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Jones and Newman's Horror: The 100 Best Books

Type: Preset list created by Rtrace

Members: 4 participating members (show all)

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1
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
21,735 members, 184 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), Rtrace (1), hipdeep (3), ManWithAnAgenda (22)

Score: 12.89

2
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
34,410 members, 617 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (1), Rtrace (2), ahef1963 (3)

Score: 10.4

3
The Shining
by Stephen King
19,199 members, 396 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (1), ahef1963 (2), ManWithAnAgenda (21)

Score: 9.23

4
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
14,482 members, 276 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: Rtrace (3), ManWithAnAgenda (4), ahef1963 (5)

Score: 8.54

5
The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
6,954 members, 342 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (2), ahef1963 (6), Rtrace (9)

Score: 8.23

6
Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
4,349 members, 65 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (2), ahef1963 (4)

Score: 6.19

7
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
28,055 members, 532 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: Rtrace (4), ManWithAnAgenda (7)

Score: 5.29

8
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
6,643 members, 203 reviews
3.43 stars (3.43 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (5), Rtrace (15)

Score: 4.71

9
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
20,272 members, 319 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (8), ManWithAnAgenda (11)

Score: 4.58

10
Psycho
by Robert Bloch
1,337 members, 48 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: Rtrace (8), ManWithAnAgenda (16)

Score: 4.38

11
Salem's Lot
by Stephen King
13,317 members, 261 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10), ManWithAnAgenda (15)

Score: 4.28

12
Grendel
by John Gardner
5,265 members, 98 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (12), ManWithAnAgenda (13)

Score: 4.26

13
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
18,284 members, 369 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9), ManWithAnAgenda (20)

Score: 4.2

14
The Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty
4,423 members, 127 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13), ManWithAnAgenda (17)

Score: 4.08

15
The Outsider, and Others
by H. P. Lovecraft
25 members, 1 review
5 stars (5 stars)

Lists: Rtrace (16), ahef1963 (17)

Score: 3.97

16
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
1,219 members, 30 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (3)

Score: 3.04

17
Out of Space and Time
by Clark Ashton Smith
95 members, 1 review
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: Rtrace (5)

Score: 2.68

18
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
by M. R. James
686 members, 20 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (6)

Score: 2.56

19
Conjure Wife
by Fritz Leiber
539 members, 15 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: Rtrace (6)

Score: 2.56

20
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
42,104 members, 661 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7)

Score: 2.46

21
The October Country
by Ray Bradbury
2,945 members, 46 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: Rtrace (7)

Score: 2.46

22
The collected works of Ambrose Bierce
by Ambrose Bierce
7 members, 0 reviews
4.5 stars (4.5 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (8)

Score: 2.38

23
The Best Tales of Hoffmann
by E. T. A. Hoffmann
268 members, 3 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (9)

Score: 2.31

24
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
by Philip K. Dick
3,786 members, 58 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: Rtrace (10)

Score: 2.25

25
Burnt Offerings
by Robert Marasco
412 members, 17 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (10)

Score: 2.25

26
The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
6,274 members, 186 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11)

Score: 2.2

27
Worse Things Waiting
by Manly Wade Wellman
63 members, 1 review
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: Rtrace (11)

Score: 2.2

28
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
17,481 members, 205 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (12)

Score: 2.15

29
Murgunstrumm and Others
by Hugh B. Cave
55 members, 2 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: Rtrace (12)

Score: 2.15

30
The Land of Laughs
by Jonathan Carroll
1,322 members, 44 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: Rtrace (13)

Score: 2.11

31
The Man Who Was Thursday
by G. K. Chesterton
6,020 members, 148 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (14)

Score: 2.07

32
I Am Legend
by Richard Matheson
4,182 members, 163 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: Rtrace (14)

Score: 2.07

33
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
by Edgar Allan Poe
3,582 members, 34 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (14)

Score: 2.07

34
She
by H. Rider Haggard
2,576 members, 67 reviews
3.44 stars (3.44 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (15)

Score: 2.03

35
The Lurking Fear and Other Stories
by H. P. Lovecraft
892 members, 8 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16)

Score: 2

36
Twice-Told Tales
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1,400 members, 7 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (18)

Score: 1.94

37
Deathbird Stories
by Harlan Ellison
1,328 members, 20 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (19)

Score: 1.92

38
Red Dragon
by Thomas Harris
8,580 members, 87 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Score: 0

39
The Island of Dr. Moreau
by H. G. Wells
6,039 members, 153 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Score: 0

40
The Anubis Gates
by Tim Powers
3,433 members, 109 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Score: 0

41
Johnny Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo
3,182 members, 62 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Score: 0

42
Ghost Story
by Peter Straub
3,127 members, 103 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Score: 0

43
Swan Song
by Robert McCammon
2,809 members, 99 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Score: 0

44
The Painted Bird
by Jerzy Kosiński
2,616 members, 69 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Score: 0

45
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
by James Hogg
2,060 members, 32 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Score: 0

