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📚. Which horror book should you read next? Discover the perfect horror book for you. Takes 30 seconds! Start quiz. 1. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818) Buy on Amazon. Is there a name more synonymous with horror?
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May 9, 2022 · The 50 Best Horror Books of All Time Will Scare You Sh*tless Our number one pick has inspired generations of nightmares. By Neil McRobert Published: May 9, 2022
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- Salem’s Lot by Stephen King (1975) If you’re looking for a book you won’t be able to put down, reach for Salem’s Lot, one of the earliest books written by Stephen King.
- Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman (2011) In 1935, a professor fleeing scandal moves with his wife to a family home in Georgia, located near the ruins of a plantation that his ancestors owned.
- The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (1971) The reason The Exorcist was made into one of the scariest movies of all time is that it was one of the scariest novels of all time.
- The Ruins by Scott Smith (2006) In this novel by Scott Smith, a group of young, happy-go-lucky travelers in the Mexican jungle stumble upon the site of ancient ruins—and ancient evil.
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959) “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
- It by Stephen King (1986) Of all the King books revolving around plucky kids, these might be the pluckiest, most iconic and possibly the most annoying.
- Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist (2004) If fiction’s taught us anything in recent years, it’s that the vampire genre can be a tired—and ironically toothless—one.
- The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (1971) William Peter Blatty is better known today for the Academy Award-winning screenplay he adapted from his own novel than for the original text itself.
Author Grady Hendrix has carved out his own unique domain in horror by playing around with the genre’s blurry edges and recurring tropes. His latest novel—and winner of this year’s Best Horror award—considers the scary movie concept of the final girl, the one victim who fights back, defeats the killer, and lives to see another day.
Browse the best horror books of all time from classic authors like Edgar Allan Poe and Shirley Jackson, to modern masters like Stephen King and Anne Rice. Discover some of the scariest books ever written including The Exorcist, The Silence of the Lambs, Pet Sematary, and The Haunting of Hill House.
