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Best Horror Mega-List

Description: This list combines all of the books/stories from the NPR Best Horror Reader's Poll, the Reedsy Discovery Best Horror Books and Stephen Jones & Kim Newman's Horror: 100 Best Books and Another 100 Best Books.

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Sandman Omnibus Vol. 1

343 members

6 reviews

½ 4.7

4 Members: Storeetllr, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

2

by Shirley Jackson

1,180 members

43 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

3

35,725 members

630 reviews

4

4 Members: Storeetllr, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

4

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,859 members

433 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

5

by Stephen King

16,445 members

295 reviews

3.9

4 Members: Storeetllr, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

6

by Stephen King

757 members

12 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

7

Rosemary's Baby

4,663 members

139 reviews

3.8

4 Members: Storeetllr, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

8

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

15,849 members

378 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

9

The Monkey's Paw [short story]

by W. W. Jacobs

331 members

17 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

10

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

8,233 members

426 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

11

by Stephen King

23,318 members

453 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

12

The Sandman Omnibus, Vol. 2

211 members

½ 4.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

13

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

11,447 members

297 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

14

by Mary Shelley

42,970 members

714 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

15

by Stephen King

22,092 members

411 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

16

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,926 members

749 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, BenTucker

17

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

17,238 members

318 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

18

by Stephen King

14,285 members

231 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

19

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,444 members

303 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

20

by Thomas Tryon

1,374 members

33 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

21

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,726 members

390 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

22

by William Shakespeare

26,286 members

231 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

23

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

24,929 members

528 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

24

by George Orwell

82,460 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

25

by Toni Morrison

23,019 members

409 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

26

The Picture of Dorian Gray

39,787 members

638 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

27

20,288 members

693 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

28

by Justin Cronin

9,455 members

638 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

29

The Yellow Wallpaper - story

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3,242 members

146 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

30

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,867 members

616 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

31

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

42,674 members

1,149 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

32

by John Gardner

6,069 members

108 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

33

by Charlotte Brontë

59,391 members

924 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

34

by Albert Camus

35,684 members

510 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

35

The House with a Clock in Its Walls

by John Bellairs

2,508 members

74 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

36

Northanger Abbey

21,794 members

420 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

37

The Turn of the Screw

8,175 members

249 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

38

by Octavia E. Butler

3,000 members

146 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Storeetllr, BenTucker

39

The Tell-Tale Heart [short story]

by Edgar Allan Poe

886 members

29 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

40

The Shadow Over Innsmouth [novelette]

by H. P. Lovecraft

490 members

12 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, BenTucker

41

The Last Werewolf

1,534 members

120 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: Storeetllr, BenTucker

42

by Thomas Tryon

1,146 members

37 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

43

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

by Alvin Schwartz

4,152 members

87 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

44

by Cherie Priest

578 members

45 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Storeetllr, BenTucker

45

by Stephen King

14,706 members

291 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, BenTucker

46

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales

by Edgar Allan Poe

1,936 members

18 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

47

The Girl With All the Gifts

5,380 members

406 reviews

4

2 Members: Storeetllr, BenTucker

48

Goosebumps: Complete Set (#1-62)

12 members

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

49

Carmilla: A Vampyre Tale

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

2,942 members

135 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, BenTucker

50

The Ballad of Black Tom

by Victor LaValle

1,579 members

86 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Storeetllr, BenTucker

51

A Head Full of Ghosts

by Paul Tremblay

2,185 members

146 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, BenTucker

52

Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

1,414 members

34 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

53

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

by G.K. Chesterton

7,081 members

170 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, BenTucker

54

The Lurking Fear and Other Stories

by H. P. Lovecraft

1,002 members

9 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, BenTucker

55

3,664 members

195 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

56

by Justina Ireland

1,745 members

110 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

57

The War of the Worlds

18,521 members

310 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, BenTucker

58

by Bret Easton Ellis

3,010 members

54 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

59

The Edge of Running Water

by William Sloane

97 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

60

Down a Dark Hall

863 members

19 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

61

by Stephen King

15,449 members

208 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, BenTucker

62

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

13,991 members

290 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

63

The Silent Companions

by Laura Purcell

1,051 members

58 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

64

by Elizabeth Kostova

21,506 members

759 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, BenTucker

65

by Richard Matheson

2,371 members

102 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

66

The Wasp Factory

7,130 members

204 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, BenTucker

67

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: Stories

by Harlan Ellison

1,779 members

51 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

68

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

by H. P. Lovecraft

3,427 members

60 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, BenTucker

69

The Case Against Satan

217 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

70

by Grady Hendrix

2,345 members

189 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

71

The Fifth Child

by Doris Lessing

2,411 members

77 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

72

3,876 members

87 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

73

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

15,596 members

715 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

74

Collected Ghost Stories

2,311 members

44 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

75

Heart-Shaped Box

6,823 members

371 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

76

20,000 members

238 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

77

by Craig Davidson

1,763 members

137 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

78

The House Next Door

by Anne Rivers Siddons

1,169 members

45 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

79

The October Country

by Ray Bradbury

3,545 members

54 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

80

30 Days of Night

911 members

35 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: BenTucker

81

Books of Blood 1-3

by Clive Barker

2,475 members

32 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

82

1,575 members

40 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: BenTucker

83

Deathbird Stories

by Harlan Ellison

1,475 members

20 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

84

Johnny Got His Gun

by Dalton Trumbo

3,712 members

76 reviews

4.2

Member: BenTucker

85

The Damnation Game

by Clive Barker

2,309 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

86

The Phantom of the Opera

by Gaston Leroux

13,126 members

205 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

87

The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

12,607 members

140 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

88

by Cormac McCarthy

34,610 members

1,407 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

89

Her Fearful Symmetry

by Audrey Niffenegger

7,025 members

471 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: BenTucker

90

2,407 members

33 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

91

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

by Edgar Allan Poe

2,222 members

43 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: BenTucker

92

Carrion Comfort

2,132 members

51 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

93

by Colson Whitehead

2,062 members

130 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: BenTucker

94

by Robert Bloch

1,800 members

59 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

95

1,702 members

54 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

96

Broken Monsters

by Lauren Beukes

1,388 members

105 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

97

by Victor LaValle

1,359 members

77 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

98

by Samanta Schweblin

1,248 members

79 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: BenTucker

99

by Michelle Paver

1,037 members

62 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

100

by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

1,251 members

73 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

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August 2021
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