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
