Reader's Digest 50 Best Horror Books to Read

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Salem's Lot
by Stephen King
18,955 members
336 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Other
by Thomas Tryon
1,560 members
34 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,427 members
447 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury
13,239 members
335 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
12,716 members
516 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Only Good Indians
by Stephen Graham Jones
3,873 members
139 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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The Ruins
by Scott Smith
4,154 members
210 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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Coraline
by Neil Gaiman
23,011 members
754 reviews
4
3 Members
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Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
50,893 members
813 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
23,898 members
685 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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It
by Stephen King
25,748 members
462 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
16,053 members
334 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
by Roald Dahl
1,539 members
24 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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The Shining
by Stephen King
27,191 members
529 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story
by Susan Hill
4,188 members
253 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
7,226 members
309 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Summer Sons
by Lee Mandelo
716 members
19 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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Horrorstör
by Grady Hendrix
3,338 members
236 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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Dracula
by Bram Stoker
41,181 members
682 reviews
4
3 Members
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Dawn
by Octavia E. Butler
4,219 members
153 reviews
4
3 Members
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Those Across the River
by Christopher Buehlman
832 members
86 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Final Girl Support Group
by Grady Hendrix
3,647 members
127 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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The Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty
6,749 members
174 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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White Is for Witching
by Helen Oyeyemi
1,441 members
54 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
by Richard Preston
6,783 members
121 reviews
4
2 Members
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Carrion Comfort
by Dan Simmons
2,439 members
59 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
56,693 members
810 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Hunger
by Alma Katsu
1,431 members
67 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Ring
by Koji Suzuki
2,151 members
58 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Bird Box
by Josh Malerman
4,121 members
281 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
by Angela Carter
6,403 members
162 reviews
4
2 Members
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Geek Love
by Katherine Dunn
6,637 members
169 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Outsider
by Stephen King
7,057 members
248 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Crescendo
by L. Marie Wood
11 members
2 reviews
3
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Wonderland
by Jennifer Hillier
336 members
20 reviews
3.8
Member
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36
Doing Harm: A Novel
by Kelly Parsons
312 members
50 reviews
3.9
Member
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The Midwich Cuckoos
by John Wyndham
3,365 members
100 reviews
3.8
Member
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38
We Need to Talk About Kevin
by Lionel Shriver
8,540 members
412 reviews
4.1
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Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
10,624 members
239 reviews
½ 3.6
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40
Minion
by L. A. Banks
1,243 members
33 reviews
2.8
Member
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41
Tender Is the Flesh
by Agustina Bazterrica
4,566 members
128 reviews
3.9
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42
Stillhouse Lake
by Rachel Caine
1,457 members
79 reviews
3.9
Member
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43
The Sun Down Motel
by Simone St. James
2,672 members
140 reviews
3.9
Member
BenTucker
44
The Chestnut Man
by Soren Sveistrup
1,674 members
64 reviews
4
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45
Lock Every Door
by Riley Sager
2,742 members
141 reviews
3.8
Member
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The Bad Seed
by William March
1,019 members
35 reviews
3.8
Member
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Horrid
by Katrina Leno
647 members
21 reviews
½ 3.5
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48
The Amityville Horror: A True Story
by Jay Anson
3,124 members
96 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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Ghost Story
by Peter Straub
4,369 members
116 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Imaginary Friend
by Stephen Chbosky
2,128 members
85 reviews
½ 3.4
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