Unbound Worlds 100 Best Horror Books of All-Time

Given by Unbound Worlds

100 Works 516,476 Books 17,520 Reviews ½ 3.9
Work
Shutter (2015) by Courtney Alameda
Minion (2003) by L. A. Banks
Books of Blood 1-3 (1984) by Clive Barker
The Croning (2012) by Laird Barron
The Six-Gun Tarot (2013) by R.S. Belcher
The House with a Clock in Its Walls (1973) by John Bellairs
Mr. Shivers (2010) by Robert Jackson Bennett
Broken Monsters (2014) by Lauren Beukes
Anna Dressed in Blood (2011) by Kendare Blake
The Exorcist (1971) by William Peter Blatty
Psycho (1959) by Robert Bloch
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) by Ray Bradbury
Drawing Blood (1993) by Poppy Z. Brite
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006) by Max Brooks
The Lesser Dead (2014) by Christopher Buehlman
Those Across the River (2011) by Christopher Buehlman
Fledgling (2005) by Octavia E. Butler
Meddling Kids (2017) by Edgar Cantero
The Girl with All the Gifts (2014) by M. R. Carey
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979) by Angela Carter
The Passage (2010) by Justin Cronin
House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Good House (2003) by Tananarive Due
Rebecca (1938) by Daphne Du Maurier
The Last Werewolf (2011) by Glen Duncan
Winter Tide (2017) by Ruthanna Emrys
Things We Lost in the Fire (2016) by Mariana Enríquez
Coraline (2002) by Neil Gaiman
Gothic Tales (2000) by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Yellow Wallpaper - story (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Come Closer (2003) by Sara Gran
Feed (2010) by Mira Grant
Pandemonium (2008) by Daryl Gregory
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) by Thomas Harris
The Library at Mount Char (2015) by Scott Hawkins
Horrorstör (2014) by Grady Hendrix
NOS4A2 (2013) by Joe Hill
The Woman in Black (1983) by Susan Hill
Skin Folk (2001) by Nalo Hopkinson
Dread Nation (2018) by Justina Ireland
Uzumaki (2000) by Junji Ito
The Haunting of Hill House (1959) by Shirley Jackson
The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James
The Grip of It (2017) by Jac Jemc
Mongrels: A Novel (2016) by Stephen Graham Jones
The Hunger (2018) by Alma Katsu
The Damned Highway: Fear and Loathing in Arkham (2011) by Brian Keene
Hammers on Bone (2016) by Cassandra Khaw
The Drowning Girl (2012) by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Carrie (1974) by Stephen King
It (1986) by Stephen King
The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition (1990) by Stephen King
Whispers (1980) by Dean Koontz
The Historian (2005) by Elizabeth Kostova
The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction (2014) by Violet Kupersmith
The Missing (2007) by Sarah Langan
The Changeling (2017) by Victor LaValle
The Devil in Silver (2012) by Victor LaValle
Carmilla: A Vampyre Tale (1872) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Fifth Child (1988) by Doris Lessing
Rosemary's Baby (1967) by Ira Levin
Let the Right One In (2004) by John Ajvide Lindqvist
At the Mountains of Madness [novella] (1936) by H. P. Lovecraft
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (1928) by H. P. Lovecraft
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (2017) by Carmen Maria Machado
Bird Box (2014) by Josh Malerman
The Bad Seed (1954) by William March
I Am Legend (1954) by Richard Matheson
Hell House (1971) by Richard Matheson
The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories (2015) by China Miéville
From Hell (1989) by Alan Moore
Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
Her Fearful Symmetry (2009) by Audrey Niffenegger
30 Days of Night (2002) by Steve Niles
HEX (2016) by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
White Is for Witching (2009) by Helen Oyeyemi
Night Film (2013) by Marisha Pessl
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (1839) by Edgar Allan Poe
Maplecroft (2014) by Cherie Priest
The Silent Companions (2017) by Laura Purcell
Interview with the Vampire (1976) by Anne Rice
Lovecraft Country (2016) by Matt Ruff
The Case Against Satan (1962) by Ray Russell
Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013) by Ahmed Saadawi
Fever Dream (2014) by Samanta Schweblin
Parasite Eve (1994) by Hideaki Sena
Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley
Carrion Comfort (1989) by Dan Simmons
The Ruins (2006) by Scott Smith
Fiend: A Novel (2013) by Peter Stenson
Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker
Ghost Story (1979) by Peter Straub
The Walls Around Us (2015) by Nova Ren Suma
Ring (2003) by Koji Suzuki
A Head Full of Ghosts (2015) by Paul Tremblay
Slasher Girls and Monster Boys (2015) by April Genevieve Tucholke
The Little Stranger (2009) by Sarah Waters
Zone One (2011) by Colson Whitehead
John Dies at the End (2007) by David Wong

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