The Greatest Horror Books Since 1967
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 274 | The Stand | Stephen King | 1978 | American | English | |
| 400 | The Shining | Stephen King | 1977 | American | English | |
| 511 | Perfume | Patrick Suskind | 1985 | German | German | |
| 578 | The Silence of the Lambs | Thomas Harris | 1988 | American | English | |
| 607 | House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski | 2000 | American | English | |
| 661 | Interview with the Vampire | Anne Rice | 1976 | American | English | |
| 841 | Crash | J. G. Ballard | 1973 | British | English | |
| 894 | Rosemary's Baby | Ira Levin | 1967 | American | English | |
| 925 | Deliverance | James Dickey | 1970 | American | English | |
| 981 | It | Stephen King | 1986 | American | English | |
| 1001 | Red Dragon | Thomas Harris | 1981 | American | English | |
| 1086 | Misery | Stephen King | 1987 | American | English | |
| 1210 | The Wasp Factory | Iain Banks | 1984 | British | English | |
| 1293 | Salem's Lot | Stephen King | 1975 | American | English | |
| 1348 | Sandman | Neil Gaiman | 1989 | British | English | |
| 1398 | The Exorcist | William Peter Blatty | 1971 | American | English | |
| 1531 | Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton | 1990 | American | English | |
| 1562 | Burnt Offerings | Robert Marasco | 1973 | American | English | |
| 1578 | The Cement Garden | Ian McEwan | 1978 | British | English | |
| 1688 | Carrie | Stephen King | 1974 | American | English | |
| 1757 | Books of Blood | Clive Barker | 1984 | British | English | |
| 1813 | Swan Song | Robert R. McCammon | 1987 | American | English | |
| 1826 | The Other | Thomas Tryon | 1971 | American | English | |
| 1837 | Jaws | Peter Benchley | 1974 | American | English | |
| 1931 | The Witches | Roald Dahl | 1983 | British | English | |
| 1937 | Geek Love | Katherine Dunn | 1989 | American | English | |
| 2060 | Ghost Story | Peter Straub | 1979 | American | English | |
| 2156 | The Green Man | Kingsley Amis | 1969 | British | English | |
| 2209 | Sub Rosa | Robert Aickman | 1968 | British | English | |
| 2450 | Worse Things Waiting | Manly Wade Wellman | 1973 | American | English | |
| 2513 | Deathbird Stories | Harlan Ellison | 1975 | American | English | |
| 2629 | Our Lady Of Darkness | Fritz Leiber | 1977 | American | English | |
| 2646 | Hurricane Season | Fernanda Melchor | 2017 | Mexican | Spanish | |
| 2688 | The Ceremonies | T. E. D. Klein | 1984 | American | English | |
| 2694 | Pet Sematary | Stephen King | 1983 | American | English | |
| 2731 | Lost Souls | Poppy Z. Brite | 1992 | American | English | |
| 2821 | The Damnation Game | Clive Barker | 1985 | British | English | |
| 2916 | The Woman In Black | Susan Hill | 1983 | British | English | |
| 2934 | Dolly City | Orly Castel-Bloom | 1992 | Israeli | Hebrew | |
| 2954 | The Dark Country | Dennis Etchison | 1981 | American | English | |
| 2984 | The Vampire Lestat | Anne Rice | 1985 | American | English | |
| 3016 | The House With A Clock In Its Walls | John Bellairs | 1973 | American | English | |
| 3048 | Fever Dream | Samanta Schweblin | 2014 | Argentinian | Spanish | |
| 3082 | Under the Skin | Michel Faber | 2000 | British | English | |
| 3137 | The Keep | F. Paul Wilson | 1981 | American | English | |
| 3147 | Carrion Comfort | Dan Simmons | 1989 | American | English | |
| 3153 | Dark Forces | Kirby McCauley | 1980 | American | English | |
| 3160 | Who Made Stevie Crye? | Michael Bishop | 1984 | American | English | |
| 3257 | Goosebumps | R. L. Stine | 1992 | American | English | |
| 3378 | Black Easter | James Blish | 1968 | American | English | |
| 3384 | The Plague-Sower | Gesualdo Bufalino | 1981 | Italian | Italian | |
| 3407 | All Heads Turn When The Hunt Goes By | John Farris | 1977 | American | English | |
| 3439 | The House Next Door | Anne Rivers Siddons | 1978 | American | English | |
| 3448 | Falling Angel | William Hjortsberg | 1978 | American | English | |
| 3465 | Murgunstrumm And Others | Hugh B. Cave | 1977 | American | English | |
| 3465 | Sweetheart, Sweetheart | Bernard Taylor | 1977 | British | English | |
| 3509 | Song Of Kali | Dan Simmons | 1985 | American | English | |
| 3510 | Alone With The Horrors | Ramsey Campbell | 1993 | British | English | |
| 3541 | Her Body and Other Parties | Carmen Maria Machado | 2017 | American | English | |
| 3548 | The Wolfen | Whitley Strieber | 1978 | American | English | |
| 3634 | The Totem | David Morrell | 1979 | American | English | |
