Reedsydiscovery 100 Best Horror Books of All Time

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100 Best Horror Books of All Time
1
The Shining
by Stephen King
27,455 members
530 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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It
by Stephen King
25,936 members
466 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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3
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
51,251 members
814 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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4
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
41,508 members
685 reviews
4
3 Members
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5
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
24,002 members
690 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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6
Coraline
by Neil Gaiman
23,142 members
757 reviews
4
3 Members
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury
13,257 members
337 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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8
The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
12,893 members
520 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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9
The Passage
by Justin Cronin
10,436 members
673 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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10
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
10,379 members
504 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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11
Let the Right One In
by John Ajvide Lindqvist
6,459 members
283 reviews
4
3 Members
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12
Rosemary's Baby
by Ira Levin
5,343 members
157 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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13
At the Mountains of Madness [novella]
by H. P. Lovecraft
1,509 members
53 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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14
Interview with the Vampire
by Anne Rice
25,645 members
363 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
19,363 members
438 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Carrie
by Stephen King
17,301 members
342 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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17
The Silence of the Lambs
by Thomas Harris
14,191 members
162 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
9,456 members
296 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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19
The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
7,842 members
219 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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20
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
by H. P. Lovecraft
4,351 members
71 reviews
4
2 Members
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21
From Hell
by Alan Moore
4,276 members
92 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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22
Hell House
by Richard Matheson
2,924 members
117 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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23
A Head Full of Ghosts
by Paul Tremblay
2,819 members
160 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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24
Collected Ghost Stories
by M. R. James
2,587 members
45 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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25
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
by Edgar Allan Poe
2,239 members
20 reviews
4
2 Members
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26
The Silent Companions
by Laura Purcell
1,446 members
70 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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27
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
39,019 members
1,513 reviews
4.1
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28
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,631 members
449 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Her Fearful Symmetry
by Audrey Niffenegger
7,463 members
475 reviews
½ 3.4
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30
The Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty
6,821 members
174 reviews
3.9
Member
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31
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
by Angela Carter
6,450 members
163 reviews
4
Member
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32
The Snowman
by Jo Nesbo
6,014 members
236 reviews
3.8
Member
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33
I Am Legend
by Richard Matheson
5,602 members
217 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
34
NOS4A2
by Joe Hill
5,059 members
327 reviews
4
Member
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35
Carmilla: A Vampyre Tale
by Sheridan Le Fanu
4,812 members
189 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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36
The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story
by Susan Hill
4,224 members
254 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
37
Bird Box
by Josh Malerman
4,156 members
282 reviews
3.9
Member
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38
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
by Carmen Maria Machado
3,731 members
136 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
39
Fledgling
by Octavia E. Butler
3,545 members
163 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
40
Books of Blood 1-3
by Clive Barker
2,717 members
35 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
41
The Fifth Child
by Doris Lessing
2,672 members
92 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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42
Whispers
by Dean Koontz
2,634 members
33 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
43
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
by Edgar Allan Poe
2,578 members
58 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
44
Carrion Comfort
by Dan Simmons
2,453 members
59 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
45
Dread Nation
by Justina Ireland
2,122 members
115 reviews
4.2
Member
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46
Meddling Kids: A Novel
by Edgar Cantero
1,970 members
123 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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47
The Changeling
by Victor LaValle
1,773 members
89 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
48
Hex
by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
1,698 members
88 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
49
City of Glass
by Paul Auster
1,627 members
36 reviews
3.8
Member
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50
Broken Monsters
by Lauren Beukes
1,564 members
108 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
51
White Is for Witching
by Helen Oyeyemi
1,452 members
54 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
sturlington
52
The Hunger
by Alma Katsu
1,446 members
68 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
53
Come Closer
by Sara Gran
1,396 members
64 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
54
Dark Matter: A Ghost Story
by Michelle Paver
1,249 members
70 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
55
Those Across the River
by Christopher Buehlman
842 members
86 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
56
Mongrels
by Stephen Graham Jones
814 members
34 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
57
The Good House
by Tananarive Due
811 members
32 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
58
The Drowning Girl
by Caitlín R. Kiernan
803 members
38 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
59
The Devil in Silver
by Victor LaValle
766 members
61 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
60
The Grip of It: A Novel
by Jac Jemc
764 members
46 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
sturlington
61
Winter Tide
by Ruthanna Emrys
716 members
32 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
62
Pandemonium
by Daryl Gregory
666 members
39 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
63
Last Days
by Brian Evenson
601 members
28 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
64
The Lesser Dead
by Christopher Buehlman
454 members
28 reviews
4.1
Member
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65
The Case Against Satan
by Ray Russell
292 members
11 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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66
The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
23,154 members
794 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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67
Heart-Shaped Box
by Joe Hill
7,698 members
386 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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68
Ghost Story
by Peter Straub
4,408 members
117 reviews
3.8
Member
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69
Night Film
by Marisha Pessl
3,661 members
294 reviews
3.8
70
Horrorstör
by Grady Hendrix
3,395 members
238 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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71
Anna Dressed in Blood
by Kendare Blake
2,738 members
272 reviews
3.8
72
Lovecraft Country
by Matt Ruff
2,555 members
100 reviews
4
73
Uzumaki
by Junji Ito
2,483 members
59 reviews
½ 4.3
74
The Mask
by Dean Koontz
1,743 members
17 reviews
½ 3.3
75
Drawing Blood
by Billy Martin
1,725 members
29 reviews
4
76
The Last Werewolf
by Glen Duncan
1,670 members
124 reviews
½ 3.5
77
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories
by China Miéville
1,034 members
28 reviews
½ 3.6
78
The Bad Seed
by William March
1,026 members
36 reviews
3.8
79
30 Days of Night
by Steve Niles
951 members
36 reviews
½ 3.5
80
The Walls Around Us
by Nova Ren Suma
779 members
57 reviews
3.9
81
Gothic Tales
by Elizabeth Gaskell
718 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
82
Maplecroft
by Cherie Priest
641 members
51 reviews
½ 3.7
83
Skin Folk
by Nalo Hopkinson
586 members
15 reviews
4.1
84
Hammers on Bone
by Cassandra Khaw
553 members
26 reviews
½ 3.6
85
The Croning
by Laird Barron
544 members
20 reviews
3.8
86
The Six-Gun Tarot
by R.S. Belcher
537 members
34 reviews
½ 3.6
87
Mr. Shivers
by Robert Jackson Bennett
458 members
23 reviews
½ 3.3
88
Fiend
by Peter Stenson
275 members
24 reviews
½ 3.6
89
Shutter
by Courtney Alameda
273 members
29 reviews
½ 3.7
90
Parasite Eve
by Hideaki Sena
270 members
7 reviews
3.1
91
The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction
by Violet Kupersmith
196 members
40 reviews
3.8
92
Obscura
by Joe Hart
192 members
14 reviews
3.8
93
The Beauty
by Aliya Whiteley
186 members
14 reviews
½ 3.6
94
Feed
by Mira Grant
3,743 members
295 reviews
3.8
95
Zone One
by Colson Whitehead
2,361 members
139 reviews
½ 3.3
96
Ring
by Koji Suzuki
2,175 members
59 reviews
½ 3.6
97
Psycho
by Robert Bloch
2,147 members
70 reviews
3.9
98
Fever Dream
by Samanta Schweblin
1,636 members
94 reviews
½ 3.7
99
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories
by Mariana Enríquez
1,368 members
133 reviews
3.9
100
Frankenstein in Baghdad
by Ahmed Saadawi
1,048 members
39 reviews
½ 3.5