93 Best Horror Books

Dracula

by Bram Stoker

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

The Haunting of Hill House

A Novel

by Shirley Jackson

Beloved

by Toni Morrison

Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

Rebecca

by Daphne du Maurier

Bird Box

A Novel

by Josh Malerman

Ghost Story

by Peter Straub

Hell House

by Richard Matheson

Pet Sematary

A Novel

by Stephen King

Rosemary's Baby

by Ira Levin

The Exorcist

by William Peter Blatty

The Hunger

by Alma Katsu

Carrion Comfort

A Novel

by Dan Simmons

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Green Town, Book 2

by Ray Bradbury

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

At the Mountains of Madness

by H. P. Lovecraft

Coraline

by Neil Gaiman

Interview with the Vampire

Vampire Chronicles, Book 1

by Anne Rice

Let the Right One In

A Novel

by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Night Film

A Novel

by Marisha Pessl

Ring

by Koji Suzuki

The Shining

by Stephen King

The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

The Woman in Black

A Ghost Story

by Susan Hill

White is for Witching

by Helen Oyeyemi

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

A Head Full of Ghosts

A Novel

by Paul Tremblay

The Bloody Chamber

And Other Stories

by Angela Carter

The Stand

by Stephen King

Books of Blood

Vols. 1-3

by Clive Barker

Broken Monsters

by Lauren Beukes

Come Closer

by Sara Gran

Heart-Shaped Box

A Novel

by Joe Hill

Horrorstor

A Novel

by Grady Hendrix

It

A Novel

by Stephen King

NOS4A2

NOS4A2, Book 1

by Joe Hill

Penpal

by Dathan Auerbach

The Devil in Silver

A Novel

by Victor LaValle

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales

by Edgar Allan Poe

The Girl Next Door

by Jack Ketchum

The Other

by Thomas Tryon

The Passage

The Passage, Book 1

by Justin Cronin

The Ruins

by Scott Smith

The Silent Companions

A Novel

by Laura Purcell

Things We Lost in the Fire

Stories

by Mariana Enriquez

Those Across the River

by Christopher Buehlman

World War Z

An Oral History of the Zombie War

by Max Brooks

Zone One

A Novel

by Colson Whitehead

The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

Blood Meridian

Or the Evening Redness in the West

by Cormac McCarthy

I Am Legend

by Richard Matheson

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

Carrie

by Stephen King

Fever Dream

A Novel

by Samanta Schweblin

The Terror

A Novel

by Dan Simmons

Blindness

by Jose Saramago

Burnt Offerings

by Robert Marasco

Carmilla

by Joseph Sheridan Lefanu

Drawing Blood

A Novel

by Poppy Z. Brite

Exquisite Corpse

A Novel

by Poppy Z. Brite

Feed

Newsflesh, Book 1

by Mira Grant

Fiend

A Novel

by Peter Stenson

Fledgling

A Novel

by Octavia E. Butler

Frankenstein in Baghdad

A Novel

by Ahmed Saadawi

From Hell

by Alan Moore

Gothic Tales

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Haunted

A Novel

by Chuck Palahniuk

Her Body and Other Parties

Stories

by Carmen Maria Machado

Intensity

A Novel

by Dean Koontz

John Dies at the End

by David Wong

Maplecroft

by Cherie Priest

Meddling Kids

A Novel

by Edgar Cantero

Pandemonium

by Lauren Oliver

Parasite Eve

by Hideaki Sena

Swan Song

by Robert R. McCammon

The Bad Seed

by William March

The Call Of Cthulhu And Other Stories

by H.P. Lovecraft

The Case Against Satan

by Ray Russell

The Changeling

A Novel

by Victor LaValle

The Drowning Girl

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

The Elementals

by Michael McDowell

The Fifth Child

by Doris Lessing

The Frangipani Hotel

by Violet Kupersmith

The House With a Clock In Its Walls

Lewis Barnavelt, Book 1

by John Bellairs

The Last Werewolf

by Glen Duncan

The Lesser Dead

by Christopher Buehlman

The Troop

A Novel

by Nick Cutter

The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Three Moments of an Explosion

Stories

by China Miéville

Uzumaki

by Junji Ito

Whispers

A Thriller

by Dean Koontz