Jones and Newman's Horror: The 100 Best Books

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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
30,171 members
261 reviews
4
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Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
51,073 members
811 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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The Shining
by Stephen King
27,261 members
530 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
19,674 members
367 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
12,770 members
517 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Grendel
by John Gardner
6,677 members
118 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
5,659 members
88 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Dracula
by Bram Stoker
41,237 members
682 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
9,411 members
295 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
26,314 members
431 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Psycho
by Robert Bloch
2,127 members
70 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Salem's Lot
by Stephen King
19,008 members
337 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
24,964 members
462 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty
6,765 members
174 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Outsider, and Others
by H. P. Lovecraft
30 members
1 review
5
2 Members
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Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
by Sheridan Le Fanu
1,596 members
35 reviews
3.9
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17
Out of Space and Time
by Clark Ashton Smith
107 members
1 review
3.9
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18
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
by M. R. James
923 members
32 reviews
4
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19
Conjure Wife
by Fritz Leiber
752 members
21 reviews
½ 3.7
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20
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
57,257 members
817 reviews
½ 3.7
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The October Country
by Ray Bradbury
4,098 members
69 reviews
4
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22
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volumes 1-12
by Ambrose Bierce
11 members
½ 4.5
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23
The Best Tales of Hoffmann
by E. T. A. Hoffmann
328 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
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24
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
by Philip K. Dick
4,875 members
75 reviews
3.9
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25
Burnt Offerings
by Robert Marasco
696 members
31 reviews
½ 3.6
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26
The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
7,813 members
219 reviews
½ 3.7
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Worse Things Waiting
by Manly Wade Wellman
95 members
2 reviews
4.2
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28
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
22,882 members
268 reviews
4
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29
Murgunstrumm and Others
by Hugh B. Cave
75 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Land of Laughs
by Jonathan Carroll
1,512 members
52 reviews
3.9
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The Man Who Was Thursday
by G. K. Chesterton
7,888 members
192 reviews
3.8
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I Am Legend
by Richard Matheson
5,579 members
215 reviews
4
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
by Edgar Allan Poe
4,946 members
42 reviews
4
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34
She
by H. Rider Haggard
3,248 members
75 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Lurking Fear and Other Stories
by H. P. Lovecraft
1,068 members
10 reviews
3.8
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Twice-Told Tales
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
2,023 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
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Something about Eve : a comedy of fig-leaves
by James Branch Cabell
331 members
3 reviews
4
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38
Deathbird Stories
by Harlan Ellison
1,584 members
24 reviews
4
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39
A Voyage to Arcturus
by David Lindsay
1,487 members
40 reviews
½ 3.4
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Hawksmoor
by Peter Ackroyd
1,989 members
42 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Island of Doctor Moreau
