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Horror

The best books on horror, ranked by quality.

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  1. 25
    Odd Thomas Dean Koontz · 2003
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (32 ratings)
  2. 26
    Phantoms Dean Koontz · 1983
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (22 ratings)
  3. 27
    The Woman in White Wilkie Collins, John McLenan, Summit Press Staff · 1800
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (22 ratings)
  4. 28
    Frankenstein Mary Shelley · 1818
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (229 ratings)
  5. 29
    Christine Stephen King · 1983
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (53 ratings)
  6. 30
    The Bazaar of Bad Dreams Stephen King · 2015
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (32 ratings)
  7. 31
    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson · 1875
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.9 (152 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Horror Gothic
  8. 32
    Rosemary’s Baby Ira Levin · 1900
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (26 ratings)
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    The Scarletti curse Christine Feehan · 2001
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (11 ratings)
  10. 34
    Mistress of Mellyn Eleanor Burford · 1960
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (10 ratings)
  11. 35
    The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe · 1922
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (21 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Gothic Short stories
  12. 36
    The king of the castle Eleanor Burford, Virginia Holt, Phil Carr · 1967
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 (7 ratings)
  13. 37
    World War Z Max Brooks · 2006
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.9 (142 ratings)
  14. 38
    Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (27 ratings)
    EN Gothic
  15. 39
    The New Girl Robert Lawrence Stine · 1989
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (25 ratings)
  16. 40
    The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson · 1959
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.9 (85 ratings)
  17. 41
    Carmilla Sheridan Le Fanu · 1871
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.9 (66 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Gothic
  18. 42
    The king in yellow Robert W. Chambers · 1895
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (18 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Horror Short stories
  19. 43
    The Beetle Richard Marsh · 1897
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (9 ratings)
  20. 44
    Melmoth the Wanderer Charles Robert Maturin · 1820
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 (2 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Horror Gothic
  21. 45
    Short Fiction H.P. Lovecraft · 2018
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (1 ratings)
  22. 46
    The Mummy! Jane C. Webb Loudon · 1828
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (1 ratings)
  23. 47
    The empty house Algernon Blackwood · 1906
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (1 ratings)
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    The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson · 1946
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (7 ratings)
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