Nightmare Magazine's Top 100 Horror Books
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About this list
Nightmare Magazine, 100 Books
Worlds Without End consulted with the experts at Nightmare Magazine to curate a list of the best horror books.
who voted?
The main article implies that Nightmare Magazine has 2 editors
This list was originally published in 2013 and was added to this site almost 2 years ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1757 | Books of Blood | Clive Barker | 1984 | British | English | |
| 2823 | The Damnation Game | Clive Barker | 1985 | British | English | |
| 17163 | The Hellbound Heart | Clive Barker | 1986 | British | English | |
| 6679 | The Imago Sequence And Other Stories | Laird Barron | 2007 | American | English | |
| 1398 | The Exorcist | William Peter Blatty | 1971 | American | English | |
| 1279 | Psycho | Robert Bloch | 1959 | American | English | |
| 17163 | From The Dust Returned | Ray Bradbury | 2001 | American | English | |
| 1420 | The October Country | Ray Bradbury | 1955 | American | English | |
| 1338 | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Ray Bradbury | 1962 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Graveyard People | Gary A. Braunbeck | 2003 | American | English | |
| 17163 | In Silent Graves | Gary A. Braunbeck | 2003 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Drawing Blood | Poppy Z. Brite | 1993 | American | English | |
| 2732 | Lost Souls | Poppy Z. Brite | 1992 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Love In Vein | Poppy Z. Brite | 1994 | American | English | |
| 3511 | Alone With The Horrors | Ramsey Campbell | 1993 | British | English | |
| 11806 | The Doll Who Ate His Mother | Ramsey Campbell | 1976 | British | English | |
| 17163 | The Nameless | Ramsey Campbell | 1981 | British | English | |
| 8495 | Nazareth Hill | Ramsey Campbell | 1996 | British | English | |
| 17163 | The Shallow End Of The Pool | Adam-Troy Castro | 2008 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Shivers | Richard Chizmar | 2003 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Sunglasses After Dark | Nancy A. Collins | 1989 | American | English | |
| 17163 | The Best Horror Of The Year | Ellen Datlow | 2009 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Darkness | Ellen Datlow | 2010 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Inferno | Ellen Datlow | 2007 | American | English | |
| 6515 | The Year's Best Fantasy And Horror | Ellen Datlow | 1988 | American | English | |
| 17163 | My Soul To Keep | Tananarive Due | 1997 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Nightmare Seasons | Charles L. Grant | 1982 | American | English | |
| 3826 | Shadows | Charles L. Grant | 1978 | American | English | |
| 17163 | The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror | Paula Guran | 2010 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Those Who Hunt The Night | Barbara Hambly | 1988 | American | English | |
| 578 | The Silence of the Lambs | Thomas Harris | 1988 | American | English | |
| 4148 | The Dark Descent | David Hartwell | 1987 | American | English | |
| 17163 | 20th Century Ghosts | Joe Hill | 2005 | American | English | |
| 14232 | Dead In The Water | Nancy Holder | 1994 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Just An Ordinary Day | Shirley Jackson | 1996 | American | English | |
| 215 | The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson | 1959 | American | English | |
| 17163 | The Mammoth Book Of Best New Horror | Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Graham Jones | 1989 | British | English | |
| 17163 | Ghoul | Brian Keene | 2007 | American | English | |
| 9245 | The Red Tree | Caitlín R. Kiernan | 2009 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Silk | Caitlín R. Kiernan | 2002 | American | English | |
| 14232 | Bag Of Bones | Stephen King | 1998 | American | English | |
| 981 | It | Stephen King | 1986 | American | English | |
| 12071 | Night Shift | Stephen King | 1978 | American | English | |
| 1293 | Salem's Lot | Stephen King | 1975 | American | English | |
| 400 | The Shining | Stephen King | 1977 | American | English | |
