175 of Your Favorite Horror Novels

We asked for your favorite books that are so scary that you have to store them in the freezer and only read them during daylight hours. Here’s what you came up with (repeats were combined into one entry): ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King Dracula by Bram Stoker The Stand by Stephen King the Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine It by Stephen King Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris Bag of Bones by Stephen King Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz Bird Box by Josh Malerman The Tommyknockers by Stephen King The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle R.L Stine’s Cataluna Series Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman Doctor Sleep by Stephen King The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Rose Red by Stephen King The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson The Descent by Jeff Long The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake Cujo by Stephen King War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin M is for Magic by Neil Gaiman American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis Faerie Tale by Raymond Feist I Am Legend by Richard Matheson Duma Key by Stephen King Pet Sematary by Stephen King Carrie by Stephen King Misery by Stephen King The Shining by Stephen King Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski Harvest Home by Tom Tryon The Exorcist by William Peter Batty And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie The Woman in Black by Susan Hill Intensity by Dean Koontz Thinner by Stephen King The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz The Howling by Gary Bradner The Summer I Died by Ryan C. Thomas Thor by Wayne Smith Bad Place by Dean Koontz Wetbones by John Shirley Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman A Cry From the Dust by Carrie Stuart Parks Relic by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child The Necromancer’s House by Christopher Buehlman Lockdown: Escape From Furnace by Alexander Gordon Smith Piano Lessons Can Be Murder by R.L. Stine Summer of Night by Dan Simmons The Hot Zone by Richard Preston Down a Dark Hall by Lois Duncan I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir Insomnia by Stephen King Lasher by Anne Rice Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon Whisperer in the Dark by H.P. Lovecraft Dark Dance by Tanith Lee The Walking Dead graphic novels The Red Hotel by Graham Masterton The Room in the Tower by E.F. Benson N0S4A2 by Joe Hill Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist The Talisman by Peter Straub and Stephen King The Mist by Stephan King The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters Along Came A Spider by James Patterson The Bird Eater by Ania Ahiborn A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews The Passage by Justin Cronin Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves Ghost Story by Peter Straub Needful Things by Stephen King The Camel Club by David Baldacci The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson Under the Dome by Stephen King Beware The Night by Ralph Sarchie and Lisa Collier Cool Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier The Woman in White by Wilke Collins Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman The Haunted Rectory by Katherine Valente Where the Darkness Dwells by Glen Krisch My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due The Wolves of Midwinter by Anne Rice The Door to December by Dean Koontz The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz Lord of the Flies by William Golding Reanimators by Pete Rawlik We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver Watchers by Dean Koontz Coraline by Neil Gaiman The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon Hannibal by Thomas Harris The Waking Dark by Eobin Wasserman Books of Blood series by Clive Barker Midnight Mass by F. Paul Wilson Firestarter by Stephen King The Ruins by Scott Smith Red Dragon by Thomas Harris Dark Places by Gillian Flynn Under The Skin by Michael Faber The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Sparrow by Nate Kenyon The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham My Life at Rose Red by Ridley Pearson The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft Gerald’s Game by Stephen King The Bad Place by Dean Koontz The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan In Cold Blood by Truman Capote The Ring Trilogy by Koji Suzuki Dragon Tears by Dean Koontz Dreams of Terror and Death: the Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft Asylum by Patrick McGrath Imajica by Clive Barker Satan’s Rapper by Derek Washington Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu The Elementals by Michael McDowell Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk House by Frank Peretti The Ghost Writer by John Harwood Rats by James Herbert Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs The Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Nocturnes by John Connolly Zone One by Colson Whitehead Lisey’s Story by Stephen King Bad Things by Tamara Thorne World War Z by Max Brooks Hell House by Richard Matheson They Thirst by Robert R. McMammon Last Days by Adam Nevill Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K Hamilton Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice Skeleton Crew by Stephen King Trapped by Jack Kilborn Unwind By Neal Shusterman Fear Street series by R.L. Stine The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes Anno Dracula by Kim Newman