by H. G. Wells
8,388 members
187 reviews
½ 3.6
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Red Dragon
by Thomas Harris
11,378 members
125 reviews
3.8
43
Johnny Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo
4,148 members
79 reviews
4.2
44
The Anubis Gates
by Tim Powers
4,065 members
127 reviews
3.9
45
Swan Song
by Robert R. McCammon
3,900 members
133 reviews
4.1
46
The Painted Bird
by Jerzy Kosiński
3,254 members
82 reviews
3.8
47
The King in Yellow
by Robert W. Chambers
2,810 members
67 reviews
½ 3.6
48
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
by James Hogg
2,704 members
39 reviews
3.8
49
The Damnation Game
by Clive Barker
2,566 members
28 reviews
½ 3.6
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Mythago Wood
by Robert Holdstock
2,530 members
68 reviews
3.8
51
Song of Kali
by Dan Simmons
1,978 members
67 reviews
½ 3.5
52
Melmoth the Wanderer
by Charles Maturin
1,850 members
35 reviews
½ 3.7
53
The Sheep Look Up
by John Brunner
1,819 members
51 reviews
3.9
54
The House on the Borderland
by William Hope Hodgson
1,786 members
56 reviews
½ 3.5
55
The Keep
by F. Paul Wilson
1,499 members
44 reviews
3.8
56
The Dark Tower and Other Stories
by C. S. Lewis
1,433 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
57
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
by Herman Melville
1,366 members
15 reviews
½ 3.6
58
Caleb Williams
by William Godwin
1,360 members
13 reviews
½ 3.6
59
The Crystal World
by J. G. Ballard
1,357 members
28 reviews
½ 3.6
60
The Green Man
by Kingsley Amis
1,022 members
23 reviews
½ 3.6
61
Falling Angel
by William Hjortsberg
887 members
33 reviews
3.9
62
The Black Spider
by Jeremias Gotthelf
860 members
23 reviews
½ 3.6
63
The Jewel of Seven Stars
by Bram Stoker
768 members
30 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Cellar
by Richard Laymon
705 members
30 reviews
½ 3.4
65
The Wolfen
by Whitley Strieber
638 members
13 reviews
½ 3.7
66
The Ceremonies
by T. E. D. Klein
576 members
13 reviews
½ 3.7
67
The Arabian Nightmare
by Robert Irwin
430 members
6 reviews
3.8
68
The Totem
by David Morrell
370 members
10 reviews
½ 3.4
69
The White Devil
by John Webster
368 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
70
The Werewolf of Paris
by Guy Endore
333 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
71
The Wandering Jew
by Eugène Sue
327 members
2 reviews
3.2
72
All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By
by John Farris
305 members
15 reviews
½ 3.3
73
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
by Cornell Woolrich
269 members
16 reviews
½ 3.6
74
The Compleat Werewolf and Other Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction
by Anthony Boucher
217 members
4 reviews
4.2
75
The Sound of His Horn
by Sarban
203 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
76
The Pet
by Charles L. Grant
200 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
77
The House of Souls
by Arthur Machen
181 members
2 reviews
3.9
78
In a Lonely Place
by Karl Edward Wagner
173 members
1 review
½ 4.5
79
A Nest of Nightmares (Paperbacks from Hell)
by Lisa Tuttle
170 members
5 reviews
3.9
80
Sweetheart, Sweetheart
by Bernard Taylor
157 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
81
Widdershins
by Oliver Onions
146 members
3.9
82
The Dark Country
by Dennis Etchison
144 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
83
Quatermass and the Pit
by Nigel Kneale
118 members
1 review
4.1
84
John Silence, Physician Extraordinary
by Algernon Blackwood
113 members
5 reviews
4
85
Who Made Stevie Crye?
by Michael Bishop
106 members
3 reviews
3.8
86
The Track of the Cat
by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
104 members
2 reviews
4.2
87
The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck
by Alexander Laing
97 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
88
Nine Horrors and a Dream
by Joseph Payne Brennan
77 members
2 reviews
4.1
89
Dark Feasts: The World of Ramsey Campbell
by Ramsey Campbell
57 members
2 reviews
3.9
90
Sub Rosa: Strange Tales
by Robert Aickman
55 members
½ 4.6
91
Horror Horn
by E. F. Benson
26 members
1 review
½ 4.5
92
And the Darkness Falls
by Boris Karloff
24 members
1 review
4
93
Deliver Me From Eva
by Paul Bailey
24 members
½ 3.3
94
A Second Century of Creepy Stories
by Sir Hugh Walpole
21 members
4
95
Medusa [with 13 short stories]
by E. H. Visiak
17 members
5
96
The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales
by Marjorie Bowen
9 members
1 review
½ 3.5
97
The Sleeping and the Dead
by August Derleth
6 members
5
98
The Monk
by Matthew Lewis
5,049 members
103 reviews
3.8
99
Ghost Story
by Peter Straub
4,387 members
117 reviews
3.8
100
The Lurker at the Threshold
by August Derleth
871 members
15 reviews
½ 3.5
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