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Paste's 50 Best Horror Novels of All time

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

8,477 members

401 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

2

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

14,026 members

350 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

3

by Thomas Tryon

1,268 members

30 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

4

by Mary Shelley

38,851 members

667 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

5

by Stephen King

19,982 members

391 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

6

by Stephen King

21,317 members

431 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

7

The Turn of the Screw

7,541 members

236 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

8

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

10,595 members

280 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

9

32,050 members

575 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

10

by Stephen King

14,938 members

285 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

11

Rosemary's Baby

4,240 members

128 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

12

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

12,928 members

268 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

13

by Stephen King

12,961 members

217 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

14

by Richard Matheson

2,135 members

97 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

15

by Stephen King

4,016 members

84 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

16

18,795 members

663 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

17

by Daphne Du Maurier

19,236 members

569 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

18

The Woman in Black

3,350 members

227 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

19

14,561 members

689 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

20

Burnt Offerings

by Robert Marasco

510 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

21

Let the Right One In

by John Ajvide Lindqvist

5,340 members

253 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

22

by William Peter Blatty

5,018 members

139 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

23

3,778 members

289 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

24

by Michael McDowell

689 members

45 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

25

Broken Monsters

by Lauren Beukes

1,276 members

104 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: BenTucker

26

Carrion Comfort

1,996 members

48 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

27

by Robert R. McCammon

3,153 members

111 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

28

The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

11,680 members

129 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

29

4,334 members

201 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

30

A Choir of Ill Children

by Tom Piccirilli

320 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

31

Interview with the Vampire

21,620 members

312 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

32

by T. E. D. Klein

465 members

11 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

33

The Girl Next Door

by Jack Ketchum

1,386 members

74 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

34

The Shining Girls

by Lauren Beukes

2,207 members

165 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: BenTucker

35

by John Ajvide Lindqvist

504 members

28 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: BenTucker

36

by Katherine Dunn

5,855 members

156 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

37

Savaging the Dark

by Christopher Conlon

20 members

½ 3.5

Member: BenTucker

38

by Josh Malerman

2,862 members

236 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

39

The Devil in Silver

by Victor LaValle

550 members

59 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

40

by Ryū Murakami

515 members

39 reviews

3.2

Member: BenTucker

41

The Damnation Game

by Clive Barker

2,158 members

21 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: BenTucker

42

A Head Full of Ghosts

by Paul Tremblay

1,812 members

129 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: BenTucker

43

1,522 members

50 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

44

My Best Friend's Exorcism

by Grady Hendrix

1,539 members

96 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

45

by Michael Talbot

65 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: BenTucker

46

The Summer Is Ended and We Are Not Yet Saved

89 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

47

by Peter Straub

3,554 members

111 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker,ManWithAnAgenda

48

At the Mountains of Madness

by H. P. Lovecraft

1,120 members

42 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: BenTucker,ManWithAnAgenda

49

Heart-Shaped Box

6,431 members

361 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: BenTucker,ManWithAnAgenda

50

John Dies at the End

3,270 members

166 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker,ManWithAnAgenda

About This List

Started: BenTucker
November 2021
Type: Numbered and unnumbered

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