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Classic Horror Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,555
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,426,432 ratings — published 1897
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,787,279 ratings — published 1818
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 369,923 ratings — published 1959
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 646,733 ratings — published 1886
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 171,652 ratings — published 1872
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,804,746 ratings — published 1890
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 173,567 ratings — published 1898
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 116,423 ratings — published 1928
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 149,324 ratings — published 1820
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,661,314 ratings — published 1977
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.40 — 292,527 ratings — published 1849
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.21 — 261,279 ratings — published 1971
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 277,528 ratings — published 1962
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 820,130 ratings — published 1974
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 154,676 ratings — published 1967
The Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,329 ratings — published 1907
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.67 — 15,923 ratings — published 1890
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 146,915 ratings — published 1962
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.96 — 269,512 ratings — published 1910
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,235,840 ratings — published 1986
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 342,702 ratings — published 1892
At the Mountains of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 61,838 ratings — published 1931
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 641,353 ratings — published 1975
The Wendigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 7,792 ratings — published 1910
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.73 — 132,458 ratings — published 1896
The House on the Borderland (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.58 — 10,414 ratings — published 1908
Psycho (Psycho, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 74,669 ratings — published 1959
Hell House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.70 — 60,536 ratings — published 1971
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 84,477 ratings — published 1839
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 32,016 ratings — published 1796
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.19 — 40,226 ratings — published 1764
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.08 — 675,432 ratings — published 1983
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.75 — 78,670 ratings — published 1983
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 140,005 ratings — published 1886
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 148,823 ratings — published 1954
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.19 — 243,880 ratings — published 1843
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 118,513 ratings — published 1843
The Amityville Horror (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 136,539 ratings — published 1977
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.34 — 36,498 ratings — published 1936
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.25 — 580,506 ratings — published 1988
The Vampyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.31 — 15,027 ratings — published 1819
The Jewel of Seven Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.43 — 4,607 ratings — published 1903
The Canterville Ghost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.88 — 68,932 ratings — published 1887
The Pit and the Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.14 — 71,541 ratings — published 1842
The Masque of the Red Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,117 ratings — published 1842
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.23 — 822,478 ratings — published 1987
The King in Yellow (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.54 — 27,110 ratings — published 1895
The Beetle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.50 — 3,935 ratings — published 1897
The Omen (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 69,268 ratings — published 1976
The Cask of Amontillado (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 86,276 ratings — published 1846
“I thought of the boy I had been, his murderous, pent-up hatred, of his strange, silent green glass maelstorm of wrath.”
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
“An odd sensation rushed through her body. Her head grew light, and a peculiar pleasure imbued her mind. In the demon’s eyes a promise was held. Her days had been filled with misfortune; enduring adversity had made her tired. The lure was too enticing, and she followed. - Ch 2 The Darkness of Judith”
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