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Reedsydiscovery 100 Best Horror Books of All Time

Based on bookaward: 100 Best Horror Books of All Time

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Rank Title Author Added CK Order

1

by Stephen King

23,229 members

453 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Stephen King

21,976 members

410 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Mary Shelley

42,771 members

714 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

35,539 members

628 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,800 members

613 reviews

4.2

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

20,190 members

692 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

11,403 members

297 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,797 members

433 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Justin Cronin

9,408 members

635 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

8,175 members

424 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

Let the Right One In

by John Ajvide Lindqvist

5,723 members

265 reviews

4

3 Members: ashtania, sturlington, ahef1963

12

Rosemary's Baby

4,634 members

139 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

At the Mountains of Madness [novella]

by H. P. Lovecraft

1,222 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

Interview with the Vampire

22,971 members

333 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

15

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

15,742 members

377 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

by Stephen King

14,648 members

290 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

17

The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

12,560 members

140 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ashtania, sturlington

18

The Turn of the Screw

8,127 members

249 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Wasp Factory

7,105 members

203 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

20

3,863 members

87 reviews

4.2

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

by H. P. Lovecraft

3,409 members

60 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

22

by Richard Matheson

2,362 members

102 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

23

Collected Ghost Stories

2,302 members

44 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

24

A Head Full of Ghosts

by Paul Tremblay

2,157 members

145 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

25

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales

by Edgar Allan Poe

1,934 members

18 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

26

The Silent Companions

by Laura Purcell

1,042 members

56 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

27

by Cormac McCarthy

34,498 members

1,407 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

28

by Toni Morrison

22,898 members

408 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington

29

Her Fearful Symmetry

by Audrey Niffenegger

6,991 members

470 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

30

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

by Angela Carter

5,525 members

149 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

31

by William Peter Blatty

5,520 members

151 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

32

5,391 members

228 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

33

by Richard Matheson

4,838 members

190 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

34

4,176 members

306 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

35

by Peter Straub

3,846 members

113 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

36

by Josh Malerman

3,270 members

256 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

37

by Octavia E. Butler

2,990 members

146 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

38

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

by Carmen Maria Machado

2,624 members

121 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

39

Books of Blood 1-3

by Clive Barker

2,467 members

32 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

40

The Fifth Child

by Doris Lessing

2,405 members

76 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

41

2,397 members

33 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

42

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

by Edgar Allan Poe

2,218 members

42 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

43

Carrion Comfort

2,126 members

51 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

44

by Justina Ireland

1,728 members

109 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

45

1,459 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

46

Broken Monsters

by Lauren Beukes

1,383 members

105 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

47

by Victor LaValle

1,341 members

77 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

48

by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

1,237 members

73 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

49

White Is for Witching

by Helen Oyeyemi

1,208 members

51 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

50

1,066 members

53 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

51

by Michelle Paver

1,027 members

62 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

52

946 members

49 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

53

The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story

894 members

65 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

54

The Drowning Girl

by Caitlín R. Kiernan

690 members

34 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

55

Those Across the River

by Christopher Buehlman

674 members

75 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

56

The Devil in Silver

by Victor LaValle

631 members

59 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

57

by Tananarive Due

627 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

58

by Daryl Gregory

619 members

36 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

59

by Ruthanna Emrys

602 members

27 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

60

580 members

34 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: sturlington

61

Mongrels: A Novel

by Stephen Graham Jones

561 members

28 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

62

by Brian Evenson

410 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

63

The Lesser Dead

by Christopher Buehlman

307 members

19 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

64

The Case Against Satan

216 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

65

by Elizabeth Kostova

21,495 members

759 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963,sturlington

66

Heart-Shaped Box

6,787 members

371 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington,ManWithAnAgenda

67

by Marisha Pessl

3,182 members

283 reviews

3.8

68

Carmilla: A Vampyre Tale

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

2,916 members

134 reviews

½ 3.7

69

Anna Dressed in Blood

by Kendare Blake

2,398 members

256 reviews

3.8

70

by Grady Hendrix

2,320 members

189 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington,ManWithAnAgenda

71

Lovecraft Country

1,978 members

83 reviews

4

72

by Poppy Z. Brite

1,638 members

27 reviews

4

73

1,584 members

14 reviews

½ 3.3

74

1,552 members

39 reviews

½ 4.3

75

The Last Werewolf

1,527 members

120 reviews

½ 3.5

76

by Edgar Cantero

1,508 members

106 reviews

½ 3.5

77

30 Days of Night

906 members

35 reviews

½ 3.5

78

Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories

by China Miéville

901 members

26 reviews

½ 3.6

79

by William March

868 members

30 reviews

3.9

80

The Walls Around Us

by Nova Ren Suma

716 members

51 reviews

4

81

by Elizabeth Gaskell

612 members

13 reviews

½ 3.6

82

by Cherie Priest

573 members

45 reviews

½ 3.6

83

by Nalo Hopkinson

509 members

13 reviews

4

84

The Six-Gun Tarot

by R.S. Belcher

467 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

85

by Laird Barron

443 members

17 reviews

3.8

86

Hammers on Bone

by Cassandra Khaw

439 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

87

by Robert Jackson Bennett

410 members

21 reviews

½ 3.4

88

by Courtney Alameda

244 members

28 reviews

3.8

89

by Peter Stenson

241 members

22 reviews

½ 3.6

90

by Hideaki Sena

226 members

7 reviews

3.1

91

The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction

by Violet Kupersmith

183 members

39 reviews

3.8

92

163 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

93

by Aliya Whiteley

136 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

94

3,385 members

279 reviews

3.8

95

by Colson Whitehead

2,041 members

129 reviews

½ 3.3

96

by Robert Bloch

1,794 members

59 reviews

3.9

97

1,687 members

54 reviews

½ 3.6

98

by Samanta Schweblin

1,241 members

77 reviews

½ 3.7

99

Things We Lost in the Fire

by Mariana Enríquez

918 members

121 reviews

4

100

Frankenstein in Baghdad

by Ahmed Saadawi

794 members

33 reviews

½ 3.6

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June 2019
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