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Reedsydiscovery 100 Best Horror Books of All Time

Based on bookaward: 100 Best Horror Books of All Time
Members: 5 participating members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, ahef1963, hipdeep, ashtania

Rank Title Author Added CK Order

1

by Stephen King

21,669 members

434 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Stephen King

20,325 members

394 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Mary Shelley

39,249 members

673 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

32,522 members

578 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Daphne Du Maurier

19,328 members

575 reviews

4.2

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

18,928 members

665 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

10,724 members

286 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by Justin Cronin

8,957 members

620 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

8,641 members

406 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

7,319 members

404 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

Let the Right One In

by John Ajvide Lindqvist

5,377 members

256 reviews

4

3 Members: ashtania, sturlington, ahef1963

12

Rosemary's Baby

4,310 members

131 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

At the Mountains of Madness

by H. P. Lovecraft

1,137 members

42 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

Interview with the Vampire

21,710 members

313 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

15

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

14,285 members

357 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

by Stephen King

13,630 members

276 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

17

The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

11,812 members

135 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ashtania, sturlington

18

The Turn of the Screw

7,600 members

238 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Wasp Factory

6,767 members

197 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

20

3,678 members

86 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

by H. P. Lovecraft

3,198 members

56 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

22

Collected Ghost Stories

2,161 members

44 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Richard Matheson

2,159 members

98 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales

by Edgar Allan Poe

1,900 members

18 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

25

A Head Full of Ghosts

by Paul Tremblay

1,881 members

131 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

26

The Silent Companions

by Laura Purcell

866 members

46 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

27

by Cormac McCarthy

32,693 members

1,379 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

28

by Toni Morrison

21,543 members

395 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington

29

Her Fearful Symmetry

by Audrey Niffenegger

6,807 members

462 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

30

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

by Angela Carter

5,177 members

141 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

31

5,151 members

222 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

32

by William Peter Blatty

5,082 members

141 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

33

by Richard Matheson

4,577 members

176 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

34

3,784 members

289 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

35

by Peter Straub

3,574 members

111 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

36

The Woman in Black

3,325 members

227 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

37

by Josh Malerman

2,917 members

241 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

38

by Octavia E. Butler

2,738 members

137 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

39

Books of Blood 1-3

by Clive Barker

2,331 members

30 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

40

The Fifth Child

by Doris Lessing

2,293 members

74 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

41

2,266 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

42

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

by Carmen Maria Machado

2,229 members

107 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

43

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

by Edgar Allan Poe

2,084 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

44

Carrion Comfort

2,011 members

48 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

45

by Justina Ireland

1,515 members

97 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

46

1,392 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

47

Broken Monsters

by Lauren Beukes

1,291 members

104 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

48

by Victor LaValle

1,104 members

70 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

49

White is for Witching

by Helen Oyeyemi

1,074 members

48 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

50

by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

1,022 members

65 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

51

by Michelle Paver

934 members

60 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

52

883 members

48 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

53

782 members

46 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

54

The Drowning Girl

by Caitlín R. Kiernan

635 members

32 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

55

Those Across the River

by Christopher Buehlman

606 members

72 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

56

by Daryl Gregory

597 members

35 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

57

The Devil in Silver

by Victor LaValle

565 members

59 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

58

by Tananarive Due

556 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

59

by Ruthanna Emrys

548 members

28 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

60

486 members

30 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

61

Mongrels: A Novel

by Stephen Graham Jones

474 members

28 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

62

by Brian Evenson

348 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

63

The Lesser Dead

by Christopher Buehlman

261 members

16 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

64

The Case Against Satan

187 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

65

by Elizabeth Kostova

20,757 members

746 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963,sturlington

66

Heart-Shaped Box

6,431 members

362 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington,ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Marisha Pessl

2,980 members

278 reviews

3.8

68

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

2,385 members

116 reviews

½ 3.7

69

Anna Dressed in Blood

by Kendare Blake

2,253 members

249 reviews

3.8

70

by Grady Hendrix

1,864 members

165 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington,ManWithAnAgenda

71

Lovecraft Country

1,733 members

79 reviews

4

72

by Poppy Z. Brite

1,592 members

26 reviews

4

73

1,503 members

14 reviews

½ 3.3

74

The Last Werewolf

1,458 members

115 reviews

½ 3.5

75

by Edgar Cantero

1,296 members

93 reviews

½ 3.5

76

1,179 members

25 reviews

½ 4.3

77

30 Days of Night

861 members

35 reviews

½ 3.5

78

Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories

by China Miéville

832 members

25 reviews

½ 3.6

79

by William March

813 members

27 reviews

3.8

80

The Walls Around Us

by Nova Ren Suma

683 members

52 reviews

4

81

by Elizabeth Gaskell

578 members

13 reviews

½ 3.6

82

by Cherie Priest

542 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

83

by Nalo Hopkinson

462 members

12 reviews

4

84

The Six-Gun Tarot

by R.S. Belcher

424 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

85

by Laird Barron

399 members

15 reviews

3.8

86

by Robert Jackson Bennett

391 members

20 reviews

½ 3.4

87

Hammers on Bone

by Cassandra Khaw

375 members

15 reviews

½ 3.6

88

by Courtney Alameda

228 members

30 reviews

3.8

89

by Peter Stenson

226 members

22 reviews

½ 3.6

90

by Hideaki Sena

212 members

7 reviews

3.2

91

The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction

by Violet Kupersmith

173 members

39 reviews

3.8

92

144 members

13 reviews

3.8

93

by Aliya Whiteley

121 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

94

3,195 members

269 reviews

3.9

95

by Colson Whitehead

1,875 members

127 reviews

½ 3.3

96

by Robert Bloch

1,610 members

58 reviews

3.9

97

1,556 members

50 reviews

½ 3.6

98

by Samanta Schweblin

1,084 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

99

Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories

by Mariana Enríquez

770 members

117 reviews

4

100

Frankenstein in Baghdad

by Ahmed Saadawi

694 members

29 reviews

½ 3.6

About This List

Started: sturlington
June 2019
Type: Unnumbered, Adding restricted

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