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Reader's Digest 50 Best Horror Books to Read

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1

by Stephen King

16,355 members

295 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

2

by Thomas Tryon

1,364 members

33 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

3

by Toni Morrison

22,894 members

408 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

4

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

11,403 members

297 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

5

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,797 members

433 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

6

The Only Good Indians

by Stephen Graham Jones

2,233 members

100 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

7

3,646 members

195 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

8

20,189 members

692 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

9

by Mary Shelley

42,781 members

714 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

10

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,799 members

613 reviews

4.2

3 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

11

by Stephen King

21,976 members

410 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

12

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

13,933 members

290 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

13

Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories

1,250 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

14

by Stephen King

23,229 members

453 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

15

The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story

894 members

65 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

16

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

4,773 members

236 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

17

459 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

18

by Grady Hendrix

2,320 members

189 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

19

35,536 members

628 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

20

Those Across the River

by Christopher Buehlman

674 members

75 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, BenTucker

21

by William Peter Blatty

5,520 members

151 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, BenTucker

22

White Is for Witching

by Helen Oyeyemi

1,208 members

51 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: sturlington, BenTucker

23

The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story

by Richard Preston

6,112 members

118 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, BenTucker

24

Carrion Comfort

2,126 members

51 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, BenTucker

25

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,710 members

745 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, BenTucker

26

by Octavia E. Butler

3,432 members

128 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, BenTucker

27

1,066 members

53 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, BenTucker

28

1,687 members

54 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, BenTucker

29

by Josh Malerman

3,270 members

256 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, BenTucker

30

The Final Girl Support Group

by Grady Hendrix

2,089 members

87 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, BenTucker

31

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

by Angela Carter

5,525 members

149 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, BenTucker

32

by Katherine Dunn

6,136 members

162 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, BenTucker

33

by Stephen King

5,143 members

212 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, BenTucker

34

by L. Marie Wood

9 members

2 reviews

3

Member: BenTucker

35

by Jennifer Hillier

180 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: BenTucker

36

by Kelly Parsons

287 members

49 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

37

The Midwich Cuckoos

by John Wyndham

2,967 members

86 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

38

We Need to Talk About Kevin

by Lionel Shriver

7,806 members

396 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

39

by Edith Wharton

9,513 members

214 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

40

1,168 members

33 reviews

2.8

Member: BenTucker

41

Tender Is the Flesh

by Agustina Bazterrica

1,921 members

62 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

42

Stillhouse Lake

by Rachel Caine

1,094 members

70 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

43

The Sun Down Motel

by Simone St. James

1,784 members

116 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

44

The Chestnut Man

by Soren Sveistrup

1,277 members

48 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

45

Lock Every Door

1,753 members

116 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

46

by William March

868 members

30 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

47

by Katrina Leno

462 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

48

The Amityville Horror: A True Story

2,682 members

85 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: sturlington, BenTucker,ManWithAnAgenda

49

by Peter Straub

3,846 members

113 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, BenTucker,ManWithAnAgenda

50

Imaginary Friend

by Stephen Chbosky

1,557 members

74 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: BenTucker,ManWithAnAgenda

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November 2021
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