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Read This Twice's Best Horror Books

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Rank Title Author Added

1

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

19,188 members

435 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

2

Library at Mount Char

by Scott Hawkins

3,850 members

279 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

3

by Stephen King

25,766 members

463 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

4

by Thomas Tryon

1,560 members

34 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

5

by Stephen King

27,205 members

530 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

6

by Daphne Du Maurier

23,906 members

685 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

7

Wait Till Helen Comes

by Mary Downing Hahn

2,398 members

79 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

8

41,213 members

682 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

9

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

76,408 members

3,639 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

10

by Justina Ireland

2,103 members

114 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

11

by Stephen King

5,672 members

123 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

12

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

13,498 members

82 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

13

A Monster Calls

by Patrick Ness

6,929 members

510 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

14

Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

by Grady Hendrix

1,213 members

59 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

15

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

919 members

32 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

16

Deep and Dark and Dangerous

by Mary Downing Hahn

1,815 members

74 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

17

Full Throttle: Stories

1,091 members

38 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

18

by William Peter Blatty

6,754 members

174 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

19

The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

14,117 members

162 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

20

1,430 members

67 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

21

2,148 members

58 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

22

White Is for Witching

by Helen Oyeyemi

1,442 members

54 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: BenTucker

23

Carrion Comfort

2,444 members

59 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

24

by Dathan Auerbach

1,280 members

54 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

25

by Robert R. McCammon

2,909 members

112 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: BenTucker

26

by Stephen King

6,784 members

191 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

27

by Cormac McCarthy

14,038 members

325 reviews

4.2

Member: BenTucker

28

by William March

1,020 members

35 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

29

by Elizabeth Hand

624 members

49 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

30

2,450 members

58 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: BenTucker

31

Books of Blood 1-3

by Clive Barker

2,705 members

35 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

32

Ghost Summer: Stories

by Tananarive Due

239 members

17 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

33

Songs Of A Dead Dreamer

by Thomas Ligotti

379 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

34

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: Stories

by Harlan Ellison

2,192 members

70 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

35

by Victor LaValle

1,739 members

89 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

36

by Robert R. McCammon

3,895 members

134 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

37

4,265 members

93 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

38

The Asylum 3-Book Box Set: Asylum, Sanctum, Catacomb

by Madeleine Roux

49 members

Member: BenTucker

39

Lovecraft Country

2,532 members

100 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

40

75 members

14 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

41

Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories

by Mariana Enríquez

1,353 members

134 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

42

Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

by Nathan Ballingrud

306 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

43

16 members

1 review

5

Member: BenTucker

44

by Stephen Graham Jones

801 members

35 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

45

by Stephen King

14,240 members

176 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: BenTucker

46

2,620 members

88 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: BenTucker

47

by Octavia E. Butler

2,939 members

65 reviews

4.2

Member: BenTucker

48

The Best of H P Lovecraft

by H. P. Lovecraft

39 members

½ 4.3

Member: BenTucker

49

by Tsugumi Ohba

845 members

23 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: BenTucker

50

The Raven: A Pop-up Book

by Edgar Allan Poe

37 members

½ 4.6

Member: BenTucker

51

13,751 members

306 reviews

4.2

Member: BenTucker

52

This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It

1,751 members

70 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

53

Leviathan Wakes

by James S. A. Corey

9,697 members

414 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

54

Hellsing, Volume 1

by Kouta Hirano

1,098 members

15 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

55

Gideon the Ninth

7,075 members

246 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

56

Johnny Got His Gun

by Dalton Trumbo

4,141 members

79 reviews

4.2

Member: BenTucker

57

Tales of the Unexpected

1,954 members

19 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

58

The Screaming Staircase

by Jonathan Stroud

2,774 members

118 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

59

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

by H. P. Lovecraft

4,319 members

71 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

60

by Christina Henry

1,203 members

51 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

61

The Ghost Files: Volume 1

271 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

62

What the Hell Did I Just Read

1,141 members

37 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

63

Tokyo Ghoul: re Complete Box Set: Includes vols. 1-16 with premium

30 members

Member: BenTucker

64

The October Country

by Ray Bradbury

4,091 members

69 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

65

1,998 members

39 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

66

Collected Ghost Stories

2,584 members

45 reviews

4.2

Member: BenTucker

67

by Akwaeke Emezi

1,502 members

53 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

68

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews (Penguin Classics)

by Edgar Allan Poe

1,453 members

12 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

69

by Stephen King

1,304 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

70

The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

121 members

½ 4.5

Member: BenTucker

71

How to Survive Anything: Shark Attack, Lightning, Embarrassing Parents, Pop Quizzes, and Other Perilous Situations (National Geographic Kids)

by Rachel Buchholz

146 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: BenTucker

72

by Miguel Estrada

97 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

73

The Tailypo: A Ghost Story

by Joanna C. Galdone

213 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

74

Tunnel of Bones

by Victoria Schwab

800 members

34 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

75

The Forgotten Island

by David Sodergren

105 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: BenTucker

76

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

by Lisa Kröger

573 members

18 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

77

by Helen Susan Swift

28 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: BenTucker

78

The Final Reconciliation

by Todd Keisling

20 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

79

She Said Destroy

by Nadia Bulkin

96 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: BenTucker

80

The 11th Percent

17 members

2 reviews

4.8

Member: BenTucker

81

The Boulevard Monster

by Jeremy Hepler

10 members

2 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

82

Saucy Jacky: The Whitechapel Murders As Told By Jack The Ripper

by Doug Lamoreux

13 members

1 review

3

Member: BenTucker

83

Camp Ghoul Mountain Part VI: The Official Novelization

by Jonathan Raab

14 members

1 review

5

Member: BenTucker

84

by Robin Blasberg

2 members

Member: BenTucker

85

by Joyce Carol Oates

1,375 members

65 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: BenTucker

86

by Marisha Pessl

3,633 members

295 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

87

by Mark L'Estrange

17 members

1 review

Member: BenTucker

88

Deathless Divide

by Justina Ireland

591 members

40 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

89

by Patrick Lacey

10 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: BenTucker

90

192 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

91

Intercepts: A horror novel

385 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: BenTucker

92

by Craig Laurance Gidney

83 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

93

The Haunting of Ashburn House

by Darcy Coates

818 members

27 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

94

Windrush (Jack Windrush Book 1)

by Malcolm Archibald

25 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

About This List

Started: BenTucker
November 2021
Type: Numbered and unnumbered

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