The Greatest Horror Books Since 2000

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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.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
607 House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski 2000 American English
2647 Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor 2017 Mexican Spanish
3049 Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin 2014 Argentinian Spanish
3083 Under the Skin Michel Faber 2000 British English
3542 Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado 2017 American English
3886 Lunar Park Bret Easton Ellis 2005 American English
4460 The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman 2008 British English
4535 Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
4656 Coraline Neil Gaiman 2002 British English
4934 The Terror Dan Simmons 2007 American English
5013 Zone One Colson Whitehead 2011 American English
5114 Let The Right One In John Ajvide Lindqvist 2004 Swedish Swedish
5155 Cursed Bunny Bora Chung 2021 Korean Korean
5463 The Animals In That Country Laura Jean McKay 2020 Australian English
5595 World War Z Max Brooks 2006 American English
5619 Our Share of Night Mariana Enríquez 2019 Argentinian Spanish
5812 John Dies At The End David Wong 2007 American English
6147 The Historian Elizabeth Kostova 2005 American English
6157 The God Of The Woods Liz Moore 2024 Unknown English
6297 Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs 2011 American English
6609 Nos4 A2 Joe Hill 2013 American English
6662 You Caroline Kepnes 2014 American English
6679 The Imago Sequence And Other Stories Laird Barron 2007 American English
6697 The Tattooist Of Auschwitz Heather Morris 2018 Australian English
6699 The Little Stranger Sarah Waters 2009 British English
6801 Bird Box Josh Malerman 2014 American English
6859 A Head Full Of Ghosts Paul Tremblay 2015 American English
7011 Ancestral Shadows Russell Kirk 2004 American English
7011 Green Tea Sheridan Le Fanu 2004 Irish English
7050 The Changeling Victor LaValle 2017 American English
7086 There Once Lived A Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby Ludmila Petrushevskaya 2009 Russian Russian
7103 Get In Trouble Kelly Link 2015 American English
7108 The Children Of The Dead Elfriede Jelinek 2024 Austrian German
7582 Feed Seanan McGuire 2010 American English
7585 Verity Colleen Hoover 2018 American English
7595 The Reformatory Tananarive Due 2023 American English
7672 14 Peter Clines 2012 American English
7698 The Ruins Scott Smith 2006 American English
7702 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones 2025 American English
7735 Stag Dance Torrey Peters 2025 American English
7761 Black Leopard, Red Wolf Marlon James 2019 Jamaican English
7859 Phantom Evil Heather Graham Pozzessere 2011 American English
7883 Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2020 Mexican English
7888 The Vampire Queen's Servant Joey W. Hill 2007 American English
7930 Winterwood Patrick McCabe 2006 Irish English
7984 The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman 2013 British English
8067 Bunny Mona Awad 2019 Canadian English
8191 The Fisherman John Langan 2016 American English
8231 Frankenstein In Baghdad Ahmed Saadawi 2013 Iraqi Arabic
8290 They Will Drown In Their Mother’s Tears Johannes Anyuru 2017 Swedish Swedish
8315 The Bottoms Joe R. Lansdale 2000 American English
8430 Those Across The River Christopher Buehlman 2011 American English
8433 The Gentleman In Black James Dalton 2009 Unknown Unknown
8457 Penpal Dathan Kahn Auerbach 2012 American English
8466 La Dama Número Trece José Carlos Somoza 2003 Spanish Spanish
8519 Sourdough And Other Stories Angela Slatter 2010 Australian English
8637 Patient Zero Jonathan Maberry 2009 American English
