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Best Horror Books
Most-published horror fiction, from gothic classics to modern terror.
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Title↕ | Author↕ | First Published↕ | Subjects↕ | Editions↕ | Languages↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens, Groth | 1,843 | Children's fiction, Toy and movable books, Christmas, fiction, Children's plays, English | 3,198 | arm, jpn, por |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 1,890 | British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Conduct of life, fiction, Fantasy fiction, Appearance (Philosophy) | 3,011 | arm, cos, jpn |
| Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus | Mary Shelley | 1,818 | Frankenstein (Fictitious character), Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character), Fiction, Victor Frankenstein (Fictitious character) | 2,188 | spa, rus, ger |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Washington Irving | 1,820 | Fiction, Ghosts, History, Children's stories, American | 1,017 | jpn, baq, por |
| Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen | 1,818 | Mate selection, Cousins, Fiction, Young women | 1,013 | pol, heb, spa |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker | 1,897 | English literature, Fiction, Horror, Horror stories | 736 | eng, por, fre |
| The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | 1,800 | British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Wessex (england), fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization | 676 | eng, heb, guj |
| The Jewel of Seven Stars | Bram Stoker | 1,902 | Mummies, Horror, Fiction, Archaeologists | 653 | ger, eng |
| The Castle of Otranto | Horace Walpole | 1,764 | Castles, Gothic revival (Literature), Translations into Russian, Vampires | 581 | spa, ita, fre |
| Carmilla | Sheridan Le Fanu | 1,871 | English Fantasy fiction, Fantasy fiction, English, Fiction, Lesbians | 571 | spa, ger, por |
| The Invisible Man | H. G. Wells | 0 | Ciencia-ficción, Classic Literature, Fiction, Mentally ill | 563 | spa, rus, ger |
| The Turn of the Screw | Henry James | 1,898 | Governesses, fiction, Children, fiction, Fiction, ghost, Fiction, fantasy | 563 | eng, chi, fre |
| Herland | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 1,915 | Utopias, Fiction, Women, Matriarchat | 541 | eng, fre, ger |
| The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Edgar Allan Poe | 1,841 | Murder, Fiction, American Detective and mystery stories, C. Auguste Dupin (Fictitious character) | 532 | epo, heb, spa |
| The King in Yellow | Robert W. Chambers | 1,895 | Fiction, Fiction, horror, Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, fantasy, collections & anthologies | 479 | ger, eng, spa |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1,937 | Arkenstone, Battle of Five Armies, invisibility, thrushes | 460 | epo, ger, pol |
| The Great God Pan | Arthur Machen | 1,894 | austin osman spare, arthur machen, pan, occult | 431 | dut, eng, fre |
| The House of the Seven Gables | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1,851 | Fiction, Haunted houses in fiction, Haunted houses, Juvenile fiction | 420 | eng, fre, ger |
| The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym | Edgar Allan Poe | 1,838 | Fiction, Young men, Stowaways, Whaling | 392 | arm, heb, spa |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1,875 | Fiction, Physicians, Physicians in fiction, Multiple personality in fiction | 373 | epo, spa, rus |
| The Magician | William Somerset Maugham | 1,908 | Fiction, Magicians, Magic, English Authors | 313 | eng, chi, por |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau | H. G. Wells | 1,896 | Islands, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Fiction, Animal experimentation | 295 | eng, ger, spa |
| The Raven | Edgar Allan Poe | 1,845 | busts, narrative poetry, supernatural, talking birds | 287 | heb, spa, rus |
| The Willows | Algernon Blackwood | 2,002 | Comics & graphic novels, general, Fiction, ghost, Fiction, absurdist, Fiction, horror | 280 | eng, spa |
| Beyond the Black River | Robert E. Howard | 2,007 | Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, fantasy, collections & anthologies, Fiction, horror, Fantasy fiction | 267 | eng |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 1,953 | Mechanical Hound, girl next door, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Terrorismo estatal | 260 | jpn, por, bre |
