,669 ratings — published 1971
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 188 times as terror)
avg rating 4.35 — 862,322 ratings — published 1978
The Outsider (Holly Gibney, #1)
by (shelved 186 times as terror)
avg rating 4.02 — 400,167 ratings — published 2018
The Long Walk (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as terror)
avg rating 3.98 — 310,926 ratings — published 1979
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as terror)
avg rating 3.66 — 465,831 ratings — published 2020
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 179 times as terror)
avg rating 4.02 — 669,881 ratings — published 1976
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 176 times as terror)
avg rating 4.05 — 160,470 ratings — published 1954
The Flood (Blackwater, #1)
by (shelved 171 times as terror)
avg rating 3.68 — 90,451 ratings — published 1983
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as terror)
avg rating 3.63 — 181,224 ratings — published 2023
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as terror)
avg rating 3.81 — 331,820 ratings — published 1981
At the Mountains of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as terror)
avg rating 3.77 — 67,964 ratings — published 1936
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 157 times as terror)
avg rating 4.06 — 166,856 ratings — published 1967
The Mist (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as terror)
avg rating 3.92 — 189,913 ratings — published 1980
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as terror)
avg rating 4.13 — 803,990 ratings — published 2002
The Hellbound Heart (Hellraiser #1)
by (shelved 155 times as terror)
avg rating 4.08 — 72,589 ratings — published 1986
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as terror)
avg rating 4.09 — 212,853 ratings — published 2000
Night Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as terror)
avg rating 4.04 — 203,676 ratings — published 1978
A Sunny Place for Shady People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as terror)
avg rating 3.76 — 28,371 ratings — published 2024
The Last House on Needless Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as terror)
avg rating 3.80 — 164,728 ratings — published 2021
My Best Friend's Exorcism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 135 times as terror)
avg rating 3.92 — 162,431 ratings — published 2016
The Institute (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as terror)
avg rating 4.19 — 359,759 ratings — published 2019
Come Closer (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as terror)
avg rating 3.64 — 56,903 ratings — published 2003
Uzumaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as terror)
avg rating 4.45 — 94,805 ratings — published 1998
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as terror)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,999,326 ratings — published 1890
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as terror)
avg rating 3.77 — 112,505 ratings — published 2015
The Levee (Blackwater, #2)
by (shelved 126 times as terror)
avg rating 3.76 — 64,005 ratings — published 1983
Horrorstör (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as terror)
avg rating 3.64 — 134,846 ratings — published 2014
The Dunwich Horror (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as terror)
avg rating 3.81 — 16,731 ratings — published 1928
“And it was not merely tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of millions of people who were the obedient witnesses of this slaughter of the innocent. Nor were they merely obedient witnesses: when ordered to, they gave their support to this slaughter, voting in favour of it amid a hubbub of voices. There was something unexpected in their degree of obedience... The extreme violence of the totalitarian social systems proved able to paralyse the human spirit throughout whole continents.”
― Life and Fate
― Life and Fate
“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'
hierarchies? and even if one of them
pressed me against his heart: I would be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.”
― Duino Elegies
hierarchies? and even if one of them
pressed me against his heart: I would be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.”
― Duino Elegies
