Reader's Digest 50 Best Horror Books to Read

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Salem's Lot
by Stephen King
19,082 members
337 reviews
3.9
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The Other
by Thomas Tryon
1,567 members
35 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,600 members
447 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury
13,240 members
337 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
12,864 members
517 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Only Good Indians
by Stephen Graham Jones
3,981 members
140 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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The Ruins
by Scott Smith
4,169 members
210 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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Coraline
by Neil Gaiman
23,112 members
754 reviews
4
3 Members
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Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
51,162 members
811 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
23,971 members
686 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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It
by Stephen King
25,901 members
464 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
16,159 members
336 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
by Roald Dahl
1,553 members
24 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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The Shining
by Stephen King
27,401 members
530 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story
by Susan Hill
4,216 members
254 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
7,294 members
312 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Summer Sons
by Lee Mandelo
727 members
19 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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Horrorstör
by Grady Hendrix
3,385 members
238 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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Dracula
by Bram Stoker
41,424 members
684 reviews
4
3 Members
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Dawn
by Octavia E. Butler
4,259 members
154 reviews
4
3 Members
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Those Across the River
by Christopher Buehlman
841 members
86 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Final Girl Support Group
by Grady Hendrix
3,710 members
126 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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The Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty
6,804 members
174 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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White Is for Witching
by Helen Oyeyemi
1,448 members
54 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
by Richard Preston
6,805 members
120 reviews
4
2 Members
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Carrion Comfort
by Dan Simmons
2,448 members
59 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
57,418 members
818 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Hunger
by Alma Katsu
1,444 members
68 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Ring
by Koji Suzuki
2,172 members
59 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Bird Box
by Josh Malerman
4,148 members
282 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
by Angela Carter
6,440 members
162 reviews
4
2 Members
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Geek Love
by Katherine Dunn
6,658 members
169 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Outsider
by Stephen King
7,151 members
251 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Crescendo
by L. Marie Wood
12 members
2 reviews
3
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Wonderland
by Jennifer Hillier
344 members
20 reviews
3.8
Member
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36
Doing Harm: A Novel
by Kelly Parsons
313 members
50 reviews
3.9
Member
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The Midwich Cuckoos
by John Wyndham
3,384 members
101 reviews
3.8
Member
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38
We Need to Talk About Kevin
by Lionel Shriver
8,547 members
412 reviews
4.1
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Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
10,669 members
241 reviews
½ 3.6
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40
Minion
by L. A. Banks
1,247 members
33 reviews
2.8
Member
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41
Tender Is the Flesh
by Agustina Bazterrica
4,701 members
129 reviews
3.8
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42
Stillhouse Lake
by Rachel Caine
1,472 members
80 reviews
3.9
Member
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43
The Sun Down Motel
by Simone St. James
2,709 members
141 reviews
3.9
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44
The Chestnut Man
by Soren Sveistrup
1,692 members
65 reviews
4
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45
Lock Every Door
by Riley Sager
2,768 members
142 reviews
3.8
Member
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The Bad Seed
by William March
1,024 members
36 reviews
3.8
Member
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Horrid
by Katrina Leno
653 members
21 reviews
½ 3.5
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48
The Amityville Horror: A True Story
by Jay Anson
3,119 members
97 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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Ghost Story
by Peter Straub
4,404 members
117 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Imaginary Friend
by Stephen Chbosky
2,152 members
84 reviews
½ 3.4
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