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Classic Horror Books
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Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 � 1,402,377 ratings � published 1897
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.89 � 1,753,146 ratings � published 1818
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.81 � 359,390 ratings � published 1959
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 � 636,222 ratings � published 1886
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.87 � 160,479 ratings � published 1872
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 � 1,758,145 ratings � published 1890
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.38 � 171,078 ratings � published 1898
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.28 � 1,638,347 ratings � published 1977
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.78 � 147,924 ratings � published 1820
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.21 � 256,893 ratings � published 1971
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.40 � 290,161 ratings � published 1849
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.03 � 115,393 ratings � published 1928
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.92 � 269,714 ratings � published 1962
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 � 152,488 ratings � published 1967
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.99 � 805,943 ratings � published 1974
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.90 � 145,058 ratings � published 1962
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.96 � 265,529 ratings � published 1910
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.08 � 333,008 ratings � published 1892
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 � 1,217,778 ratings � published 1986
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.68 � 15,545 ratings � published 1890
The Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 � 15,749 ratings � published 1907
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.73 � 130,621 ratings � published 1896
At the Mountains of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.79 � 60,487 ratings � published 1931
The Wendigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.80 � 7,565 ratings � published 1910
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.10 � 631,208 ratings � published 1975
Psycho (Psycho, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 � 73,522 ratings � published 1959
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.84 � 31,421 ratings � published 1796
The House on the Borderland (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.59 � 10,105 ratings � published 1908
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.19 � 39,399 ratings � published 1764
Hell House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.71 � 59,026 ratings � published 1971
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.86 � 82,684 ratings � published 1839
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.75 � 77,277 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 3.92 � 137,861 ratings � published 1886
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 � 146,094 ratings � published 1954
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.08 � 661,848 ratings � published 1983
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.19 � 243,364 ratings � published 1843
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.34 � 36,130 ratings � published
The Amityville Horror (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 � 135,697 ratings � published 1977
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.25 � 575,556 ratings � published 1988
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 � 115,594 ratings � published 1843
The Pit and the Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.15 � 70,998 ratings � published 1842
The Vampyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.31 � 14,561 ratings � published 1819
The Masque of the Red Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.06 � 44,384 ratings � published 1842
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.23 � 807,832 ratings � published 1987
The Jewel of Seven Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.42 � 4,518 ratings � published 1903
The Canterville Ghost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.88 � 67,795 ratings � published 1887
The Beetle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.50 � 3,881 ratings � published 1897
The Omen (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.04 � 68,961 ratings � published 1976
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.04 � 103,047 ratings � published 1948
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.30 � 29,917 ratings � published 1963
“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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