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Paste's 50 Best Horror Novels of All time

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,793 members

433 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

2

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

15,739 members

377 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

3

by Thomas Tryon

1,364 members

33 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

4

by Mary Shelley

42,772 members

714 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

5

by Stephen King

21,976 members

410 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

6

by Stephen King

23,222 members

453 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

7

The Turn of the Screw

8,126 members

249 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

8

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

11,396 members

297 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

9

35,527 members

627 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

10

by Stephen King

16,352 members

295 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

11

Rosemary's Baby

4,633 members

138 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

12

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

13,931 members

290 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

13

by Stephen King

14,197 members

230 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

14

by Richard Matheson

2,363 members

102 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

15

by Stephen King

4,597 members

101 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

16

20,185 members

692 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

17

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,791 members

613 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

18

The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story

894 members

65 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

19

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

15,506 members

713 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

20

Burnt Offerings

by Robert Marasco

568 members

28 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

21

Let the Right One In

by John Ajvide Lindqvist

5,722 members

265 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

22

by William Peter Blatty

5,520 members

151 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

23

4,175 members

306 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

24

by Michael McDowell

819 members

49 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

25

Broken Monsters

by Lauren Beukes

1,383 members

105 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

26

Carrion Comfort

2,124 members

51 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

27

by Robert R. McCammon

3,402 members

121 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

28

The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

12,558 members

140 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

29

4,721 members

204 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

30

A Choir of Ill Children

by Tom Piccirilli

334 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

31

Interview with the Vampire

22,969 members

333 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

32

by T. E. D. Klein

502 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

33

The Girl Next Door

by Jack Ketchum

1,562 members

80 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

34

The Shining Girls

by Lauren Beukes

2,376 members

176 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: BenTucker

35

by John Ajvide Lindqvist

537 members

29 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: BenTucker

36

by Katherine Dunn

6,136 members

162 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

37

Savaging the Dark

by Christopher Conlon

22 members

½ 3.3

Member: BenTucker

38

by Josh Malerman

3,270 members

256 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

39

The Devil in Silver

by Victor LaValle

631 members

59 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

40

by Ryū Murakami

608 members

42 reviews

3.2

Member: BenTucker

41

The Damnation Game

by Clive Barker

2,295 members

23 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

42

A Head Full of Ghosts

by Paul Tremblay

2,156 members

145 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: BenTucker

43

1,686 members

54 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

44

My Best Friend's Exorcism

by Grady Hendrix

2,125 members

114 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

45

by Michael Talbot

73 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: BenTucker

46

The Summer Is Ended and We Are Not Yet Saved

100 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

47

by Peter Straub

3,846 members

113 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker,ManWithAnAgenda

48

At the Mountains of Madness [novella]

by H. P. Lovecraft

1,221 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker,ManWithAnAgenda

49

Heart-Shaped Box

6,787 members

371 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: BenTucker,ManWithAnAgenda

50

John Dies at the End

3,631 members

177 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker,ManWithAnAgenda

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Started: BenTucker
November 2021
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