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Horror

The best books on horror, ranked by quality.

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  1. 49
    Lady Audley’s Secret Mary Elizabeth Braddon · 1862
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (5 ratings)
  2. 50
    Northanger Abbey Jane Austen · 1818
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.8 (48 ratings)
  3. 51
    In a Glass Darkly Sheridan Le Fanu · 1872
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (3 ratings)
  4. 52
    Tales of Terror and Mystery Arthur Conan Doyle · 1963
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (1 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Horror Short stories
  5. 53
    The Dark Other Stanley G. Weinbaum · 1950
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (1 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Science fiction Horror
  6. 54
    The Three Impostors Arthur Machen · 1895
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (1 ratings)
  7. 55
    The Monk Matthew Gregory Lewis · 1794
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.8 (5 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Horror Gothic
  8. 56
    The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux · 1911
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.8 (44 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Horror Gothic
  9. 57
    The Magician William Somerset Maugham · 1908
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.8 (4 ratings)
  10. 58
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë · 1847
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.8 (17 ratings)
  11. 59
    Vathek William Beckford, Samuel Henley, Richard Garnett , Samuel Henley, Franz Blei, John Beckford, Giaime Giaime Pintor · 1786
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.5 (2 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Fantasy Classics Gothic
  12. 60
    The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg · 1824
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.6 (5 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Gothic
  13. 61
    The Hill of Dreams Arthur Machen · 1907
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.7 (9 ratings)
  14. 62
    The Vampire John William Polidori · 1819
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.6 (12 ratings)
  15. 63
    The castle of Otranto Horace Walpole · 1764
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.5 (22 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Horror Gothic
  16. 64
    The Great God Pan Arthur Machen · 1894
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.5 (42 ratings)
  17. 65
    A Sicilian Romance Ann Radcliffe · 2009
    EN Free ebook Classics Gothic
  18. 66
    At the Mountains of Madness Howard Phillips Lovecraft · 2015
  19. 67
    Can Such Things Be? Ambrose Bierce · 1909
  20. 68
    Short Fiction Montague Rhodes James · 2021
  21. 69
    Short Fiction Edgar Allan Poe · 2020
    EN Free ebook Classics Horror Short stories
  22. 70
    Short Fiction Arthur Machen · 2015
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