| 6247 | Skeleton Crew | Stephen King | 1985 | American | English | |
| 274 | The Stand | Stephen King | 1978 | American | English | |
| 6001 | The Cipher | Kathe Koja | 1991 | American | English | |
| 17163 | The Bad Place | Dean R. Koontz | 1990 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Strangers | Dean R. Koontz | 1986 | American | English | |
| 17163 | The Taking | Dean R. Koontz | 2004 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Mr. Gaunt And Other Uneasy Encounters | John Langan | 2008 | American | English | |
| 14985 | Audrey's Door | Sarah Langan | 2009 | American | English | |
| 17163 | The Keeper | Sarah Langan | 2006 | American | English | |
| 14985 | The Missing | Sarah Langan | 2006 | American | English | |
| 17163 | The Drive In | Joe R. Lansdale | 1988 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Savage Season | Joe R. Lansdale | 1990 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Berserk | Tim Lebbon | 2005 | British | English | |
| 17163 | The Nature Of Balance | Tim Lebbon | 2001 | British | English | |
| 894 | Rosemary's Baby | Ira Levin | 1967 | American | English | |
| 17163 | The Shadow At The Bottom Of The World | Thomas Ligotti | 2005 | American | English | |
| 17163 | The Ignored | Bentley Little | 1997 | American | English | |
| 2432 | The Call Of Cthulhu | H. P. Lovecraft | 1928 | American | English | |
| 15916 | The Dreams In The Witch House And Other Weird Stories | H. P. Lovecraft | 1933 | American | English | |
| 15916 | The Thing On The Doorstep | H. P. Lovecraft | 1937 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Ghost Road Blues | Jonathan Maberry | 2006 | American | English | |
| 5515 | Hell House | Richard Matheson | 1971 | American | English | |
| 777 | I Am Legend | Richard Matheson | 1954 | American | English | |
| 3153 | Dark Forces | Kirby McCauley | 1980 | American | English | |
| 1813 | Swan Song | Robert R. McCammon | 1987 | American | English | |
| 17163 | The Wolf's Hour | Robert R. McCammon | 1989 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Wet Work | Philip Nutman | 1993 | British | English | |
| 14985 | Zombie | Joyce Carol Oates | 1995 | American | English | |
| 9590 | A Choir Of Ill Children | Tom Piccirilli | 2004 | American | English | |
| 661 | Interview with the Vampire | Anne Rice | 1976 | American | English | |
| 2985 | The Vampire Lestat | Anne Rice | 1985 | American | English | |
| 3137 | The Keep | F. Paul Wilson | 1981 | American | English | |
| 39 | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 1818 | British | English | |
| 3147 | Carrion Comfort | Dan Simmons | 1989 | American | English | |
| 3510 | Song Of Kali | Dan Simmons | 1985 | American | English | |
| 14985 | Summer Of Night | Dan Simmons | 1991 | American | English | |
| 4934 | The Terror | Dan Simmons | 2007 | American | English | |
| 17163 | The Bridge | John Skipp , Craig Spector | 1991 | American | English | |
| 14985 | Book Of The Dead | John Skipp , Craig Spector | 1989 | Multiple | English | |
| 17163 | Still Dead | John Skipp , Craig Spector | 1992 | American | English | |
| 53 | Dracula | Bram Stoker | 1897 | British | English | |
| 14985 | A Dark Matter | Peter Straub | 2010 | American | English | |
| 14985 | Floating Dragon | Peter Straub | 1983 | American | English | |
| 2061 | Ghost Story | Peter Straub | 1979 | American | English | |
| 14985 | In The Night Room | Peter Straub | 2004 | American | English | |
| 14232 | Lost Boy Lost Girl | Peter Straub | 2003 | American | English | |
| 6232 | Shadowland | Peter Straub | 1980 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Nightworld | F. Paul Wilson | 1992 | American | English | |
| 17163 | The Tomb | F. Paul Wilson | 1984 | American | English | |
| 4641 | Prime Evil | Douglas Winter | 1988 | American | English | |
| 917 | The Day of the Triffids | John Wyndham | 1951 | British | English | |
| 5715 | Hotel Transylvania | Chelsa quinn yarbro | 1978 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Night Visions | Alan Ryan | 1984 | American | English | |
| 17163 | 999 | Al Sarrantonio | 1999 | American | English | |
| 17163 | It's Only Temporary | Eric Shapiro | 2005 | American | English |