| The Haunted Hotel | Wilkie Collins | 1,878 | Fiction, English fiction, Hotels, Horror fiction | 257 | eng, spa, fre |
| The White People | Arthur Machen | 2,004 | Horror, Fiction, Short story, Horror and supernatural fiction | 247 | eng |
| Daisy Miller | Henry James | 1,877 | Fiction, Americans, Young women, Americans in fiction | 244 | spa, ger, fre |
| The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain | Charles Dickens, John Tenniel | 1,848 | Social life and customs, English Christmas stories, Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general | 238 | ger, eng, dut |
| The Fall of the House of Usher | Edgar Allan Poe | 1,704 | American fiction (fictional works by one author), short stories (single author), American Horror tales, burial vaults | 237 | eng, ger, spa |
| Poems | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1,800 | Children's poetry, English, English Manuscripts, English poetry, Facsimiles | 233 | rus, ger, fre |
| The Book of Dreams and Ghosts | Andrew Lang | 1,897 | Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, horror, Dreams, Ghosts | 228 | eng |
| Witch Wood | John Buchan | 1,927 | Fiction, historical, Clergy, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, fantasy, general | 219 | eng |
| Uncle Silas | Sheridan Le Fanu | 1,864 | Uncles, Orphans, Fiction, Governesses | 214 | eng, fre |
| The Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Radcliffe | 1,794 | Castles, Classic Literature, Fiction, Gothic novels | 210 | eng, fre, spa |
| Dr. Nikola's Experiment | Guy Boothby | 1,981 | Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, horror | 209 | eng |
| The Hidden Children | Robert W. Chambers | 1,914 | Fiction, horror, Fiction, historical, general, New york (n.y.), fiction, Pennsylvania, fiction | 208 | eng, spa |
| The Hill of Dreams | Arthur Machen | 1,907 | American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, horror, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, biographical | 200 | eng |
| The Wendigo | Algernon Blackwood | 1,932 | Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, horror, Collected works (single author, multi-form) | 195 | eng, spa |
| Brood of the Witch-Queen | Sax Rohmer | 1,924 | Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Witches | 194 | eng |
| The Beetle | Richard Marsh, Satomi Sugita | 1,897 | Antiquities, British, Classic Literature, Collection and preservation | 190 | eng |
| Time and the Gods | Lord Dunsany, S.H. Sime | 1,906 | Fiction, fantasy, collections & anthologies, Fiction, horror, Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, fantasy, general | 190 | eng |
| Ghost Stories of an Antiquary | Montague Rhodes James | 1,904 | English Ghost stories, Fiction, science fiction, general, English Short stories, Ghost Stories | 179 | ger, eng |
| Tales of Terror and Mystery | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1,963 | Classic Literature, English Detective and mystery stories, English Horror tales, English Short stories | 168 | eng |
| The Magician's Nephew | C. S. Lewis | 1,955 | Fantasy, Juvenile fiction, Cartoons and comics, Fiction | 163 | arm, pol, spa |
| The house of the Wolfings | William Morris | 1,889 | Fiction in English, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, fantasy, epic | 156 | eng, ger |
| The Vampyre | John William Polidori | 1,819 | Fiction, Incest, Vampires, English Horror tales | 149 | fre, spa, ita |
| Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque | Edgar Allan Poe | 1,840 | short stories, aristocracy, American Horror tales, burial vaults | 146 | eng, fre, spa |
| Northern Lights | Philip Pullman | 1,995 | Political theology, Polar bears, Kidnapping, Adventure stories | 144 | eng, ger, spa |
| Nightmare Abbey | Thomas Love Peacock | 1,818 | Adaptations, Arthurian romances, Classic Literature, Fiction | 140 | eng, fre, und |
| The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories | Algernon Blackwood | 1,906 | Fiction, horror, Horror tales, Short stories, English literature | 138 | eng, spa |
| The Eye of Osiris | R. Austin Freeman | 1,911 | London (england), fiction, Physicians, fiction, Thorndyke, doctor (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general | 136 | chi, und, eng |
