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Worlds best top 100 horror books

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By Shivam Rai Published about a year ago 3 min read
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1.The Shining by Stephen King1.

2.It by Stephen King

3.Dracula by Bram Stoker

4.Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

5.The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

6.The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

7.The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

8.Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

9.The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

10.Psycho by Robert Bloch

11.Carrie by Stephen King

13.The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

14.The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

15.The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

16.Ghost Story by Peter Straub

17.The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson

18.House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

19.The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft

20.Pet Sematary by Stephen King

21.Misery by Stephen King

22.American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

23.The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

24.We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

25.The Ritual by Adam Nevill

26.The Stand by Stephen King

27.The Omen by David Seltzer

28.The Road by Cormac McCarthy

29.The Dark Half by Stephen King

30.The Hunger by Alma Katsu

31.The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

32.Hell House by Richard Matheson

33.Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

34.The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian

35.The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

36.The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

37.The Troop by Nick Cutter

38.The Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

39.The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell

40.The Fisherman by John Langan

41.The Secret History by Donna Tartt

42.Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

43.The Ruins by Scott Smith

44.The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

45.Horns by Joe Hill

46.I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

47.Bird Box by Josh Malerman

48.The Family Plot by Cherie Priest

49.The Terror by Dan Simmons

50.The Rats by James Herbert

51.The Ghosts of Sleath by James Herbert

52.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

53.NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

54.The Cipher by Kathe Koja

55.The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel by Felicitas D. Goodman

56.The Elementals by Michael McDowell

57.The Ghost Writer by John Harwood

58.The Ancestor by Danielle Trussoni

59.The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs

60.The Case Against Satan by Ray Russell

61.The Ritual by David Bruckner

62.Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

63.The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp

64.Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

65.The Revenant by Michael Punke

66.Salem's Lot by Stephen King

67.The Stepford Wives

68.The Tommyknockers by Stephen King

69.Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd Parry

70.The Whisperer in Darkness by H.P. Lovecraft

71.The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

72.The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

73.The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

74.The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror edited by Stephen Jones

75.The Best Horror of the Year edited by Ellen Datlow

76.The Dark Descent edited by David G. Hartwell

77.The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror edited by Paula Guran

78.Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood edited by E.F. Bleiler

79.Best Ghost Stories of M.R. James edited by E.F. Bleiler

80.Best Horror Stories of H.P. Lovecraft edited by August Derleth

81.The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories edited by J.A. Cuddon

82.The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales edited by Chris Baldick

83.The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories edited by Stephen Jones

84.The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

85.The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

86.The Strain Trilogy by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

87.The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

88.The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

89.The Best of Roald Dahl by Roald Dahl

90.The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe

91.The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

92.The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

93.Let Me In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

94.The Asylum by John Harwood

95.The Darkening by Paul Antony Jones

96.The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

97.The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

98.The Walking Dead comic book series by Robert Kirkman

99.Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

100.Wytches by Scott Snyder and Jock

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