| 3826 | Shadows | Charles L. Grant | 1978 | American | English | |
| 3853 | The Girl Next Door | Jack Ketchum | 1989 | American | English | |
| 3856 | Closer | Dennis Cooper | 1989 | American | English | |
| 3883 | The Cellar | Richard Laymon | 1980 | American | English | |
| 3886 | Lunar Park | Bret Easton Ellis | 2005 | American | English | |
| 4102 | Selected Poems Of Clark Ashton Smith | Clark Ashton Smith | 1971 | American | English | |
| 4146 | The Dark Descent | David Hartwell | 1987 | American | English | |
| 4198 | The Elementals | Michael McDowell | 1981 | American | English | |
| 4284 | Boy's Life | Robert R. McCammon | 1991 | American | English | |
| 4296 | The Year's Best Horror Stories | Richard Davis | 1972 | British | English | |
| 4440 | Demons By Daylight | Ramsey Campbell | 1973 | British | English | |
| 4458 | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | 2008 | British | English | |
| 4504 | Different Seasons | Stephen King | 1982 | American | English | |
| 4517 | When The Wind Blows | Raymond Briggs | 1982 | British | English | |
| 4533 | Annihilation | Jeff VanderMeer | 2014 | American | English | |
| 4639 | Prime Evil | Douglas Winter | 1988 | American | English | |
| 4650 | Cold Hand In Mine | Robert Aickman | 1975 | British | English | |
| 4654 | Coraline | Neil Gaiman | 2002 | British | English | |
| 4932 | The Terror | Dan Simmons | 2007 | American | English | |
| 4952 | Songs Of A Dead Dreamer And Grimscribe | Thomas Ligotti | 1985 | American | English | |
| 4997 | A Nest Of Nightmares | Lisa Tuttle | 1986 | American | English | |
| 4997 | The Pet | Charles L. Grant | 1986 | American | English | |
| 5010 | Zone One | Colson Whitehead | 2011 | American | English | |
| 5011 | The Hungry Moon | Ramsey Campbell | 1986 | British | English | |
| 5112 | Let The Right One In | John Ajvide Lindqvist | 2004 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 5129 | The Influence | Ramsey Campbell | 1988 | British | English | |
| 5153 | Cursed Bunny | Bora Chung | 2021 | Korean | Korean | |
| 5229 | Whispers | Stuart David Schiff | 1977 | American | English | |
| 5231 | Dark Feasts | Ramsey Campbell | 1987 | British | English | |
| 5234 | Intensity | Dean R. Koontz | 1995 | American | English | |
| 5270 | I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream | Harlan Ellison | 1967 | American | English | |
| 5290 | Revenge | Yōko Ogawa | 1998 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 5315 | The Vampire Tapestry | Suzy McKee Charnas | 1980 | American | English | |
| 5326 | A Storm Of Wings | M. John Harrison | 1980 | British | English | |
| 5462 | The Animals In That Country | Laura Jean McKay | 2020 | Australian | English | |
| 5514 | Hell House | Richard Matheson | 1971 | American | English | |
| 5517 | Dolores Claiborne | Stephen King | 1992 | American | English | |
| 5526 | Not After Midnight | Daphne du Maurier | 1971 | British | English | |
| 5593 | World War Z | Max Brooks | 2006 | American | English | |
| 5617 | Our Share of Night | Mariana Enríquez | 2019 | Argentinian | Spanish | |
| 5655 | Soul Eater | K. W. Jeter | 1983 | American | English | |
| 5664 | New Terrors | Ramsey Campbell | 1980 | British | English | |
| 5681 | Frights | Kirby McCauley | 1980 | American | English | |
| 5691 | Period | Dennis Cooper | 1994 | American | English | |
| 5713 | Hotel Transylvania | Chelsa quinn yarbro | 1978 | American | English | |
| 5756 | Brown Girl In The Ring | Nalo Hopkinson | 1998 | Canadian | English | |
| 5768 | The Businessman | Thomas M. Disch | 1984 | American | English | |
| 5810 | John Dies At The End | David Wong | 2007 | American | English | |
| 5836 | The Grotesque | Patrick McGrath | 1989 | British | English | |
| 5965 | Incarnate | Ramsey Campbell | 1983 | British | English | |
| 5989 | Bloodchild | Octavia E. Butler | 1984 | American | English | |
| 5999 | The Cipher | Kathe Koja | 1991 | American | English | |
| 6122 | Monster | Naoki Urasawa | 1994 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 6145 | The Historian | Elizabeth Kostova | 2005 | American | English | |
| 6155 | The God Of The Woods | Liz Moore | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 6229 | Shadowland | Peter Straub | 1980 | American | English | |
| 6244 | Skeleton Crew | Stephen King | 1985 | American | English | |
| 6279 | Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark | Alvin Schwartz | 1981 | American | English | |
| 6295 | Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children | Ransom Riggs | 2011 | American | English |