| Le fantôme de l'opéra | Gaston Leroux | 1,911 | Fiction, Opera, Composers, Phantom of the Opera (Fictitious character) | 131 | spa, ita, ger |
| Twilight | Stephenie Meyer | 2,005 | series:Luz_e_Escuridão, series:Twilight, New York Times bestseller, nyt:series_books=2008-03-15 | 131 | pol, spa, rus |
| The Power of Darkness | Edith Nesbit | 2,006 | English Ghost stories, English Horror tales, Fiction, Fiction, horror | 125 | eng |
| The Black Cat | Edgar Allan Poe | 1,914 | fiction, horror fiction, cats, Children's fiction | 122 | spa, fre, jpn |
| The house by the church-yard | Sheridan Le Fanu | 1,863 | Ireland in fiction, Fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general | 118 | eng, rus |
| Carrie | Stephen King | 1,974 | occult & supernatural fiction, horror fiction, psychological thrillers, Fiction | 117 | fre, ger, ita |
| The Lancashire Witches, a Romance of Pendle Forest | William Harrison Ainsworth | 1,849 | Fiction, historical, general, England, fiction, Fiction, History | 115 | und, eng, ger |
| Jack Sheppard (1839) | William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank | 1,839 | Fiction, romance, historical, general, Brigands and robbers, Fiction, Fiction, historical, general | 107 | eng |
| The Damned | Algernon Blackwood | 2,002 | Fiction, Horror, Fiction, horror, Fiction, short stories (single author) | 106 | eng |
| 'Salem’s Lot | Stephen King | 1,975 | Catholic Church, arson, Great Depression, hitmen | 105 | eng, por, fre |
| Police!!! | Robert W. Chambers | 1,915 | American Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, horror | 105 | eng |
| The Subtle Knife | Philip Pullman | 1,997 | Fantasy, Juvenile literature, English Fantasy fiction, Fantasy fiction | 104 | spa, rus, jpn |
| Melmoth the Wanderer | Charles Robert Maturin | 1,820 | Fiction, Immortalism, Immortalism in fiction, Fiction, horror | 103 | rus, spa, eng |
| The Pit and the Pendulum | Edgar Allan Poe | 1,907 | American fiction (fictional works by one author), American Horror tales, American literature, American Short stories | 101 | eng, spa, epo |
| The Lightning Thief | Rick Riordan | 2,005 | Serie:Percy_Jackson_and_the_Olympians, Fiction, Greek Mythology, Juvenile fiction | 101 | pol, heb, spa |
| Wieland | Charles Brockden Brown | 1,798 | Fiction, History, Brothers and sisters, Religious fanaticism | 100 | eng, fre |
| Misery | Stephen King | 1,978 | dope, pills, American Novelists, Captives | 99 | srp, por, eng |
| The Shining | Stephen King | 1,977 | Fiction, horror fiction, demonology, precognition | 97 | spa, ita, ger |
| It | Stephen King | 1,986 | coming of age, thrillers, suspense, horror | 95 | pol, spa, rus |
| The Gunslinger | Stephen King | 1,976 | succubus, demons, American fiction, fantastic fiction | 94 | kor, ita, chi |
| Coraline | Neil Gaiman | 2,001 | Fantasy, Paranormal fiction, Juvenile fiction, Graphic novels | 94 | pol, spa, ger |
| Pet Sematary | Stephen King | 1,983 | fiction, thrillers, suspense, horror | 92 | spa, ita, ger |
| Pharos | Guy Boothby | 1,899 | Supernatural, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Paranormal fiction | 91 | eng, fre |
| The Green Mile | Stephen King | 1,996 | horror fiction, fiction, death row inmates, prisons | 91 | ita, chi, spa |
| The Novel Of The Black Seal | Arthur Machen | 2,004 | Fiction, horror | 90 | eng |
| Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818 text) | Mary Shelley | 1,818 | Frankenstein, victor, Frankenstein's monster, Shelley, mary wollstonecraft , 1797-1851, Scientists | 90 | eng, fre, rus |
| Breaking Dawn | Stephenie Meyer | 2,000 | series:Twilight, series:Luz_e_Escuridão School stories, Edward Cullen (Fictitious character), Vampires | 90 | pol, spa, rus |
| The Dead Zone | Stephen King | 1,979 | brain tumors, rifles, human shields, assassination | 88 | pol, spa, rus |
| New Moon | Stephenie Meyer | 2,006 | series: Twilight, series:Luz_e_Escuridão, Vampires, Juvenile fiction | 88 | pol, spa, rus |
| Tales of Mystery and Imagination | Edgar Allan Poe | 1,856 | American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, horror, Textbooks for foreign speakers | 87 | eng, dut, ger |
| In the Midst of Life. Tales of Civilians | Ambrose Bierce, A Bierce | 1,891 | History, Fiction, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Classic Literature | 86 | eng, ger |
| The house of souls | Arthur Machen | 1,906 | English Horror tales, Supernatural, Fiction, Paranormal fiction | 86 | ger, eng |
