Book AwardsNPR 100 Best Horror Novels and Stories
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Works (100)
| Titles | Order |
|---|---|
| "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" [short story] by M. R. James | Blood Roots: Foundational Horror |
| All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts {short story} by Sonya Taaffe | The Fear in Our Stars: Cosmic Horror and Weird Fiction |
| Alone with the Horrors by Ramsey Campbell | Short and Sharp: Story Anthologies |
| I Am Legend by Richard Matheson | Zombies and Vampires and Werewolves: Oh My |
| At the Mountains of Madness [novella] by H. P. Lovecraft | The Fear in Our Stars: Cosmic Horror and Weird Fiction |
| The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross | The Fear in Our Stars: Cosmic Horror and Weird Fiction |
| The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle | The Fear in Our Stars: Cosmic Horror and Weird Fiction |
| Beloved by Toni Morrison | Hell is Other People: Real World Horrors |
| Bird Box by Josh Malerman | Zombies and Vampires and Werewolves: Oh My |
| Bloodchild [short fiction] by Octavia E. Butler | Hell is Other People: Real World Horrors |
| The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter | Horribly Ever After: Fantasy and Fairy Tale Horror |
| The Body by Stephen King | The Kids Aren't All Right: Creepy Kids |
| The Bone Key by Sarah Monette | Horrible Homes: Ghosts and Hauntings |
| Books of Blood 1-3 by Clive Barker | Short and Sharp: Story Anthologies |
| Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco | Horrible Homes: Ghosts and Hauntings |
| Carmilla: A Vampyre Tale by Sheridan Le Fanu | Blood Roots: Foundational Horror |
| The Cipher by Kathe Koja | The Fear in Our Stars: Cosmic Horror and Weird Fiction |
| The Collector by John Fowles | Hell is Other People: Real World Horrors |
| Come Closer by Sara Gran | Final Girls: Horror By and About Women |
| Communion by Whitley Strieber | The Fear in Our Stars: Cosmic Horror and Weird Fiction |
| Coraline by Neil Gaiman | Scar Your Children: Horror For Beginners |
| The Devil in America by Kai Ashante Wilson | Hell is Other People: Real World Horrors |
| Down a Dark Hall by Lois Duncan | Scar Your Children: Horror For Beginners |
| Dracula by Bram Stoker | Blood Roots: Foundational Horror |
| The Elementals by Michael McDowell | Horrible Homes: Ghosts and Hauntings |
| Elizabeth by Ken Greenhall | The Kids Aren't All Right: Creepy Kids |
| The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty | The Kids Aren't All Right: Creepy Kids |
| Experimental Film by Gemma Files | Horribly Ever After: Fantasy and Fairy Tale Horror |
| Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite | Hell is Other People: Real World Horrors |
| Feed by Mira Grant | Zombies and Vampires and Werewolves: Oh My |
| The Fisherman by John Langan | The Fear in Our Stars: Cosmic Horror and Weird Fiction |
| Frankenstein by Mary Shelley | Blood Roots: Foundational Horror |
| Furnace by Livia Llewellyn | Final Girls: Horror By and About Women |
| The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum | Hell is Other People: Read World Horrors |
| The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey | Zombies and Vampires and Werewolves: Oh My |
| Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti | Horribly Ever After: Fantasy and Fairy Tale Horror |
| Goosebumps: Complete Set (#1-62) by R. L. Stine | Scar Your Children: Horror For Beginners |
| The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen | Blood Roots: Foundational Horror |
| The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood | Hell is Other People: Real World Horrors |
| The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson | Horrible Homes: Ghosts and Hauntings |
| I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream [short story] by Harlan Ellison | Hell is Other People: Real World Horrors |
| A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay | The Kids Aren't All Right: Creepy Kids |
| Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado | Horribly Ever After: Fantasy and Fairy Tale Horror |
| The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons | Horrible Homes: Ghosts and Hauntings |
| House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski | Horrible Homes: Ghosts and Hauntings |
| The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs | Scar Your Children: Horror For Beginners |
| The Hunger by Alma Katsu | Zombies and Vampires and Werewolves: Oh My |
| The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron | Short and Sharp: Story Anthologies |
| Infidel by Pornsak Pichetshote | Horrible Homes: Ghosts and Hauntings |
| Intensity by Dean Koontz | Hell is Other People: Real World Horrors |
