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Best Horror Books

Horror asks what we are most afraid of, and why. The best horror is never simply about monsters — it uses dread and the supernatural to explore grief, guilt, isolation and the uncomfortable truths we'd rather not face.

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Dracula Bram Stoker · 1897 Editor's Choice Get it on Amazon →

The Shining Stephen King · 1977 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →

It Stephen King · 1986 Essential Read See details →

The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson · 1959 Essential Read See details →

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Carrie Stephen King · 1974 Recommended Get it on Amazon →

Misery Stephen King · 1987 Recommended Get it on Amazon →

Pet Sematary Stephen King · 1983 Recommended See details →

We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson · 1962 Recommended See details →

Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice · 1976 Recommended See details →

A Head Full of Ghosts Paul Tremblay · 2015 Recommended See details →

'Salem’s Lot Stephen King · 1975 Recommended See details →

A thin ghost and others Montague Rhodes James · 1919 Recommended See details →

Breaking Dawn Stephenie Meyer · 2000 Recommended See details →

Christine Stephen King · 1983 Recommended See details →

Desperation Stephen King · 1996 Recommended See details →

From a Buick 8 Stephen King · 2002 Recommended See details →

Gerald's Game Stephen King · 1992 Recommended See details →

Intensity Dean Koontz · 1985 Recommended See details →

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818 text) Mary Shelley · 1818 Recommended See details →

New Moon Stephenie Meyer · 2006 Recommended See details →

Night Shift Stephen King · 1960 Recommended See details →

Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock · 1818 Recommended See details →

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Rudyard Kipling · 1893 Recommended See details →

Semilla del Diablo Ira Levin · 1900 Recommended See details →

Skeleton crew Stephen King · 1985 Recommended See details →

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Edgar Allan Poe · 1840 Recommended See details →

The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories Algernon Blackwood · 1906 Recommended See details →

The Exorcist William Peter Blatty · 1971 Recommended See details →

The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley · 1919 Recommended See details →

The Haunted and the Haunters, Or, The House and the Brain Baron Lytton Edward Bulwer Lytton · 1800 Recommended See details →

The Lancashire Witches, a Romance of Pendle Forest William Harrison Ainsworth · 1849 Recommended See details →

The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe · 1907 Recommended See details →

The Power of Darkness Edith Nesbit · 2006 Recommended See details →

The Queen of the Damned Anne Rice · 1988 Recommended See details →

The Stand Stephen King · 1978 Recommended See details →

The Vampyre John William Polidori · 1819 Recommended See details →

Thinner Stephen King · 1984 Recommended See details →

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