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Classic Horror Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,534
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 � 1,402,884 ratings � published 1897
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.89 � 1,755,638 ratings � published 1818
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.81 � 359,642 ratings � published 1959
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 � 636,424 ratings � published 1886
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.87 � 160,679 ratings � published 1872
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 � 1,758,971 ratings � published 1890
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.38 � 171,126 ratings � published 1898
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.28 � 1,638,886 ratings � published 1977
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.78 � 147,957 ratings � published 1820
The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.21 � 257,016 ratings � published 1971
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.40 � 290,228 ratings � published 1849
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.03 � 115,436 ratings � published 1928
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.92 � 269,859 ratings � published 1962
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 � 152,535 ratings � published 1967
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.99 � 806,200 ratings � published 1974
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.90 � 145,094 ratings � published 1962
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.96 � 265,601 ratings � published 1910
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.08 � 333,212 ratings � published 1892
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 � 1,218,145 ratings � published 1986
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.68 � 15,551 ratings � published 1890
The Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 � 15,758 ratings � published 1907
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.73 � 130,665 ratings � published 1896
At the Mountains of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.79 � 60,509 ratings � published 1931
The Wendigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.80 � 7,567 ratings � published 1910
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.10 � 631,407 ratings � published 1975
Psycho (Psycho, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 � 73,542 ratings � published 1959
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.84 � 31,431 ratings � published 1796
The House on the Borderland (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.59 � 10,107 ratings � published 1908
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.19 � 39,413 ratings � published 1764
Hell House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.71 � 59,059 ratings � published 1971
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.86 � 82,715 ratings � published 1839
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.75 � 77,305 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 � 137,895 ratings � published 1886
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 � 146,143 ratings � published 1954
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.08 � 662,088 ratings � published 1983
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.19 � 243,383 ratings � published 1843
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.34 � 36,136 ratings � published
The Amityville Horror (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 � 135,714 ratings � published 1977
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.25 � 575,664 ratings � published 1988
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 11 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 � 115,649 ratings � published 1843
The Pit and the Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.15 � 71,010 ratings � published 1842
The Vampyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.31 � 14,568 ratings � published 1819
The Masque of the Red Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.06 � 44,399 ratings � published 1842
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.23 � 808,111 ratings � published 1987
The Jewel of Seven Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.42 � 4,519 ratings � published 1903
The Canterville Ghost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.88 � 67,810 ratings � published 1887
The Beetle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 3.50 � 3,882 ratings � published 1897
The Omen (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.04 � 68,967 ratings � published 1976
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as classic-horror)
avg rating 4.04 � 103,091 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 � 29,918 ratings � published 1963
“I do not like children. I do not know how to speak to them. They frightened and confused me when I was a child myself, and they frighten and confuse me now that I am an adult.”
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
― The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
“The difficulty with Poe is not figuring out which of his stories rise to the level required of this collection, but rather which of his stories to exclude from it.”
― The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Horror Anthology
― The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Horror Anthology
