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Read This Twice's Best Horror Books

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Rank Title Author Added

1

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

15,742 members

377 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

2

The Library at Mount Char

by Scott Hawkins

2,939 members

249 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

3

by Stephen King

21,976 members

410 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

4

by Thomas Tryon

1,364 members

33 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

5

by Stephen King

23,229 members

453 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

6

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,801 members

613 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

7

Wait Till Helen Comes

by Mary Downing Hahn

2,016 members

71 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

8

35,543 members

628 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

9

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

64,689 members

3,488 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

10

by Justina Ireland

1,729 members

109 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

11

by Stephen King

4,598 members

101 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

12

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

12,062 members

75 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

13

A Monster Calls

by Patrick Ness

5,772 members

461 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

14

Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

by Grady Hendrix

894 members

50 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

15

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

818 members

28 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

16

Deep and Dark and Dangerous

by Mary Downing Hahn

1,537 members

70 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

17

Full Throttle: Stories

808 members

30 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

18

by William Peter Blatty

5,521 members

151 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

19

The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

12,560 members

140 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

20

1,066 members

53 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

21

1,687 members

54 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

22

White Is for Witching

by Helen Oyeyemi

1,208 members

51 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: BenTucker

23

Carrion Comfort

2,126 members

51 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

24

by Dathan Auerbach

806 members

46 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: BenTucker

25

by Robert R. McCammon

2,542 members

93 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: BenTucker

26

by Stephen King

4,699 members

151 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

27

by Cormac McCarthy

11,622 members

273 reviews

4.2

Member: BenTucker

28

by William March

868 members

30 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

29

by Elizabeth Hand

469 members

43 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

30

1,552 members

39 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: BenTucker

31

Books of Blood 1-3

by Clive Barker

2,467 members

32 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

32

Ghost Summer: Stories

by Tananarive Due

198 members

15 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

33

Songs Of A Dead Dreamer

by Thomas Ligotti

351 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

34

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: Stories

by Harlan Ellison

1,767 members

51 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

35

by Victor LaValle

1,341 members

77 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

36

by Robert R. McCammon

3,405 members

121 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

37

3,863 members

87 reviews

4.2

Member: BenTucker

38

The Asylum 3-Book Box Set: Asylum, Sanctum, Catacomb

by Madeleine Roux

35 members

Member: BenTucker

39

Lovecraft Country

1,979 members

83 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

40

56 members

14 reviews

4.2

Member: BenTucker

41

Things We Lost in the Fire

by Mariana Enríquez

918 members

121 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

42

Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

by Nathan Ballingrud

209 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

43

13 members

1 review

5

Member: BenTucker

44

Mongrels: A Novel

by Stephen Graham Jones

561 members

28 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

45

by Stephen King

12,397 members

164 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: BenTucker

46

2,024 members

73 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: BenTucker

47

by Octavia E. Butler

2,588 members

59 reviews

4.2

Member: BenTucker

48

The Best of H P Lovecraft

by H. P. Lovecraft

37 members

½ 4.3

Member: BenTucker

49

by Tsugumi Ohba

558 members

15 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: BenTucker

50

The Raven: A Pop-Up Book

by Edgar Allan Poe

30 members

½ 4.6

Member: BenTucker

51

11,769 members

275 reviews

4.2

Member: BenTucker

52

This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It (John Dies at the End)

1,453 members

66 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

53

Leviathan Wakes

by James S. A. Corey

7,384 members

359 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

54

Hellsing, Volume 1

by Kouta Hirano

987 members

14 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

55

Gideon the Ninth

4,499 members

183 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

56

Johnny Got His Gun

by Dalton Trumbo

3,702 members

75 reviews

4.2

Member: BenTucker

57

Tales of the Unexpected

1,737 members

18 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

58

The Screaming Staircase

by Jonathan Stroud

2,115 members

103 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

59

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

by H. P. Lovecraft

3,409 members

60 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

60

Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

by Christina Henry

891 members

37 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

61

The Ghost Files (The Ghost Files, #1)

238 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: BenTucker

62

What the Hell Did I Just Read

822 members

33 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

63

Tokyo Ghoul: re Complete Box Set: Includes vols. 1-16 with premium

16 members

Member: BenTucker

64

The October Country

by Ray Bradbury

3,522 members

54 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

65

Blood Memory: A Novel

1,856 members

37 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

66

Collected Ghost Stories

2,302 members

44 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

67

by Akwaeke Emezi

1,080 members

43 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

68

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews (Penguin Classics)

by Edgar Allan Poe

1,208 members

11 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

69

by Stephen King

733 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

70

The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

99 members

½ 4.5

Member: BenTucker

71

How to Survive Anything: Shark Attack, Lightning, Embarrassing Parents, Pop Quizzes, and Other Perilous Situations (National Geographic Kids)

by Rachel Buchholz

89 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: BenTucker

72

by Miguel Estrada

58 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

73

The Tailypo: A Ghost Story (Paul Galdone Classics)

by Joanna C. Galdone

171 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

74

Tunnel of Bones

562 members

30 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

75

The Forgotten Island: A Horror Novel

by David Södergren

52 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

76

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

by Lisa Kröger

446 members

15 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

77

by Helen Susan Swift

28 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: BenTucker

78

The Final Reconciliation

by Todd Keisling

16 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

79

She Said Destroy

by Nadia Bulkin

64 members

½ 4.3

Member: BenTucker

80

The 11th Percent (The 11TH Percent Series)

9 members

2 reviews

4.8

Member: BenTucker

81

The Boulevard Monster

by Jeremy Hepler

11 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: BenTucker

82

Saucy Jacky: The Whitechapel Murders As Told By Jack The Ripper

by Doug Lamoreux

12 members

1

Member: BenTucker

83

Camp Ghoul Mountain Part VI: The Official Novelization

by Jonathan Raab

10 members

Member: BenTucker

84

by Robin Blasberg

2 members

Member: BenTucker

85

by Joyce Carol Oates

1,211 members

59 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: BenTucker

86

by Marisha Pessl

3,183 members

283 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

87

by Mark L'Estrange

9 members

1 review

Member: BenTucker

88

Deathless Divide

by Justina Ireland

446 members

33 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

89

by Patrick Lacey

10 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: BenTucker

90

163 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: BenTucker

91

146 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: BenTucker

92

by Craig Laurance Gidney

64 members

2 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

93

The Haunting of Ashburn House

by Darcy Coates

447 members

17 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

94

Windrush: Cry Havelock: A Historical War Novel (Jack Windrush Book 4)

by Malcolm Archibald

20 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

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Started: BenTucker
November 2021
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