| Edgar Huntley | Charles Brockden Brown | 1,799 | Fiction, general, Pennsylvania, fiction, Fiction, Sleepwalking | 86 | eng, ita |
| The Masque of the Red Death | Edgar Allan Poe | 1,922 | gothic fiction, horror, short story, plagues | 85 | eng, fre, spa |
| The killer and the slain | Hugh Walpole | 1,942 | English Horror tales, Fiction, horror | 84 | eng |
| The Stand | Stephen King | 1,978 | suspense & thriller, gothic & horror, biological warfare, research | 84 | pol, spa, rus |
| The Amber Spyglass | Philip Pullman | 1,999 | Fantasy, Fantasy fiction, Quests (Expeditions), Fiction | 82 | eng, heb, rus |
| The Illustrated Man | Ray Bradbury | 1,951 | American Science fiction, Science fiction, English Short stories, Tattooing | 82 | pol, spa, ger |
| Vendetta | Marie Corelli | 1,886 | Fiction, general, Fiction, horror, Fiction, fantasy, general | 82 | eng, ita, und |
| Cujo | Stephen King | 1,981 | suspense, psychological horror, Fiction, Rabies in fiction | 81 | eng, por, fre |
| Interview With the Vampire | Anne Rice | 1,976 | gothic horror, vampire literature, Vampires, Translations into Spanish | 79 | eng, ger, spa |
| The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins, John McLenan | 1,800 | Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, horror, general, Fiction, thrillers, suspense | 79 | eng |
| The Exorcist | William Peter Blatty | 1,971 | Fiction, Horror, horror fiction, demonic possession | 77 | spa, ger, por |
| Firestarter | Stephen King | 1,980 | Genetic Engineering, suspense, Fiction, Psychokinesis | 77 | pol, spa, rus |
| The Drawing of the Three | Stephen King | 1,987 | sociopaths, dissociative identity disorder, civil rights, heroin | 77 | spa, rus, ger |
| Bag of Bones | Stephen King | 1,998 | trials, genealogy, writer's block, summer houses | 75 | eng, ita, rus |
| Flowers in the Attic | V.C. Andrews | 1,979 | Gothic fiction, Psychological Thriller, coming of age, classics | 73 | pol, spa, rus |
| The Haunted and the Haunters, Or, The House and the Brain | Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton | 1,800 | Fiction, Horror, Suspense, Thriller | 73 | eng, spa |
| House on the Borderland | William Hope Hodgson | 2,010 | Fiction, horror, Fiction, science fiction, general | 72 | eng |
| Night Land | William Hope Hodgson | 2,009 | Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, horror | 72 | eng |
| Skeleton crew | Stephen King | 1,985 | American Horror tales, nested narrative, Novellas, alcoholism | 72 | eng, fre, spa |
| The three impostors or The transmutations | Arthur Machen | 1,895 | Fiction, general, Fiction, horror, English Authors, Fiction | 71 | eng, spa, tur |
| Wizard and Glass | Stephen King | 1,997 | crystal balls, parallel universes, epic literature, adventure stories | 71 | eng, por, fre |
| Novels (Northanger Abbey / Persuasion) | Jane Austen | 1,818 | Ship captains, Motherless families, Rejection (Psychology), Fiction | 71 | eng |
| The Tell-Tale Heart | Edgar Allan Poe | 1,958 | Asesinato, Cuentos de terror estadounidenses, Ficción, American Horror tales | 71 | fre, eng, ger |
| A Torre Negra | Stephen King | 1,991 | thrillers, supernatural, dark fantasy, riddles | 70 | eng, fre, por |
| The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon | Stephen King | 1,999 | Little House on the Prairie, psychological fiction, adventure stories, suspense | 70 | pol, spa, rus |
| The Road | Cormac McCarthy | 2,006 | Fiction, Dystopia, Adventure, post-apocalyptic fiction | 69 | cat, spa, ita |
| All souls' night | Hugh Walpole | 1,933 | Horror tales | 69 | spa, eng |
| The Haunted Bookshop | Christopher Morley | 1,919 | Detective and mystery stories, Booksellers and bookselling, Fiction, Mystery and detective stories | 69 | eng, spa |
| Rikki-Tikki-Tavi | Rudyard Kipling | 1,893 | Children's stories, English, Cobras, Fiction, India | 69 | ita, spa, yid |
| On Writing | Stephen King | 1,999 | writing, Salem’s Lot, science fiction, Happy Stamps | 69 | eng, fre, ukr |
| Needful Things | Stephen King | 1,991 | suspense, City and town life, Specialty stores, Good and evil | 67 | eng, por, fre |
| The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1,890 | Social life and customs, Fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, short stories (single author) | 67 | eng |
| The Cask of Amontillado | Edgar Allan Poe | 1,846 | Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Detective and mystery stories | 67 | ger, eng, spa |