| Interview with the Vampire / The Vampire Lestat / The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice | Zombies and Vampires and Werewolves: Oh My |
| It's A Good Life by Jerome Bixby | The Kids Aren't All Right: Creepy Kids |
| John Dies at the End by David Wong | The Fear in Our Stars: Cosmic Horror and Weird Fiction |
| The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste | Scar Your Children: Horror For Beginners |
| Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler | Hell is Other People: Real World Horrors |
| Left Foot, Right (short story) by Nalo Hopkinson | Final Girls: Horror By and About Women |
| Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist | Zombies and Vampires and Werewolves: Oh My |
| Lord of the Flies by William Golding | Hell is Other People: Real World Horrors |
| The Lottery by Shirley Jackson | Hell is Other People: Real World Horrors |
| Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis | Horrible Homes: Ghosts and Hauntings |
| Minion by L. A. Banks | Zombies and Vampires and Werewolves: Oh My |
| The Monkey's Paw [short story] by W. W. Jacobs | Blood Roots: Foundational Horror |
| Night They Missed the Horror Show [short fiction] by Joe R. Lansdale | Hell is Other People: Real World Horrors |
| NOS4A2 by Joe Hill | Hell is Other People: Real World Horrors |
| The October Country by Ray Bradbury | Short and Sharp: Story Anthologies |
| The Other by Thomas Tryon | The Kids Aren't All Right: Creepy Kids |
| Penpal by Dathan Auerbach | Hell is Other People: Real Life Horrors |
| Please, Momma {short story} by Chesya Burke | The Kids Aren't All Right: Creepy Kids |
| Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier | Final Girls: Horror By and About Women |
| The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan | Final Girls: Horror By and About Women |
| The Repairer of Reputations [short story] by Robert W. Chambers | The Fear in Our Stars: Cosmic Horror and Weird Fiction |
| Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin | The Kids Aren't All Right: Creepy Kids |
| Rotters by Daniel Kraus | Scar Your Children: Horror For Beginners |
| The Ruins by Scott Smith | Horrible Homes: Ghosts and Hauntings |
| The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman | Horribly Ever After: Fantasy and Fairy Tale Horror |
| Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz | Scar Your Children: Horror For Beginners |
| The Screwfly Solution [short fiction] by Raccoona Sheldon | Final Girls: Horror By and About Women |
| The Shadow Over Innsmouth [novelette] by H. P. Lovecraft | The Fear in Our Stars: Cosmic Horror and Weird Fiction |
| Shadowland by Peter Straub | The Kids Aren't All Right: Creepy Kids |
| The Shining by Stephen King | Horrible Homes: Ghosts and Hauntings |
| Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh | Scar Your Children: Horror For Beginners |
| Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon | Final Girls: Horror By and About Women |
| The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings [Bantam Classics] by Edgar Allan Poe | Blood Roots: Foundational Horror |
| The Terror by Dan Simmons | Hell is Other People: Real World Horrors |
| Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories by Mariana Enríquez | Short and Sharp: Story Anthologies |
| Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman | Zombies and Vampires and Werewolves: Oh My |
| Through the Woods by Emily Carroll | Horribly Ever After: Fantasy and Fairy Tale Horror |
| The Troop by Craig Davidson | The Kids Aren't All Right: Creepy Kids |
| The Turn of the Screw by Henry James | Blood Roots: Foundational Horror |
| Uzumaki by Junji Ito | The Fear in Our Stars: Cosmic Horror and Weird Fiction |
| The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories by Ann VanderMeer | Short and Sharp: Story Anthologies |
| The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore | Zombies and Vampires and Werewolves: Oh My |
| Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Selected Early Stories by Joyce Carol Oates | Final Girls: Horror By and About Women |
| White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi | Horribly Ever After: Fantasy and Fairy Tale Horror |
| The Willows by Algernon Blackwood | Blood Roots: Foundational Horror |
| The Woman in Black by Susan Hill | Horrible Homes: Ghosts and Hauntings |
| World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks | Zombies and Vampires and Werewolves: Oh My |
| Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand | Horrible Homes: Ghosts and Hauntings |
| The Yellow Wallpaper [short fiction] by Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Blood Roots: Foundational Horror |
| Young Goodman Brown & Other Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne | Blood Roots: Foundational Horror |
