The Greatest Horror Books of All Time
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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17125 | The Vampire Diaries | L. J. Smith | 1991 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Longa And The Ghoul | Zahwar Wanissi | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17125 | Murder Road | Simone St. James | 2024 | Canadian | English | |
| 17125 | Thinner | Richard Bachman | 1984 | American | English | |
| 17104 | Hell Screen | Ryunosuke Akutagawa | 1918 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17125 | Between Two Fires | Christopher Buehlman | 2012 | American | English | |
| 17125 | In The Miso Soup | Ryū Murakami | 1997 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17125 | The Hellbound Heart | Clive Barker | 1986 | British | English | |
| 17125 | Lapvona | Ottessa Moshfegh | 2022 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Haunting Adeline | H. D. Carlton | 2021 | Unknown | English | |
| 17125 | Gone To See The River Man | Kristopher Triana | 2020 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Shards | Bret Easton Ellis | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Strangler | William Landay | 2007 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Roald Dahl’s Book Of Ghost Stories | Roald Dahl | 1983 | British | English | |
| 17125 | Doing Harm | Kelly Parsons | 2014 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Road Of Bones | Christopher Golden | 2022 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Nothing But Blackened Teeth | Cassandra Khaw | 2021 | Malaysian | English | |
| 17125 | The Night Eaters | Marjorie Liu | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17125 | The Between | Tananarive Due | 1995 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Raven | Charles L. Grant | 1993 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Dr. Adder | K. W. Jeter | 1984 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Dark Dance | Tanith Lee | 1992 | British | English | |
| 17125 | Lovers Living, Lovers Dead | Richard Lortz | 1977 | Unknown | English | |
| 17125 | Sineater | Elizabeth Massie | 1992 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Ghoul | Michael Slade | 1987 | Canadian | English | |
| 17125 | Vampire Junction | S.P. Somtow | 1984 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Phantom | Thomas Tessier | 1982 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Mine | Robert R. McCammon | 1990 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Blood Of The Lamb | Thomas F. Monteleone | 1992 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Throat | Peter Straub | 1993 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Children Of The Dusk | Janet Berliner, George Guthridge | 1997 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Mr. X | Peter Straub | 1999 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Traveling Vampire Show | Richard Laymon | 2000 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Night Class | Tom Piccirilli | 2001 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Creepers | David Morrell | 2005 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Dread In The Beast | Charlee Jacob | 2005 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Flesh Eaters | Joe McKinney | 2011 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Drowning Girl | Caitlín R. Kiernan | 2012 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Blood Kin | Steve Rasnic Tem | 2014 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Ararat | Christopher Golden | 2017 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Coyote Rage | Owl Goingback | 2019 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Ignored | Bentley Little | 1997 | American | English | |
| 16911 | Pigeons From Hell | Robert E. Howard | 1938 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Institute | Stephen King | 2019 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Under The Dome | Stephen King | 2009 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Drawing Of The Three | Stephen King | 1987 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Lock Every Door | Riley Sager | 2019 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Odd Thomas | Dean R. Koontz | 2003 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Needful Things | Stephen King | 1991 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Song Of Susannah | Stephen King | 2004 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Desperation | Stephen King | 1996 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Tommyknockers | Stephen King | 1987 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Waste Lands | Stephen King | 1991 | American | English | |
| 17125 | No Time For Goodbye | Linwood Barclay | 2007 | Canadian | English | |
| 17125 | Later | Stephen King | 2021 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Hannibal | Thomas Harris | 1999 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Negative Space | B.R. Yeager | 2020 | American | English | |
| 17125 | I Was Dora Suarez | Derek Raymond | 1990 | British | English | |
| 17125 | Graveyard People | Gary A. Braunbeck | 2003 | American | English | |