| The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson | 1,959 | Haunted houses, Fiction, Large type books, Casas embrujadas | 67 | spa, jpn, ger |
| Aura | Carlos Fuentes | 1,962 | Spanish Science fiction, Translations into English, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general | 65 | vie, ara, swe |
| Maus I | Art Spiegelman | 1,986 | New York Times bestseller, nyt:paperback_graphic_books=2011-09-17, graphic novel, history | 65 | cat, spa, ita |
| The talisman | Stephen King, Peter Straub | 1,925 | Fantastique, Romans, Talismans, Mothers and sons | 65 | heb, spa, rus |
| Night Shift | Stephen King | 1,960 | euthanasia, terminal illness, vampires, crucifixes | 65 | spa, ita, ger |
| Semilla del Diablo | Ira Levin | 1,900 | Fiction, horror, Fiction, Satanism, Occult fiction | 65 | heb, spa, ger |
| The Eyes of the Dragon | Stephen King | 1,959 | suspense, horror, epic fantasy, Fantasy | 65 | eng, fre, chi |
| The master-Christian | Marie Corelli | 1,900 | Fiction, romance, historical, regency, Fiction, christian, romance, general, Fiction, horror, Missionaries, fiction | 65 | eng |
| The Centaur | Algernon Blackwood | 1,911 | Supernatural, Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller | 65 | eng |
| Four Past Midnight | Stephen King | 1,990 | paranormal, nightmares, cuckoo clocks, word processors | 64 | eng, fre, por |
| Christine | Stephen King | 1,983 | carbon monoxide, greasers, couriers, smuggling | 64 | eng, ger, rus |
| The Day of the Triffids | John Wyndham, Marcel Battin | 1,951 | Blind, English Fantasy fiction, Translations into Russian, Science Fiction & Fantasy | 63 | spa, rus, dut |
| Thinner | Stephen King | 1,984 | gluttony, magic, Romani, Allegories | 62 | spa, ita, ger |
| Stuart Little | E. B. White | 1,945 | Voyages and travels, Mice, Juvenile fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship | 62 | spa, rus, ger |
| The Collector | John Fowles | 1,963 | English Horror tales, Butterflies, Collection and preservation, Fiction | 62 | ukr, eng, rus |
| The Dark Half | Stephen King | 1,989 | alcohol abuse, parasitic twins, alcoholism, authors | 61 | chi, spa, pol |
| Cell | Stephen King | 2,006 | computer worms, hive minds, zombies, horror fiction | 61 | eng, ger, rus |
| Something Wicked This Way Comes | Ray Bradbury | 1,962 | Boys, Fiction, Male friendship, Fathers and sons | 60 | spa, ita, ger |
| Red Dragon | Thomas Harris | 1,981 | Novel, psychiatrists, cannibalism, serial killers | 60 | spa, ger, por |
| Everything's Eventual. 14 Dark Tales | Stephen King | 2,002 | Apple computers, dementia, fantasy, garbage disposal units | 60 | eng, por, fre |
| Different Seasons | Stephen King | 1,982 | first-person narrative, post-traumatic stress disorder, World War II, law school | 60 | ita, chi, tur |
| Petals on the Wind | V. C. Andrews | 1,980 | series:dollanganger, Fiction, dysfunctional families, Domestic fiction | 60 | spa, ger, eng |
| A thin ghost and others | Montague Rhodes James | 1,919 | Classic Literature, English Ghost stories, Fantasy, Fiction | 59 | eng |
| The odd number | Guy de Maupassant | 1,889 | Translations into English, Fiction, Social life and customs, Description and travel | 59 | eng, yid, mul |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! | Kazuki Takahashi | 1,997 | Ghost stories, Teenagers, Cartoons and comics, Games | 59 | chi, eng |
| Black house | Stephen King, Peter Straub | 2,001 | Fiction, Ficción, Novela de misterio, Asesinatos seriales | 58 | eng, rus, ger |
| Jaws | Peter Benchley | 1,973 | blue sharks, dolphins, shark cage diving, bang sticks | 58 | eng, rus, ger |
| The Monk: A Romance. In Three Volumes. By M. G. Lewis, .. | Matthew Gregory Lewis | 1,794 | Fiction, Monks, Monks in fiction, Incest | 58 | eng, spa |
| The Tommyknockers | Stephen King | 1,985 | aliens, paranormal fiction, American horror tales, space flight | 58 | eng, ger, rus |
| The Silence of the Lambs | Thomas Harris | 1,988 | lambs, black witch moth, autopsy, pupa | 58 | pol, spa, rus |
| Insomnia | Stephen King | 1,994 | Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, suspense, Suspense Thriller, Open Library Staff Picks | 57 | rus, pol, ger |
| Intensity | Dean Koontz | 1,985 | Fiction, Young women, Psychopaths, Crimes against | 56 | por, fre, eng |
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