Book↕ | Author↕ | Year↕ | Subgenre↕ | Setting↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
The Shining | Stephen King | 1977 | Psychological Horror | Overlook Hotel |
Dracula | Bram Stoker | 1897 | Gothic Horror | Transylvania/London |
Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 1818 | Gothic Sci-Fi | Europe |
It | Stephen King | 1986 | Cosmic Horror | Derry, Maine |
The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson | 1959 | Haunted House | Hill House |
The Exorcist | William Peter Blatty | 1971 | Religious Horror | Georgetown, D.C. |
House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski | 2000 | Experimental Horror | A shifting house |
Pet Sematary | Stephen King | 1983 | Supernatural | Ludlow, Maine |
Mexican Gothic | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | 2020 | Gothic Horror | 1950s Mexico |
The Call of Cthulhu | H.P. Lovecraft | 1928 | Cosmic Horror | R'lyeh |
Bird Box | Josh Malerman | 2014 | Post-apocalyptic | USA (blindfolded) |
Misery | Stephen King | 1987 | Psychological | Remote cabin |
The Silence of the Lambs | Thomas Harris | 1988 | Crime Horror | FBI Academy |
Ring | Koji Suzuki | 1991 | J-Horror | Tokyo |
Interview with the Vampire | Anne Rice | 1976 | Vampire Horror | New Orleans |
The Turn of the Screw | Henry James | 1898 | Gothic | Bly Manor |
Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1987 | Literary Horror | Post-Civil War Ohio |
Rosemary's Baby | Ira Levin | 1967 | Occult Horror | New York City |
The Ritual | Adam Nevill | 2011 | Folk Horror | Scandinavian wilderness |
Uzumaki | Junji Ito | 1998 | Manga Horror | Kurôzu-cho, Japan |
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