46
The Damnation Game
by Clive Barker
1,973 members, 20 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Score: 0

47
Mythago Wood
by Robert Holdstock
1,939 members, 48 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Score: 0

48
Hawksmoor
by Peter Ackroyd
1,693 members, 35 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Score: 0

49
Song of Kali
by Dan Simmons
1,554 members, 48 reviews
3.51 stars (3.51 stars)

Score: 0

50
The Sheep Look Up
by John Brunner
1,442 members, 31 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Score: 0

51
Melmoth the Wanderer
by Charles Maturin
1,384 members, 27 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Score: 0

52
The King in Yellow
by Robert W. Chambers
1,335 members, 47 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Score: 0

53
The House on the Borderland
by William Hope Hodgson
1,195 members, 39 reviews
3.42 stars (3.42 stars)

Score: 0

54
The Keep
by F. Paul Wilson
1,140 members, 35 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Score: 0

55
Caleb Williams
by William Godwin
1,068 members, 9 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Score: 0

56
A Voyage to Arcturus
by David Lindsay
1,062 members, 30 reviews
3.43 stars (3.43 stars)

Score: 0

57
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
by Herman Melville
1,046 members, 13 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Score: 0

58
The Crystal World
by J. G. Ballard
1,040 members, 22 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Score: 0

59
The Dark Tower and Other Stories
by C. S. Lewis
1,028 members, 6 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Score: 0

60
The Green Man
by Kingsley Amis
774 members, 18 reviews
3.54 stars (3.54 stars)

Score: 0

61
The Lurker at the Threshold
by H. P. Lovecraft
719 members, 15 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Score: 0

62
Falling Angel
by William Hjortsberg
661 members, 22 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Score: 0

63
The Black Spider
by Jeremias Gotthelf
625 members, 15 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Score: 0

64
The Jewel of Seven Stars
by Bram Stoker
552 members, 20 reviews
3.43 stars (3.43 stars)

Score: 0

65
The Cellar
by Richard Laymon
542 members, 25 reviews
3.47 stars (3.47 stars)

Score: 0

66
The Wolfen
by Whitley Strieber
463 members, 6 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Score: 0

67
The Ceremonies
by T. E. D. Klein
397 members, 8 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Score: 0

68
The Arabian Nightmare
by Robert Irwin
356 members, 4 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Score: 0

69
The White Devil
by John Webster
297 members, 2 reviews
3.32 stars (3.32 stars)

Score: 0

70
Something about Eve : a comedy of fig-leaves
by James Branch Cabell
282 members, 3 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Score: 0

71
The Totem
by David Morrell
273 members, 9 reviews
3.4 stars (3.4 stars)

Score: 0

72
The Wandering Jew
by Eugène Sue
258 members, 2 reviews
2.71 stars (2.71 stars)

Score: 0

73
The Werewolf of Paris
by Guy Endore
250 members, 10 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Score: 0

74
All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By
by John Farris
227 members, 12 reviews
3.28 stars (3.28 stars)

Score: 0

75
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
by Cornell Woolrich
208 members, 12 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Score: 0

77
The Sound of His Horn
by Sarban
155 members, 6 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Score: 0

78
The Pet
by Charles L. Grant
147 members, 2 reviews
3.41 stars (3.41 stars)

Score: 0

79
The House of Souls
by Arthur Machen
132 members, 1 review
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Score: 0

80
Widdershins
by Oliver Onions
120 members, 0 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Score: 0

81
Sweetheart, Sweetheart
by Bernard Taylor
112 members, 6 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Score: 0

82
The dark country
by Dennis Etchison
111 members, 5 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Score: 0

83
Quatermass and the Pit
by Nigel Kneale
97 members, 0 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Score: 0

84
Who Made Stevie Crye?
by Michael Bishop
85 members, 2 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Score: 0

85
In a Lonely Place
by Karl Edward Wagner
81 members, 0 reviews
4.69 stars (4.69 stars)

Score: 0

86
A Nest of Nightmares
by Lisa Tuttle
70 members, 0 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Score: 0

87
The Track of the Cat
by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
70 members, 2 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Score: 0

88
The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck
by Alexander Laing
66 members, 2 reviews
3.45 stars (3.45 stars)

Score: 0

89
Nine Horrors and a Dream
by Joseph Payne Brennan
49 members, 1 review
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Score: 0

90
John Silence, Physician Extraordinary
by Algernon Blackwood
49 members, 1 review
3.3 stars (3.3 stars)

Score: 0

91
Sub Rosa: Strange Tales
by Robert Aickman
44 members, 0 reviews
4.83 stars (4.83 stars)

Score: 0

92
Dark Feasts: The World of Ramsey Campbell
by Ramsey Campbell
39 members, 0 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Score: 0

94
Horror Horn
by E. F. Benson
21 members, 0 reviews
4.5 stars (4.5 stars)

Score: 0

95
And the Darkness Falls
by Boris Karloff
20 members, 1 review
4 stars (4 stars)

Score: 0

96
The Second Century of Creepy Stories
by Sir Hugh Walpole
18 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Score: 0

97
Deliver Me From Eva
by Paul Bailey
17 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Score: 0

98
The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales
by Marjorie Bowen
7 members, 1 review
3.25 stars (3.25 stars)

Score: 0

99
The Sleeping and the Dead
by August Derleth
5 members, 0 reviews
5 stars (5 stars)

Score: 0

100
The Monk
by Matthew Lewis
3,678 members, 79 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

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