88 Best Horror Books | The Awaken Buddha

1. “The Shining” by Stephen King

2. “Dracula” by Bram Stoker

3. “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley

4. “The Exorcist” by William Peter Blatty

5. “It” by Stephen King

6. “The Haunting of Hill House” by Shirley Jackson

7. “The Silence of the Lambs” by Thomas Harris

8. “Interview with the Vampire” by Anne Rice

9. “The Stand” by Stephen King

10. “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde

11. “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson

12. “American Psycho” by Bret Easton Ellis

13. “The Call of Cthulhu” by H.P. Lovecraft

14. “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy

15. “Pet Sematary” by Stephen King

16. “The Girl Next Door” by Jack Ketchum

17. “The Amityville Horror” by Jay Anson

18. “Psycho” by Robert Bloch

19. “Carrie” by Stephen King

20. “The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James

21. “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe

22. “Rosemary’s Baby” by Ira Levin

23. “The Omen” by David Seltzer

24. “Misery” by Stephen King

25. “The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender” by Leslye Walton

26. “The Phantom of the Opera” by Gaston Leroux

27. “House of Leaves” by Mark Z. Danielewski

28. “The Ritual” by Adam Nevill

29. “The Hunger” by Alma Katsu

30. “The Fisherman” by John Langan

31. “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” by Shirley Jackson

32. “Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier

33. “The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires” by Grady Hendrix

34. “The Little Stranger” by Sarah Waters

35. “The Cabin at the End of the World” by Paul Tremblay

36. “Hex” by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

37. “Bird Box” by Josh Malerman

38. “The Troop” by Nick Cutter

39. “The Deep” by Nick Cutter

40. “Heart-Shaped Box” by Joe Hill

41. “NOS4A2” by Joe Hill

42. “The Dark Half” by Stephen King

43. “The Mist” by Stephen King

44. “The Ruins” by Scott Smith

45. “Let the Right One In” by John Ajvide Lindqvist

46. “The Descent” by Jeff Long

47. “The Terror” by Dan Simmons

48. “Annihilation” by Jeff Vandermeer

49. “The Last Days of Jack Sparks” by Jason Arnopp

50. “The Red Tree” by Caitlin R. Kiernan

51. “The Library at Mount Char” by Scott Hawkins

52. “The House on the Borderland” by William Hope Hodgson

53. “The Ballad of Black Tom” by Victor LaValle

54. “The Fisherman and the Pig” by Daniel Braum

55. “Mexican Gothic” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

56. “The Devil in Silver” by Victor LaValle

57. “Horrorstör” by Grady Hendrix

58. “The Only Good Indians” by Stephen Graham Jones

59. “The Luminous Dead” by Caitlin Starling

60. “The Deep” by Rivers Solomon

61. “The Changeling” by Victor LaValle

62. “Wounds” by Nathan Ballingrud

63. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

64. “The Willows” by Algernon Blackwood

65. “The Wendigo” by Algernon Blackwood

66. “The Great God Pan” by Arthur Machen

67. “The Dunwich Horror” by H.P. Lovecraft

68. “The Colour Out of Space” by H.P. Lovecraft

69. “The Whisperer in Darkness” by H.P. Lovecraft

70. “The Repairer of Reputations” by Robert W. Chambers

71. “The King in Yellow” by Robert W. Chambers

72. “The House of the Seven Gables” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

73. “The Woman in Black” by Susan Hill

74. “The Ghost Bride” by Yangsze Choo

75. “The Winter People” by Jennifer McMahon

76. “The Haunting of Maddy Clare” by Simone St. James

77. “The Silent Companions” by Laura Purcell

78. “The Bird Eater” by Ania Ahlborn

79. “Brother” by Ania Ahlborn

80. ” Seed” by Ania Ahlborn

81. “The Dark Game” by Jonathan Janz

82. “The Siren and the Specter” by Jonathan Janz

83. “House of Skin” by Jonathan Janz

84. “The Reddening” by Adam Nevill

85. “No One Gets Out Alive” by Adam Nevill

86. “The Elementals” by Michael McDowell

87. “Pet Sematary” by Stephen King

88. “The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James