Paste Magazine's 50 Best Horror Novels of All-Time

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49 Works 349,540 Books 9,933 Reviews ½ 4.0
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The Haunting of Hill House (1959) by Shirley Jackson
1
It (1986) by Stephen King
2
Let the Right One In (2004) by John Ajvide Lindqvist
3
The Exorcist (1971) by William Peter Blatty
4
House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski
6
NOS4A2 (2013) by Joe Hill
7
The Shining (1977) by Stephen King
8
‘Salem's Lot (1975) by Stephen King
9
The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James
10
Rosemary's Baby (1967) by Ira Levin
11
Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker
12
The Elementals (1981) by Michael McDowell
13
Broken Monsters (2014) by Lauren Beukes
14
Carrion Comfort (1989) by Dan Simmons
15
Coraline (2002) by Neil Gaiman
16
Ghost Story (1979) by Peter Straub
17
Swan Song (1987) by Robert R. McCammon
18
The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition (1990) by Stephen King
19
Hell House (1971) by Richard Matheson
20
Pet Sematary (1983) by Stephen King
21
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) by Thomas Harris
22
American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis
23
The Terror (2007) by Dan Simmons
24
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) by Ray Bradbury
25
A Choir of Ill Children (2003) by Tom Piccirilli
26
Interview with the Vampire (1976) by Anne Rice
27
The Ceremonies (1984) by T. E. D. Klein
28
At the Mountains of Madness [novella] (1936) by H. P. Lovecraft
29
The Girl Next Door (1989) by Jack Ketchum
30
The Shining Girls (2013) by Lauren Beukes
31
Little Star (2010) by John Ajvide Lindqvist
32
The Other (1971) by Thomas Tryon
33
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006) by Max Brooks
34
Heart-Shaped Box (2007) by Joe Hill
35
Geek Love (1989) by Katherine Dunn
36
Rebecca (1938) by Daphne Du Maurier
37
Savaging the Dark (2014) by Christopher Conlon
38
John Dies at the End (2007) by David Wong
39
Burnt Offerings (1973) by Robert Marasco
40
Bird Box (2014) by Josh Malerman
41
The Devil in Silver (2012) by Victor LaValle
42
Audition (1997) by Ryū Murakami
43
The Damnation Game (1985) by Clive Barker
44
A Head Full of Ghosts (2015) by Paul Tremblay
45
Ring (2003) by Koji Suzuki
46
My Best Friend's Exorcism (2016) by Grady Hendrix
47
Night Things (1988) by Michael Talbot
48
The Woman in Black (1983) by Susan Hill
49
The Summer Is Ended and We Are Not Yet Saved (2013) by Joey Comeau
50

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