The 50 Greatest Horror Books of All Time

The following is an aggregate list sourced from over 480 "Greatest Books of All Time" lists curated by TheGreatestBooks. The full list can be found here. (updated as of 2/14/25)

  1. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (1818)
  2. Dracula - Bram Stoker (1897)
  3. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (1890)
  4. The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe (1902)
  5. Macbeth - William Shakespeare (1606)
  6. The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson (1959)
  7. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James (1898)
  8. The Stand - Stephen King (1978)
  9. The Shining - Stephen King (1977)
  10. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
  11. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg (1824)
  12. The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris (1988)
  13. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake (1950)
  14. Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Robert Maturin (1820)
  15. The Blind Owl - Ṣādiq Hidāyat (1937)
  16. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis (1991)
  17. Perfume - Patrick Suskind (1985)
  18. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice (1976)
  19. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole (1764)
  20. The Outsider And Others - H. P. Lovecraft (1939)
  21. The Monk - Matthew Lewis (1796)
  22. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson (1962)
  23. Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu (1864)
  24. The Island of Doctor Moreau - H. G. Wells (1896)
  25. At the Mountains of Madness - H. P. Lovecraft (1936)
  26. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson (1954)
  27. The Manuscript Found in Saragossa - Jan Potocki (1805)
  28. The Adventures of Caleb Williams - William Godwin (1794)
  29. Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin (1967)
  30. The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton (1908)
  31. The House On The Borderland And Other Novels - William Hope Hodgson (1908)
  32. Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary - M. R. James (1904)
  33. Conjure Wife - Fritz Leiber (1943)
  34. Vathek - William Beckford (1786)
  35. Salem's Lot - Stephen King (1975)
  36. The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe (1794)
  37. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury (1962)
  38. The Lottery and Other Stories - Shirley Jackson (1948)
  39. The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham (1951)
  40. The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux (1909)
  41. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (1817)
  42. Kindred - Octavia E. Butler (1979)
  43. The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham (1957)
  44. Misery - Stephen King (1987)
  45. Sandman - Neil Gaiman (1989)
  46. Justine - Marquis de Sade (1791)
  47. Fantômas - Marcel Allain, Pierre Souvestre (1911)
  48. The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson (1952)
  49. It - Stephen King (1986)
  50. Twice-Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1837)

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