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Paste's 50 Best Horror Novels of All time

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,860 members

433 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

2

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

15,856 members

378 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

3

by Thomas Tryon

1,374 members

33 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

4

by Mary Shelley

42,975 members

714 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

5

by Stephen King

22,096 members

411 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

6

by Stephen King

23,322 members

453 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

7

The Turn of the Screw

8,177 members

249 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

8

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

11,447 members

297 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

9

35,729 members

630 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

10

by Stephen King

16,448 members

295 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

11

Rosemary's Baby

4,663 members

139 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

12

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

13,992 members

290 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

13

by Stephen King

14,285 members

231 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

14

by Richard Matheson

2,374 members

102 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

15

by Stephen King

4,631 members

102 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

16

20,290 members

693 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

17

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,868 members

616 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

18

The Woman in Black

3,612 members

301 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

19

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

15,597 members

715 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

20

Burnt Offerings

by Robert Marasco

571 members

28 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, BenTucker

21

Let the Right One In

by John Ajvide Lindqvist

5,746 members

265 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

22

by William Peter Blatty

5,541 members

152 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

23

4,202 members

306 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

24

by Michael McDowell

826 members

49 reviews

3.9

Member: BenTucker

25

Broken Monsters

by Lauren Beukes

1,388 members

105 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

26

Carrion Comfort

2,132 members

51 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

27

by Robert R. McCammon

3,419 members

122 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

28

The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

12,608 members

140 reviews

4.1

Member: BenTucker

29

4,755 members

204 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

30

A Choir of Ill Children

by Tom Piccirilli

334 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

31

Interview with the Vampire

22,983 members

333 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

32

by T. E. D. Klein

505 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

33

The Girl Next Door

by Jack Ketchum

1,569 members

81 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

34

The Shining Girls: A Novel

by Lauren Beukes

2,403 members

177 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: BenTucker

35

by John Ajvide Lindqvist

543 members

30 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: BenTucker

36

by Katherine Dunn

6,156 members

163 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

37

Savaging the Dark

by Christopher Conlon

22 members

½ 3.3

Member: BenTucker

38

by Josh Malerman

3,290 members

257 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

39

The Devil in Silver

by Victor LaValle

633 members

60 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

40

by Ryū Murakami

614 members

42 reviews

3.2

Member: BenTucker

41

The Damnation Game

by Clive Barker

2,309 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

42

A Head Full of Ghosts

by Paul Tremblay

2,185 members

146 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker

43

1,702 members

54 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

44

My Best Friend's Exorcism

by Grady Hendrix

2,172 members

114 reviews

4

Member: BenTucker

45

by Michael Talbot

75 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: BenTucker

46

The Summer Is Ended and We Are Not Yet Saved

99 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker

47

by Peter Straub

3,867 members

113 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker,ManWithAnAgenda

48

At the Mountains of Madness [novella]

by H. P. Lovecraft

1,228 members

50 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: BenTucker,ManWithAnAgenda

49

Heart-Shaped Box

6,824 members

371 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: BenTucker,ManWithAnAgenda

50

John Dies at the End

3,650 members

177 reviews

3.8

Member: BenTucker,ManWithAnAgenda

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Started: BenTucker
November 2021
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