| 17125 | In Silent Graves | Gary A. Braunbeck | 2003 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Drawing Blood | Poppy Z. Brite | 1993 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Love In Vein | Poppy Z. Brite | 1994 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Nameless | Ramsey Campbell | 1981 | British | English | |
| 17125 | The Shallow End Of The Pool | Adam-Troy Castro | 2008 | Unknown | English | |
| 17125 | Shivers | Richard Chizmar | 2003 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Sunglasses After Dark | Nancy A. Collins | 1989 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Best Horror Of The Year | Ellen Datlow | 2009 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Darkness | Ellen Datlow | 2010 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Inferno | Ellen Datlow | 2007 | American | English | |
| 17125 | My Soul To Keep | Tananarive Due | 1997 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Nightmare Seasons | Charles L. Grant | 1982 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror | Paula Guran | 2010 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Those Who Hunt The Night | Barbara Hambly | 1988 | American | English | |
| 17125 | 20th Century Ghosts | Joe Hill | 2005 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Just An Ordinary Day | Shirley Jackson | 1996 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Mammoth Book Of Best New Horror | Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Graham Jones | 1989 | British | English | |
| 17125 | Ghoul | Brian Keene | 2007 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Silk | Caitlín R. Kiernan | 2002 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Bad Place | Dean R. Koontz | 1990 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Strangers | Dean R. Koontz | 1986 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Taking | Dean R. Koontz | 2004 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Mr. Gaunt And Other Uneasy Encounters | John Langan | 2008 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Keeper | Sarah Langan | 2006 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Drive In | Joe R. Lansdale | 1988 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Savage Season | Joe R. Lansdale | 1990 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Berserk | Tim Lebbon | 2005 | British | English | |
| 17125 | The Nature Of Balance | Tim Lebbon | 2001 | British | English | |
| 17125 | The Shadow At The Bottom Of The World | Thomas Ligotti | 2005 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Ghost Road Blues | Jonathan Maberry | 2006 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Wolf's Hour | Robert R. McCammon | 1989 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Wet Work | Philip Nutman | 1993 | British | English | |
| 17125 | The Bridge | John Skipp , Craig Spector | 1991 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Still Dead | John Skipp , Craig Spector | 1992 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Nightworld | F. Paul Wilson | 1992 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Tomb | F. Paul Wilson | 1984 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Night Visions | Alan Ryan | 1984 | American | English | |
| 17125 | 999 | Al Sarrantonio | 1999 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Skulduggery Pleasant | Derek Landy | 2007 | Irish | English | |
| 17125 | The Sandman, Vol. 5 | Neil Gaiman | 1993 | British | English | |
| 17125 | The Sandman, Vol. 4 | Neil Gaiman | 1992 | British | English | |
| 17125 | Preludes & Nocturnes | Neil Gaiman | 1989 | British | English | |
| 17125 | Berserk, Vol. 1 | Kentaro Miura | 1990 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17125 | The Great And Secret Show | Clive Barker | 1989 | British | English | |
| 17125 | The Witching Hour | Anne Rice | 1990 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Lullaby | Chuck Palahniuk | 2002 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Abraham Lincoln | Seth Grahame-Smith | 2010 | American | English | |
| 17120 | O Escaravelho Do Diabo | Lúcia Machado de Almeida | 1972 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 17125 | Hellboy, Vol. 1 | Mike Mignola | 1994 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Amityville Horror | Jay Anson | 1977 | American | English | |
| 17125 | Alien | Alan Dean Foster | 1979 | American | English | |
| 17125 | The Dangers Of Smoking In Bed | Mariana Enríquez | 2009 | Argentinian | Spanish | |
| 17125 | I Found Puppets Living In My Apartment Walls | Ben Farthing | 2021 | Unknown | English | |
| 17125 | American Rapture | C.J. Leede | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17125 | House Of Bone And Rain | Gabino Iglesias | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17125 | Fever House | Keith Rosson | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17125 | Bad Cree | Jessica Johns | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17125 | White Horse | Erika T. Wurth | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17125 | Our Wives Under The Sea | Julia Armfield | 2022 | British | English | |
| 17125 | To Rouse Leviathan | Matt Cardin | 2019 | American | English | |
| 17125 | H.P. Lovecraft | H. P. Lovecraft | American | Unknown |