Fiction
Horror for Dark Nights
Dread done well, from quiet unease to full-blooded terror.
14 books · ranked
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1
Dracula
Letters and diaries trace a creeping invasion by an ancient predator; the novel that fixed the vampire in our imagination.
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The Shining
A family caretakes an empty winter hotel that wants the father for itself; King's masterclass in dread.
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3
It
A group of friends face a shape-shifting evil in their home town, then again as adults; a doorstop of fear and friendship.
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The Haunting of Hill House
Four people spend a summer in a house that may be alive; the gold standard for the literary ghost story.
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Carrie
A bullied teenager discovers a terrible power; the lean, ferocious debut that launched a career.
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Misery
A novelist is held captive by his 'number-one fan'; a claustrophobic, white-knuckle thriller.
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Pet Sematary
A burial ground that brings things back, and a grief that won't take no; King at his bleakest.
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Two sisters live shunned in a grand house after a family tragedy; eerie, sly and unforgettable.
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Interview with the Vampire
A vampire tells the centuries-long story of his making; lush, gothic and genre-defining.
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A Head Full of Ghosts
A family's possession ordeal becomes a reality show; clever modern horror that keeps you guessing.
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'Salem’s Lot
Author Ben Mears returns to ‘Salem's Lot to write a book about a house that has haunted him since childhood only to find his isolated hometown infested with vampires. While the vampires claim more vic
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A thin ghost and others
This volume of M.R. James's classic ghostly fiction contains: "Preface," "The Residence at Whitminster," "The Diary of Mr. Poynter," "The Episode of Cathedral History, "The Story of a Disappearance an
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Breaking Dawn
To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and
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Christine
A love triangle involving 17-year-old misfit Arnie Cunningham, his new girlfriend and a haunted 1958 Plymouth Fury. Dubbed Christine by her previous owner, Arnie's first car is jealous, possessive and