8655 Punct și De La Capăt Gabriel Chifu 2014 Romanian Romanian
8651 Victorian Psycho Virginia Feito 2025 Unknown English
8985 Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil V. E. Schwab 2025 Unknown English
9072 The Town That Forgot How To Breathe Kenneth J. Harvey 2003 Canadian English
9176 Anima Wajdi Mouawad 2012 French French
9245 The Red Tree Caitlín R. Kiernan 2009 American English
9252 White Is For Witching Helen Oyeyemi 2009 British English
9261 The Memory Police Yōko Ogawa 2024 Japanese Japanese
9334 Authority Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
9334 Acceptance Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
9340 Ring Koji Suzuki 2002 Japanese Japanese
9590 A Choir Of Ill Children Tom Piccirilli 2004 American English
9673 Frozen Moment Camilla Ceder 2010 Swedish Swedish
9743 The Fire Starters Jan Carson 2019 Irish English
9799 Minion L. A. Banks 2003 American English
9824 The Frozen Dead Bernard Minier 2011 French French
9971 The Silence Of The Sea Yrsa Sigurdardottir 2012 Icelandic Icelandic
9984 The Atrocity Archives Charles Stross 2004 British English
10008 Lone Women Victor LaValle 2023 American English
10021 Mending Bodies Hon Lai-Chu 2010 Chinese Chinese
10121 Through The Woods Emily Carroll 2014 Canadian English
10123 The Invisible Guardian Dolores Redondo 2013 Spanish Spanish
10167 The Devils Joe Abercrombie 2025 British English
10178 The Haunted Wood Sam Leith 2024 Unknown English
10229 The Trees Percival Everett 2021 American English
10297 The Jumbies Tracey Baptiste 2015 Trinidadian English
10299 Whalefall Daniel Kraus 2023 American English
10304 Death Notice Zhou Haohui 2014 Chinese Chinese
10304 The Weight Of Blood Laura McHugh 2014 American English
10359 Wylding Hall Elizabeth Hand 2015 American English
10454 The North Water Ian McGuire 2016 British English
10539 A Sunny Place For Shady People Mariana Enríquez 2024 Unknown Unknown
10673 The Hounding Xenobe Purvis 2025 Unknown English
10687 The Bewitching Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2025 Mexican English
10703 Ghostroots 'Pemi Aguda 2024 Nigerian English
10718 Cursed Daughters Oyinkan Braithwaite 2025 Nigerian English
10866 A Century Of Ghost Stories Richard Sugg 2017 British English
10870 Mr. Splitfoot Samantha Hunt 2016 American English
10884 Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave Mariana Enriquez 2013 Argentine Spanish
10919 The Shining Girls Lauren Beukes 2013 South African English
10938 The Bone Key Sarah Monette 2024 American English
10964 Gideon The Ninth Tamsyn Muir 2019 New Zealand English
10966 Rotters Daniel Kraus 2011 American English
10971 The Hunger Alma Katsu 2018 American English
11034 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
11168 Ghost Wall Sarah Moss 2018 British English
11331 Heart Shaped Box Joe Hill 2007 American English
11390 The Devil In America Kai Ashante Wilson 2014 American English
11404 The Living and the Rest José Eduardo Agualusa 2020 Angolan Portuguese
11419 When No One Is Watching Alyssa Cole 2020 American English
11433 The Troop Nick Cutter 2014 Canadian English
11443 Teatro Grottesco Thomas Ligotti 2006 American English
11470 Furnace Livia Llewellyn 2016 American English
11472 Please, Momma Chesya Burke 2015 American Unknown
11540 Perdido Street Station China Miéville 2000 British English
11608 Forget The Sleepless Shores Sonya Taaffe 2018 American English
11638 Little Star John Ajvide Lindqvist 2010 Swedish Swedish
11802 The Ballad Of Black Tom Victor LaValle 2016 American English
11826 The Wax Child Olga Ravn, Martin Aitken 2023 Danish English
11837 I Gave You Eyes And You Looked Toward Darkness Irene Solà 2023 Unknown Catalan
11923 The Ritual Adam Nevill 2011 British English
11926 Spirit Hunters Ellen Oh 2017 American English
12018 Infidel Pornsak Pichetshote 2018 Unknown English