Jones and Newman's Horror: The 100 Best Books

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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
26,152 members
230 reviews
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Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
42,781 members
714 reviews
3.8
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The Shining
by Stephen King
23,229 members
453 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
17,166 members
315 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
9,797 members
433 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Grendel
by John Gardner
6,057 members
108 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
5,075 members
72 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Dracula
by Bram Stoker
35,536 members
628 reviews
4
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The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
8,126 members
249 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
23,630 members
389 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Psycho
by Robert Bloch
1,793 members
59 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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‘Salem's Lot
by Stephen King
16,355 members
295 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
21,669 members
420 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty
5,520 members
151 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Outsider, and Others
by H. P. Lovecraft
27 members
1 review
5
2 Members
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Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
1,410 members
34 reviews
3.9
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17
Out of Space and Time
by Clark Ashton Smith
99 members
1 review
3.9
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18
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
by M. R. James
818 members
28 reviews
4
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19
Conjure Wife
by Fritz Leiber
653 members
19 reviews
½ 3.7
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20
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
49,710 members
745 reviews
½ 3.7
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The October Country
by Ray Bradbury
3,522 members
54 reviews
4
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The collected works of Ambrose Bierce
by Ambrose Bierce
11 members
½ 4.5
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23
The Best Tales of Hoffmann
by E. T. A. Hoffmann
303 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
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24
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
by Philip K. Dick
4,357 members
73 reviews
3.9
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25
Burnt Offerings
by Robert Marasco
568 members
28 reviews
½ 3.6
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26
The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
7,105 members
203 reviews
3.8
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Worse Things Waiting
by Manly Wade Wellman
84 members
2 reviews
4.2
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28
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
19,924 members
237 reviews
4
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29
Murgunstrumm and Others
by Hugh B. Cave
60 members
3 reviews
3.8
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30
The Land of Laughs
by Jonathan Carroll
1,435 members
47 reviews
3.9
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31
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
by G.K. Chesterton
7,059 members
169 reviews
3.8
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I Am Legend
by Richard Matheson
4,838 members
190 reviews
4
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
by Edgar Allan Poe
4,205 members
38 reviews
4
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She
by H. Rider Haggard
2,933 members
73 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Lurking Fear and Other Stories
by H. P. Lovecraft
1,001 members
9 reviews
3.8
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Twice-Told Tales
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1,773 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
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37
Something about Eve : a comedy of fig-leaves
by James Branch Cabell
308 members
3 reviews
4
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Deathbird Stories
by Harlan Ellison
1,468 members
20 reviews
4
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A Voyage to Arcturus
by David Lindsay
1,281 members
34 reviews
½ 3.4
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Hawksmoor
by Peter Ackroyd
1,866 members
42 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
by H. G. Wells
7,269 members
173 reviews
½ 3.6
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Red Dragon
by Thomas Harris
10,049 members
103 reviews
3.8
43
The Anubis Gates
by Tim Powers
3,793 members
114 reviews
3.9
44
Johnny Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo
3,702 members
75 reviews
4.2
45
Swan Song
by Robert R. McCammon
3,405 members
121 reviews
4.1
46
The Painted Bird
by Jerzy Kosiński
2,976 members
74 reviews
3.8
47
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
by James Hogg
2,408 members
36 reviews
½ 3.7
48
The Damnation Game
by Clive Barker
2,296 members
23 reviews
½ 3.6
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Mythago Wood
by Robert Holdstock
2,278 members
60 reviews
3.8
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The King in Yellow
by Robert W. Chambers
1,938 members
53 reviews
½ 3.6
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Song of Kali
by Dan Simmons
1,767 members
62 reviews
½ 3.5
52
The Sheep Look Up
by John Brunner
1,657 members
38 reviews
3.9
53
Melmoth the Wanderer
by Charles Maturin
1,631 members
34 reviews
½ 3.7
54
The House on the Borderland
by William Hope Hodgson
1,488 members
47 reviews
½ 3.4
55
The Keep
by F. Paul Wilson
1,341 members
41 reviews
3.8
56
The Dark Tower and Other Stories
by C. S. Lewis
1,252 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
57
Caleb Williams
by William Godwin
1,231 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
58
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
by Herman Melville
1,214 members
14 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Crystal World
by J. G. Ballard
1,207 members
25 reviews
½ 3.6
60
The Green Man
by Kingsley Amis
908 members
23 reviews
½ 3.6
61
Falling Angel
by William Hjortsberg
789 members
30 reviews
3.9
62
The Black Spider
by Jeremias Gotthelf
723 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
63
The Jewel of Seven Stars
by Bram Stoker
667 members
24 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Cellar
by Richard Laymon
635 members
26 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Wolfen
by Whitley Strieber
563 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
66
The Ceremonies
by T. E. D. Klein
502 members
11 reviews
3.8
67
The Arabian Nightmare
by Robert Irwin
388 members
5 reviews
3.8
68
The White Devil
by John Webster
339 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
69
The Totem
by David Morrell
331 members
9 reviews
½ 3.4
70
The Wandering Jew
by Eugène Sue
300 members
1 review
2.9
71
The Werewolf of Paris
by Guy Endore
295 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
72
All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By
by John Farris
267 members
13 reviews
3.2
73
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
by Cornell Woolrich
246 members
15 reviews
½ 3.6
74
The Compleat Werewolf and Other Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction
by Anthony Boucher
192 members
2 reviews
4.2
75
The Sound of His Horn
by Sarban
188 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
76
The Pet
by Charles L. Grant
175 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
77
The House of Souls
by Arthur Machen
160 members
2 reviews
3.8
78
In a Lonely Place
by Karl Edward Wagner
138 members
2 reviews
½ 4.6
79
Sweetheart, Sweetheart
by Bernard Taylor
136 members
7 reviews
3.8
80
The Dark Country
by Dennis Etchison
134 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
81
Widdershins
by Oliver Onions
130 members
3.9
82
A Nest of Nightmares
by Lisa Tuttle
122 members
2 reviews
3.9
83
Quatermass and the Pit
by Nigel Kneale
109 members
4.1
84
Who Made Stevie Crye?
by Michael Bishop
92 members
3 reviews
3.8
85
The Track of the Cat
by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
86 members
2 reviews
4.2
86
The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck
by Alexander Laing
83 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
87
Nine Horrors and a Dream
by Joseph Payne Brennan
70 members
2 reviews
4.1
88
John Silence, Physician Extraordinary
by Algernon Blackwood
59 members
1 review
½ 3.6
89
Dark Feasts: The World of Ramsey Campbell
by Ramsey Campbell
56 members
2 reviews
4
90
Sub Rosa: Strange Tales
by Robert Aickman
50 members
4.9
91
Medusa : a Story of Mystery, and Ecstasy & Strange Horror
by E. H. Visiak
32 members
½ 3.5
92
Horror Horn
by E. F. Benson
24 members
½ 4.5
93
Deliver Me From Eva
by Paul Bailey
21 members
½ 4.3
94
And the Darkness Falls
by Boris Karloff
21 members
1 review
4
95
The Second Century of Creepy Stories
by Sir Hugh Walpole
19 members
4
96
The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales
by Marjorie Bowen
8 members
1 review
½ 3.3
97
The Sleeping and the Dead
by August Derleth
5 members
5
98
The Monk
by Matthew Lewis
4,395 members
92 reviews
3.8
99
Ghost Story
by Peter Straub
3,846 members
113 reviews
3.8
100
The Lurker at the Threshold
by H. P. Lovecraft
816 members
15 reviews
½ 3.5
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